SKILL / Business & Risk
Plans: Pro & AgencyUS Public Filings
Review official filing histories and reported company information for an identified public filer.
Read the step-by-step user guideUS Public Filings answers the question of what a company has officially filed with US regulators and what it reports about itself in those filings. For an identified public filer, Nexus reviews the filing history — registration details, periodic reports, material-event notices, ownership disclosures and reported financial figures — and presents each item with its filing type and date. It gives an investigator the company’s own reported record rather than a paraphrase of it.
What you get
An assessment of a US public filer’s official filing history and the company facts it reported, each dated.
Using US Public Filings in an investigation
The investigator receives a structured assessment listing the filer’s identifying details, its filings by type, date and reference, and the company facts and headline financial figures the filer reported at each point in time. Every fact links to the filing it came from and carries the reporting date, so an older figure is not mistaken for a current one. When more than one filer could match a name, Nexus lists the candidates instead of guessing.
Within a case, the filer can be added to the relationship graph, and reported facts can be cited in a brief or PDF report. US Public Filings pairs with Financial Instrument Mapping to connect a ticker or ISIN to the filer behind it, with UK Company Registry for cross-border groups and with News and Adverse-Media Timeline for events that filings describe only in outline.
Example objectives
Run the Skill directly, or describe the objective in your own words — these are the kinds of questions it is built to answer.
Ask Nexus
“List this public company’s filings from the last two years with their types and dates.”
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“Which ownership disclosures and periodic reports appear in this filer’s history, and on what dates were they filed?”
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“Which reported revenue figures appear in this company’s latest annual filing?”
How US Public Filings fits the investigation
A Skill is one move inside a case. The findings stay in the case file, where the evidence behind them can be checked, graphed and reported.
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Choose or describe
Pick the Skill from the Skill Library, or describe the objective in your own words and let Nexus work out which Skills fit the question.
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Review the evidence
Open the evidence record behind any finding and read the original public source before you rely on what it says.
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Add to the case graph
Promote the people, organizations and identifiers you accept into the case relationship graph, straight from their evidence records.
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Brief and report
Turn the case into a BLUF situation brief and, on Pro and Agency, into a structured PDF report with chain of custody.
Evidence before conclusions
What US Public Filings cannot establish
Nexus keeps supported findings, possible matches, contradictions and information gaps apart instead of blending them into one narrative. These are the boundaries US Public Filings states up front.
- Filings describe what a company reported on a specific date. They may not reflect later changes, restatements or events the company was not required to disclose.
- US Public Filings covers entities that file publicly in the United States. A private company or a foreign issuer without US filing obligations will not appear, and that absence says nothing about the company itself.
- A reported fact is the company’s own statement. Nexus presents it with its filing reference and date rather than as independently verified.
Best for
Teams that reach for US Public Filings most often.
Related OSINT concepts
The vocabulary this Skill works in, defined in the glossary.
Related Skills
Skills investigators commonly run next, in the same case.
Frequently asked questions
What does US Public Filings return?
US Public Filings returns an assessment of an identified public filer: its registration details, a filing history organized by type, date and reference, and the company facts and headline financial figures the filer reported in those filings. Each fact is linked to the specific filing and its date, and any ambiguity about which filer matches the name is shown as a set of candidates.
Which companies can US Public Filings research?
US Public Filings covers companies and other entities that file publicly with US regulators, such as listed companies, registered funds and certain foreign issuers with US reporting obligations. Private companies and businesses outside the US filing regime do not appear. When a subject is missing, Nexus records that as a gap; the investigator can turn to UK Company Registry, Company Directory Research or Public-Source Research instead.
How does US Public Filings handle figures that changed after a filing?
US Public Filings presents every figure with the filing it came from and the date of that filing. If a later filing restates or updates a figure, both appear with their dates, so the investigator sees the sequence rather than a single merged number. Nexus does not silently replace an earlier value with a later one, and it does not project figures beyond what the company reported.
Which Nexus plan includes US Public Filings?
US Public Filings is included in the Skill Library on the Pro and Agency plans. Pro unlocks 43 of the 47 investigative Skills, including US Public Filings and the other business, financial and risk Skills, and Agency includes all 47.