208filers, current period
91the period before
28controls it touches
12frameworks
The long view
Filings containing this phrase, every month since 2008. The last
point is the current month and is still filling, so it always looks lower than it will be.
2008
peak 362 in May 2024
2026
Share this finding
The card carries the whole thing, so it makes sense to somebody who never clicks through.
That is the point of it.
Who disclosed it
From SEC full-text search over 8-K filings. Every row links to the filing itself.
| Company | Form | Filed | |
|---|
| Artificial Intelligence Technology Solutions Inc. AITX | 8-K | 2026-07-20 | filing |
| Wellgistics Health, Inc. WGRX | 8-K | 2026-07-21 | filing |
| Change Agents Corporation. ALBT | 8-K | 2026-07-21 | filing |
| Rocket One Inc. RKTO | 8-K | 2026-07-21 | filing |
| Big Digital Energy, Inc. BGDE | 8-K | 2026-07-20 | filing |
| Planet Green Holdings Corp. PLAG | 8-K | 2026-07-21 | filing |
| Mobileye Global Inc. MBLY | 8-K | 2026-07-23 | filing |
| SEI INVESTMENTS CO SEIC | 8-K | 2026-07-22 | filing |
| Sidus Space Inc. SIDU | 8-K | 2026-07-21 | filing |
| iPower Inc. IPW | 8-K | 2026-07-21 | filing |
| LM FUNDING AMERICA, INC. LMFA | 8-K | 2026-07-20 | filing |
| Neostellar Capital Corp. | 8-K | 2026-07-21 | filing |
The full search on EDGAR
How it actually arrives
An 8-K's meaning is in its item number, not its text. These are the items the filings
containing this phrase were filed under. The first group is something that happened to the
company. The second is the phrase turning up in the ordinary course of reporting, most often in
an earnings release, which is a very different thing and is usually the larger number.
| Filed because something happened |
Companies |
|---|
| Other material event Item 8.01 | 235 |
| Director or officer departure Item 5.02 | 155 |
| Delisting or listing rule failure Item 3.01 | 11 |
| Change of accountant Item 4.01 | 3 |
| Bankruptcy or receivership Item 1.03 | 2 |
| Material cybersecurity incident Item 1.05 | 1 |
| Financial statements no longer reliable Item 4.02 | 1 |
| Mentioned in routine reporting |
Companies |
|---|
| Financial statements and exhibits Item 9.01 | 741 |
| Regulation FD disclosure Item 7.01 | 414 |
| Results of operations, the earnings release Item 2.02 | 391 |
| Entry into a material agreement Item 1.01 | 231 |
| Completion of an acquisition Item 2.01 | 37 |
| Shareholder vote Item 5.07 | 25 |
This is why a headline count on its own overstates the case.
Where the routine number dominates, the phrase is being tracked as language rather than as
events.
Which industries file it
Companies grouped by the industry classification on their own filing. A count, not a
survey.
| Industry | | Companies |
|---|
| Software and IT services | | 116 |
| Banking | | 101 |
| Holding and investment offices | | 73 |
| Chemicals and pharmaceuticals | | 52 |
| Electronics and electrical equipment | | 47 |
| Retail | | 40 |
| Instruments and medical devices | | 34 |
| Insurance | | 34 |
| Services and entertainment | | 25 |
| Industrial machinery | | 24 |
What it obligates
Our corpus holds 28 controls across
12 frameworks whose text speaks to this. Not a judgement:
these controls say so, and each is one lookup from its source document. Ordered by how much each
framework has to say about it, so the one that will cost you the most work is first. Every name
opens that framework in the corpus.
What an auditor will ask you to produce
The artefacts named on those controls, most frequently cited first.
- Secure SDLC procedures
- Threat modelling records
- Security testing results
- Awareness of AI Office and Board guidance applicable to the activity
- AI strategy aligned to OECD Principles with inclusive growth + sustainable development + well-being objectives
- impact assessments per AI use case engaging diverse stakeholders
- redress mechanism evidence + multi-stakeholder engagement records
- Mapping of statutory definitions to internal terminology
How it usually fails
Recorded when each control was verified against its source. This is where programmes
that think they are covered turn out not to be.
- No security testing
- Production data used in test
- Dev/test/prod not segregated
- Ignoring AI Office guidance and Board opinions on classification/interpretation
- AI strategy generic without OECD Principles alignment
- impact assessments performed without affected community engagement
Where this comes from
The left half is public record: SEC full-text search over 8-K filings, counted across a
7 day window against the equivalent window before it. You can check
every row.
The right half is ours: 723 frameworks and
20,473 controls, 531 of those frameworks verified against
their source documents, with the auditor evidence and common failure modes recorded control by
control. Controls appear here because their own text names this term.
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