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It's possible, there just needs to be someone willing to put the work in and to present the data in a manner that makes it accessable, easy to parse, and profitable enough to cover at least time and costs.

The work is building a database of filing locations and feeds (eg: public document feeds of each and every stock exchange, corporate filing register, etc) and builder parses to extract new names, boards of directors, name changes, major stock holdings, etc.

It takes some doing (*) - but with LLM's and advances in open software it gets easier every day.

( * Myself and a small team did this for the global mineral sector some years (15+) ago )



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