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company-goat

One-call agent CLI that cross-references seven authoritative sources on a startup — SEC Form D filings, GitHub engineering velocity, Hacker News mentions, US/UK legal-entity registries, Wikidata, YC directory, and domain age — and flags inconsistencies between public claims and filings. Side-by-side competitor comparison + serial-founder tracking. No API keys required for the killer feature; GITHUB_TOKEN optional for higher GitHub rate limits.

Verified: 2026-05-13 (printing-press-ingest-2026-05-13+enrich-capability-skill)

When to use company-goat

Choose if

You're doing startup due diligence from an agent loop and want one call that fans out across SEC Form D, GitHub, HN, US/UK registries, Wikidata, YC, and domain age — with cross-source inconsistency flags. Prefer this over building seven separate API wrappers, especially when the workflow is "give me a zombie-company red-flag report on Acme Inc."

Avoid if

The target is a non-US/UK startup (Form D and most registries are US/UK-scoped). Also avoid if you need Crunchbase-style proprietary cap-table data — Form D only covers priced rounds, not SAFEs or convertible notes, so early-stage / pre-Series A startups will look empty even when they're well-funded.

Risk Flags

  • MEDIUM rate_limit GitHub unauthenticated rate limit is 60 req/hr without GITHUB_TOKEN (5000/hr with). SEC EDGAR may throttle faster if COMPANY_PP_CONTACT_EMAIL is not set per their fair-access policy.
  • MEDIUM scope Form D coverage is US-only and priced-equity-rounds only — excludes SAFEs and pre-Series A. Non-US startups (Monzo, Klarna cited as examples) will not appear in Form D results.
  • LOW data_quality Wikidata is sparse on early-stage / non-notable startups. Name resolution can return multiple candidates — agents must handle ambiguity rather than assuming a single match.

Cost

Type: Free · Free tier: "No API keys required for the killer feature." Free tier covers all primary functions. Optional GITHUB_TOKEN increases GitHub rate limit from 60/hr to 5000/hr; COMPANY_PP_CONTACT_EMAIL recommended for SEC EDGAR fair-access compliance. CLI binary is MIT-licensed.

Install

Default

npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press install company-goat
# Optional but recommended:
export GITHUB_TOKEN=<your-token>          # raises GH rate limit to 5000/hr
export COMPANY_PP_CONTACT_EMAIL=<you@x>   # SEC EDGAR fair-access compliance

Setup docs →

Estimated time to first success: ~10 min

Dependencies

Minimum runtime: Node.js (for npx install) or Go 1.26.3+ (source install)

Distribution

Repository
https://github.com/mvanhorn/printing-press-library
License
MIT