Data & governance
Going Up’s thesis is that data access is commoditized and synthesis is the bottleneck. This page answers the question that investors, design partners, and prospective team members ask most: what the platform is built to read, and under what rights. Source classes are organized into four tiers by access and licensing posture.
Catalog Notice: Representative, not exhaustive, and informational only. Third-party names are the property of their owners; inclusion implies no relationship or contract. Going Up is a product under development — no live coverage, customers, or ingestion is claimed.
How to read this catalog
Public availability is not redistribution permission. Every source class is cleared for its intended use before ingestion, and license status is a first-class metadata field on every document.
Regulators, statistical agencies, courts, and official registries. Free or nominal-fee and largely machine-readable. The backbone of the initial product, with minimal redistribution exposure when accessed per each publisher’s guidelines.
Materials issuers publish for the market: releases, presentations, webcasts, and reports. Public to read, with reuse and redistribution rights verified source by source.
Vendor content sold under agreement: estimates, vendor transcripts, real-time market data, premium news, and alternative-data panels. Offered only as pass-through modules under explicit licenses.
The client’s own portfolio, watchlist, and research context. Never public, never pooled across clients, never leaves the client’s environment.
Sourcing principles
Public availability is not redistribution permission. Every source class is cleared for its intended use before ingestion, and license status travels with the document.
Government APIs and bulk datasets, issuer investor-relations channels, and contracted vendor feeds — accessed in line with each publisher’s terms of use and fair-access guidelines.
Premium content is delivered as opt-in, pass-through modules under the client’s or Going Up’s agreements. Nothing is redistributed without rights.
Client-owned context is processed inside the client’s environment under its SSO, RBAC, and audit controls — never pooled across clients and never used to train shared models.
The platform is built for public and properly licensed information, with MNPI-aware guardrails, permissioning, and human review as product features. Clients are instructed not to submit material non-public information.
Publisher, URL, filing date, reporting period, identifiers, retrieval timestamp, version, and license state are designed to travel with every document and surface in every output.
Tier 1 · Public
One free, machine-readable system covers most of what a US equity analyst reads. EDGAR’s full-text search, APIs, and bulk datasets make the primary record of US public companies directly accessible under the SEC’s public fair-access guidelines.
| Filing | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| 10-K / 10-Q | Annual and quarterly reports: audited and interim financials, MD&A, risk factors, segments, liquidity, legal proceedings. |
| 8-K + exhibits | Material events in near-real time — earnings releases, M&A, leadership changes, guidance, restatements, financings. |
| DEF 14A / DEFA14A | Proxy statements: executive compensation, board structure, governance, shareholder proposals, contested campaigns. |
| S-1 / F-1 | IPO registration: business model, risk factors, financial history, ownership, use of proceeds. |
| S-3 / F-3 & 424B | Shelf registrations and prospectus supplements: actual terms of debt and equity offerings; dilution and leverage signal. |
| S-4 / 425 | Merger registrations and deal communications: transaction structure, projections, fairness materials. |
| Form 10 / 10-12B | Spin-offs and direct registrations of new public companies. |
| 20-F / 6-K / 40-F | Foreign private issuer annual reports and interim updates; the bridge into cross-listed global names. |
| NT 10-K / NT 10-Q | Late-filing notices — a screening red flag by construction. |
| SEC comment letters | UPLOAD / CORRESP correspondence: the regulator’s questions and the company’s answers; high-value risk detection. |
| XBRL & Financial Statement Data Sets | Structured fundamentals via company-facts APIs and quarterly bulk downloads — the machine-readable statement layer. |
| Filing | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| 13F | Quarterly institutional holdings — which managers own what, and how positioning shifts. |
| Schedule 13D / 13G | Activist and passive 5%+ stakes: campaigns, intent, board pressure, strategic alternatives. |
| Forms 3 / 4 / 5 | Insider ownership and transactions — officer and director buying and selling. |
| Form 144 | Proposed sales of restricted and control stock. |
| Form D | Exempt private placements — private-market issuance signal. |
| Filing / source | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| N-PORT | Registered fund portfolio holdings — exposure mapping across mutual funds and ETFs. |
| N-CEN / N-CSR | Fund census data and shareholder reports: strategy, commentary, fees. |
| N-PX | Proxy-voting records — how managers actually vote. |
| Form ADV (via IAPD) | Adviser registration: business lines, AUM, clients, conflicts, disciplinary history. |
| Form SD | Specialized disclosure such as conflict minerals — supply-chain exposure. |
| ETF prospectuses & daily holdings | Issuer-published strategy, index methodology, and daily exposure files. |
Tier 1 · Public
Official statistics and central-bank communication drive the scenario, rates, and shock context every research note sits inside — and nearly all of it is free at the source.
| Source | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Federal Reserve | FOMC statements and minutes, Summary of Economic Projections, Beige Book, speeches and testimony — policy path and debate. |
| BLS / DOL | CPI, PPI, Employment Situation, JOLTS, weekly jobless claims — inflation and labor. |
| BEA | GDP, PCE, personal income and outlays — growth and the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge. |
| Census Bureau | Retail sales, housing starts and permits, durable goods — demand and cycle indicators. |
| FRED | One API across thousands of official series — the integration that covers most macro retrieval. |
| US Treasury | Auction results, daily yield curve, refunding statements — rates, liquidity, and issuance. |
| CFTC | Weekly Commitments of Traders — futures positioning across asset classes. |
| EIA / USDA | Energy inventories and outlooks; WASDE and agricultural reports — commodity supply and demand. |
| CBO | Budget and economic outlook — the fiscal backdrop. |
| Global official sector | ECB, Bank of England, and Bank of Japan communications; IMF, World Bank, and OECD releases — global rates and growth context. |
Tier 1 · Public
Sector regulators publish some of the highest-signal, least-crowded public data in markets. Representative examples below; packs deepen with each client’s coverage universe.
| Area | Representative sources |
|---|---|
| Healthcare & biotech | FDA approvals and advisory committees; warning letters and Form 483s as released; DailyMed drug labels; ClinicalTrials.gov; CMS coverage and payment data. |
| Financial institutions | FFIEC call reports and FDIC data; OCC and Federal Reserve actions and stress tests; Basel Pillar 3 disclosures. |
| Energy & commodities | EIA, OPEC monthly reports, IEA where access permits; Baker Hughes rig count; FERC filings; environmental permits and EPA actions. |
| Industrials & transport | NHTSA recalls and investigations; FAA directives; BTS statistics; NLRB petitions; OSHA enforcement data. |
| Technology & media | FCC filings; USPTO and WIPO patents; app-store listings and public developer signal. |
| Legal & enforcement | PACER federal dockets; SEC enforcement actions; DOJ and FTC antitrust matters; CFTC, CFPB, and state attorneys general; OFAC sanctions lists; EMMA municipal disclosures; Regulations.gov rulemaking dockets. |
| Market structure | End-of-day and delayed prices and corporate actions; FINRA short interest and Reg SHO lists; TRACE delayed corporate-bond dissemination; index membership and rebalances; exchange notices. |
| International filings | SEDAR+ (Canada); Companies House and RNS (UK); OAMs and ESEF (EU); EDINET and TDnet (Japan); HKEXnews, SGXNet, ASX (APAC); NSE/BSE (India); SSE/SZSE (China). |
Tier 3 · Licensed
Licensed material arrives as opt-in modules under explicit agreements — the client’s existing entitlements, or contracts Going Up holds — so licensing risk stays where the entitlement lives.
| Module | What it adds |
|---|---|
| Sell-side research | Analyst theses, price targets, and conference notes — under the client’s own broker entitlements. |
| Consensus estimates | Expectations context for every print and guide. |
| Vendor transcript libraries | Historical, normalized earnings-call and event transcripts. |
| Expert-network libraries | Primary-research interview content under provider agreements. |
| Rating-agency reports | Full credit analyses. Rating actions and press releases are public. |
| Real-time market data | Live quotes, depth, option chains, and volatility surfaces. |
| Newswire & media full text | Redistribution-grade news feeds where agreements exist. Default posture otherwise is link-and-cite. |
| Alternative-data panels | Card, receipt, web-traffic, satellite, and shipping panels from licensed providers. |
Client perimeter
This is the layer that turns generic research into a client’s own research — provided by the client, inside the client’s environment. The public-data foundation described above does not depend on it.
| Client-owned source | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Portfolio holdings & exposures | Exposure-aware answers: what a headline means for this particular book. |
| Watchlists & coverage universes | What to monitor, alert on, and brief. |
| Internal research notes & thesis history | Institutional memory — what the team believed, and when. |
| Investment-committee memos | Prior decision rationale and the format the next memo must match. |
| Analyst models & assumptions | Valuation history and the assumptions new evidence should be tested against. |
| Risk reports & sensitivities | Portfolio sensitivity to the shocks the macro layer surfaces. |
| Trade rationales & meeting notes | Why positions changed, and the surrounding client context. |
| Approved house views | Consistency of output with the firm’s stated positioning. |
Governance posture: the client’s environment is the boundary. SSO, RBAC, MNPI-aware guardrails, and audit logging are the operating envelope the product is built inside — not an integration afterthought.
The metadata spine
Every document ingested from any tier carries the same nine-field metadata record — the spine that makes evidence trails, permissioning, and audit possible by default rather than by cleanup.
The point of the spine: every claim in every output resolves to a specific document, page, and license state — the evidence discipline institutional buyers and examiners increasingly expect, designed in rather than retrofitted.
Catalog Disclaimer: This catalog is a representative reference prepared for discussion. It is informational only — not exhaustive, not a commitment to ingest any specific source or to contract with any vendor, and not investment, legal, or compliance advice. All third-party names are the property of their respective owners; inclusion implies no affiliation or endorsement. Access to third-party content is governed by each publisher’s terms and, where applicable, license agreements. Going Up is a product under development; capabilities are described as designed, and AI-assisted outputs are intended for human review. Do not submit material non-public information.
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