Insider Buy Clusters API: List issuers where 3+ distinct officers or directors bought within — SEC Form 4
List issuers where 3+ distinct officers or directors bought within a week — returns combined buy USD, insider count and names per issuer. A derived cluster signal no other API sells as one call; use as a high-conviction insider screen.
$0.05 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/insider/clusters — product id
sec_insider_clusters. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with
product_id=sec_insider_clusters.
curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/insider/clusters?days=7"
# with a prepaid credit key
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ck_live_..." "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/insider/clusters?days=7"
Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/insider/clusters?days=7 · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_insider_clusters
What does the answer look like?
A representative response, the same static sample served at /v1/samples/sec_insider_clusters.
as_of | 2026-08-31T14:00:00Z |
|---|---|
index_started_at | 2026-08-27T00:00:00Z |
window_days | 7 |
count | 1 |
refresh_after | 2026-09-17T11:15:00.000Z |
clusters
| cik | ticker | company | insiders | insider_names | buy_usd | filings | latest_at |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0000096223 | JEF | JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC. | 3 | FRIEDMAN BRIAN P, HANDLER RICHARD B, OSBORNE MATT | 4500000.0 | 3 | 2026-08-28T21:53:58 |
The same sample as raw JSON
{
"as_of": "2026-08-31T14:00:00Z",
"index_started_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z",
"window_days": 7,
"count": 1,
"clusters": [
{
"cik": "0000096223",
"ticker": "JEF",
"company": "JEFFERIES FINANCIAL GROUP INC.",
"insiders": 3,
"insider_names": [
"FRIEDMAN BRIAN P",
"HANDLER RICHARD B",
"OSBORNE MATT"
],
"buy_usd": 4500000.0,
"filings": 3,
"latest_at": "2026-08-28T21:53:58"
}
],
"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?
Screening for the strongest insider-buying setups.
What you skip building
- cluster detection code
- owner dedup across filings
- window math
When should you not use it?
Per-line detail or single-issuer history — use the other insider views.
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