> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.secapi.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# SEC API Documentation Overview

> Start building on SEC API from the workflow that matches your job, with links to the API reference, SDK examples, and prompts for issuer and market research.

<Info>
  Start with the workflow that matches your job, then use the linked API reference, SDK examples, and prompts to build against SEC API with source metadata preserved.
</Info>

## Start from the workflow that matches your job

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  <Card title="Issuer research" icon="building-2" href="/first-request-flows">
    Resolve a company, fetch the latest filing, extract the key sections, pull the all-statements bundle, and keep the source trail intact.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Offerings monitor" icon="briefcase-business" href="/advanced-quickstarts">
    Track fresh S-1 and 424B4 activity without living inside EDGAR.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Ownership monitor" icon="users" href="/ownership-workflows">
    Compare manager positions, ticker holder graphs, historical institutional extracts, and quarter-over-quarter changes.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Market utilities" icon="calendar-range" href="/market-calendar">
    Check market status, read documented index coverage, and pull the SEC API Volatility Score with explicit partial-state semantics.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## How to use these docs

<Steps>
  <Step title="Show the best path through the API">
    You should not need to memorize the entire contract surface before getting something useful out of SEC API.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Give you prompts that survive handoff">
    Every guide should give you a prompt you can hand to a coding agent without rewriting it into a second prompt.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Keep the trust trail visible">
    Provenance, freshness, materialization, and trace metadata are part of the job, not decorative metadata you strip off later.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Copyable workflow prompts

### Issuer research

<Prompt>
  Build an issuer research workflow with SEC API. Resolve AAPL, pull the latest 10-K, extract Item 1A and Item 7, fetch the all-statements bundle, hydrate any available filing trace references, and return a markdown brief with provenance and freshness metadata attached to each section.
</Prompt>

### Ownership monitor

<Prompt>
  Use SEC API to compare a manager portfolio with the latest holder graph for AAPL. Highlight the biggest positions, the biggest quarter-over-quarter changes, and the source accessions and trace references behind each result.
</Prompt>

## Then read these

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  <Card title="Advanced quickstarts" icon="rocket" href="/advanced-quickstarts">
    Slightly deeper workflows once the first request is working.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Benchmark workflows" icon="gauge" href="/benchmark-workflows">
    The benchmark methodology, latest snapshot, and what the numbers do and do not mean.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Freshness and trust" icon="shield-check" href="/freshness-and-trust">
    How SEC API measures trust, freshness, and source-backed availability.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Migrate from sec-api.io" icon="git-compare" href="/migrate-from-sec-api">
    Translate common sec-api.io workflows directly onto the SEC API surface.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Migrate from financialdatasets.ai" icon="git-compare-arrows" href="/migrate-from-financialdatasets-ai">
    Map financial statements, filings, ownership, and insider work onto SEC API.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Give this prompt to your agent" icon="bot" href="/give-this-prompt-to-your-agent">
    Ready-made prompts for faster handoff to coding agents.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>