The registered "Headquarters" in online services is often a legal fiction and often results in getting caught in bad trades, such as those often originating from China. True Origin disects SEC filings and other sources with AI to identify businesses attempting to obscure or outright hide their actual operating location. Enter a ticker to bypass the shell entity and extract the true operational and executive presence.
Standard screeners pull the legal state of incorporation from Yahoo Finance or basic APIs. Our AI ingestion pipeline reads the fine print. We cross-reference the cover page against internal operations to expose foreign companies operating behind Delaware or Nevada P.O. Boxes.
We actively scan 10-K and 20-F Risk Factors to identify Variable Interest Entities (VIEs), exposing when your equity is tied to a contractual shell rather than hard corporate assets.
We bypass marketing materials and look directly at physical leases.
By extracting data from "Item 2. Properties," the True Origin algorithm maps where the company actually owns factories, logistics hubs, and server farms—revealing the true sovereign jurisdiction of the underlying business.
Corporate boards can be stacked with domestic proxies. We extract DEF 14A proxy statements and cross-reference the educational and 10-year employment histories of the actual C-suite to map where the true executive power resides.
