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AnswerPool Distress Screen
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AnswerPool Distress Screen is a paid API for AI agents from answerpool.io, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Screens SEC EDGAR filings for corporate distress signals — bankruptcy, delisting notices, restatements, and impairments — ranked by salience score in a single call.
Price / call$0.05
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
AnswerPool turns SEC EDGAR, the Federal Register, USAspending, NIH, BLS and OpenAlex into structured JSON answers that AI agents and developers fetch in one call. 69 endpoints free, no account; derived analyses $0.02–$0.05 per call by card credits or USDC (x402). MCP server, full provenance.
Output
Returns a JSON object with a ranked list of distress events, each containing company name, ticker, CIK, SEC form type, event type, distress flags (e.g. 'bankruptcy', 'delisting'), a numeric salience score between 0 and 1, accession number, SEC filing URL, and occurrence timestamp. Also includes metadata like result count, the as-of timestamp, and the since cutoff used.
Example use cases
Credit risk short-screen for a fund
“Show me the top 50 companies with the highest distress scores from SEC filings since July 1st — I want anything flagged for bankruptcy, delisting, or restatements so I can build a short watchlist.”
Daily distress monitoring alert
“Fetch all SEC distress events from the last 24 hours with a score above 0.7 — bankruptcies, impairments, and delisting notices — so I can flag anything critical before market open.”
Credit analyst deep-dive on recent restatements
“Give me up to 100 distress-flagged SEC filings since the start of this quarter, minimum score 0.4, so I can review the restatements and impairments across the market for my credit report.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://answerpool.io/v1/sec/screen/distressWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a pre-joined, pre-ranked cross-signal distress screen from SEC EDGAR in a single API call — combining bankruptcy, delisting, restatements, and impairments — rather than querying each signal type separately. It is purpose-built for credit analysts and short-sellers who need a salience-ranked corporate distress feed without building their own ETL pipeline. Prefer it over raw EDGAR queries or generic financial data APIs when you need a scored, multi-signal distress view across the entire public market.
Side effects
- Invalid since datetime format returns a 422 validation error
- min_score outside 0–1 range returns a validation error
- limit exceeding 200 returns a validation error
- No events matching filters returns an empty events array with count 0
- Payment not completed returns a 402 Payment Required response
- Service unavailable or EDGAR index lag may return stale or no data
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"as_of": "2026-08-31T14:00:00Z",
"count": 1,
"since": "2026-08-01T00:00:00",
"events": [
{
"cik": "0000320193",
"form": "8-K",
"flags": [
"bankruptcy",
"distress"
],
"score": 1,
"ticker": "AAPL",
"company": "APPLE INC",
"payload": {
"items": [
"1.03"
],
"labels": [
"bankruptcy"
]
},
"event_id": "ev_2",
"accession": "0001437749-26-028920",
"event_type": "form_8k",
"filing_url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/320193/000143774926028920-index.htm",
"occurred_at": "2026-08-29T00:00:00"
}
],
"index_started_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z"
}
}Tags
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