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One question in ordinary words, answered from the SEC’s public Form ADV adviser rosters — 197 monthly snapshots spanning 2006 to 2026, about 2.48 million firm-rows across 34,213 distinct firms — or refused by name, with the list of question shapes that would have worked. The answering layer holds a fixed set of shapes; a question that fits none of them is declined rather than guessed at.

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Try: find goldman sachs · tell me about firm 361 · when did crd 7506 leave · what aum did crd 361 report · how many advisers in november 2013 · list the snapshots · what can you answer

What this page answers: finding a firm by name, CRD, CIK or SEC file number; one firm’s roster record, its span across the rosters, and its own reported AUM and accounts over time; how many advisers a named snapshot lists; and the archive’s own provenance — every roster file with its date and source filename. What it refuses, always: anything ordered by a measure of a firm, anything about discipline or conduct, anything about an individual person, any cause or reason for a change, and any answer bigger than twenty-five firms. A misspelled firm name comes back with up to five similar names drawn from the archive’s own index, for you to re-ask — never a corrected search run on your behalf, and never a ranking.

Answers come from public SEC records. They describe what was filed, not whether anyone did anything wrong, and they are not legal advice. Automated retrieval and analysis may be inaccurate or incomplete — verify anything that matters against the cited source documents before relying on any answer. The archive is a registration roster, not a conduct record: a firm leaving it is ordinary, and is not evidence of anything by itself.