EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) is the SEC's public system through which U.S. public companies and investment managers file disclosures — including 13F, Form 4, 13D/G, and N-PORT — all freely available.
EDGAR is the source of truth for U.S. securities disclosure and is public domain: anyone can pull filings. That openness is why so many "premium" datasets are built on it — the value is not access, it is turning millions of inconsistently formatted submissions into clean, queryable data.
Filings arrive as a mix of legacy text, HTML, and structured XML/XBRL, identified by CIK (the filer) and accession number (the submission). Parsing, normalizing, and resolving identifiers across decades of formats is the real work.
You can open any company's raw 13F or Form 4 on EDGAR for free — the challenge is reading 10,000 of them consistently, not finding one.
EDGAR is the origin Arkolith sources every filing to. Each datapoint links back to its accession number, so an agent can verify the claim at the primary source.
Arkolith turns this into live, sourced data your agent can query — SEC filings, insider activity, and market data behind one key, every datapoint traceable to its origin.