Question 1

What is free in Tylee Smart Markets?

Accepted Answer

The news terminal and all public information layers in Tylee Smart Markets are completely free to access without registration, account creation, or credential submission. Users can read live headlines from over 20 premium financial publishers including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, and CNBC. The Market Brief layer provides plain-English interpretation of market-moving stories. The Live Monitor surface shows real-time finance-impact signals and macro awareness. System diagnostics are also free and open. The only feature requiring payment is TTMA (Tylee Technical Market Analyzer) analytics, which uses external LLM API calls - but even this is free if users bring their own API credentials (BYOK model).

Question 2

What does BYOK mean in Tylee Smart Markets?

Accepted Answer

BYOK stands for Bring Your Own Key. In Tylee Smart Markets, BYOK means you supply your own API credentials from preferred providers (LLM providers, market data APIs, chart providers, etc.). Your credentials are stored securely in your browser's local vault and never sent to TSM servers or any third-party service. When you request TTMA analysis or other premium features requiring external API calls, your credentials are forwarded directly to the provider you choose - and only for the specific feature you authorize. This architecture means you control your credentials, you pay providers directly for API usage, and TSM never sees or stores your keys. It keeps analytics costs with the user rather than with the platform.

Question 3

What is guest mode in Tylee Smart Markets?

Accepted Answer

Guest mode allows you to preview premium TTMA analytics features without providing your own API credentials. Guest mode uses limited, cached, server-side API keys from providers that permit key-sharing with strong rate limits. When you use guest mode, TSM has intentionally cached a provider key on the server to offer a safe preview experience. Guest mode trades feature richness for accessibility: you get tighter rate limits on API calls, no persistent storage of your preferences, and limited query depth compared to BYOK mode. Guest mode is useful for trying TTMA analytics before committing to your own credentials, or for occasional users who don't need full capacity.

Question 4

Why does Tylee Smart Markets split free and paid features?

Accepted Answer

TSM separates features based on infrastructure cost and sustainability. News aggregation and live monitoring are inexpensive to run at scale - they involve crawling public sources and aggregating headlines without expensive compute. These features stay free and open for everyone. AI-driven analytics such as TTMA, by contrast, require calling external LLM APIs (like OpenAI, Anthropic, or Groq) for each request. These API calls have real per-token costs that scale with usage. Rather than subsidizing those costs for all users, TSM uses the BYOK model where the user brings their own API key and pays the provider directly. This keeps the free tier genuinely free and sustainable without raising prices for everyone or injecting ads.

Question 5

Which data sources does TSM aggregate?

Accepted Answer

Tylee Smart Markets aggregates headlines from over 20 premium financial publishers including the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, CNBC, MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, Politico, The Guardian, BBC, Al Jazeera, CoinDesk, and other regional publishers. The selection of publishers varies by market category (equities, rates, energy, crypto, macro, geopolitics, etc.) and geographic region. TSM also integrates live signals from Bloomberg terminals, CNBC, Sky News, NOAA weather data, USGS earthquake alerts, GDELT geopolitical data, WHO health alerts, and Polymarket prediction odds. All source attribution is preserved - every headline shows its original source, timestamp, and publication link.

Question 6

Can I export data from TSM?

Accepted Answer

Yes. TSM provides machine-readable data export through its public API at https://tyl.ee/api. The API returns JSON responses for news items, market briefs, monitor signals, and TTMA analytics. All endpoints are documented in the API Overview. Users can integrate TSM data into their own dashboards, trading systems, research tools, or downstream workflows. Output from TTMA analytics can be generated as Markdown, JSON, or HTML depending on your use case. The /llms.txt file and companion documentation are also machine-readable and designed for AI agent discovery.