Insider Footprint API: Look up an insider by name or owner CIK and get every issuer they file — SEC EDGAR

Look up an insider by name or owner CIK and get every issuer they file SEC ownership forms for — roles, filing counts, first/last seen. The person node of the entity graph in one call.

$0.02 per call — pay with prepaid card credits (Authorization: Bearer ck_live_…, packs from $1) or with USDC over x402: call it, get 402 with the price, retry signed. Failed calls are never charged.

How do you call it?

GET /v1/graph/person — product id graph_person. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with product_id=graph_person.

curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/graph/person?q=INSIDER"

# with a prepaid credit key
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..." "https://answerpool.io/v1/graph/person?q=INSIDER"

Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/graph/person?q=INSIDER · JSON sample: /v1/samples/graph_person

What does the answer look like?

A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/graph_person.

persons

{
 "as_of": "2026-09-02T22:00:00Z",
 "index_started": "2026-08-27T00:00:00",
 "count": 1,
 "persons": [
  {
   "owner_cik": "0001211677",
   "name": "HANDLER RICHARD B",
   "issuers": [
    {
     "cik": "0000096223",
     "ticker": "JEF",
     "company": "JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC.",
     "role": "officer (CEO)",
     "filings": 4,
     "first_seen": "2026-08-27T12:00:00",
     "last_seen": "2026-08-29T20:11:03"
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "refresh_after": "2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z"
}

How fresh is it, and where does the data come from?

The fastest source behind this answer can change every 15 minutes, so every response carries a refresh_after timestamp — right now it would be 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z. Schedule the next call on that value rather than on a guess.

• SEC EDGAR (US federal public domain) — upstream: https://efts.sec.gov

Method version 0.1.0 · serving cache 1 day · every response carries a result_id you can resolve at /v1/provenance.

When should you use it?

You have an insider's name or CIK and want their issuer footprint.

What you skip building

• name matching across filings
• owner CIK resolution

When should you not use it?

Activity predating the ownership index (index_started is returned).

Where else can you find this?

• Catalog entry (JSON, free)
• OpenAPI schema — input and output types, prices, the 402 flow
• llms.txt — every product in one plain-text document