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What public companies are writing into their SEC filings, measured daily. The numbers below are free to use with attribution. If you need a cut we do not publish, ask and we will run it.

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6,040companies tracked
37,696filings held
723frameworks
332,959control mappings

Cite this data

Signals, The Art of Service. Analysis of SEC full-text search across 8-K, 10-K and 10-Q filings. Accessed 27 July 2026. https://signals.theartofservice.com/

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Rising fastest

Ordered by how surprising the change is at the size it happened, rather than by percentage, so a large move on a large base is not buried beneath a small move on a small one.

DisclosureNow BeforeChangeWindow
Artificial Intelligence20891+129%8-K, past 7 days
AI Governance7517+341%10-K/10-Q, year on year
Ransomware4313+231%8-K, past 7 days
Operational Resilience11159+88%10-K/10-Q, year on year
Cybersecurity Incident193+533%8-K, past 7 days
Data Governance10158+74%10-K/10-Q, year on year
Privacy Compliance11579+46%10-K/10-Q, year on year
Restatement8357+46%8-K, past 7 days
Internal Control8863+40%8-K, past 7 days
Business Continuity642573+12%10-K/10-Q, year on year

Falling fastest

Companies writing something less often is a finding too, and it is one almost nobody reports.

DisclosureNow BeforeChangeWindow
ESG Reporting1930-37%10-K/10-Q, year on year
Climate Related Disclosure2936-19%10-K/10-Q, year on year
Records Retention2024-17%10-K/10-Q, year on year
Cross Border Data Transfer133134-1%10-K/10-Q, year on year

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FileWhat it is
/daily.json Today's edition: every tracked phrase, its counts, its change, and the named filers
/series.json Monthly filing counts per phrase back to 2008
/coverage/index.json Every framework in the corpus with its control count
/sitemap-index.xml Every page, including the framework comparisons

How the numbers are produced, in full

Counts come from SEC full-text search. The fast series counts 8-K filings containing a phrase over the last seven days against the seven before, and the window slides a full day every morning. The slower series counts 10-K and 10-Q filings this quarter against the same quarter a year earlier. Filers are named, and every count is one click from the filing on EDGAR.

Tables are ordered by how far apart two counts are relative to the variation expected at that scale, not by percentage. Percentage alone would rank a move from three companies to ten above a move from five hundred and seventy three to six hundred and forty two.

The caveat we would want quoted alongside any number. A phrase appearing in a filing usually means the risk section mentions it, not that an event occurred. Where an 8-K item number indicates an actual event, such as Item 1.05 for a material cybersecurity incident, the topic pages separate those from routine mentions, and the routine group is almost always much larger. A headline of the form "N companies disclosed X" is true and is easily misread.

Nothing here is generated, predicted, scored or characterised. There are no rankings of what companies are "most worried about", because filing frequency does not measure worry and we will not imply it does.

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