Topic
Announcements and events
Corporate events as companies announce them: launches, funding, leadership and filings.
- Building company change alerts into your productAn alert is a dated event shown to someone who follows a company. This guide covers the tables to read, the schema to store, how to dedupe and what each message may say.
- Catching companies as they enter a new marketA new market shows up in a company's site, its job board and its newsroom, each at its own moment. Here is how to join them into one dated timeline per country.
- Company signals in credit research and counterparty monitoringPublic signals can flag a borrower under strain before the next report. This guide builds a watchlist from them and shows how to read each trigger beside your own credit file.
- Detecting restructuring early from postings and announcementsA restructuring leaves a pattern on a company's job board before it reaches a disclosure. Here is the pattern, the announcements that confirm it and the false alarms.
- Event-driven research with Form 8-K filings and newsroomsA company tells you what it has done in two places, its newsroom and its Form 8-K. Here is how to join them into one dated calendar and where the labels stop.
- Expansion signals for account managementCustomers often show growth in public before they ask for more. Here is how to read it from their websites, job boards and announcements, and rank the accounts worth a call.
- Following private funding with SEC Form D filingsForm D is one of the few primary records of private fundraising. This guide explains what it holds, how to read its amounts and dates, and where the record stops.
- Monitoring supplier and vendor risk with public company signalsPublic signals tell a procurement team where to look in a supplier list. Here is how to read announcements, hiring and site changes, and how to turn them into a review queue.
- Portfolio company monitoring for private equity teamsPublic signals give an operating partner a weekly outside view of each portfolio company and its competitors. Here is how to build the watchlist and design the digest.
- Tracking competitor launches and partnerships at the sourceA competitor's newsroom, feeds and site changes show what it launches and with whom, in its own words and dates. A watchlist method with the datasets, event types and queries.
- Trigger events for outbound: funding, leadership and launchesA trigger event is a dated change that gives a seller a reason to write now. Here are the 13 event types in company announcements and regulatory disclosures, and how to rank them.
- PredictLeads alternatives for company signalsThe two are close in kind. What each is built for, where the methods differ enough to change your numbers, and how one account alert is built on each feed.
- Form 8-KThe current report a US company files within four business days of a significant event. The numbered items, a table of the common ones and how to read them in a dataset.
- Form DThe notice a company or fund files within 15 days of the first sale in an offering exempt from registration. What the form shows, how it is used and where it stops.
- Trigger eventA trigger event is a dated change at a company that gives a reason to reach out now. How triggers are paired with plays, checked for date and duplicates, and read from company announcements.