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Autopilot turns congressional disclosures into portfolios you can mirror, and charges for the mirroring. The disclosures themselves are public records. We publish them free, with no account — plus the two things their model rests on and neither they nor anyone else puts in front of you: how late each trade was disclosed, and what disclosed trades actually did afterwards.
| StockTools | Autopilot | |
|---|---|---|
| Congressional trade data | Free, no account | Free tier, account required |
| Price to unlock the paid product | No paid tier for this data | $99.99–$699.99/yr per portfolioTheir Form CRS, Feb 2026 |
| Account minimum | None — nothing to fund | $500 per portfolio |
| Future advisory fee | None | "currently 0.00%", expected to become a percentageDisclosed in their own filing |
| Executes trades for you | No — we are not a broker or adviser | Yes, discretionary, custody at Public HoldingsTheir genuine advantage |
| Filing delay shown per trade | Yes, on every row | Disclosed, but not per row |
| Per-filer lag distribution | Median, fastest and slowest per filer | Not published |
| Post-disclosure measured returns | Yes — from the date you could act | Not published |
| 13F, insider and executive filings | Free | Portfolio products only |
| Paid referral compensation from a broker | None — we take no broker payments | $50–$5,000 by deposit tierConflict disclosed on their site |
Straightforwardly: if you want the trades executed for you. They are a registered adviser with a custodian, so they can take discretion over an account and place orders. We cannot and will not — we publish research, we never touch anyone’s money, and if hands-off automation is what you want, a registered adviser is the right shape of product for it. What we would ask is that you read their fee disclosure first, including the advisory fee their own filing says is coming.
Members of Congress have up to 45 days to disclose a trade, and many take longer. No product, at any price, can put you in at the price they got — the earliest anyone outside can act is the disclosure date. That is exactly why we measure returns from the disclosure date rather than the trade date, and publish the result whatever it says. It is the honest version of the number the whole category advertises.
What does Autopilot actually cost?
Their Form CRS filed 4 February 2026 states a free Basic tier with one tradeable portfolio, and Premium at $29.99 to $199.99 quarterly or $99.99 to $699.99 annually, per portfolio, with a $500 minimum per portfolio. It also states an advisory fee "currently 0.00%" while noting they expect to charge a percentage in future.
Is Autopilot a registered investment adviser?
Yes. Autopilot Advisers, LLC is SEC-registered (firm 331749) and provides, in its own words, limited portfolio management on a discretionary basis, with execution and custody at Public Holdings. That registration is what lets them manage money; it is also why they can do things we deliberately do not.
So what is free here?
The underlying data. Congressional STOCK Act disclosures, 13F fund holdings, insider Form 4s and executive filings are public records, and we publish them with no account and no cap — along with the filing delay on every row, per-filer lag distributions, and measured post-disclosure returns.
Why do you not offer copy trading?
Because executing trades for someone is investment management, which requires registration, a custodian and a fiduciary duty. We are a research publisher, not an adviser or a broker. We would rather say plainly that we do not do it than ship a half version.
Does following congressional trades work?
That is an empirical question, and we publish our answer rather than asserting one. The disclosure-decay page measures what disclosed purchases actually did starting from the date the public could see them, benchmarked against the S&P 500, with thin buckets suppressed rather than printed.
We are not affiliated with Autopilot, and Autopilot is their trademark. Everything above about their product comes from their own SEC filing and public pages on the date noted; none of it is a user review we wrote. StockTools is not an investment adviser or broker-dealer and makes no recommendation about any security or any filer — what StockTools does not do.