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RAG over 5,000+ SEC filings. Each query answered in under 30 seconds. Full research memos in 22 minutes, not 4 hours.

A boutique investment firm was spending 40% of analyst time manually reading SEC 10-K and 10-Q filings. We built a RAG pipeline over their entire filing library — natural language questions return cited, cross-document answers in under 30 seconds. Full investment memos that used to take 4 hours now take 22 minutes.

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DELIVERED IN 14 DAYS
KEY METRICS — FINANCIAL SERVICES
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QUERY RESPONSE TIME
Ask any question — cited answer in under 30 seconds
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FULL RESEARCH SESSION
Complete investment memo — down from 4+ hours manually
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FASTER RESEARCH
Coverage per analyst: 5 companies → 50 companies
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FILINGS INDEXED
10-K and 10-Q filings, all S&P sectors
THE INDUSTRY CONTEXT

Financial Research Is a $150/Hour Problem

Financial analysts at boutique firms spend the majority of their working hours reading unstructured documents — 10-Ks, 10-Qs, proxy statements, earnings transcripts. The average S&P 500 10-K filing runs 200+ pages. Cross-referencing multiple filings for a single investment thesis can take days. This creates a brutal bottleneck: analyst hours are the most expensive resource in a firm, yet they are consumed by mechanical reading tasks that AI can handle in seconds.

40%
of analyst time spent reading filings
Source: McKinsey Global Institute
200+
average pages per 10-K filing
Source: SEC EDGAR data
$150/hr
average analyst billing rate
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
THE CHALLENGE

Manual Reading Was Killing the Investment Edge

The firm's four analysts were covering 60+ companies across three sectors. Each quarterly earnings cycle meant 60+ new filings to read — manually, in sequence, with notes in spreadsheets. Cross-referencing risk disclosures, revenue drivers, and management commentary across multiple companies took days. By the time research was complete, the market had already moved.

01

No Cross-Document Memory

Insights from one filing could not be easily connected to another. Each document was read in isolation, losing the network of relationships that drives real alpha.

02

Zero Citation Trail

Analyst notes had no direct links back to source text. Compliance review and investment committee challenges required re-reading the original documents.

03

Competitive Disadvantage

Larger firms with 20+ analysts and Bloomberg terminals could process filings 10x faster. The boutique firm was structurally disadvantaged on research throughput.

04

Context Loss Across Quarters

Comparing this quarter's 10-K risk disclosures to last year's required manual cross-referencing — a 2-hour task for every single company.

WHAT WE BUILT

A RAG Pipeline That Thinks Like an Analyst

We built a semantic retrieval system over the firm's entire SEC filing library — 5,000+ documents ingested, chunked with financial context preservation, and indexed in a vector store. Analysts now ask questions in plain English and get cited answers with exact page references in under 30 seconds. Cross-document synthesis, risk comparison, and trend detection happen automatically.

FEATURE 01

SEC EDGAR Ingestion Pipeline

Automated daily ingestion of new filings via SEC EDGAR API. PDFs are extracted, cleaned, and chunked with financial table and footnote preservation.

FEATURE 02

Semantic Vector Search

LlamaIndex-powered retrieval with custom financial entity extraction. Queries understand synonyms — "revenue" finds "net sales", "top line", and "total income".

FEATURE 03

Multi-Document Synthesis

Ask one question, get answers synthesized across 10 companies simultaneously. Compare risk disclosures, identify sector patterns, track management language shifts.

FEATURE 04

Citation-First Answers

Every answer includes exact document, section, and page number. One click links back to the original filing on SEC EDGAR. Zero hallucinations — if it's not in the filing, the system says so.

TECH STACK

BUILT WITH THE
RIGHT TOOLS.

AI FRAMEWORK
LlamaIndex
RAG orchestration & query engine
VECTOR STORE
Pinecone
Vector database for semantic search
LLM
OpenAI GPT-4
Reasoning and answer synthesis
BACKEND
FastAPI
Backend API and query endpoint
FRONTEND
Next.js
Analyst-facing dashboard
DATA SOURCE
SEC EDGAR API
Automated filing ingestion
DATABASE
PostgreSQL
Filing metadata and audit log
INFRASTRUCTURE
AWS S3
Document storage and versioning
THE RESULTS

Research Speed Became a Competitive Weapon

BEFORE
METRIC
AFTER
4+ hours
Full investment memo time
22 minutes
5 companies
Coverage per analyst
50+ companies
0% citation
Answer traceability
100% cited
60+ hours/cycle
Quarterly earnings review
6 hours/cycle
$180,000+ in recovered analyst time annually
Earnings cycle review compressed from 2 weeks to 2 days
10x increase in company coverage per analyst
Investment committee preparation time cut by 75%
Zero compliance incidents — full audit trail on every query
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