Use case — public company research

Scrape SEC filings from EDGAR into structured rows

Pull 10-Ks, 10-Qs, 8-Ks, and proxy statements straight into your Sheet or Claude agent. Skip the EDGAR pagination pain.

The problem

Why your current scraper doesn't cut it

EDGAR is the canonical SEC filings database, but its UI is stuck in 1995. Browsing by CIK, filing date, and form type is painful, and every scraper breaks the moment EDGAR touches its HTML.

Stekpad handles EDGAR and every modern SEC data portal with the same point-and-click flow you use for any site. No XBRL parsing, no XML wrangling.

Step-by-step

How to do it with Stekpad

  1. 1

    Open an EDGAR search or filer page

    Search by company, CIK, form type, or date range. Open the results list.
  2. 2

    Click a filing row

    Stekpad detects every filing in the list. Capture form type, date, company, CIK, filing URL.
  3. 3

    Drill into individual filings

    Save a second recipe that opens each filing and extracts key sections — management discussion, risk factors, item counts.
  4. 4

    Feed to Claude for analysis

    Pipe filings to Claude via MCP for financial analysis, risk flagging, or comparable research.
Why Stekpad

What you get that other tools miss

📑

Every form type

10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, DEF 14A, S-1, 13D/G — one flow covers all.

🔍

Drill-down recipes

Chain recipes: list → filing detail → specific section.

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Claude-compatible

Claude analyzes full filings or summarizes across a cohort in seconds.

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Scheduled runs

Cloud plan watches new filings daily for your watchlist.

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