Kscope · deep dive · 2026-10-08
BamSEC is a filing browser with table tools and an S&P transcript book. The filings, the exhibits, and the ownership tables are already extracted. The transcript book, the table history, and the browser redline are the check.
The filing search, the key exhibits, and the insider and 13F tables are in the graph, which this browser does not join. The old wall, that nothing material sits outside the filing graph, was too strong. S&P's transcripts, back to 2007 and including conferences, are a license. Similar Tables, Merge Tables, and a redline of any two filings are work on text we already hold, and they are not shipped. The pricing page says BamSEC is now part of AlphaSense. That library is a separate row.
| Feature | BamSEC | Kscope | |
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| Electronic filings | Every electronic EDGAR filing from 1994, shown as filed. Browsing does not require a subscription. Some labels BamSEC adds are blurred for non-subscribers on older filings. | The accession catalog runs from 1994-01-03. Searchable sections in the newer index are the modern HTML filings, 17.9 million sections across eight form families, 2016 through 2026. Pre-2002 body text on that index was deferred because those filings are plain ASCII. The live SEC Pro search is the product that covers the historical text today. | Match |
| How fast a new filing appears | Usually on the site within a minute or two, and within 5 to 10 minutes in earnings season. A filing that was confidential appears by the end of the day it becomes public. | The section index refreshes about every 30 minutes. A minute-level number for the live search is not in the notes. | Partial |
| Search inside a company | Boolean, quoted phrase, and a proximity window, across that company's filings, exhibits, and transcripts. A snippet opens the hit inside the document. | SEC Pro searches the filing and highlights the passage. As of the 2026-09-21 cutover note, that product still runs on the current engine. The replacement speaks the same operators, including proximity, and is waiting on the front end. Transcript search is a second corpus. | Match |
| Search across companies | One search across companies. Filters cover industry, market cap, document type, and a watchlist. Results can be companies or the latest documents. | Filing search filters by company, form, and date. A market-cap cut depends on a price, and Console does not put a tape on the filing. | Partial |
| Key exhibits | A sidebar for articles and bylaws, credit agreements, indentures, material contracts, plans of reorganization, and underwriting agreements, including documents incorporated by reference. | Credit agreements, indentures, material contracts, and underwriting agreements are the clause file: 30.8 million typed clauses, 1994 through 2026, parties on a company id. Articles, bylaws, and plans of reorganization are in the filing. Image-only exhibits are still the OCR hole. | Ahead |
| Labels on the list | Every filing has a label. An 8-K row carries the title of the press release inside it. List filters cover form, date, title, 8-K category, and the owner on an ownership form. Those filters do not search the document text. | Form, date, and filer are in the catalog and the insider file. A press-release title on the 8-K row is not described as shipped. | Partial |
| Feature | BamSEC | Kscope | |
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| Earnings and event transcripts | S&P, back to 2007: earnings calls, conferences, investor presentations, and the rest of what S&P carries. Some low-cap and low-volume names are left out. The text requires a subscription, the trial is limited by the S&P agreement, and some corporate plans exclude transcripts. A second help article, about filings, says transcripts come from EDGAR. The S&P article is the one that describes the transcript product. | Searchable as of 2026-10-05: about 264,000 calls. Archive indices are named 2014 through 2025, and the live Benzinga indices cover 2023 through 2026. The Benzinga store, checked 2026-09-19, held 24,337 transcripts and 4,344 tickers from 2023-05-24, with speaker names and a summary on 97.8 percent. That store was not in the company database, and the speakers are not described as person ids. The S&P conference set is the license. | Partial |
| Feature | BamSEC | Kscope | |
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| Any table to Excel | Every table in every filing, one click, values as filed, no merged cells. One download can hold every table in the exhibit. A source link opens that table. | Structured financials are a different object: about 473,000 cooked XBRL rows, as of the 2026-09-21 note. An unmodified download of any table in the filing is not described. | Gap |
| Similar Tables and Merge Tables | From the open table, past versions on other filings. Almost all financial tables and earnings-release tables match. One-off tables often do not. Merge lines the chosen history into one sheet, with the rows aligned and a source link on each table. Annual-only is a download option. | No note describes matching a table to its earlier filings, or aligning those rows. | Gap |
| Feature | BamSEC | Kscope | |
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| Compare two filings | Pick a second filing in the browser. Additions are green, deletions are red, and tables are in the comparison. | Year-over-year diffs are shipped for 10-K risk factors and 10-Q MD&A. A browser redline of any two filings, tables included, is not described. | Partial |
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| Insider transactions | One table. The default is open-market buys and sales, and trades that may sit outside a 10b5-1 plan are highlighted. Filter by owner, date, and type. | Form 3, Form 4, and Form 5 are classified, including discretionary versus 10b5-1, and the filer is a person id. That id is the same one on the foundation side. | Ahead |
| Institutional owners | A list of institutional owners of a company, and a manager's disclosed holdings, in place of reading each 13F. | 196,788 amendment-resolved filings and 11,646 managers, a full panel from 2019, checked 2026-09-19. Earlier years are thin. The same file carries manager track records and the 13D and 13G positions. | Ahead |
| Feature | BamSEC | Kscope | |
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| Alerts | Email when a watched company files or a transcript posts. Search alerts, filing-type alerts, and a documents feed on the home page. | SEC Pro has saved-search alerts. As of 2026-09-21 the alert metadata still sat on the old search engine. A one-minute email on every watched filing is not what that note describes. | Partial |
| Link to a sentence or a table | A link to a sentence or a table. The link works for someone without an account. | Search returns the highlighted passage. A public link that opens on that sentence or that table is not described. | Gap |
| Paginated PDF | A PDF of the filing with real pagination and a footer that cites a stable page. | A paginated PDF with that footer is not described. | Gap |
| Feature | BamSEC | Kscope | |
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| AlphaSense | The pricing page says BamSEC is now part of AlphaSense. The enterprise trial is an AlphaSense form. | Broker research and the Tegus call library are the AlphaSense row. They sit outside this filing score. | Beside |
| What a seat costs | Pro is $69 a month, billed annually. Filing pages can be browsed free. Transcripts require the subscription. | The filing file is already in house. A seat price for this screen is not set. | Ahead |
Ahead The feature is data we already hold, in a form an analyst can use.
Match Both products do this.
Partial We have the filing half, or the raw material, and not their finished surface.
Gap They ship it. We do not.
Beside A licensed library that sits beside the filing. Broker research and Tegus calls are that library, on the AlphaSense row.