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PACER shows docket events only when you already know the case.
What if the event you need was filed in a case you have never heard of, in a court you do not watch? PACER has no query for that. TrollerBk takes the court event feed, links each line to a case, a docket, and a type, and returns the matches. The matrix below is the difference.
PACER answers questions about one case you already know. TrollerBk answers which business bankruptcies nationwide just filed a 363, a disclosure statement, a plan, or a claim transfer.
Claims trades
Know who bought bankruptcy claims last week, and in which cases.
Every week we send the trades recorded in every US bankruptcy court: buyer, seller, case, court. Look up any buyer, seller, or case across twelve years of trades.
- Weekly nationwide report
- History back to 2014
The matrix
Lookup versus the event feed
The first row is lookup. The rest is finding. If the job is “open the case I already follow,” PACER and a research suite will do it. If the 363 is in a case you have never heard of, only the last column starts from the event feed instead of from a case number you do not have.
| Capability | PACER | Portal research suites | Roll your own | TrollerBk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Depth on a single case you already know | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cross-case questions ("which cases have a sale motion this week?") | No | Partial inside their screens |
Expensive | Yes |
| Business bankruptcies nationwide, nearly every court | Yes per page, per lookup |
Partial | Very expensive | Yes |
| Find every sale motion, plan, or disclosure statement filed this week, nationwide | No | Partial | Build it | Yes |
| Size a creditor pool without opening PACER | Yes one case at a time |
Partial | Build it | Yes |
| See who is buying claims, and where | No | Partial | No | Yes |
| Weekly nationwide claims-trade report | No | No | Build it | Yes |
| Claims-trade history back to 2014 | No | Partial | Build it | Yes |
| Reports built to your definition | No | Partial their screens |
Build it | Yes |
| Works inside your AI assistant (MCP) | No | No | Build it | Yes |
| Where you work | Their site | Their suite | Your stack | Inbox, spreadsheet, API, assistant, or portal |
| Pricing | $0.10/page; $3 cap on documents and docket reports | Per seat | PACER + AI + payroll | Flat monthly |
“Portal research suites” describes the category of bankruptcy research products sold as a closed platform for case-centric legal work. Capabilities vary by vendor; check theirs against your mandate.
Where the work happens
The report comes first. Where it lands is up to you.
Describe the mandate. We build the report. It arrives in email, a spreadsheet, a feed into your systems, or inside Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor. The subscriber portal is where you sit with a case once the list has named it: refresh the docket, pull documents, read the claims register.
Custom reports →The economics
Rolling your own is not a weekend project.
At sustained volume, PACER per-page charges plus the AI usage to extract and summarize what you pulled exceed the subscription, and you still lack the unified corpus, the hourly refresh, the classified events, and the weekly claims-trade report. TrollerBk spreads those costs across every subscriber.
See the worked example →Objections, answered
See it against your own mandate.
We will run the last 30 days of filings through your criteria before the first call.