Data quality

Last check: October 6 at 08:39 PM UTC

31 of 31 checks passed. It covers 2,364 companies and about 146,000 disclosures.

• The data itself: no trade without a price, no absurd amount, no date in the future: 5 of 5 passed
• Every source updated on time: 11 of 11 passed
• Public pages open, show their sections and contain no broken numbers: 1 of 1 passed
• Every tool the AI assistants use answers correctly: 11 of 11 passed
• Companies with prices and financial statements: 2 of 2 passed
• Database room and website errors: 1 of 1 passed

How fresh each source is

• Insider trades (SEC Form 4): updated less than an hour ago (expected every 30 minutes in US hours)
• Planned insider sales (Form 144): updated 11 hours ago (expected daily)
• Congressional trades: updated 11 hours ago (expected daily)
• Daily stock prices: updated less than an hour ago (expected daily)
• Results announcements: updated less than an hour ago (expected daily)
• Short interest (FINRA): updated 11 hours ago (expected twice a month, checked daily)
• Federal contracts (USAspending): updated 12 hours ago (expected daily)
• Fund holdings (Form 13F): updated 2 days ago (expected weekly)
• Quarterly financial statements: updated less than an hour ago (expected weekly)
• Annual financial statements: updated less than an hour ago (expected weekly)
• Lobbying reports: updated 3 days ago (expected monthly)

What happens when something is wrong

If a figure is certainly wrong (a sale with no price, an amount no trade could reach, a date in the future), it is held back from every page, email and alert, and the reason is logged. Right now 1,472 records are held back for review. Nothing is deleted, so a record can be put back if it turns out to be right. Filings are also re-read from the SEC every day and compared with what we stored.

The official record linked on every page remains the authority. See the methodology for how filings are read.