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Show HN: Every CEO and CFO change at US public companies, live from SEC

https://tracksuccession.com/explore
94•porsche959•2h ago
Built this solo. It watches SEC filings for executive and board changes, extracts the data, and shows it in real time. 2,100+ changes in the last 30 days. The comp data is interesting: average new CEO total comp is $8.4M across 284 appointments. The /explore page is fully open, no login needed.

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itissid•2h ago
Interesting. How do you yourself use this(I am assuming of course you built it out of a need to want to have to track this data)?
porsche959•1h ago
I originally built it to track competitive moves in a specific sector. Turns out sales teams and recruiters get the most value from it as new exec hires are a strong outreach signal
mikedillion•1h ago
“Real time”
mistrial9•1h ago
a CTO at Starbucks started his presentation with "How many employees does Starbucks have?" .. and spends an hour explaining dynamic assesments.. hint- there is no count at any hour because the massive, distributed system has edge states and some noise.

Starbucks CTO explains carefully that they do not actually know how many employees there are, in their own enterprise, at any give hour

eddy_cammegh•1h ago
How does the comp extraction work? 8-K prose has no standard format so curious whether you're running it through an LLM or using a rules-based parser, and how you handle amendments where the actual figures show up in a later filing.
porsche959•1h ago
The 8-K text gets run through an LLM to extract the structured fields. It handles the variation in format pretty well. For amendments, the system picks up the amended filing and updates the record — the comp figures sometimes only appear in the amendment.
djfobbz•1h ago
The site fails to load...it just gets stuck in a fetching state. Another downside of vibe programming.
xnorswap•1h ago
Sites going down under load is hardly a new phenomenon.
djfobbz•31m ago
Sure, it's not new. Neither are memory leaks and race conditions...but we still expect competent engineers to avoid them. It's like opening a store but the doors jam the moment customers walk in. A crowd isn't the problem, your setup is.
porsche959•1h ago
Back up now...first time getting real traffic. Appreciate the patience.
UqWBcuFx6NV4r•48m ago
Another downside of AI is that people for whom today is obviously their first day using the internet will buy into the AI culture war without restraint and blame every little thing under the sun on “AI”. I can assure you that message boards were bringing websites down since before you were born.
hliyan•1h ago
Given this is failing due to HN hug of death, might I suggest that you do a periodic batch, save the results and serve static?
porsche959•1h ago
Thank you very much. Great call
abstracthinking•1h ago
Interesting, you should save part of the data to do some caching and avoid api requests for old positions.
porsche959•1h ago
Thank you for the suggestion
abstracthinking•44m ago
Look now that the site loads, is it a bit sketchy that you are asking 50 dollars subscription, one can't even navigate the site a bit without subscribing. You don't even have a working and tested product and already want to make money.
porsche959•28m ago
The explore page is free and always will be. The main site shows real time changes too, just capped at a few recent ones. The $50 is for the full feed, alerts, search, comp data. Comparable to other sales intel tools but I hear you on letting people try more before paying. Gonna work on that.
thedougd•1h ago
What would also be very interesting is a graph of relationships and movements. Let's see just how incestuous the boards really are, and what's going on with serial CEOs who move from one business to the next.
abstracthinking•1h ago
I worked on a knowledge graph map using Wikidata to get relationship between people and organizations, but data was limited to family, basic stuff. Being from Europe, there isn't an open data analogue of SEC. Now I will download this data, it is open so no license at all, and try to show these kind of relationships. It has the potential of being very investigative, especially for USA residents.
HWR_14•10m ago
Is it that Europe doesn't have any open data analogues of the SEC, or is it that each European country has its own open data analog?
StrauXX•22m ago
Northdata [1] does basically this, but mostly ingests European data currently. Perhaps they will expand to ingest US data as well at some point. Not affiliated with them in any way. I just use them to look into company structures every now and again.

[1] https://www.northdata.com/

Thoko14•1h ago
Interesting part will be what do we read out of that data
baxtr•1h ago
Nice job! Is there a way to double click on any name to see more details on the person like previous positions or current compensation?
porsche959•22m ago
Thanks - currently the name just links to a basic linkedin search but this is a good idea for a future feature
mtam•1h ago
Is the equity piece one-time or yearly grants? I think it is adding up yearly salary with one-time equity grants. Also, how about bonuses?
WA•1h ago
Nice idea. Small thing: the categories are pretty much fixed. If you have to abbreviate a never-changing category like "Consumer Defen..." in a widget, your design doesn't work in this aspect.
porsche959•26m ago
Thanks for the feedback
htrp•50m ago
did you write the SEC parsers yourself or use oss/off the shelf tech?
porsche959•20m ago
Built it myself. The filing structure is somewhat consistent enough to parse programmatically, then an LLM handles the unstructured parts (with a lot of trial and error)
just_once•4m ago
And you just scrape it straight from sec.gov?
leobuskin•48m ago
What's the backend? I'd recommend to migrate such project to the edge (Cloudflare, etc)
infecto•36m ago
Fun project but meh on subscription. This data already exists in much better detail including full network graphs of people and many additional data points. Financial data is a hard problem because it’s not only hard to offer something new but also your only real consumer unless novel data is going to be retail.
abstracthinking•33m ago
I agree with you, site also looks too much a one day vibecoded stuff. Can you give me references where I can these graphs of people, I am interested because I am working on something similar.
porsche959•30m ago
Agreed, the big providers like Bloomberg cover this space with way more depth. I'm building for the teams that can't justify those budgets (small sales teams, independent recruiters, solo advisors)
infecto•23m ago
What’s the value add though? This could be vibe coded out in a couple hours of coding and some more incremental time to process historical filings.

And I don’t mean this in a negative way simply that this is just a 30min UI around a 1 hour LLM data pipeline.

gbibas•36m ago
You hit on something that AI can be really good at, which is shining light on corporate activities. Salary and movement are great, and interesting, but this could also help parse things like entry and exits into business markets where companies often quietly add or remove things from their filings. Keep going.
porsche959•33m ago
you are absolutely right - filings have a ton of signals beyond just the exec changes. Market entries, risk factor changes, material agreements. Lot of room to expand.
Nuzzerino•18m ago
Getting “literally who” vibes from the list of execs that were listed with a job title but not a company name.

Mobile browser, if that makes a difference (maybe one of the people on the list helped me downsize as well at some point without me realizing it).

tristor•18m ago
I think one of the interesting things here is that many senior executives make similar base pay to very senior ICs. The primary compensation difference is in their equity compensation, where executives get massive PSU/RSU packages, while senior ICs get much more modest packages. A senior IC may have 30-50% of their compensation as stock, while a typical senior executives may have as much as 97% of their compensation as stock.
balderdash•15m ago
I think this is a good thing? At least from the perspective of aligning incentives with shareholders?
rustystump•10m ago
Sbc is not always good for shareholders if anything it can obfuscate actual valuations
arikrahman•16m ago
Says it's unable to respond at the moment.

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