Public records, connected company by company

A company page connects a business to its legal entities, bankruptcy cases, material events and source records. A case page describes a court proceeding and the debtor entities attached to it. These are deliberately separate: one case can cover many entities, and a bankruptcy filing does not by itself prove that a business closed.

Statuses are derived by a deterministic, versioned rule set. They are not predictions and are not chosen by a language model. The timeline and citations remain visible so readers can inspect the facts behind the current label.

Court dockets and regulatory filings are public, but they are fragmented across systems and written around cases, forms and legal entities rather than the company a reader is trying to understand. Shuttingdown makes those relationships navigable without replacing the underlying record or presenting an inference as a fact.

• Material claims should identify the public record that supports them.
• Missing information is left missing rather than guessed.
• A filing, delisting or WARN notice is not automatically described as a closure.
• Company-supplied statements are labelled and cannot rewrite public records.
• Corrections should preserve the reason and evidence for the change.

Read the detailed methodology and source policy.