About this site

I built secwatch.observer because I wanted to read 8-K filings the way I read the news, not the way the SEC's website asks me to. EDGAR is the source of truth, and the source-of-truth UI shows it: accession numbers, item codes, exhibits, and source documents, but very little help answering the simple question: what changed, and does it matter?

secwatch turns SEC filings into a live, source-linked intelligence surface. Every ready filing gets a headline, concise bullets, an event type, sentiment, materiality score, and links back to the original EDGAR source. The summary is a reading aid, not a replacement for the filing.

What you see

• A live 8-K feed. New ready filings stream into the homepage as they are processed, with filters for ticker, item code, event type, sentiment, and materiality.
• Filing detail pages. Each filing has a crawlable page with the summary, source links, extracted facts where available, and a text mirror for retrieval systems.
• Company pages. Ticker hubs collect recent 8-K activity, notable filings, executive movements, earnings context, and per-company RSS feeds.
• Executive movement radar. A focused radar for appointments, departures, and role changes extracted from Item 5.02 filings and linked back to source language.
• Daily 8-K Digest. A post-close digest of the most material filings from the trading day, built from the same materiality layer that powers the live feed.
• Machine-readable surfaces. Sitemaps, RSS feeds, JSON feeds, llms.txt, and crawlable HTML pages are first-class because LLM/search retrieval is part of the product thesis.

What you do not see

• Recommendations. The site classifies and summarizes; it does not tell you what to do with the information. This is not investment advice.
• Trade execution or portfolio accounting. secwatch is an intelligence and discovery layer, not a brokerage or portfolio tracker.
• A guarantee that every extraction is perfect. LLM output is checked, structured, and linked to sources, but filings are legal documents. Read the EDGAR source before relying on anything important.
• Accounts. Browser-local watchlists and filters can exist without login. Durable account-based workflows may come later if the product earns them.

Who is behind it

One person, in Python, on a single Hetzner box. No team, no funding, no commercial product yet.

Contact

If you find a bug, see a bad summary, want a missing company or route checked, or have feedback on how this could become a better workflow tool, email hello@secwatch.observer.

For an under-the-hood look at the pipeline, see methodology.