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Coverage proof

The seal on every page shows what was reconciled and what failed; when a check could not run for a reason we can state, it names that reason — and never a fraction whose denominator hides the abstention. These are the numbers behind that seal.

Reconciliation

How much of a filing we can check

Median company reconciles
40 of 95
Apple reconciles
93 of 95
Companies with zero abstentions, archive-wide
5
Median, restricted to each company's XBRL era
40 of 85

Measured from the production archive as of October 25, 2026, recomputed every time the daily round writes a fresh artifact — not a fixed constant.

What explains the median

Pre-XBRL vs. 2009 onward

Median abstention, before XBRL (pre-2009)
93.8%
Median abstention, 2009 onward
44.5%
200797.1%
200890.5%
200979.8%
201065.4%
201162.4%
201260.1%
201358.0%
201456.2%
201552.7%
201648.3%
201744.5%
201841.4%
201935.9%
202029.0%
202124.2%
202218.7%
202314.7%
202412.2%
202517.5%

Structured XBRL data became mandatory in stages starting in 2009 — years before that are not a company's fault, and this split is why the archive-wide median looks the way it does. "·" marks a figure not available in our data.

Distribution

Checks reconciled, across the archive

Min
0
P25
20
Median
40
P75
65
Max
95

Out of a maximum of 95 checks a company could possibly reconcile. "·" marks a figure not available in our data.

What abstention tracks

Company size, not quality of filing

Abstention correlates with company size (r = -0.408, n = 4,628 companies with proven USD revenue): the larger the company, the fewer checks it needs to abstain from.

A company's "XBRL era" is the span of fiscal years in which the SEC required the structured data our checks read — years before it existed are not a company's fault, and the era-restricted median is how we avoid counting them against one.