SEC 8-K Material-Event Watch — New Filings on Watched Issuers

Turn newly filed SEC Form 8-K / 8-K/A material-event filings on the issuers you watch into a seed-zero, deterministic delta feed — with the official 8-K item codes preserved and a per-issuer source receipt on every run. First run seeds a private baseline and emits zero alerts; later runs emit one delta per newly filed 8-K. No historical dump, no inferred event beyond the issuer-reported item codes.

Who buys this

• Event-driven analysts — catch 8-K item 2.02 (results), 1.01 (material agreements), 5.02 (officer/director changes), 1.05 (cyber incidents) as they file.
• IR / comms monitoring — watch a peer set and get every new material event.

What you get

• material_event_delta (watch mode) — one per newly filed 8-K/8-K/A: delta_type (MATERIAL_EVENT / MATERIAL_EVENT_AMENDMENT), accession_number (= composite_key), cik, issuer_name, tickers, filed_date, report_date, item_codes + items (code → official SEC item title), primary_doc_url.
• issuer_8k_filing (snapshot mode, watchMode=false) — the same record shape without baseline diffing.
• source_receipt — per-issuer terminal (NORMAL / GENUINE_EMPTY / PARTIAL / BLOCKED), request counters, canary status. Always pushed, never billed.

Input

{
  "watchedIssuers": ["AAPL", "MSFT", "320193"],
  "itemCodes": ["1.01", "2.02", "5.02"],
  "includeAmendments": true,
  "lookbackDays": 30,
  "watchMode": true
}

Issuers are given as CIK (320193 / CIK0000320193) or ticker (AAPL); tickers are resolved against SEC's public company_tickers.json.

Sample output (delta)

{
  "record_type": "material_event_delta",
  "delta_type": "MATERIAL_EVENT",
  "accession_number": "0000320193-26-000011",
  "composite_key": "0000320193-26-000011",
  "cik": "320193", "issuer_name": "Apple Inc.", "tickers": ["AAPL"],
  "filed_date": "2026-04-30", "report_date": "2026-04-30",
  "item_codes": ["2.02", "9.01"],
  "items": [{"item_code": "2.02", "item_title": "Results of Operations and Financial Condition"}],
  "source_url": "https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000320193.json"
}

Use with

SEC 8-K Material-Event Watch → your alerting / IR dashboard → an LLM summarizer. Pairs with SEC Form D Funding Leads Watch and SEC Form ADV Adviser Watch.

Pricing (pay-per-event)

• material_event_alert — per new 8-K delta (or snapshot record).
• issuer_check — per completed issuer surface check.
• apify-actor-start — reserved platform start event. Receipts are never billed. Seed rows, retries, duplicates, and blocked issuers are never billed.

Limits & compliance

• Source: SEC EDGAR public, logged-out JSON (data.sec.gov/submissions, www.sec.gov/files/company_tickers.json). No key, no login, no CAPTCHA.
• SEC fair-access: a descriptive User-Agent with a contact is required (secUserAgent), self-throttled well below SEC's rate ceiling.
• 8-K filings are records, not investment advice. Item codes are preserved verbatim; an unknown code keeps a null title rather than a guess. A blocked or partial issuer never advances the baseline and never implies an absence.