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+# txtai Market Research Platform
+
+Multi-agent market research platform built on txtai. No LangChain or LlamaIndex — pure txtai for agent orchestration, embeddings, and LLM calls.
+
+## Architecture
+
+| Layer | Component | Description |
+|-------|-----------|-------------|
+| 1 | **Data Ingestion** | Fetchers in `app/tools/` pull from NewsAPI, Alpha Vantage, SEC EDGAR, web scraping, PRAW/StockTwits |
+| 2 | **txtai Pipeline** | Chunks (512 tokens), embeds (sentence-transformers), indexes (SQLite) with metadata tagging |
+| 3 | **txtai Agents** | 6 specialized agents: orchestrator, sentiment, diligence, web_research, earnings, regulatory |
+| 4 | **LLM Provider** | OpenAI gpt-4o-mini with HuggingFace Mistral-7B fallback |
+| 5 | **Streamlit UI** | Dashboard tab for ticker analysis, Research Chat for free-text Q&A |
+
+## Quick Start
+
+```bash
+# Setup
+python -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+cp .env.example .env  # Add OPENAI_API_KEY
+
+# Ingest data for a ticker
+python -m app.pipeline.ingest --ticker AAPL
+
+# Launch UI
+streamlit run app/main.py
+```
+
+## Docker
+
+```bash
+docker build -t txtai-market-research .
+docker run -p 8501:8501 -e OPENAI_API_KEY=$KEY -v $(pwd)/data:/app/data .
+```
+
+## Deploy to Hugging Face Spaces
+
+1. Create Space at https://huggingface.co/spaces (SDK: Docker)
+2. Push code: `git clone`, copy files, `git push`
+3. Add secrets: `OPENAI_API_KEY` (required), optional: `NEWSAPI_KEY`, `ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY`, `REDDIT_*`
+4. App available at `https://YOUR_USERNAME-txtai-market-research.hf.space`
+
+**Notes:**
+- `data/` is ephemeral on Spaces
+- Free tier is CPU-only
+- Build time: ~5 minutes
+
+## API Usage
+
+```python
+from app.agents.orchestrator import run as run_orchestrator
+from app.pipeline.ingest import ingest_all
+
+# Ingest
+ingest_all("AAPL")  # Returns: {'news': 25, 'sec': 10, 'web': 15, 'social': 30}
+
+# Query
+result = run_orchestrator("What's the sentiment on AAPL?", context={"ticker": "AAPL"})
+print(result["response"], result["sources"], result["agents_used"])
+```
+
+## Troubleshooting
+
+| Issue | Fix |
+|-------|-----|
+| No documents to index | Verify API keys in `.env`, check rate limits |
+| LLM parsing failed | Check `OPENAI_API_KEY`, verify credits |
+| Index not found | Run ingest first, confirm `data/index.db` exists |
+