Much of what regulators, utilities, and intervenors say about corporate partners and vendors is buried in thousands of pages of commission filings — rate cases, RFP responses, procurement testimony, and compliance dockets. With Halcyon, you can set up an ongoing alert that surfaces every mention of your company the moment new documents hit, so nothing flies under the radar.
Setting Up Your Alert
Start by selecting the publishers/commissions you want to monitor. If your company is active in multiple states, add each relevant State Public Utility Commission. Don't forget FERC or the Regional Transmission Organizations or Independent System Operators (RTOs/ISOs) if you sell into wholesale markets, or State Departments of Environmental Quality if you apply or are involved with air permits. Want to cast a wide net? Simply leave commissions blank (if you do this, you should apply additional filters, however).
Next, set your keywords. In the keyword field, select ANY of and enter your company name along with any affiliate names, subsidiary names your company operates under, or products or programs names. Filings might reference a holding company or a trade name rather than your primary brand, so the more variants you include, the less you'll miss.
Now decide on your alert information window. The right cadence depends on how active your target commissions are. To calibrate, run two test queries: set the start date roughly one week prior, then again roughly two days prior. Compare the document counts. If the weekly window produces a manageable digest (like 20-40 documents), a weekly alert will serve you well. If filings are coming in fast — say, during an active rate case (with more than 40 documents a week) — a daily alert may be worth it.
In this case, one (1) week prior only returns two (2) documents that relate to Halcyon, so a weekly alert is the best fit.
Writing Your Query
Once your search filters are created click Query, which unlocks the real value. Start with your goal: what information should Halcyon extract or summarize? A good starting point looks like this:
From these documents, summarize when {your company name} is mentioned in any filings. {your company name} may also be referenced as {insert affiliate names or names of products} Extract the jurisdiction, the date filed, the entity that filed, and a brief excerpt of how {your company name} appeared inline with the text.
Identify when {your company name} is mentioned in these documents. {Your company name} may also be referenced as {affiliate names} or referred to by its product names: {product names}.
Where these names are mentioned, Extract the jurisdiction, the date filed, the entity that filed, and a brief excerpt of how {your company name} appeared inline with the text.
Once the query gives a response you like, click “Create alert”
Set your alert name and cadence, then click “Create”
This gives you a structured, scannable digest with every mention in context. From there, you can refine. If you're getting a high volume of incidental mentions — a passing reference in a list of vendors, for instance — add a line like "only include mentions where the reference is substantive, not incidental." If you want to know the nature of each mention, ask Halcyon to flag whether the context is a procurement decision, a rate case, a compliance matter, or something else.
Conclusion
In just a few minutes of setup, Halcyon becomes a continuous ear to the ground across every commission that matters to your business. Instead of manually combing through filings, you'll get a structured digest delivered on your schedule — so you always know when your company is being talked about, by whom, and why.
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