Where Business Moves

The LagWire Atlas geography block turns 30 years of filings into a live cartography of American enterprise. Track the rise-and-fall of state leaders, meet the pioneers, and watch active companies pulse across the map.

LagWire Atlas — Where it all happens. Watch the states light up as industries rise and fall.

Year: 1994 Span:

Animated ribbon chart of annual filing leaders. Bars race forward as states gain or lose share. Hover to inspect filings and national share.

Filing volume Rising leaders

Dot-plot map of each state’s earliest SEC filers. Select a state to reveal the first three pioneers, their industries, and formation dates.

Choropleth of active companies by state. Slide through the timeline to see where entities are alive, dormant, or accelerating.

Few active entities Many active entities Intense clusters

Heatmap grid of industry share. Columns are SIC industries, rows are states. Intensity shows each state’s share of filings inside that industry.

Z-score pulses flag when a state breaks pattern. Orange spikes mark breakout surges in filings; blue pulses show unusually quiet periods.

σ-window: 3 year rolling Spike ≥ +2σ · Quiet ≤ −2σ