Unlocking Two Decades of Shareholder Democracy: Introducing Root’s Public AGM & Resolution Tracking Database

Every proxy season, thousands of resolutions shape the future of listed companies—yet the raw material for informed voting is scattered across exchanges, company websites and PDF footnotes. At Root, we’ve build a free, public database covering every Annual General Meeting in the United States and United Kingdom for the past 20 years. Our AI agents have been trained on this database to provide in-depth, near-realtime and custom proxy advice and transition plan analyses.

Check it out at https://app.rootinvestors.io!

What You’ll Find Inside

• Comprehensive AGM coverage
  From the FTSE All Share to the smallest NASDAQ-listed company, every scheduled meeting is logged with date, venue (or livestream link) and time.

• Automated resolution detection
  Our models read notices, proxy statements and supplemental filings to identify each voting item—ordinary business, shareholder proposals, board nominations, you name it.

• Smart classification & succinct summaries
  Resolutions are tagged by topic (e.g., board composition, climate transition, executive pay) and condensed into a two-sentence briefs but also comphrehensive summaries, so you can scan an entire ballot in minutes rather than hours.

• Deep document linkage
  One click opens the original notice of meeting, management’s circular, voting results, webcast replay or any other artefact we can find online. No more trawling EDGAR screens or investor-relations pages.

• Historical depth
  With filings stretching back to 2004, you can trace how issues evolved from “Say on Pay” to Scope-3 disclosure and beyond.

How We Do It

1. Multi-source harvesting
   We ingest SEC and other feeds, stock-exchange APIs and direct-from-issuer webpages the moment they update.

2. LLM-powered parsing
   Specialised agents trained on governance codes, proxy glossaries and 50,000 historic ballots extract resolution text, deadlines and contextual clues.

3. Dynamic enrichment
   Additional layers flag peer behaviour, past voting outcomes and cross-references, turning raw filings into a living knowledge graph. ​

Why Make It Public?

Stewardship only works when information asymmetries don’t. By opening our AGM feed:

• Researchers can benchmark market trends without costly data licences.

• Asset owners can audit managers’ voting records against the full ballot, not a curated subset.

• Issuers gain a mirror on how their resolutions stack up against peers.

Transparency and open data are foundational to healthy capital markets; a paywall shouldn’t stand between investors and the facts.

Dive in, and see what twenty years of shareholder democracy looks like—resolved.