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FAQ
Questions about Mosaic Labs and the expectations-investing method
What does Mosaic Labs actually do?
Mosaic Labs reverse-engineers the expectations priced into a stock. We reconstruct the revenue, margin and reinvestment path the market must believe to justify today's price, then let you test it against what the business can realistically achieve. The gap between the two is the thesis.
What is "expectations investing"?
It's the framework popularised by Rappaport and Mauboussin: instead of forecasting a price target, you read the expectations already embedded in the price and ask whether they're too high or too low. Mosaic Labs is built around that order of operations — the market's forecast first, your own view second.
What is the MIFP?
The market-implied forecast period — the number of years of value-creating growth the market is pricing in. It's an output of the expectations model, not an arbitrary 5 or 10 years, and it sets the horizon every one of your cases is judged over.
Where do the numbers come from?
Every figure is either computed by our deterministic valuation engine or traced to a source — a market-data field, a line in a filing, or a judgement you've stated. Nothing is invented, and every model is auditable end to end.
Do I need to be a financial modeller to use it?
No. You work alongside an AI analyst that builds the model section by section and recalculates live as assumptions change. You bring the judgement; the engine handles the math.
Is Mosaic Labs investment advice?
No. Mosaic Labs is a research and modelling tool. The models lay out the argument and the assumptions behind them; the investment decision is yours.