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Public Records & Filings
Public records and filings data is government-held information — regulatory filings, court dockets, lobbying disclosures, and contract awards — parsed into structured, searchable form.
The primer
Public-records data takes documents that are technically open but practically hard to use — regulatory filings, court dockets, lobbying disclosures, and government contract awards — and turns them into structured, searchable datasets. Providers handle the collection, parsing, and entity resolution that make the records analysable at scale. Investors use them to track litigation risk, government demand, and the fine print inside filings. The key questions are completeness across jurisdictions, parsing accuracy, update latency, and how reliably records tie to public companies.
The register
Every public records & filings provider on file. Verified means the site is live, on its own brand, and editorially checked — never paid placement. Listings are informational, not investment advice.
| Provider | Geography | Since | Delivery | Price band |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2iQ ResearchVerifiedCoverageInsider-transaction and director-dealing data globally. | Germany | 2003 | Feed, API | $50–150k |
| Audit AnalyticsVerifiedCoverageProvides audit, regulatory, and disclosure intelligence and data. They specialize in normalizing non-quantitative aspects of financial reporting that have a dem | US | — | — | — |
| Bloomberg GovernmentVerifiedCoverageGovernment affairs, contracts, and legislative data and analysis. | US | 2011 | Dashboard, API | $150k+ |
| BoardExVerifiedCoverageRelationship and biographical data on executives and board members. | UK | 1999 | API, Dashboard | $150k+ |
| CalcbenchVerifiedSampleCoverageStructured financial data extracted from SEC filings for detailed fundamental analysis. | US | 2011 | API, Dashboard | $50–150k |
| CompStakVerifiedCoverageCommercial real-estate lease and sale comparables sourced from brokers and appraisers, including data points such as landlord concessions not published elsewhere. | US | 2011 | — | — |
| CourtListenerVerifiedSampleCoverageFree legal database of court opinions and PACER (RECAP) dockets. | US | 2010 | API, Bulk | Free |
| Data.govVerifiedSampleCoverageCatalogue of free US federal government open datasets. | US | 2009 | API, Bulk | Free |
| Dodge Construction NetworkVerifiedCoverageConstruction project intelligence covering planning-stage and bidding-stage commercial projects, specifications, and contacts across North America. | US | 2006 | — | — |
| Dun & BradstreetVerifiedCoverageBusiness-entity, credit, and firmographic data on hundreds of millions of companies. | Global | 1841 | API, Feed | $150k+ |
| EnerKnolVerifiedCoverageData on North American energy policy legislation, with 20mm regulatory filings covering utility rates, M&A, asset sales, and more. | US | — | — | — |
| EnigmaVerifiedCoverageBusiness-identity and small-business data from public and alternative sources. | US | 2011 | API | $150k+ |
| EurostatVerifiedSampleCoverageFree official statistics for the European Union. | Europe | 1953 | API, Bulk | Free |
| FREDVerifiedSampleCoverageFederal Reserve Economic Data — free macro and financial time series. | US | 1991 | API, Bulk | Free |
| GovSpendVerifiedCoverageUS government purchasing and procurement data. | US | 2011 | Dashboard, API | $50–150k |
| IFI CLAIMS Patent ServicesVerifiedCoverageIFI CLAIMS produces a global patent database including 90+ countries, aggregated from 70+ sources. We calculate expiration dates and show which patent assets ar | US | — | — | — |
| inFilingsVerifiedCoverageinFilings was developed to be the leading technology solution that truly structures and normalizes abstract text from US SEC filings data. By leveraging proprie | US | — | — | — |
| InsiderFilings.infoVerifiedSampleCoverageStructured US insider-transaction data parsed from SEC Forms 3, 4 and 5 at filing, reporting-owner, transaction and footnote level, separating open-market trades from grants, exercises and other ownership changes, with links back to each filing. Free; an independent project in beta since 2026. | US | 2026 | Dashboard, Bulk, Feed | Free |
| IntelligizeVerifiedCoverageSEC filings and disclosure research, part of LexisNexis. | US | 2009 | Dashboard, API | $150k+ |
| IPqweryVerifiedCoverageCollects corporate IP data (patent and trademark) from multiple public records offices across USA, Canada, and Europe. Founded in 2016; 5 employees. | Canada | — | — | — |
| ktMINEVerifiedCoverageIntellectual property data, including royalty rates, agreements, patents, assignments, trademarks, corporate trees, IP connections, IP news, and litigation info | US | — | — | — |
| LexisNexisVerifiedCoverageLegal, public-records, and news data covering court records, filings, and entities. | Global | 1970 | API, Dashboard | $150k+ |
| MetricleVerifiedCoverageSentiment data covering Twitter, newswire, SEC filings, and blogs. Founded in 2014; 2 employees. | US | — | — | — |
| New Generation ResearchVerifiedCoverageCorporate bankruptcy and restructuring data covering filings across US bankruptcy courts, including DIP financing, fees, and reorganisation plans. | US | — | — | — |
| OpenCorporatesVerifiedSampleCoverageThe largest open database of companies and corporate registry data. | Global | 2010 | API, Bulk | Free |
| Quiver QuantitativeVerifiedSampleCoverageRetail-accessible datasets on congressional trading, lobbying, and contracts. | US | 2020 | API, Dashboard | < $50k |
| SayariVerifiedCoverageCorporate-ownership, trade, and risk data from global public records. | US | 2015 | API, Dashboard | $150k+ |
| SEC EDGARVerifiedSampleCoverageFull corpus of US public-company filings with free full-text search and APIs. | US | 1993 | API, Bulk | Free |
| SpacelistVerifiedCoverageCanadian commercial real-estate listings and market-demand data across office, retail, and industrial space. | Canada | 2012 | — | — |
| TussellVerifiedCoverageData on UK government contract procurement for 70k private and 171 public companies, including Capita PLC, Zurich, and BAE Systems. Founded in 2015; 8 employees | UK | — | — | — |
| USAspending.govVerifiedSampleCoverageFree record of US federal spending, contracts, and awards. | US | 2014 | API, Bulk | Free |
| USPTO PatentsViewVerifiedSampleCoverageOpen US patent data with APIs for inventors, assignees, and citations. | US | 2015 | API, Bulk | Free |
| World Bank Open DataVerifiedSampleCoverageFree global development and economic indicators by country. | Global | 2010 | API, Bulk | Free |
| XebralVerifiedCoverageData on same store sales and production capacity for 280 Japanese companies. Also sentiment data focused on earning transcripts and regulatory filings. | Japan | — | — | — |
Elsewhere in the atlas
Previous chapter: Credit & Lending. Next chapter: Expert Networks & Surveys. All 20 categories are defined in the glossary; the full register is on the front page, and the market counts are in the Atlas Briefing. This chapter is also published as Markdown and JSON for agents (how).