# BankruptcyObserver.com

> BankruptcyObserver (BKO) has tracked United States business bankruptcy cases since
> 2005 — chapters 7, 11, 12, and 15 — more than 6 million cases and billions of
> docket events, with every bankruptcy court checked hourly. BKO is agent-first:
> connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor,
> or any MCP-capable agent to read filings and get plain-English answers with
> citations. The web platform is included on every plan.

## MCP server (connect your AI agent here)

- Endpoint: https://mcp.bankruptcyobserver.com/mcp
- Developer docs: https://mcp.bankruptcyobserver.com/docs
- Free without an API key: exact-name case search (search_bankruptcy_cases_tool),
  7-digit case-number lookup (get_case_by_case_number_tool), and plan tools
  (list_plans_tool, purchase_plan_tool, check_subscription_tool).
- Subscriber tools (Authorization: Bearer token from /subscriber/mcp-setup):
  monitored-case docket entries, get_case_status_tool (refresh the court case summary and
  return the dates on file), get_debtor_counsel_tool (debtor's counsel name, firm,
  address, phone, and email), case lookups by EIN, industry, NAICS, state, and
  date range, plus document retrieval (get_document_tool with simpleName and
  item_number). Cases are identified by simpleName.

## Subscribe

- Plans: https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/pricing — Full Access Light, Standard,
  Heavy, and Enterprise (prices, monitored-case limits, and MCP quotas from the live catalog).
  Single Case is sold from individual case pages.
- Checkout: https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/subscribe — Stripe-hosted checkout;
  cancel anytime.
- After payment: sign in at https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/signin, open
  https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/subscriber/dashboard, and connect MCP at
  https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/subscriber/mcp-setup.

## Key pages

- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/ : Agent-first homepage — how BKO works with your AI agent.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/pricing : Plan comparison and subscribe CTAs.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/mcp : Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or a generic MCP client, with a full example agent session.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/search : Search business bankruptcy cases by name, state, or industry.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/bankruptcy-monitoring : How case monitoring and alerts work.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/enterprise : Enterprise bankruptcy intelligence — get notified when a company files (matched to your records by address and EIN), monitor thousands of companies at once, detect when your company is named as a creditor, and receive it all as a feed (REST API, webhook, scheduled file, or MCP) that plugs into your existing reporting and monitoring stack.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/data-licensing : License the U.S. business bankruptcy dataset (more than 6 million cases and billions of docket events since 2005, PACER-sourced and EIN-keyed) for AI platforms, answer engines, data vendors, and risk products — delivered as a bulk dataset, query API, or MCP endpoint.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/bankruptcy-statistics : Free monthly statistics — U.S. business bankruptcy filing counts for the past 12 months, broken out by Chapter 7, 11, and 12, with a downloadable CSV (https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/bankruptcy-statistics.csv). Sourced from PACER, updated monthly.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/news : Bankruptcy news — new business filings and case milestones from the court record.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/chapter-7-bankruptcy : Chapter 7 liquidation explainer for business cases.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/chapter-11-bankruptcy : Chapter 11 reorganization explainer.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/chapter-15-bankruptcy : Chapter 15 cross-border recognition explainer.
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/signin : Subscriber sign-in (credentials or Google).

## Case pages

Individual case pages live at https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/bankruptcy-case/{slug}
(for example /bankruptcy-case/acme-corp) and include filing date, chapter, court,
case number, assets, liabilities, creditor ranges, and a public docket preview,
marked up with Schema.org JSON-LD.

## Sitemaps

- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/sitemap.xml
- https://www.bankruptcyobserver.com/sitemap/newcase_rss.rss (new-case RSS feed)