bondScovery started as a side project, and it still feels like one — in the good way.
We're a small team, a few people who invest in fixed income and got tired of how hard it is to see the whole picture.
If you've tried, you know the drill. Bond data is scattered across a dozen places, most of it behind a paywall priced for institutions, and the free corners of the internet give you a handful of benchmark government yields and not much else. Want to see where a mid-size European issuer's curve actually sits against its sector? Good luck.
We kept hitting that wall, kept saying "someone should build this," and eventually ran out of reasons why that someone shouldn't be us. So we built the thing we wanted to find: global coverage, granular enough to be useful, and shaped so you can actually look at it rather than scroll a spreadsheet.
Right now, we do. Data licences, servers, and the hours it takes to keep the pipeline honest — that all comes out of our own pockets. There's no investor behind this, no ads, and we don't sell your data.
That's sustainable for now. Down the line we might open up donations, or make STUDIO — the advanced analytics side — a paid tier to cover the bills. We'll see how it goes, and how many people actually find this useful. What won't change: the core stays free.
We think financial literacy shouldn't be a members-only club. The information that helps you understand what you own — or what you're about to buy — shouldn't be reserved for people with a terminal subscription. That's most of the reason this exists.
Three things, all optional, all genuinely helpful:
Thanks for being here. Go poke around the curves.