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8-K Current Report Signals

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Know when a public company reports a material event: a leadership change, an acquisition, or a material agreement.

83 signal subtypes from SEC event filings. Detect acquisitions, CEO changes, bankruptcies, and material events within 4 business days of occurrence across 4,500+ companies.

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Companies Covered
4,500+
Signal Subtypes
83
Signals / Month
~15K
Event Lag
4 business days
Delivery
REST API, GCS Push, Generate Insights API, Flat File
Format
JSONL or Parquet
Bucket
gs://autobound-8k/

What Are 8-K Filing Signals?

Weekly refresh

8-K filings are how public companies disclose material events to the SEC as they happen: a CEO departure, a major acquisition, a data breach, or entry into a significant contract. Companies must file within four business days of the triggering event, making the 8-K the fastest confirmed source of corporate intelligence from a regulatory filing.

Autobound extracts 83 signal subtypes from 8-K filings, organized by the SEC's item numbering system: Item 1.01 for new material agreements, Item 2.01 for asset acquisitions or dispositions, Item 5.02 for executive departures, and so on. Each item maps to a different sales opportunity, and because these events are time-sensitive (a new CEO opens a vendor reevaluation window; an acquisition forces stack consolidation), acting fast matters.

Example subtypes

Material contractmaterialContract

From a real record

Minerals Technologies Inc.mineralstech.comOct 2, 2026

Minerals Technologies prices $400M senior notes offering and plans to expand revolving credit facility to $500M.

Dollar figure
$400M
CIK
891014
Accession number
0000950157-26-001063
Timeframe
Immediate
Filed
Oct 2, 2026
Filing year
2026

Source: sec.gov

From an 8-K filing to your next move

What we detect, what you get, and what you do with it. Pick the path that fits your team.

Sales, marketing and RevOps: Slack, CRM fields and plays.

  1. 0103

    Material events reach the SEC first

    Acquisitions, CEO changes and big contracts must be filed within four business days. We read each 8-K and pull out the event.

    1. SEC EDGAR
    SEC EDGARJan 8, 2026

    Cable One will fully consolidate Mega Broadband Investments by Q4 2026, creating an urgent need for post-merger integration services including system consolidation (billing, CRM, network), data migration, and change management.

    Extracted
    Cable One, Inc.cableone.bizcompanyAcquisition announcedsignal_subtype
  2. 0203

    You get one clean record

    Each record names the company and its domain, labels what happened, and links back to the source.

    1. Signal record

    Cable One, Inc.

    cableone.bizTelecommunications Services

    Acquisition announcedacquisitionAnnounced

    Cable One to acquire remaining 55% of Mega Broadband Investments (Vyve Broadband) for ~$485M.

    “Cable One will fully consolidate Mega Broadband Investments by Q4 2026, creating an urgent need for post-merger integration services including system consolidation (billing, CRM, network), data migration, and change management.”
    Deal value
    $485M
    Filed
    Jan 6, 2026
    Detected
    Jan 8, 2026
    Source
    sec.gov

    signal_id 9873367d…

  3. 0303

    Act on it where you work

    Send it to Slack, write it to your CRM, or give it to an AI agent.

    When
    signal_subtype = acquisitionAnnounced
    Do
    Tech-consolidation outreach to IT leaders at the acquirer
    1. Your team acts
    or your own code
    #account-signals

    Signal alert from your workflow

    Cable One, Inc.· Acquisition announced

    Cable One to acquire remaining 55% of Mega Broadband Investments (Vyve Broadband) for ~$485M.

    Play: Tech-consolidation outreach to IT leaders at the acquirer

    Start the playOpen the source

    Illustration. The record fields are real.

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How we build this signal

How we build each 8-K signal

Every week a job reads the previous week's 8-K filings and runs each through five stages. Code checks every model answer before it ships.

Relevance floor
0.7
Model reads per filing
3
Refresh
Weekly
  1. 01

    Collection

    Each Tuesday a job queries an SEC filings index for every company in our public-company list and collects the 8-K filings dated in the previous week.

  2. 02

    Section extraction

    We fetch the filing and keep the parts that carry business detail. For an 8-K, that is the event items, such as material agreements, acquisitions, results, new debt, auditor changes and officer or director changes. If none is found, a trimmed copy of the full text is used.

  3. 03

    Three focused reads

    A model reads each filing three times, once per theme: leadership and strategy, technology and operations, financial health and risk. Each read picks subtypes from a closed list, uses each once and must quote the filing.

  4. 04

    Quality gates

    Code drops any signal with an unlisted subtype, a relevance score under 0.7, or evidence that is under 50 characters, a table fragment or boilerplate such as safe-harbor text. A filing whose company has no website ships nothing.

  5. 05

    Dedup and delivery

    One filing yields at most one signal per subtype. Each signal is fingerprinted on form, subtype, ticker and filing date, and a shipped fingerprint is never delivered again. Records are schema-checked before upload.

8-K Signal Data Schema

8-K signals capture material corporate events with SEC item classification. Each signal includes the specific 8-K item type, event details, and sales relevance scoring.

{
  "signal_id": "9873367d-66a0-408e-9ce8-197872e72cbf",
  "signal_type": "8k",
  "signal_subtype": "acquisitionAnnounced",
  "signal_name": "Cable One to acquire remaining 55% of Mega Broadband Investments for ~$485M",
  "association": "company",
  "detected_at": "2026-01-08T14:22:18Z",
  "company": {
    "name": "Cable One, Inc.",
    "domain": "cableone.biz",
    "ticker": "CABO",
    "linkedin_url": "linkedin.com/company/cable-one",
    "industries": [
      "Telecommunications Services"
    ]
  },
  "data": {
    "summary": "Cable One to acquire remaining 55% of Mega Broadband Investments (Vyve Broadband) for ~$485M.",
    "detail": "Cable One will fully consolidate Mega Broadband Investments by Q4 2026, creating an urgent need for post-merger integration services including system consolidation (billing, CRM, network), data migration, and change management.",
    "relevance": 0.95,
    "confidence": "high",
    "sentiment": "neutral",
    "excerpts": "Cable One entered into a Purchase Agreement to acquire the equity interests in MBI that it does not already own for approximately $485 million.",
    "source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1632127/000095015726000007/form8-k.htm",
    "technologies_mentioned": [
      "broadband",
      "fiber connectivity"
    ],
    "competitors_mentioned": [],
    "vendors_mentioned": [],
    "regions_mentioned": [
      "Southeast",
      "Northwest",
      "Mid-South United States"
    ],
    "filing_date": "2026-01-06",
    "filing_year": 2026,
    "sales_relevance": "Integration needs coming",
    "signal_category": "strategic",
    "metrics": {
      "dollar_millions": 485,
      "dollar_context": "Purchase price for remaining 55% of Mega Broadband Investments",
      "pct": 0.55,
      "pct_context": "Equity stake in MBI being acquired",
      "timeframe": "current_year"
    }
  }
}

Measured coverage

What's inside 8-K Current Report Signals

A dated snapshot counted in our production database, not a live count. Minimums, not ceilings.

Coverage for all 35 signal types →
2,200
Companies with fresh data per month
Published baseline, records through Jul 21, 2026
15,666
Records created per month
6-month average, records through Jul 21, 2026

Top subtypes

83 total
Material Contract15K · 15%
Debt Refinancing14K · 14%
Board Change8.4K · 8.6%
Restructuring7.3K · 7.5%
Governance Change5.8K · 5.9%
Product Launch4.8K · 4.9%
Acquisition Announced3.9K · 4.0%
Restructuring Charge3.5K · 3.6%
🇺🇸United States2.9K · 68%
🇮🇳India43 · 1.0%
🇨🇦Canada37 · 0.9%
🇬🇧United Kingdom19 · 0.4%
🇮🇱Israel11 · 0.3%
🇲🇽Mexico9 · 0.2%
🇪🇸Spain7 · 0.2%
CA 808TX 382NY 377MA 261FL 174PA 156

Top industries

all industries →
Biotechnology Research444 · 10%
Financial Services274 · 6.3%
Banking215 · 5.0%
Leasing Real Estate183 · 4.2%
Software Development172 · 4.0%
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing154 · 3.6%
Oil and Gas151 · 3.5%

Join keys

fill rate
Domain100%
LinkedIn URL91%
Company name100%
Records measured 97,727+Companies reached 4,321+

Company pages

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See for yourself

Check out sample data: real 8-K Current Report records with the same fields the API returns.

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“They provide insight and triggers about accounts we would otherwise have trouble finding.”
Rob Consoli, Chief Revenue Officer, Skuid

Frequently asked questions

What are 8-K current report signals?
8-K filings are real-time SEC disclosures triggered by material corporate events, including CEO changes, acquisitions, data breaches, significant contracts, and more. Autobound extracts 83 signal subtypes from these filings, giving sales teams confirmed intelligence about corporate events within 4 business days of occurrence across 4,500+ public companies.
How does Autobound detect 8-K filing signals?
Autobound continuously monitors SEC EDGAR for new 8-K filings on a weekly refresh cadence. Each filing is parsed by AI models that classify the event by SEC item type, extract key details, assign relevance and confidence scores, and link back to the source document. The structured output is delivered via API, GCS Push, or flat file export.
How should I use 8-K data in my outreach?
8-K signals create time-sensitive outreach windows. Leadership changes give you 90 days before vendor decisions solidify. M&A announcements create immediate technology consolidation needs. Reference the specific event in your outreach, like 'I noticed your recent CEO announcement,' to demonstrate that your timing is intentional, not coincidental.