Why I built a scanner that shows its reasons

I’m Christian Piyatilaka. I build Market Census on my own, from Melbourne, Australia. There is no team behind this and no outside investment — if something on this site is wrong, I am the person who got it wrong.

The scoring engine started in 2025 as a personal system, for me, and it still runs that way. Market Census is that work opened up to other people in 2026. That order matters to how the product is built: it was a tool before it was a business, so the parts that are useful to somebody actually reading the output got attention long before the marketing did.

The thing that is usually hidden

When I was shopping for tools, the pattern was consistent enough to be funny. A scanner would tell me a stock scored 94 out of 100, and when I went looking for why, I would find nothing at all.

If nobody can see the reasons, then nobody can check the number — and a number nobody can check is just advertising. I did not want to buy that, and I am not going to sell it.

So: the reasons are shown

Every stock’s page shows its score and the main reasons behind it: things like the price trend, company numbers and insider buying. That is enough to judge whether the reading is worth anything, and enough to catch me when it is not.

What this is, and what it is not

Market Census describes stocks; it does not tell you what to do. It reads published data, scores every US-listed ticker it covers the same way, and shows you the result. It is a way to narrow a very long list down to something a person can actually look at.

It is not advice, and I am not a licensed adviser. It does not know anything about you — and by design it never will, because Market Census does not ask for your portfolio, your capital, your experience or your goals in any form on this site. A score is not a recommendation, six factors can only see so much compared with reading a company properly, and the honest list of what this product is bad at is on limitations. I would rather you read that page before you pay for anything.

If you find something wrong — a number that does not add up, or a reason that does not match what the product actually does — email support@marketcensus.io. Corrections get logged in the changelog with a date, including the ones that are embarrassing.