# How to monitor a portfolio of companies for regulatory risk

> Step-by-step setup for surveilling every regulatory event (SEC, FDA, courts, contracts, enforcement) for a portfolio of companies, in one request per company.

## Steps

### Step 1: Build your watchlist by ticker

Maintain your list of tickers, CIKs, UEIs, or entity_ids — whatever you have. The /entity/{key} endpoint accepts any of them and joins via the entity_master bridge.

### Step 2: Pull cross-vertical material events per ticker

For each ticker, GET /api/v1/entity/{ticker}/material-events?days=7. Returns only events with importance ≥ 60 in the last 7 days. Typical signals: Class I FDA recalls (importance 100), Phase 3 trial terminations (80), antitrust court filings (75), DOJ press releases (60-90), large insider sells (varies by USD), Federal Reserve C&D orders (90).

### Step 3: Alert on threshold breaches

Page on any event with importance ≥ 80, or on any new OFAC/SAM/OIG hit (use /api/v1/screening/all weekly). Each event includes accession_number — track which you've seen to dedupe.

### Step 4: Cross-reference today's hub

For broad-market context, hit /today.json — the daily-fresh cross-vertical digest aggregating CISA KEVs, NHTSA park-it recalls, Class I FDA recalls, high-signal court filings, DOJ press releases, OFAC additions, and largest insider sells. Useful as a "is anything blowing up today" signal independent of watchlist.

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