# Year-over-year comparison from your annual reports

Upload your annual reports, each with a year metadata field, then ask something like 'Compare 2023 and 2024 on revenue drivers and risks'. The agent searches each year's reports separately, notes what they say, and writes a side-by-side summary of what changed, with citations, for a person to check.

**Use cases:** Research, Finance

**Tags:** year over year, annual report, compare years, trend, 10-K, financial statements, knowledge base, metadata filter, citations, loop

[Create this agent](https://seclai.com/agent-examples/create/annual_report_year_over_year)

## How it starts

Trigger: dynamic input.

## What it needs

- **Annual reports source** — Upload your annual reports here. Give each one a year metadata field (for example year = 2024), or the per-year search finds nothing for it.
- **Annual reports knowledge base** — The knowledge base the comparison searches, one year at a time.

## Steps

- Find the years to compare
- For each year
  - For each item: Search that year's reports
  - Note what that year says
  - Keep the year's notes
- Compare the years
- Show the comparison