SEC Insights

Use Case 1: Year-over-Year (YoY) Financial Trend Analysis

Problem: Financial analysts often spend hours manually combing through hundreds of pages of 10-K filings to identify how a company’s strategy or revenue drivers have shifted over several years. Comparing specific phrasing or data points across multiple years is prone to human error and oversight.
Solution: SEC Insights allows users to upload up to 10 documents simultaneously. By selecting 10-Ks from the last five years for a single company, an analyst can use the chat interface to query specific trends across the entire timeline.
Example: An analyst uploads Amazon's 10-Ks from 2019 to 2023. They ask, "How has the narrative around AWS (Amazon Web Services) profitability changed each year?" The tool provides a summarized timeline with paragraph-level citations, allowing the analyst to verify the exact wording used by the company in each period.

Use Case 2: Competitive Benchmarking and Industry Comparison

Problem: When evaluating a sector, investors need to understand how different companies are reacting to the same market pressures (e.g., inflation, supply chain issues, or new regulations). Switching between separate PDF files for different companies makes it difficult to contrast their specific risk disclosures.
Solution: The tool’s multi-document examination feature enables deep comparisons and contrasts between different entities. Users can select the same document type (e.g., 10-Q) for multiple competitors within the same year to see how they stack up.
Example: A portfolio manager adds the latest 10-Q filings for NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel. They prompt the tool: "Compare and contrast the 'Risk Factors' related to semiconductor supply chain disruptions for these three companies." The tool extracts the relevant sections from all three documents, highlighting which company feels most exposed to specific geographic risks.

Use Case 3: Rapid Due Diligence for M&A and Legal Teams

Problem: During a merger or acquisition, legal and business intelligence teams must perform rapid due diligence to find hidden liabilities, pending litigation, or unusual contractual obligations buried in dense financial filings. Speed is essential, but missing a single footnote can be costly.
Solution: SEC Insights simplifies the navigation of "dense financial information with precision." The tool’s ability to stream insights directly from the algorithm and provide paragraph-level citations ensures that every "answer" can be immediately verified against the legal source text.
Example: A due diligence team uploads the target company's last four quarterly filings (10-Qs). They ask: "Identify any mentions of ongoing environmental litigation or significant off-balance-sheet liabilities." The tool returns a list of specific legal proceedings, and the team clicks the citations to jump directly to the exact paragraph in the filing to read the legal fine print.

Use Case 4: Institutional Compliance and Audit Fact-Checking

Problem: Compliance officers and auditors must ensure that external reports or marketing materials accurately reflect the data submitted to the SEC. Manually fact-checking every claim against official filings is a bottleneck for content creators and marketers in the finance space.
Solution: Because SEC Insights is open-sourced and focuses on transparency ("helps you understand how that answer was generated"), it serves as a reliable verification engine. It eliminates the "black box" feel of AI by showing exactly which part of the document informed the response.
Example: A content creator at a brokerage is writing a report on a company’s R&D spending. They use SEC Insights to ask: "What was the exact dollar amount spent on R&D in Q3, and what specific projects were cited as the primary drivers?" The tool provides the figure and the citation, which the creator then links directly in their report to ensure 100% accuracy for the compliance department.