Research

• A Company Name Without Spaces Misses the Screening List

  A company's short name finds its federal screening-list record 98% of the time with spaces and 4% without. Measured on 97 real listed entities.

• SEC Form 4, 2026 Q2: Issuer-as-Owner Filings, Flag Spellings and Filing Timing

  How often a company's EDGAR list holds other issuers' Form 4s, how flags are spelled, and how long after a transaction a Form 4 is filed: 2026 Q2 data.

• Six Digits Against CBP's Own Rulings: Grading Our HS Classifier on 100 Published Decisions

  We gave our own HS classifier the merchandise descriptions from 100 CBP binding rulings. It matched CBP at 6 digits 23.5% of the time. Every miss is published.

• The COI Extraction Honesty Test

  An open, synthetic test set for certificate-of-insurance extraction: does a tool invent a value for a blank cell, and can it tell absent from unreadable?

• The Headings a Keyword Search of the Tariff Schedule Can Never Find

  For 4-10% of products in 140 CBP binding rulings, a keyword search of the tariff schedule never finds the correct heading at any depth. Measured, with the data.

• The U.S. Tariff Schedule's Three Rate Columns, Measured (HTS Revision 18, 2026)

  USITC's tariff schedule counted column by column: lines per Special program symbol and how many at Free, Column 2 against General, the General rate mix.

• What a Debarred Company's Name Starts With

  On the U.S. federal exclusions list, 6% of companies open with the words limited liability and 3.9% with joint stock. Measured on 18,787 records.

What we will and will not publish here

Will: methods anyone can run, synthetic test data with documented ground truth, and our own measured results — including the ones that went against us. Every figure carries the date it was measured, because a number without a date is a claim about now that was true about then.

Will not: studies manufactured to attract links, comparisons that test a competitor's product, or numbers we cannot defend. We sell software in this space, so the only version of research that is worth anything from us is the version a skeptical reader can re-run themselves.

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