Vault overview: 13 Tier 1 registers
How registers work, when to add entries, and how facts flow into filings.
The Vault holds 13 Tier 1 registers, each backing a specific category of disclosure that flows into multiple filings.
The registers
Officers, Directors, Material Contracts, Litigation, Subsidiaries, Real Property, Patents and IP, Cybersecurity Incidents, Human Capital, Equity Plans, Auditor History, Insurance Policies, Government Investigations.
How they flow into filings
When you start a 10-K, the wizard reads from the Vault to pre-populate Items 1 (Business), 1A (Risk Factors), 3 (Legal Proceedings), 9C (Cybersecurity), 10 (Directors and Officers), and others. You can override any pre-fill at the filing level without changing the Vault.
Adding entries
Three ways:
- Manual entry: form-based, takes about a minute per entry.
- Document upload: drop a PDF or DOCX, we extract the structured fields.
- Bulk extract: feed us a 10-K and we backfill 12 of the 13 registers.
Vault hygiene
Once a quarter, walk every register. Look for stale items: officers who left, contracts that expired, litigation that settled. The Calendar module surfaces these reminders automatically.
Source-of-truth model
Every fact in the Vault has a primary source (a document, a filing, or a manual entry by a known user). The audit trail records every change. When external counsel asks "where did this come from", the answer is one click away.