SEC Company API: Get a one-call SEC snapshot by ticker or CIK — SEC XBRL

Get a one-call SEC snapshot by ticker or CIK — returns identity, recent filings, indexed events, insider activity and key XBRL facts (revenue, income, cash, 8 periods). Use before deeper diligence.

$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/sec/company — product id sec_company. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with product_id=sec_company.

curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/company?ticker=NVDA"

# with a prepaid credit key
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..." "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/company?ticker=NVDA"

Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/company?ticker=NVDA · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_company

What does the answer look like?

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

recent_filings

{
 "cik": "0000096223",
 "name": "JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC.",
 "tickers": [
  "JEF"
 ],
 "sic": "6199",
 "sic_description": "Finance Services",
 "state_of_incorporation": "NY",
 "fiscal_year_end": "1130",
 "recent_filings": [
  {
   "form": "8-K",
   "filed": "2026-08-29",
   "url": "https://www.sec.gov/..."
  }
 ],
 "events_30d": [],
 "insider_90d": {
  "buys": 2,
  "sells": 5,
  "net_usd": -1250000.0
 },
 "facts": {
  "Revenues": [
   {
    "end": "2026-05-31",
    "value": 1650000000.0,
    "form": "10-Q",
    "fy": 2026,
    "fp": "Q2"
   }
  ]
 },
 "sources": {
  "companyfacts": "https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0000096223.json"
 },
 "as_of": "2026-08-30T18:00:00Z",
 "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 a ticker or CIK and need cited fundamentals plus recent events in one call.

What you skip building

• XBRL companyfacts parsing
• submissions pagination
• Form 4 aggregation
• ticker-to-CIK mapping

When should you not use it?

You need private companies, non-US issuers, or real-time prices.

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