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Signals Settings

Signals Settings is where you decide what counts as a signal worth seeing and how those signals reach you. Two stacked cards: the Signal Types & Relevance card curates which categories fire (default catalog plus your custom types, with a hard cap of six active), and the Notification Channels card routes the signals that do fire to Slack, email, in-app, or any combination.
The Signals Settings page showing the Signal Types & Relevance card on top with the N of 6 enabled counter, a sortable list of default types with drag handles and Switches, and the Notification Channels card below with Slack, Email, and In-App Notifications toggles.

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What you can do here

  • Curate the active catalog. Katalyst ships with a 14-type default catalog (leadership, investment, contact, filings, acquisition, earnings, expansion, funding, hiring, legal, new product, partnership, recognition, security). You decide which of those types fire for your account by flipping the per-row Switch. Up to six can be on at a time, and the cap is hard: trying to enable a seventh fires a Limit reached toast.
  • Drag to set priority. The order of enabled types is the priority order. The top row fires first when two signals of different types arrive in the same window, and Home’s Do This Now card and the Bell badge weight the top types higher when they pick what to surface. Drag the handles to put your highest-leverage type at the top of the list.
  • Create custom signal types. The Create custom signal button in the page header opens a dialog with two inputs (name and a short description) and adds your category to the same sortable list. Custom rows render with a tinted background so they’re visually distinct from defaults, carry a pencil for edit and a trash for delete, and share the same six-active cap with the default catalog. Use this to add categories the default catalog doesn’t cover, sustainability filings, layoff announcements, regulatory rulings in your vertical.
The Signal Types & Relevance card with one custom signal row tinted ghost-blue, pencil and trash icons to the left of the Switch, and the N of 6 enabled chip visible in the card header.
  • Edit or delete a custom type. The pencil on a custom row opens the same dialog pre-filled, so you can rename a category or rewrite its description. The trash opens a confirmation dialog naming the type explicitly. Default-catalog rows don’t have a trash icon; the 14-type baseline can be turned off but not removed.
  • Route signals to the channels your team actually checks. The Notification Channels card carries three toggles: Slack (DM delivery plus the workspace #katalyst-signals channel, gated on the Slack connector being wired), Email (delivery to your work address), and In-App Notifications (the Bell and the Toast inside Katalyst). Toggles are independent; pick one, two, or all three. The Slack toggle is disabled if Slack isn’t connected yet, with an inline Connect link that routes to Integrations.
The Notification Channels panel inside Signals Settings showing toggles for Slack, Email, and In-App Notifications.
  • Watch the N of 6 counter as your noise budget. The Signal Types card header carries a live N of 6 enabled chip. Treat it as the visible budget: every additional type you enable trades depth (more rows in your feed each day) for breadth (more categories of news catching). Most reps land at four or five enabled types after a tuning week.

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How to use it

A mid-market healthcare rep covering fifty accounts opens Signals Settings on a Friday afternoon, two weeks into using Katalyst. The default catalog is leaving her with thirty-plus Slack pings a day, most of them noise. She flips Earnings, Recognition, Filings, and Security off because none of them have produced a useful row in her two-week feed; she leaves Leadership, Acquisition, Partnership, New Product, Investment, and Hiring on; she drags Leadership to the top, Acquisition to second. She opens the Notification Channels card, leaves Slack on for DM delivery, turns Email off (she’d rather see signals in Slack than in her inbox), leaves In-App on. The cap chip reads “6 of 6 enabled” so she knows she’s at her budget. She also adds one custom type, Layoff announcements, but leaves it disabled for the moment because she’s already at the cap. Six minutes from page open to a tuned configuration; the next morning the Slack pings drop from thirty to six and every one is something she’d actually act on.

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Patterns that work

Six is the budget, not the target. The cap is six but most reps end up at four or five enabled types after a tuning pass. Every type you turn on adds rows to your daily feed, and the curated 14-type catalog is wider than most books actually need. Start broad in the first week to see what fires, then trim once you know which categories are producing rows you actually act on. Drag the highest-leverage type to the top. The priority order isn’t cosmetic. Home’s Do This Now card and the Bell badge weight top-of-list types higher when they pick what to surface. If leadership changes are the signal that actually moves your deals, leadership belongs at the top, not in slot five. Use custom types for categories the default catalog misses. The 14-type default catalog covers the common cases; the custom-type flow is the escape hatch for everything specific to your vertical. A finance-vertical rep adds Regulatory ruling; a sustainability-focused team adds ESG filings; an enterprise-software rep adds Open-source release. The cap still applies, so a custom type usually means turning a default off to make room. Pick channels by what your team actually checks during the day. Reps who live in Slack should keep Slack on and email off; reps who scan email on the train should keep email on. In-App is always worth keeping on because the Bell and Toast surface signals while you’re working in Katalyst anyway. Turning everything on every channel is the most common configuration mistake, the same signal hitting you three times trains you to dismiss the second and third without reading.