Capability survey

FactIQ Capability Survey

Query date: 2026-07-27. Every number below came from a live run_sql / describe_dataset / search_* call against FactIQ during this session, not from the README or marketing copy. Where a query errored, the error is quoted verbatim rather than smoothed over.

SEC filings — CRITICAL: Form 4 and 13F

Form 4 (insider transactions): CONFIRMED ABSENT. Form 13F (institutional holdings): CONFIRMED ABSENT.

Evidence: SELECT form_type, COUNT(*) FROM filings GROUP BY form_type against the sec schema's raw filings table returns exactly nine form types — 8-K, 10-Q, 10-K, 20-F, 40-F, 10-K/A, 10-Q/A, 20-F/A, 40-F/A — no 4, 3, 5, or 13F row anywhere. search_datasets for "Form 4", "insider", "13F", and "institutional holdings" returns zero SEC-filing matches (the "institutional holdings" query surfaces unrelated series — Treasury TIC foreign holdings, IMF reserves — nothing resembling a 13F).

Form Companies Filings Earliest Latest Notes
10-K 1,126 11,411 1994-04-01 2026-07-24 + 10-K/A: 329 companies, 584 filings
10-Q 1,132 34,058 1994-02-11 2026-07-24 + 10-Q/A: 205 companies, 358 filings
8-K 1,131 43,322 2004-08-31 2026-07-24 not a standalone dataset — feeds sec_guidance/sec_kpi only
20-F 215 3,024 1996-07-05 2026-07-20 foreign issuers; + 20-F/A: 119 companies
40-F 58 890 2002-02-15 2026-06-22 Canadian issuers; + 40-F/A: 35 companies

Dataset-level ticker coverage: sec_10k/sec_10q ≈1,123–1,131 tickers, sec_20f 195, sec_40f 51, sec_guidance 884 (sparse — only filings with a concrete numeric target), sec_kpi 485 (only companies disclosing physical/operational metrics).

Latency: near-real-time. Most recent 10-Q/8-K/10-K filings are dated 2026-07-24, three days before this survey.

Verdict: "SEC filings data" means XBRL financial-statement content from 10-K/10-Q/8-K/20-F/40-F families for ~950 large-cap (>$10B market cap) issuers. It does not cover insider transactions or institutional 13F holdings at all — anything built on those must use an external source.

US federal statistical agencies

Schema Series count Coverage window Update latency Frequencies Notable detail
BLS 1,663,402 1913-01 → 2026-06 ~1 month annual, monthly, quarterly, semiannual, weekly (+ inconsistent casing) Dataset-level last_release_date metadata (e.g. Oct 2025 for CPI) is stale relative to actual series data — trust series.end_time, not the metadata field.
Census 4,949,249 1970-01 → 2026-06 ~1 month schema-wide annual, monthly, quarterly (+ dup casing) 334 datasets, but us_census_hs alone is 4,944,079 series — 99.9% of the schema.
Census — us_census_hs (HS trade) 4,944,079 2013-01 → 2026-04 ~3 months monthly Confirmed both HS6 and HS10 present via dimensions.hs_level; quantity (_qty) series exist only at 10-digit, per catalog docs.
BEA 74,067 1901-01 → 2026-05 ~2 months Q, A, QNSA, QSA, monthly (+ text codes) NIPA table alone: 8,204 series across 252 tables.
EIA 1,172,069 1859-01 → 2050-01 (misleading) Highly dataset-dependent annual, daily, hourly, monthly, quarterly, weekly The 2050 max comes entirely from ieo (Annual Energy Outlook projections), not real data. Actual sub-dataset lag: eba/nuc_status near-real-time (through 2026-07-27/28), ng/pet ~1 week, elec/total ~2 months, coal ~7 months, seds ~2.5 years, emiss ~5 years.
ERS (USDA) 21,989 1996-01 → 2023-01 ~3.5 years — stale biannual only Only one dataset in the whole schema (ers_arms).
BTS 203,934 1947-01 → 2025-09 ~10 months Annual, Daily, Monthly, Quarterly, Weekly (+ dup casing) 290 datasets, many under cryptic data.gov-style codes (e.g. navd-gpqa) — codes must be discovered via search_datasets, guessed codes like t100 404.

China / India / South Korea

Schema Series count Coverage window Frequency Commodity granularity
china (NBS macro) 55,821 2000-01 → 2026-06 quarter, year, month n/a (macro indicators)
china_customs (GACC) 2,881,940 2015-01 → 2026-06 Monthly HS6 and HS8 confirmed via dimensions.hs_level
mospi 499,934 1950-01 → 2036-01* annual, monthly, quarterly (mixed casing) n/a
rbi 297,319 1900-01 → 2026-12 13 distinct frequency codes incl. daily, fortnightly, event, irregular n/a
india_trade (DGCI&S) 720,650 2018-01 → 2026-05 Monthly HS6 and HS8 confirmed
korea_trade (KCS) 827,811 2015-01 → 2026-06 Monthly only HS6 (international) + HS10 (Korea national)

* mospi's 2036 max is almost certainly forward-dated targets/projections embedded in the series, not actual future observations — flagged, not resolved, in this survey.

Korea 10-day / 20-day provisional export releases: CONFIRMED ABSENT. search_series for "10-day", "20-day", "preliminary", "advance" all return zero matches; "provisional" returns 14 matches but every one is a false positive from HS commodity-description text ("cucumbers... provisionally preserved"), not a release-timing series. SELECT DISTINCT frequency FROM series for korea_trade returns only Monthly. describe_dataset's full text makes no mention of dekad/10-day/20-day releases. FactIQ carries only the final monthly KCS release — the early-read signal that makes Korea trade useful as a global-cycle nowcast is not present.

EU Comext (Eurostat, CN8, 27 reporters)

Sampled DE, FR, IT, NL (large), EE, MT (small) — all confirmed non-trivial, not empty schema shells:

Reporter Series (≈) Coverage window Latency
DE 5,634,765 2002-01 → 2026-05 ~2 months
FR 5,020,051 2002-01 → 2026-05 ~2 months
IT 4,615,711 2002-01 → 2026-05 ~2 months
NL 5,120,279 2002-01 → 2026-05 ~2 months
EE 1,370,370 2002-01 → 2026-05 ~2 months
MT 753,678 (exact count) 2002-01 → 2026-05 ~2 months

CN8-level granularity is genuine — eu_comext_lookup.product_codes returns populated hs2/hs4/hs6/cn8 columns, and constructed series ids return real value/quantity/supplementary-unit data (spot-checked DE→FR, CN8 61091000: 292 months, 2002-01→2026-04, €3.10B cumulative / 134M kg / 748M units).

One documentation gap for anyone building series ids by hand: the {trade_type} token in eu_comext_{M|X}_{reporter}_{partner}_{trade_type}_ p1_cn8_{code}_{eur|kg|su} is not literally M/X as the tool docs suggest — it's te (extra-EU partner) or ti (intra-EU partner). Guessing te for an intra-EU pair (e.g. DE→FR) silently returns zero rows.

Satellite / geo-derived indicators

Signal Present Spatial granularity Temporal granularity Latency Coverage
Fire detections Yes country / bbox / grid footprint daily ~3 hours (VIIRS) global, 2012→present
NO2 / SO2 / CO / aerosol Yes country / state / bbox daily or monthly ~3 days global, 2018→present (Sentinel-5P)
Rainfall (CHIRPS) Yes, with a hard latency wall country/bbox daily final product lags 3–6 weeks — confirmed live: a request through 2026-07-26 returned only data through 2026-06-30, with an explicit in-band note 50°S–50°N, 1981→present
Nighttime lights Yes (satellite schema) country and confirmed sub-national (31 China provinces individually resolvable) monthly ~3 months Asia-focused (China, India, ASEAN, Korea, Japan, Taiwan)
Shipping / port activity Yes (portwatch schema, 3 datasets) 28 named chokepoints, 2,065 ports/180 countries, 196 countries daily days to ~1 week global
Reservoir / lake levels Yes, but incomplete for the intended use case named water bodies only, no bbox/province query ~10–27 day revisit (altimetry) 1992→present, 94 countries see below

Yunnan reservoir check — partial. Dianchi (Kunming, Yunnan) is present and returns real readings (35 points, 2026-07-12 = 1887.29m). But none of the specific hydropower reservoirs that actually drive Yunnan's dry-season aluminium-curtailment story — Xiaowan, Nuozhadu, Manwan, Dachaoshan, Gongguoqiao, Jinghong, Wudongde, Baihetan, Ludila, Ahai — return any match. The dataset has no province/state dimension, so there's no bbox fallback either; it's a name-based lookup against whatever Hydroweb happens to track. Conclusion: the Yunnan aluminium-curtailment lead indicator as originally conceived (reservoir levels) is not buildable from this data as-is. Nighttime lights (province-level, confirmed working) or NO2/SO2 near known smelter sites are the closer available proxy — Domain A will need to be scoped around that substitution, not around reservoir levels directly.

Update (2026-08-03): FactIQ's team, replying to the vintage questions below, independently flagged night lights, port activity, and fires as data they've "just released" — the same three signals this survey found and tested a day earlier. Treat this as confirmation these are intentional, current, supported products (not an edge case this survey happened to stumble on), which strengthens the case for using night lights as Domain A's primary industrial-activity proxy rather than a fallback.

Earnings transcripts

search_earnings_transcripts(search_target='coverage') is paginated (50 tickers/call, alphabetical, no total-count field), but the first page (A–AMP) alone shows 50 distinct tickers — density implies broad, S&P-500-scale coverage rather than a narrow mega-cap slice. Depth varies by ticker: some names carry only one quarter (AA, AAL: FY2026Q1 only), well-covered names carry four (AAPL, ABBV, ABT, ADI, AMAT, AMD, AMGN: FY2025Q2/Q3 → FY2026Q1/Q2) — i.e. roughly a rolling 4-quarter window for the names FactIQ tracks most closely.

Latency is not uniform. AAPL's FY2026Q1 claims (calendar_date: 2026-01-29) line up almost exactly with Apple's real January earnings call. But FY2026Q2 claims are dated 2026-07-02 — roughly two months after Apple's real-world late-April/early-May call for that quarter. Same source, same company, two very different lags. Treat per-quarter latency as unverified until checked for the specific ticker/quarter a domain pipeline depends on.

Live market data

GLOBAL_QUOTE, TIME_SERIES_DAILY, FX_DAILY, and BRENT all returned a latest timestamp of 2026-07-27 — today, at the time of the survey. This reads as same-day/near-real-time, not multi-day-lagged; intraday latency (minutes vs. hours) wasn't verified since daily bars don't expose it. Covers equities, FX, and commodity futures (spot claims not separately verified).

Operational envelope

What is missing or thinner than advertised — summary

Ask about the data covers every domain on the site

Password required.