New SEC Registrants API: First-time-ever EDGAR filers in your window, derived from our — free lookup

First-time-ever EDGAR filers in your window, derived from our multi-year filing index — new companies and funds entering the SEC system, with first forms. A question EDGAR's own API cannot answer. Free, no key.

Free — no key, no signup, rate-limited to 60 calls per minute per client.

How do you call it?

GET /v1/sec/registrants/new — product id sec_new_registrants. Over MCP, call answerpool_get with product_id=sec_new_registrants.

curl "https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/registrants/new?days=7"

Live call: https://answerpool.io/v1/sec/registrants/new?days=7 · JSON sample: /v1/samples/sec_new_registrants

What does the answer look like?

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

registrants

{
 "as_of": "2026-09-03T02:00:00Z",
 "window_days": 7,
 "index_covers_since": "2021-07-01",
 "index_covers_until": "2026-09-02",
 "count": 1,
 "registrants": [
  {
   "cik": "0002099999",
   "company": "EXAMPLE LABS INC",
   "first_filed": "2026-09-01",
   "forms": [
    "D"
   ],
   "filings": 1
  }
 ],
 "disclaimer": "Derived from public SEC EDGAR filings; not investment advice.",
 "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 want net-new registrants, not just recent filings.

What you skip building

• maintaining your own EDGAR history
• full-index scans

When should you not use it?

All recent filings regardless of history — /v1/sec/filings/latest.

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