About
Public filings, read at document depth.
Built on the public Form 5500 universe and the audited financial statements attached to it, for the professionals and plan sponsors who need the evidence behind the row.
The advantage is in the evidence.
Plenty of products can put a search box over public filings. The hard part is getting the derivations right, and being able to show your work when someone asks. That is also the part that decides whether you can put a number in front of a client.
Anybody can put a search box over public data. The derivations are what take the time, and we publish every one of them. If one is wrong, we would sooner you found it on the methodology page than in a client meeting.
Why the plan count is smaller than it could be
We don’t chase the largest possible plan count. Coverage numbers are the easiest thing on earth to inflate, and a universe padded with plans nobody will ever audit makes every list you build out of it worse.
The scope is set by whether a plan is plausibly relevant to audit or advisory work. That is a smaller number than we could publish, and we would rather not compete on the bigger one.
629,747 plans tracked
Coverage snapshot measured 21 August 2026
- ~46,500 audit reports read and structured
- the rest, which is the universe those plans sit inside
In
- Every full-form Form 5500 filer.
- Selected Form 5500-SF filers whose latest filing reports at least 10 participants with account balances.
Left out
- Form 5500-SF plans below the selected 10-account-balance threshold.
Five points of view, one dataset.
PrimaryCPA firms
Employee benefit plan audit practices tracking clients, deadlines and engagements, and finding plans approaching large-plan filing status and a likely first required audit.
AdvisoryRetirement plan advisers
Plan and sponsor detail, fee context from Schedule C, and advisor movement derived year over year across filings.
AdministrationTPAs
Plan populations, filing history and service-provider relationships across a book of business.
PlatformRecordkeepers
Book-of-business movement taken off the filings themselves.
FiduciaryPlan sponsors
Source-linked plan evidence, relevant peer context and a clearer record for questions with auditors, advisers and providers.
Where things stand.
- Pre-launch. 5500RADAR is in active development. There is no public sign-up, no pricing and no free trial, because none of those exist yet. It isn’t a scarcity tactic.
- The data is public-source. Everything derives from U.S. Department of Labor / EBSA Form 5500 disclosure data and filed attachments—not sponsor payroll, census, beneficiary or participant-account feeds.
- Not affiliated with the DOL. 5500RADAR is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Department of Labor or any government agency.
- No certifications claimed. We don’t hold a SOC or ISO attestation, and we won’t imply one. When that changes, it will be stated here with a date.
Get in touch.
If you work in employee benefit plan audit, advisory, administration or recordkeeping—or you sponsor a plan—and want to see it, or to tell us where a derivation is wrong, we would like to hear from you.
Or email tkadura@5500radar.com directly.