The Brix Project - An initiative to demonstrate standards usability.

The Brix Project was initiated to raise awareness and to advance and demonstrate the functionality of XBRL for business reporting to a consumer audience.   .

What does the app do?

Consumes documents as data.

The Brix app uses the power of XBRL to deliver tagged corporate financial reports filed by all publicly-traded companies with the SEC quarterly and annually (e.g. 10-Ks and 10-Qs) to an iPhone, moments after they are filed with the SEC.  This is possible because the reports are tagged by the issuer when they are submitted – because they are structured and computer-readable, the data can be extracted and manipulated.  The iPhone app allows data users to:

• Search for a company, or for words in the label of any of 17,000 XBRL tags.
  
  
• Build reports of corporate filings, starting with the most recent.  Select a document (e.g. balance sheet) and view its contents as individually tagged facts, in presentation, value, or date.  Email the report as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.  
  
  
• Find the frequency of tag usage, along with definition and list of companies using that tag.
  
  
• Get alerts for a specific company or tag.