The paper trail.
Every public company leaves a trail at the SEC, and this report reads the five AI giants’ most recent 5,004 filings as a single stream. The surprise is what the trail is made of: — of it is insider-trading paperwork — executives’ Forms 4 and 144 — while the 8-K disclosures that make headlines are a — sliver. And because the SEC window is a fixed count, not a fixed clock, the trail’s length measures filing velocity: the fastest filer burns through a thousand filings three times quicker than the slowest. Every figure is computed from the stream at render time.
published 2026-08-27 · data cutoff 2026-08-26 · edition 1 — updated only by a new dated edition · source: SEC EDGAR submissions
Five trails, one river.
All five companies’ filings by quarter, stacked as filled areas by form family. The river widens as each company’s window joins (their entries are marked — the SEC serves a fixed COUNT per company, so windows differ and the method says so). What fills the river is the finding: the amber insider tide.
How fast a thousand filings burn.
The SEC hands back each company’s last ~1,000 filings — so how far back that window reaches measures how fast the company files. The spans below are those windows on one clock: the shortest span is the fastest paper machine.
What each trail is made of.
Each company’s stream as a 100% column. The amber insider band dominates every one of them — the routine of executives’ stock plans — while the filings investors actually read (the green reports, the cyan 8-Ks) are the thin bands on top.
The thirty biggest filings.
By size on the wire, the heaviest documents in the stream — annual reports and proxy statements, megabytes of them. Deliberately the last data view: a table is the record, not the story.
How this was made, and its limits.
The data: the SEC’s submissions API for five issuers, pulled by our warehouse on schedule. Every figure is computed from the stream in your browser. The cards are the limits — the first one shapes everything on this page.