One of the critical benefits of our new platform is the ease in which we can distribute/add new filings to the search repository. Historically we have supported research projects when one of our clients has asked for a special directEDGAR repository to be created for a specific project. Off all of the filings available on EDGAR the one type that has been asked for most often has been S-1 filings. When we have created these I have been reluctant to push them out to everyone because of the level of coordination it would have required with your IT support. All of the coordination issues go away with our new platform.

I had a client reach out to me last week and asked if we could make S-1 filings and DRS (Draft Registration Statements) filings available to them. We already had an archive of S-1 filings so I just needed to update the archive and transfer it to our new platform. The DRS filings were ones I was not familiar with but they look particularly interesting for research into IPOs as well as governance. A simple description of the DRS filings is that they are S-1s confidentially filed while the registrant is sorting out the IPO process. We are including letters from the registrants in response to SEC comments in the DRS folder with the DOCTYPE tag DRSLETTER. Note – the original SEC Comment letters that prompt the response from the registrant have been available in the UPLOAD folder as they have been released. Since the DRS filings have only been available since Q4 2012 there are not that many of them. Both sets of filings are now available on our new platform.

If you are using our new platform – remember that your instance is loaded with your preferences and we maintain your configuration settings in the cloud. Thus you have to update the index library to have access. The process is pretty straightforward and is described in the Help under Indexing the specific topic is labeled Index Updates.

Once you have updated the index library the S1MASTER and DRSMASTER indexes are available for use. You can then use our amazing search as well as the full range of Extraction and Normalization tools on these filings. In the image below I ran a search to identify all DRLETTER (DRSLTR) type documents.