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Provenance

Where every line comes from.

Only legitimate sources and permitted access methods. No CAPTCHA bypassing, no logins, no paywalls, no scraping against a site’s terms. Sources that can’t be ingested lawfully have adapters waiting for a licence.

SourceKindLicenceAccessStatusRecordsLast sync
Demo supplier records (clearly labelled)
DEMO RECORD — illustrates supplier fields until live supplier feeds are connected
demoFictional demonstration data — not real companiesn/aactive809/28/2026
SEC EDGAR company submissions
Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, EDGAR
governmentPublic domain (U.S. Government work)Official JSON APIs and bulk files; declared User-Agent; max 10 requests/second (SEC fair access policy)active5,4639/28/2026
SEC Insider Transactions Data Sets (Forms 3/4/5)
Source: U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Insider Transactions Data Sets
governmentPublic domain (U.S. Government work)Quarterly bulk ZIP files published for download; declared User-Agentactive36,3699/28/2026
UK Companies House — Free Company Data Product
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (Companies House)
governmentOpen Government Licence v3.0Monthly bulk CSV published for downloadactive12,0009/28/2026
GLEIF Legal Entity Identifier records
LEI data from GLEIF (CC0)
open-dataCC0 1.0Public REST API (api.gleif.org), 60 requests/minuteactive0—
OpenStreetMap — factories, works and industrial sites
© OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)
open-dataOpen Database License (ODbL) 1.0Public Overpass API; one query at a time, declared User-Agent, backoff on 429/504active6,9049/28/2026
Wikidata
Data from Wikidata (CC0)
open-dataCC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Wikidata Query Service SPARQL endpoint; declared User-Agent; one query at a time, within the 60s limitactive13,6299/28/2026
Business-submitted listings
Submitted by the listed business
user-submittedSubmitted by the business with consent to publishn/aactive0—
SAM.gov Entity Management API
Source: SAM.gov
apiU.S. Government public data (API key required)REST API with SAM_GOV_API_KEYplanned0—
Trade association member directories
Member directory (used with permission)
directoryPer-association written permissionOnly with written permission or a published feedplanned0—
Canada ISED federal corporations open data
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada
governmentOpen Government Licence – CanadaBulk open-data filesplanned0—
Europages / Kompass
Europages
licensedLicensed feed onlyOnly via a signed data licenceplanned0—
OpenCorporates API
from OpenCorporates
licensedCommercial licence required for commercial useLicensed API token (OPENCORPORATES_API_TOKEN)planned0—
Thomasnet supplier data
Thomasnet
licensedLicensed feed only — site scraping not permittedOnly via a signed data licenceplanned0—