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The Filings Index

How many filings to the SEC contain the exact phrase "agentic AI", counted per quarter from the primary record. Not a survey. Not a vendor estimate. A count you can rerun.

Filings, all forms
2,868
Annual reports (10-K)
289
First appearance
2024-Q2
2026-Q2 vs year before
4.4x

Filings mentioning the phrase, by quarter

All form types. Counts are filings, not companies.

023Q1023Q2023Q3023Q4024Q1124Q2424Q31124Q410225Q118425Q228425Q332325Q467326Q181826Q246826Q3
Lighter bar is 2026-Q3, a quarter still in progress. It is not comparable with the completed quarters beside it and will keep rising until the quarter closes.

Both series

The 10-K column is seasonal by construction: most annual reports land in the first quarter, so read that column down the years rather than across the quarters.

QuarterAll forms10-KNote
2023-Q100
2023-Q200
2023-Q300
2023-Q400
2024-Q100
2024-Q210
2024-Q340
2024-Q4110
2025-Q110222
2025-Q218412
2025-Q32849
2025-Q432311
2026-Q1673190
2026-Q281826
2026-Q346819quarter in progress
Total2,868289

Both columns sum exactly to their unfiltered totals, which is our check that no quarter is missing.

Method

Exact-phrase query "agentic AI" against EDGAR full-text search, counted per calendar quarter by filing date. The all-forms series applies no form filter; the 10-K series filters forms=10-K. Counts are filings, not companies: a company filing twice counts twice. A filing counts if the phrase appears anywhere in it, including risk factors, so a mention is evidence of disclosure and not of deployment. EDGAR full-text search covers 2001 onward. Rerun with scripts/pull-edgar.mjs.

What this does not measure
  • Deployment. A phrase in a risk factor is a disclosure, and plenty of filings mention the term precisely to say they are exposed to other people doing it.
  • Private companies, which do not file, and non-US issuers outside the SEC's reach.
  • Companies doing the work under a different name. The index tracks a vocabulary, and vocabularies move.
Download the CSV The source endpoint Pulled 2026-08-29
Reproduce it

The endpoint returns 403 with no body unless you send a User-Agent identifying yourself, which is the SEC's stated requirement and the reason most people give up on it.

curl -A "Your Name your@email" \
  'https://efts.sec.gov/LATEST/search-index?q=%22agentic%20AI%22&forms=10-K'