Turn an SEC filing into an audio briefing
Upload a 10-K, 10-Q or S-1 PDF to Lissin and get a briefing on what changed. Which sections are worth asking for and which are boilerplate.
The short answer
Paste the EDGAR link, or upload the filing as PDF, then name the sections you care about — risk factors, MD&A, the segment tables. A 10-K read start to finish is four hours of boilerplate; a briefing on the parts that changed is fifteen minutes.
How to do it
Get the PDF from EDGAR
EDGAR serves filings as HTML, and that URL can be pasted straight in. Saving the HTML or printing to PDF works too — both keep the full text layer — and is the route to take when you want a specific exhibit rather than the whole document.
Name the sections, not the document
‘Item 1A risk factors and the MD&A, focused on anything new against last year’ is the request that produces a useful briefing. Filings are largely repeated boilerplate by design, and an unqualified summary spends most of its length there.
Upload this year and last year together
The genuinely valuable output is the diff: which risks were added, which language softened, which segment stopped being broken out. Two filings and ‘what changed’ produces that.
At a glance
- Sources it takes
- The EDGAR link itself, or the filing uploaded as PDF or HTML
- Best request
- Year-over-year comparison of named sections
- Typical episode length
- 10–15 minutes
- Transcript
- Included, synchronised to the audio
Hear what comes out
Shows already published on Lissin, free to play in the browser.
Questions
- Can it watch EDGAR for new filings?
- No. It will fetch a filing you point it at, but nothing monitors EDGAR and nothing fires when a company files. A recurring show described by company and subject researches public coverage on a schedule, which is a different and less precise thing.
- Are the financial tables usable in audio?
- Only as narrated change: ‘revenue up nine percent, margin down two points’. The tables themselves are not listenable and should not be treated as though they were.
- Is this investment advice?
- No. It is a document read for you. Every number in an episode should be verified against the filing before it informs a decision, and Lissin’s output is not a research report.
What this does not do
Exhibits are separate documents and are not included unless you upload them. XBRL data is not read. And the summarisation step is exactly where a filing’s careful hedging gets smoothed away, so the specific wording of a risk factor should always be read rather than heard.
Try it on something you already have
Upload a PDF, a deck or a document and describe the show you want from it. Or press play on anything in the library first — no account, no app.
Last reviewed 9 September 2026 by Lissin Editorial.