Find every 8-K that mentions a phrase, pull a company's latest filings with their item codes, and read a 10-K's risk factors without opening EDGAR in another tab. The Firecrawl plugin lets you search SEC filings in ChatGPT through Firecrawl Alexandria, where the SEC EDGAR provider reads the SEC's EDGAR system directly.
Best for
- Investors who want a company's newest 8-Ks, with what each one reports, before reading the documents.
- Analysts tracking a theme, such as tariffs or a cybersecurity incident, across every company that disclosed it in a date range.
- Anyone who needs one 10-K or 10-Q section, such as Item 1A or Item 7, as text they can question in the chat.
Plugins and data providers
Plugin: the Firecrawl plugin, which hands ChatGPT the SEC EDGAR tools in Firecrawl Alexandria and charges each call at the tool's listed price, paid in Firecrawl credits.
Data providers in Firecrawl Alexandria
| Provider | Tool | Returns |
|---|---|---|
| SEC EDGAR | Full-text search | EDGAR full-text search across filers since 2001, filtered by phrase, form type, filing dates and company. 100 hits per page, each with the filer, form, 8-K item codes and a direct document link. |
| SEC EDGAR | Filings | One company's filings newest first, filtered by form and date, with accession numbers, 8-K items and their captions, and links. Amendments are left out unless you ask for them. |
| SEC EDGAR | Sections | Named items of a 10-K or 10-Q as plain text, from the latest 10-K by default, with an optional length cap per section. |
| SEC EDGAR | Filing | Every document in one filing (main document, exhibits, XBRL files) with a direct URL. |
Explore Firecrawl Alexandria data providers across categories
Starter prompt
Put in the company you follow and the period you care about:
@firecrawl Use the SEC EDGAR provider in Firecrawl Alexandria to look at
NVIDIA's (NVDA) recent SEC filings. Show the price of each tool before you
run it.
Give me:
- The three most recent 8-Ks, each with the filing date, the item codes and
captions, and the document link.
- The first few paragraphs of Item 1A (Risk Factors) from the latest 10-K,
with the filing date of that 10-K.
- Any 8-K/A amendments filed in the same period.
Quote filing text exactly and link every filing. No investment advice.Before you start
- Get the plugin. The button after this list opens it in the ChatGPT directory.
- Link your Firecrawl account. SEC EDGAR calls are paid from its Firecrawl credits. Create one if you're new.
- Know the price. Each SEC EDGAR tool costs 5 Firecrawl credits a call, and ChatGPT can list prices before it runs anything.
Limitations of using ChatGPT to search SEC filings without Firecrawl
A filing question depends on the exact document, form and date, and ChatGPT working alone has five gaps on those.
- Recent filings are past the cutoff. OpenAI says its models are trained up to a point and don't include later events unless a tool is used (OpenAI). An 8-K filed this week isn't something ChatGPT can recall.
- Search finds articles about the filing. OpenAI warns that what search returns, citations included, can miss things, lag behind or simply be wrong, and points users to an authoritative source when accuracy matters (OpenAI). A news recap of a 10-K can drop the qualifier that changes its meaning.
- Filing answers can be confidently wrong. OpenAI lists fabricated quotes and citations among ChatGPT's failure modes. Researchers at Patronus AI also found that large language models frequently failed to answer questions drawn from SEC filings (CNBC, Dec 2023).
- No form or date filters in a chat. EDGAR's own full-text search narrows results by filing dates, form, company and CIK (SEC). A prompt can name a form or a date range, but ChatGPT has no EDGAR filter to enforce it, so a 10-Q exhibit and an unrelated company can show up next to the 8-K you meant.
- Corrections arrive as separate filings. The SEC requires changes to a filed 8-K to go on a Form 8-K/A (SEC staff guidance). An answer built on the original filing can miss what the company later corrected.
How ChatGPT searches and reads EDGAR filings with Firecrawl
Four pieces let ChatGPT search SEC filings:
- Firecrawl Alexandria: where the SEC EDGAR tools live. It pairs more than a hundred licensed and official providers, each paid when an agent uses its data, with Firecrawl's own indexes of web pages, academic papers, code documentation and public-sector records. Firecrawl tested it on 845 tasks, same model and same prompts each time, and answers from the agents that had Firecrawl Alexandria were judged 21% better than answers from agents limited to standard web tools.
- Full-text search: a query for "tariffs" in 8-Ks filed Oct 1 to Oct 20, 2026 matched 302 documents, returned 100 per page, each tagged with its filer, 8-K items and a link. Earnings-release exhibits come back too, so ask ChatGPT to keep the main 8-K if that's all you want.
- Filings with item codes: NVIDIA's three newest 8-Ks came back as Sep 3, 2026 (Item 8.01, Other Events), Aug 26, 2026 (Items 2.02 and 9.01) and Aug 17, 2026 (Items 1.01, 2.03 and 7.01), so ChatGPT can tell an earnings release from a financing before opening anything.
- Sections as text: the Risk Factors item of NVIDIA's latest 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2026, runs past 110,000 characters, so a length cap keeps the reply short and the full text stays one call away.
Searching SEC filings in ChatGPT with and without Firecrawl Alexandria
| ChatGPT with no data source | ChatGPT using SEC EDGAR in Firecrawl Alexandria | |
|---|---|---|
| Where filings come from | Training data, plus pages written about a filing | SEC EDGAR, queried when you ask |
| Newest filings | Whatever search has indexed | A company's filing list, newest first, with filing dates |
| Form and date filters | None beyond the prompt wording | Form type, filing date range, company and phrase |
| 8-K contents at a glance | Read from coverage | Item codes and captions on every 8-K |
| Source | Hard to tell a filing from a summary | SEC EDGAR in Firecrawl Alexandria, linking straight to each document. More than 100 official providers sit in the catalog, covering finance, companies, public records and more. Explore the catalog |
| Long reports | Too long to read in one reply | One named section at a time, with an optional length cap |
| Amendments | Easy to miss | 8-K/A and other amendments included on request |
Build your own SEC filing workflow
Pick the prompt that matches how you read filings. For a holder checking one company each quarter:
@firecrawl From SEC EDGAR in Firecrawl Alexandria, list AAPL's 10-Q and 8-K
filings since July 1, 2026, newest first, with item codes and links. Then
show the first 2,000 characters of Item 7 (MD&A) from the latest 10-Q.For an analyst screening many companies for one disclosure:
@firecrawl Run an EDGAR full-text search in Firecrawl Alexandria for
"material cybersecurity incident" in 8-Ks filed in the last 30 days. Keep
main 8-K documents only, and list the company, filing date, item codes and
link for each.Naming the form, the date range and how much text you want keeps each answer tied to the filings themselves.
Take it further
Read the whole filing package
@firecrawl Take the accession number of TSLA's latest 8-K from SEC EDGAR and
list every document in that filing with its link, exhibits included.Compare risk factors across years
@firecrawl Pull Item 1A from MSFT's two most recent 10-K filings through SEC
EDGAR in Firecrawl Alexandria and list the risk headings that are new this
year. Quote each one.Catch the corrections
@firecrawl List AMZN's 8-K filings from the past year with amendments
included, and mark which ones are 8-K/A.See the tools and prices first
@firecrawl Which SEC EDGAR tools in Firecrawl Alexandria can search filings
or read 10-K sections? List each one with its price per call.What it costs
Looking for tools, reading their inputs and checking prices costs nothing. Firecrawl credits leave your balance only once a tool actually runs; Firecrawl pricing shows what each plan includes.
| SEC EDGAR tool | What it answers | Firecrawl credits per call |
|---|---|---|
| Full-text search | Which filings mention a phrase, by form and date | 5 |
| Filings | A company's filings, newest first, with 8-K items | 5 |
| Sections | Item text from a 10-K or 10-Q | 5 |
| Filing | Every document inside one filing | 5 |
Each reply tells you which SEC EDGAR tool ChatGPT called and how many Firecrawl credits it took.
[ SEC filings in ChatGPT ]
Add the Firecrawl plugin, then ask ChatGPT for any company's newest 8-K or a 10-K section. Looking up tools is free.
Related use cases
- How to use ChatGPT for finance: statements, earnings calls and FRED series next to the filings.
- How to use ChatGPT to get company press releases the minute they post: the announcement itself, often out before the 8-K that carries it.
- Fiscal.ai: standardized statements and ratios built from the same reports, in Firecrawl Alexandria.
Coverage limits
- EDGAR filers only. The provider covers what companies file with the SEC. Full-text search reaches back to 2001, and older filings come through a company's filing list.
- Search hits are documents. Full-text search returns each matching document, so one 8-K with an exhibit can appear twice. Ask ChatGPT to keep main documents only when that matters.
- No investment advice. ChatGPT reports what the filings say and leaves the decision to you.