What is the 8-K four-day clock?

For most reportable events, a US public company must file a Form 8-K within four business days of the triggering event. The clock starts when the event occurs, not when finance finishes assessing it.

What evidence proves the 8-K deadline was met?

A record that fixes the event time, the detection time, each review step and the accepted filing time, so the elapsed business days can be recomputed by anyone holding the same inputs.

How is the clock monitored?

Detection runs on every scheduled read of the connected sources, and the remaining window is shown against each open event rather than tracked in a side spreadsheet.

Framework · 8-K

The 8-K four-day clock, run for you

An 8-K is the current report a US issuer must file within four business days of a material event.

The moment an incident is judged material, the four business day clock starts. DECIMA holds the timeline, the assessment and the filing in one attributable trail.

Jurisdiction: United States — SEC
Current coverage: 79%

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The live console

The same dashboard the home page shows, with every surface variant available.

DECIMA console · 8-K

Four-day statutory clock

25 of 96 hours consumed

Phase progress

Scope summary

Full widget list

Every widget this framework composes, and what each one answers.

Widget: Four-day statutory clock: What it answers: The statutory countdown against the filing window, with hours consumed and hours remaining.
Widget: Phase progress: What it answers: Per-phase or per-domain progress bars behind the headline coverage number.
Widget: Scope summary: What it answers: Scope figures for the framework: controls covered, evidence sources, decision window and open items.

Coverage and evidence

The headline coverage graphic, the scope figures and how the evidence set splits.

Statutory clock consumed

Scope summary

Evidence mix

Sealed3
Verified5
Monitored4

Evidence freshness

Current: 79%
12-week change: +57 pts
Lowest week: 22%

Assurance flow

Surface variants

Six surface patterns ship with every console. This framework opens on its own.

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