Our Solution

Why Inception?

Inception applies its expertise in research, data science, and technology to modernize the analytics experience and help investors embrace a quantitative approach to managing derivative portfolio risk.

Flow Risk Analysis

Get an x-ray view into financial flow risk in your derivative portfolio.

Help find the flows best positioned to drive your returns.

Understand whether shifts in financial flows could enhance or threaten the risk/return profile of your portfolio.
Combine fundamental views with quantitative flow insights to determine whether your positioning is delivering.
Identify hedges or directional opportunities hidden in real-time flow decomposition.

Portfolio Allocation

Take a factor-based approach to understanding what is driving your return.

Quantify the macro exposures embedded in your current holdings.

Determine whether macro matters for your specific market or portfolio.
Identify which macro factors are driving performance.
Assess whether you’re being compensated for the macro risk you’re taking.

Delivery Surfaces

Streamline how flow intelligence reaches your desk.

Meet Inception where you already work.

Available across Web, Mobile, Inbox, API, and MCP — one taxonomy, every surface.
Standardize positioning views and reports across your organization.
Demonstrate how positioning decisions impact performance with shareable scenario reports.

APIs & Data

Build products with Inception data.

Empower your applications with Inception's suite of positioning APIs and data solutions. Whether you're building risk dashboards, alerting systems, or AI agents, our developer portal provides the tools to integrate flow intelligence into your workflows seamlessly.

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Request

curl --request GET \
  'https://dev-platform.inception.technology/api/public/v1/positioning-history' \
  --header 'X-Inception-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY' \
  --header 'Accept: application/json'

Response

{
  "schemaVersion": "positioning-history-v1",
  "asOf": "2026-07-08",
  "coverage": {
    "marketCount": 142,
    "minDate": "2019-01-02",
    "maxDate": "2026-07-08"
  },
  "data": {
    "markets": [{
      "symbol": "BRN",
      "name": "Brent",
      "history": [{ "date": "2026-07-08", "value": -2505 }]
    }]
  }
}

Resources

Thought Leadership

Market, Industry, and Analytical Insights

Client Spotlight

How a global commodities trading house uses Inception's positioning intelligence to anticipate regime shifts in WTI and Brent — and rebalance hedges in real time.

Decomposing Open Interest

Methodology

Open interest is a black box until you decompose it. We break down how Inception separates Systematic Trend, Carry, Index Trackers, and Macro Discretionary flows on every contract.

The Inception Pillar Series

Pillar Series

Holistic, parsimonious, orthogonal, actionable — four fundamental pillars are the right tools to read derivatives positioning, and to translate it into trading and hedging decisions.

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