How Avantis AI Streamlines Regulatory Filings

Canadian regulatory filings have always been a high stakes, high volume responsibility. Public companies, investment funds, law firms, and regulators all depend on accurate disclosure to keep Canada’s capital markets transparent and fair. With SEDAR+ now serving as the central hub for filings and disclosure information across the country, the volume and speed of information has only increased. [Securities Administrators] That is great for transparency, but tough on teams that still rely on manual search, downloads, and spreadsheets to keep up. This is exactly where Avantis AI fits in. Avantis is an AI powered market intelligence platform that focuses on securities filings and corporate market data, including both Canadian SEDAR+ and U.S. SEC content.

The evolving reality of Canadian regulatory filings

SEDAR+ is now the secure web based system used by market participants to file, disclose, and search for information in Canada’s capital markets. It consolidates legacy systems like SEDAR, the cease trade order database, the disciplined list, and certain paper or portal based filings into a single modern platform. For issuers, law firms, and advisors, that means:

• Continuous flow of new documents, from prospectuses and financial statements to material change reports and exempt distribution filings
• A need to track regulatory activity not just for your own entity, but for peers, competitors, and clients
• Growing expectations from boards, investors, and regulators that you identify issues and opportunities quickly

The Canadian Securities Administrators position SEDAR+ as a way to reduce the time and cost of regulatory compliance In practice, though, teams still need tools and workflows that sit on top of SEDAR+ to turn raw documents into useful insight. That is the gap Avantis is designed to fill.

What Avantis AI actually does for Canadian filings

Avantis is an AI powered market intelligence platform for SEC and SEDAR filings research, corporate market data, and financial insights. It is not a replacement for SEDAR+ or a filing portal. Instead, it layers powerful research, analytics and monitoring capabilities on top of public data, including:

• Canadian securities filings from SEDAR+
• U.S. SEC filings
• Corporate and market data
• Insider transactions and audit related information

Within that broader scope, several features map directly to the daily realities of Canadian regulatory work.

1. Real time access to Canadian securities filings

Avantis provides access to Canadian securities filings from SEDAR+ dating back to 1997, sourced in real time. For teams focused on Canadian compliance or disclosure analysis, that means you can:

• Run research on historical filings and precedents without hopping between systems
• Compare current disclosure to many years of prior filings
• Confidently work with the most up to date public information as soon as it is available

Because the data is pulled from SEDAR+ in real time, Avantis helps close the gap between when an issuer files and when your team can react.

2. Powerful content search and discovery

Reading filings one by one is rarely an option when you are supporting multiple entities or matters. Avantis is built around fast, criteria based search of SEDAR+ and other content, with tools such as:

• Content search and discovery across filings and market data
• Customizable filters to drill into specific sectors, issuers, or metrics
• The ability to jump between company profiles and document types without losing context

Avantis emphasizes that it is designed to simplify complex research and due diligence tasks so users can get quick access to SEDAR and SEC filings and other public corporate data. For Canadian regulatory work, that translates into faster tasks such as:

• Locating all continuous disclosure documents for a given issuer or peer group
• Pulling specific filing types, such as financial statements or management discussion and analysis, across a time period
• Identifying which issuers in a sector have made certain types of regulatory or governance disclosures

All of this uses the search and filter capabilities Avantis already highlights, rather than custom or speculative functionality.

3. AI content analysis for dense regulatory documents

One of the biggest challenges with Canadian regulatory filings is not just finding documents, but understanding what matters inside them. Avantis features AI content analysis that helps users uncover patterns and insights from thousands of documents with minimal effort. Customer testimonials on the Avantis site reinforce this point, noting that the platform can instantly analyze SEC and SEDAR+ filings and that it helps uncover insights that would otherwise take weeks to compile. In practical terms for Canadian filings, AI content analysis can support:

• Faster review of lengthy disclosure for themes, topics, or potential red flags
• More efficient precedent research when you need to see how similar issuers handled a disclosure issue
• Identification of relevant sections across multiple filings for side by side comparison

4. Real time monitoring and alerts

Staying on top of new filings and regulatory changes is a core part of managing risk in Canada’s markets. Avantis includes monitoring and alert capabilities as one of its key features. On the platform page, Avantis highlights that users can:

• Stay informed in real time
• Get instant alerts for critical SEC and SEDAR+ filings, insider trades, and market shifts

That is particularly valuable for:

• Compliance teams that need prompt visibility into new Canadian filings affecting their organization or clients
• Legal and advisory teams that monitor cease trade orders, disciplinary actions, or governance changes
• Risk and surveillance groups that track insider trade disclosures or sudden shifts in disclosure patterns

Instead of manually checking SEDAR+ or email lists, your team can use Avantis alerts to identify and triage what deserves attention.

5. Collaborative workflows and export

Canadian regulatory filings rarely live in isolation. Filings are summarized for boards, included in client deliverables, and cited in internal memos and models. Avantis is built with collaboration and export in mind. On the consulting and content pages, Avantis highlights:

• Collaborative research and data sharing
• The ability to invite team members, share searches, alerts, lists, and folders
• Data export options designed to feed into presentations and reports

There is also a product update that announces the ability to download documents in Microsoft Word or Excel formats, which is particularly useful for working with financial and regulatory filings. For Canadian regulatory workflows, that means insights from SEDAR+ filings found in Avantis can move cleanly into your existing reporting formats, instead of being trapped in a browser tab. Avantis positions its platform for a range of professional audiences, including investment management, public companies, accounting firms, law firms, consulting firms, and government and regulatory agencies. Within Canada, that maps neatly to several common roles.

Public companies and their advisors

Disclosure and investment research is a core application of Avantis. The platform is described as helping users find important insights from large financial datasets and simplifying the complexity of corporate disclosures and market intelligence. For issuers and their advisors, using Avantis alongside SEDAR+ can help with:

• Benchmarking disclosure practices against peers
• Preparing for regulatory reviews
• Supporting board level discussions with better market context

Law and accounting firms

Law firms and accounting firms are frequent users of securities filings for precedent research, regulatory reviews, and due diligence. Avantis highlights that it is widely used by these professions and that users rely on its up to date market intelligence and time saving research features. For these firms, Avantis helps translate the raw flow of Canadian regulatory filings into structured, searchable intelligence that supports legal opinions, audit work, and transaction support.

Regulators and government agencies

The Avantis site specifically lists government and regulatory agencies among its target industries.  With SEDAR+ already serving as the national system used by all market participants, Avantis offers another lens on that same public data, helping regulatory users:

• Monitor market activity more efficiently
• Identify patterns in disclosure and trading
• Support policy analysis with comprehensive historical data

Canadian securities regulation is built around timely and accurate disclosure. The faster professionals can find, interpret, and act on regulatory filings, the stronger the overall system becomes. By combining real time SEDAR+ data with AI powered research tools, Avantis helps Canadian users move from reactive to proactive:

• From hunting for filings manually to having relevant updates delivered through alerts
• From reading long PDFs one at a time to using AI content analysis and smart search to focus on what matters
• From fragmented workflows across multiple systems to a single platform that ties filings, market data, and collaboration together

The result is not a shortcut around Canadian regulatory obligations. Instead, it is a more efficient path through them, grounded in the public data and capabilities. If your team spends significant time in SEDAR+ already, exploring Avantis as a complementary research and monitoring layer can help you keep pace with Canada’s evolving regulatory environment, while giving you back valuable hours for higher value analysis and decision making.

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