Financial Intelligence
6-K Foreign Report Signals
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72 signal subtypes from SEC 6-K filings, the international 8-K equivalent. Detect leadership changes, acquisitions, restructurings, and material events from foreign private issuers in near real-time.
- Companies Covered
- 12,500
- Signal Subtypes
- 72
- Refresh Cadence
- Weekly
- Signals per Filing
- 1-3
- Delivery
- REST API, GCS Push, Generate Insights API, Flat File
- Format
- JSONL or Parquet
- Bucket
- gs://autobound-6k-v2/
What Are 6-K Filing Signals?
The 6-K is the current report foreign private issuers file with the SEC, the international equivalent of the 8-K. When a non-US company listed on American exchanges experiences a material event (leadership change, acquisition, restructuring), it discloses the event via a 6-K filing.
Unlike 20-F annual filings, 6-Ks are event-driven and high-volume; a single company may file several per year as events occur. Autobound classifies each filing into 72 event subtypes, and because 6-Ks capture discrete events rather than comprehensive narratives, each typically yields 1-3 focused, immediately actionable signals. That fills a real gap: domestic 8-K filings are widely monitored, but many sales teams miss the equivalent events at foreign companies. 6-K signals give global accounts the same event intelligence as domestic ones.
Example subtypes
Restructuringrestructuring
Illustrative example
Scully Royalty Ltd.scullyroyalty.com
Entire Board of Directors replaced in Dec 2025; new leadership pursuing transition plan.
Source: scullyroyalty.com
From a 6-K filing to your next move
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Foreign filers report material events
The 6-K is the international 8-K. We read each one for leadership changes, deals and restructurings.
- SEC EDGAR
- We detectSEC EDGAR
- You getSignal record
- You actSlack, CRM or agent
SEC EDGARJan 2, 2026The company's entire prior board failed to win re-election at the December 2025 annual meeting. A new board is now implementing a transition plan, which often triggers a review of existing strategies, budgets, and vendor relationships.
ExtractedScully Royalty Ltd.scullyroyalty.comcompanyRestructuringsignal_subtype0203
You get one clean record
Each record names the company and its domain, labels what happened, and links back to the source.
- Signal record
- We detectSEC EDGAR
- You getSignal record
- You actSlack, CRM or agent
Signal recordScully Royalty Ltd.
scullyroyalty.comFinancial - Capital Markets
RestructuringrestructuringEntire Board of Directors replaced in Dec 2025; new leadership pursuing transition plan.
“The company's entire prior board failed to win re-election at the December 2025 annual meeting. A new board is now implementing a transition plan, which often triggers a review of existing strategies, budgets, and vendor relationships.”
- Filed
- Jan 2, 2026
- Detected
- Jan 2, 2026
- Source
- sec.gov
signal_id 8e78afc5…
0303
Act on it where you work
Send it to Slack, write it to your CRM, or give it to an AI agent.
- When
signal_subtype= restructuring- Do
- Cost-efficiency outreach to the foreign filer's finance lead
- Your team acts
- We detectSEC EDGAR
- You getSignal record
- You actSlack, CRM or agent
or your own code#account-signalsSignal alert from your workflow
Scully Royalty Ltd.· Restructuring
Entire Board of Directors replaced in Dec 2025; new leadership pursuing transition plan.
Play: Cost-efficiency outreach to the foreign filer's finance lead
Start the playOpen the sourceIllustration. The record fields are real.
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Foreign filers report material events
The 6-K is the international 8-K. We read each one for leadership changes, deals and restructurings.
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It lands in your stack
Land weekly JSONL from your GCS bucket. Join on
company.domain; LinkedIn URL is sparse (~14%).0303
Ship it in your product
Stream events into alerts and the account timeline.
- SEC EDGAR
- We detectSEC EDGAR
- You getSignal record
- You actSlack, CRM or agent
The company's entire prior board failed to win re-election at the December 2025 annual meeting. A new board is now implementing a transition plan, which often triggers a review of existing strategies, budgets, and vendor relationships.
Step 1 of 3: Foreign filers report material events
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How we build this signal
How we build each 6-K signal
Every week a job reads the previous week's 6-K filings and runs each through five stages. Code checks every model answer before it ships.
- Relevance floor
- 0.7
- Model reads per filing
- 3
- Refresh
- Weekly
- 01
Collection
Each Tuesday a job queries an SEC filings index for every company in our public-company list and collects the 6-K filings dated in the previous week.
- 02
Section extraction
We fetch the filing and keep the parts that carry business detail. If none is found, a trimmed copy of the full text is used.
- 03
Three focused reads
A model reads each filing three times, once per theme: leadership and strategy, technology and operations, financial health and risk. Each read picks subtypes from a closed list, uses each once and must quote the filing.
- 04
Quality gates
Code drops any signal with an unlisted subtype, a relevance score under 0.7, or evidence that is under 50 characters, a table fragment or boilerplate such as safe-harbor text. A filing whose company has no website ships nothing.
- 05
Dedup and delivery
One filing yields at most one signal per subtype. Each signal is fingerprinted on form, subtype, ticker and filing date, and a shipped fingerprint is never delivered again. Records are schema-checked before upload.
6-K Signal Data Schema
6-K signals capture discrete events from foreign private issuers with the same depth as 8-K signals, plus international context fields.
{
"signal_id": "8e78afc5-002e-47ca-9797-b7ce96a7550d",
"signal_type": "6k",
"signal_subtype": "restructuring",
"signal_name": "Scully Royalty board fully replaced; new leadership pursuing transition plan",
"signal_category": "workforce",
"association": "company",
"detected_at": "2026-01-02T11:18:22Z",
"company": {
"name": "Scully Royalty Ltd.",
"domain": "scullyroyalty.com",
"ticker": "SRL",
"linkedin_url": null,
"industries": [
"Financial - Capital Markets"
]
},
"data": {
"summary": "Entire Board of Directors replaced in Dec 2025; new leadership pursuing transition plan.",
"detail": "The company's entire prior board failed to win re-election at the December 2025 annual meeting. A new board is now implementing a transition plan, which often triggers a review of existing strategies, budgets, and vendor relationships.",
"relevance": 1.0,
"confidence": "high",
"sentiment": "neutral",
"excerpts": "At the Annual Meeting, the shareholders of the Company elected each of Jerrod Freund, Mark Holliday, Alan Howe, Nimesh Patel, and Skyler Wichers to the board of directors.",
"source_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/16859/000110465926003897/tm263298d1_6k.htm",
"technologies_mentioned": [],
"competitors_mentioned": [],
"vendors_mentioned": [],
"regions_mentioned": [
"Canada"
],
"filing_date": "2026-01-02",
"filing_year": 2026,
"sales_relevance": "Change management needs"
}
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