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Scanning EDGAR every day

Know the moment a company puts itself in play.

Every day, public companies quietly tell the SEC they're exploring a sale, forming a special committee, or filing for bankruptcy — buried in 8-Ks nobody reads until it's news. FilingBell reads all of them, the day they're filed.

+25.6%
avg gain when an early "exploring alternatives" filing led to a completed deal (backtested)
24%
of going-private proposals actually completed — far lower than most assume
Free while in early access. One email a day. Unsubscribe anytime. See the full backtest →
Sample Digest

This is what lands in your inbox.

Real filings, ranked by how confirmed the event actually is — a signed merger agreement first, a board "exploring options" further down.

CompanySignalFiledMkt CapP/B
Lulu's Fashion Lounge
LVLU
 Special Committee Formed Jul 13$45.0M0.62
Aterian, Inc.
ATER
 Strategic Alternatives Process Mar 23$18.0M0.34
Domo, Inc.
DOMO
 Exploring Strategic Alternatives Feb 19$210.0M3.10
LKQ Corp
LKQ
 Reviewing Strategic Alternatives Jan 26$8.9B1.40
How it works

Three steps, none of them yours.

1

We read every 8-K, daily

Every new filing on EDGAR is scanned for the exact language companies use when something structural is happening — strategic reviews, special committees, mergers, bankruptcies.

2

We rank by certainty

A signed merger agreement isn't the same as a board "considering its options." We sort by how confirmed the event actually is, not just how recent.

3

It lands in your inbox

One email each morning. Every entry links straight to the primary filing on EDGAR — we point, you decide.

Who reads it

Built for people who act on primary sources.

A small but growing group of value, merger-arb, and distressed investors get this in their inbox each morning. It's built for a few specific kinds of reader:

Value & distressed

Looking for companies trading below tangible book, before a sale process re-rates the stock.

Merger arbitrage

Tracking the spread between today's price and an announced deal price.

Credit & distressed debt

Bankruptcy and restructuring filings matter to bondholders as much as shareholders.

Corp dev & deal sourcing

Same-day awareness of which public companies are formally exploring a sale.

Track record

Backtested against real filing history.

Backtested against real filing history

See exactly how many flagged filings led to a completed acquisition, how many ended in bankruptcy, and how prices moved — broken down by signal type.

View the full track record →
Why I built this

One person's research tool, not a company.

I spend a lot of time digging through SEC filings by hand — looking for the kind of mispriced, overlooked situations that don't show up on a normal stock screener. A board quietly hiring a bank to "explore alternatives," a special committee getting formed, a company trading at a steep discount to book value right as something changes.

The problem is that information is buried in individual 8-K filings, not a searchable database, and by the time it shows up in a headline or a stock screener, the opportunity's often already gone. I got tired of manually checking EDGAR every day, so I built a scraper that does it for me — then I backtested it against thousands of past filings to see if the signal was actually real before trusting it myself.

This is a solo project, still early. I use it myself every morning, and I'm sharing it because I figured other people doing similar research might find it useful too.

Questions

The obvious questions, answered.

Is it really free?
Yes. It's free while in early access, with no paid tier and no credit card. If that changes later, existing subscribers will hear about it first — nothing gets charged without asking.
What do you do with my email?
It's used to send you the digest, and nothing else. It isn't sold, shared, or handed to any third party. You can unsubscribe any time.
Is this investment advice?
No. FilingBell surfaces public SEC filings and points you to the primary source. It never tells you to buy or sell anything — you read the actual filing and decide for yourself.
How is this different from a stock screener?
Standard screeners filter on numbers (P/E, market cap, ROE). They have no concept of "this company just told the SEC it's exploring a sale," because that lives in unstructured filing text, not a data field. FilingBell reads that text.
Where do the backtest numbers come from?
Each filing's outcome is confirmed from the company's own later SEC filings (completed-acquisition, bankruptcy, and deregistration filings), not from stock-price data alone, which is unreliable for delisted companies. It's an early project and the numbers still shift as it's refined — the full methodology is here.
Feedback

Spot something off? Tell me.

This is an early, one-person project and I'm genuinely trying to make it better. Trigger phrases worth adding, outcomes that look wrong, features you'd want — it all helps. Goes straight to my inbox.