SEC 8-K Item 5.02 Executive Changes — departures, interim CEOs and CFOs, new hires

Every public-company 8-K that reports Item 5.02 for a date range: officer and director departures, appointments, board elections and compensation arrangements, filed within four business days of the event. Each record carries the company, ticker and exchange, filer category, the Item 5.02 section as filed, rule-based event detection (role, event type, interim, successor status, search underway, person name where it can be isolated) and two deterministic 0–100 scores: one for executive search (is the seat open?) and one for B2B sales (is there a new budget owner?).

What you get per filing

Field	Example
companyName, ticker, exchange, cik, filerCategory, sizeTier	FOX FACTORY HOLDING CORP, FOXF, Nasdaq, 0001424929, Large accelerated filer, large
accessionNo, filedDate, submissionType, periodOfReport, items	0001424929-26-000123, 2026-10-16, 8-K, 2026-10-15, ["5.02","9.01"]
topEventType, topRole, topPerson	departure, CEO, Michael C. Dennison
leadScore, recruiterScore, salesScore, vacancy	95, 95, 0, true
events[]	{ eventType, role, roleRaw, person, interim, successorStatus, searchUnderway, searchFirmMentioned, reason, effectiveDate, externalHire, compSummary, severance, evidence, recruiterScore, salesScore, flags }
flags, personas	["no_successor_named","interim_in_place","effective_within_30d","principal_officer"], ["exec_search","interim_exec"]
item502Text, edgarUrl	the section as filed (plain text, up to 12,000 characters), link to the filing folder

How the scores work

Deterministic rules. Recruiter score (open seat): role weight (CEO 30, CFO 25, COO/President 20, other C-level 15, director 5), +25 when no permanent successor is named, +20 when an interim is in place, +15 when a search is described, −15 when a search firm is already named, +10 when no reason is given or the departure is a termination, +10 when effective within 30 days, size by filer category. Sales score (new budget owner): appointments of CFO/CIO/CTO/CHRO/CMO/CRO/COO/CEO/GC start at 40, +20 external hire, +10 newly created role. Board elections and compensation-only filings score zero. Registered funds and BDCs are penalised because their officers are the adviser's staff.

Event detection is heuristic (regular expressions over the filing's sentences) and every record says so (heuristic: true). It is reliable for the role and the event type, good for interim / search / successor language, and approximate for the person's name. The hosted FormDSignal feed runs a language model over the same text; this Actor stays model-free so it is cheap and fully deterministic. Read item502Text before acting.

Input

• From / To date — filing dates (US Eastern). Default: the most recent EDGAR business day. Up to 31 days per run.
• Roles, Event types, Open seats only, Minimum lead score, Include Item 5.02 text, Maximum filings (cost control).
• SEC User-Agent — EDGAR asks for a contact string; optional.

Pricing

Pay per event. The first 25 filings of every run are free. After that, a per-filing charge (Lead), with a higher charge for filings scoring 70+ (premium-lead). 8-Ks without Item 5.02 are never charged. A typical business day has 60–120 Item 5.02 filings, of which 10–25 are open C-level seats.

Source and limits

Public SEC EDGAR data (daily form index, each filing's index-headers page and submission), fetched under the SEC fair-access policy (< 10 requests/second, declared User-Agent). Item 5.02 covers principal officers and directors only; private companies do not file 8-Ks. Not investment, legal or tax advice.

Using it from an AI agent

This Actor is available as an MCP tool through Apify's MCP server; the input schema above is the tool contract. Ask your agent for "CFO departures with no successor named filed this week at Nasdaq companies".