Hunt my lost 401(k) through twenty years of mergers with AI
He left the company in 2003/04; it was sold, the 401(k) stayed with a shell that later shut down, and the trail went cold. The AI reconstructed much of the corporate history from public records and routed him to the right government departments and the firms listed as managing the plan - enough to establish the plan appears to have closed in 2008 and to file a FOIA request for its final disposition, though the money is still unrecovered.
This only partly worked. Read what happened before you try it.
How it works
- Reconstruct the employer's sale and shutdown history from public records with AI
- Identify the departments and firms that managed the plan
- Contact them
- File a FOIA request for the plan's final disposition
Why it’s worth knowing
The trail was two decades cold - a sold company, a shuttered shell, a plan closed in 2008 - and an agent rebuilt the paper trail from public records.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗