Ask about material weaknesses in Claude and ChatGPT
Free from Ctrl Worx. Works in Claude and ChatGPT, with your own account. Ask whether a public company is on the Watch List, how long the company has been on the Clock and which filing says so. Every answer gives its as-of date and a link to the SEC filing.
Open in Claude Open in ChatGPT
Short address to share: asktheclock.com
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In seconds: Ask the Clock answers how many public companies are on the Clock, then checks whether one company is on the Watch List, with its sources.
Connect it
Connect it in a few clicks. No Ctrl Worx account or sign-up needed.
- Claude: open Ask the Clock in the Claude directory and click Connect to Claude.
- ChatGPT: open Ask the Clock in ChatGPT and click Install plugin.
- Perplexity: add it yourself as a custom connector. In Perplexity, open Plugins, then Add custom, Connector, Add MCP connector, and choose Remote. Enter the name Ask the Clock and the server address
https://staging.ctrlworx.com/wp-json/ctrlworx/v1/ask-the-clock, set Authentication to None, check the acknowledgement box and click Add. Then click the Ask the Clock card to turn it on. Perplexity’s help page has the current steps.
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For developers
Server address: https://staging.ctrlworx.com/wp-json/ctrlworx/v1/ask-the-clock
ChatGPT: add it in Developer mode as a custom app, using the server address above.
Other MCP clients: add it as a Streamable HTTP server with the address above. It is also listed in the MCP Registry as com.ctrlworx/ask-the-clock.
Tools: lookup_company (one company, by ticker, full name or SEC CIK number (Central Index Key)) and clock_headline (the totals). Both read data and never change it.
What you can ask
- “Is [company name] on the Ctrl Worx Watch List?”
- “Look up ticker [ticker] on the Clock.”
- “Check CIK [CIK number].”
- “How many public companies are on the Clock right now?”
What it answers
- One company: status, years open, open-since date, the filing and its SEC link, as-of date.
- The totals: how many are on the Clock, open more than one and three years, and on record.
Every answer links to the company’s own SEC filing and to our corrections and right of reply page.
Where the data comes from
Every company on the Watch List is there because of a sentence in its own 10-K or 10-Q on SEC EDGAR. Read how the Watch List works. A material weakness is a statement about internal control, not a finding of wrongdoing, and nothing here is investment advice. Ctrl Worx is independent and has no tie to the SEC or any government body.
Privacy and limits
Ask the Clock stores no personal data and doesn’t log questions against a person. To keep it fast for everyone, it keeps a short-lived counter, deleted automatically within 24 hours, keyed by a hashed form of the caller’s address. See the privacy policy and terms.
Help
Questions or a wrong result: email russell@ctrlworx.com.
Everything on this page is free to use. Teams that want the Monday file, alerts and history inside their own work pay for Watch List Pro.