Build an earnings season command center with Claude

What you're building

One interactive page: a countdown to every report date on your watchlist, the consensus numbers analysts expect, and a short what to watch brief per company. Claude researches it live with web search (and cites its sources), then codes it as an artifact, a mini app that runs right inside your chat.

Step 1: switch web search on

1. 🧭 Open Claude at https://claude.ai and start a new chat.
2. 🎚️ Toggle web search on: click the sliders icon in the chat input and switch Web search on (official guide: enabling and using web search).
3. ✅ Why it matters: without web search, Claude cannot know current dates or estimates. You want real numbers with sources, not guesses.

Step 2: paste the master prompt

Build me an interactive earnings season calendar for my watchlist: TSLA, AAPL, NVDA, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN.

First, search the web for each company's next earnings report: the confirmed or expected date, consensus EPS estimate, revenue estimate, forward P/E, and last quarter's EPS surprise. Cite your sources so I can verify every number.

Then build the calendar as a single mobile-friendly HTML artifact with:
- a live countdown timer to each report date
- month filter tabs
- one expandable card per company with the numbers above
- a "what to watch" brief per company: the 3 to 5 catalysts and risks analysts are focused on going into the call

Design: dark theme, clean and professional. Label every estimate with its source and the date you pulled it, show a "data snapshot" date in the header, and include a line that this is research, not investment advice.

• ✏️ Make it yours: swap the tickers for your own watchlist. It works for any listed company with a reporting calendar.

Step 3: check the citations

1. 🔎 Skim the sources: Claude searches first and shows its sources, skim them before you trust a number.
2. 🗓️ Cross-check for free: verify dates and consensus EPS on Yahoo Finance's earnings calendar.
3. 🏦 Go to the primary source: for a confirmed date, the company's own investor relations page is the truth (search "[company] investor relations").

Step 4: play with the artifact

1. 🖥️ Explore it: the calendar appears in the artifact panel, filter by month, expand a card, watch the countdowns tick (artifacts explained: what are artifacts).
2. 📱 Take it with you: hit the share or publish button on the artifact to get a link you can open on your phone.

Step 5: refresh it weekly

1. 🔁 Know what's live and what's a snapshot: the countdown timers run on live code, but the estimates are frozen from the day you built it.
2. 💬 One-line refresh: once a week, send "Search for the latest confirmed dates and consensus estimates for my watchlist and rebuild the calendar". One sentence and everything refreshes.

How to read each card

1. 📅 Confirmed vs expected date: companies lock the date a few weeks out, treat anything unconfirmed as an estimate.
2. 💵 Consensus EPS and revenue: the average of analyst forecasts. Prices react to the gap between reported and expected, not the raw number.
3. 😮 Last quarter's surprise: a habit of beating or missing tells you how much drama to expect on the day.
4. 📊 Forward P/E: how much growth is already priced in. The higher it is, the harsher a miss usually lands.
5. 🧭 Guidance: prices often move more on next quarter's guidance than on the quarter being reported.

Timing note

• ⏰ Perfect moment: Q2 2026 earnings season kicked off the week of 13 July 2026, with the big US banks reporting from 14 July, so this is a great time to build yours (season preview: Q2 2026 earnings preview).

The fine print

1. ⚖️ Research, not advice: this is a research workflow, not financial advice. Claude organises public information so you can prepare, and the decisions (and the risk) stay yours.
2. 🧾 Always verify: estimates can move right up to the call, so verify anything you act on against the company's own filings and investor relations page.