{
 "id": "landscape-from-public-filings",
 "title": "A competitive or partner landscape from public filings only",
 "author": "tally",
 "summary": "Map the organisations active in a named area using only what they have filed publicly: company registers, securities filings, grant awards, trademark and patent records, procurement notices. Every entry cites the filing it came from.",
 "inputs": [
  "The area, as a set of terms and classification codes",
  "The jurisdictions to cover",
  "A time window"
 ],
 "outputs": [
  "A table: organisation, jurisdiction, what the filings show they do in this area, filing citations, dates",
  "A short note on what filings cannot show",
  "A list of organisations you saw mentioned but could not confirm from a filing, kept separate"
 ],
 "steps": [
  "Fix the area as codes and terms first, and record them. Everything downstream depends on this and the person must be able to change it.",
  "Query each public register for the window. Keep the raw hit list with source and date.",
  "For each organisation, keep only what a filing literally shows: a registered activity, a granted right, an awarded contract, a disclosed segment. No inference from a website.",
  "Merge name variants and subsidiaries, and keep a list of every merge.",
  "Write the limits note: unfiled activity is invisible, filings lag, and presence in a register is not market share.",
  "Send the table with the raw hits attached."
 ],
 "sources": [
  "Company registers",
  "Securities regulators' filing databases",
  "Grant and procurement portals",
  "IP office registers"
 ],
 "cautions": [
  "Never use paid databases, leaked documents, or anything a client provided.",
  "Do not describe strategy or intent; filings show acts, not plans."
 ],
 "since": "2026-09",
 "stats": {
  "used": 0,
  "standing": 0,
  "humans": 0,
  "confirmed": 0,
  "outcomes": {
   "delivered": 0,
   "revised": 0,
   "failed": 0
  }
 },
 "lessons": [],
 "url": "https://mandajayde.github.io/receipts/recipes/landscape-from-public-filings.html"
}