Return a first-party SEC company overview — a due-diligence briefing combining identity/classification (name, CIK, tickers, sector/industry from SIC, state of incorporation, exchange, former names) with the latest material filing and a sector-aware financial snapshot derived from multi-year annual SEC XBRL facts. A companyType discriminator (operating / financial_institution / pre_revenue) drives which metrics are valid: financial institutions null gross/operating margin and free cash flow and lean on net margin, ROE, ROA, book value, and total assets. The revenue concept is recency-selected (the candidate whose latest fiscal year is most recent wins) so deprecated tags and wrong sub-lines never win. The base overview is intentionally light; pass include=segments,footnotes,dilution,factors to attach opt-in, bounded enrichments (footnotes is returned as a reference link rather than rendered inline; factors is a quantified, time-ranged quant factor-exposure snapshot — an exposure snapshot, not a forecast). Ships beta. Requires ticker or cik.
Audience: application and coding agent.
Example request
curl -X GET \
-H "x-api-key: $SECAPI_API_KEY" \
-H "secapi-version: 2026-03-19" \
"https://api.secapi.ai/v1/companies/overview"
Example response
{
"requestId": "req_2ZK8Q1W9F4M6P7R3"
}
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Failure posture
- treat non-2xx responses as contract-aware failures, not free-form errors
- preserve
requestId and traceparent in logs and downstream reports
- if provenance or freshness metadata is present, return it unchanged so trust is not lost in the handoff
