The AIR Blog
Plain-English guides to SEC filings, catalysts and how AIR reads them.
31 October 2026
How AIR Scores a Filing: Our Methodology, Step by Step
What happens between a company filing an 8-K and a scored event the next morning — the nightly read, the classification, and the materiality weighing.
31 October 2026
How to Read an 8-K Filing (and Which Items Actually Matter)
The 8-K is the SEC form where material events are disclosed first — contracts, acquisitions, leadership changes, results. A practical guide to reading one: the item numbers, the exhibits, and what to look at first.
31 October 2026
The Coverage Gap: Why 1,800 Small & Mid Caps Go Mostly Unread
Most investor attention goes to a few hundred large companies. Below them, thousands of smaller companies file the same SEC disclosures — and almost nobody reads them. That gap is where discovery lives.
31 October 2026
What Are Stock Catalysts? A Practical Guide
A catalyst is an event that can change how a company is understood — a contract, an acquisition, a regulatory decision, a leadership change. Where catalysts are disclosed first, and why most of them go unnoticed at smaller companies.
31 October 2026
Why We Publish Our Track Record — and Never Edit It
Research tools rarely show you their history. AIR locks in a public, timestamped record every month-end and never edits it afterward. Why we think that's the only honest way to run a research product.