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Working with commercial data

Field notes on the hard parts of commercial intelligence: hearing opportunity signals early, monitoring fragmented public sources, resolving entities, and earning trust in every record.

July 21, 20268 min read

What is commercial intelligence?

Not market research, not a list database, not a news digest: a working definition of commercial intelligence, and the feed model that makes it usable.

July 21, 20268 min read

How to verify scraped data before anyone acts on it

Scraped data looks authoritative right up until someone acts on a wrong record. The trust ladder that separates 'we collected it' from 'you can rely on it.'

July 21, 20269 min read

Entity resolution: why your lead lists are full of duplicates

The same project appears in three sources under three names. Merge them wrong and you've corrupted your data; don't merge them and every count you report is inflated.

July 21, 202610 min read

Building permit data: how to monitor permit portals at scale

Permit data is public, valuable, and scattered across thousands of portals that all break your scraper differently. What it actually takes to monitor them reliably.

July 21, 20269 min read

How to find commercial construction projects before they go to bid

By the time a project is 'out to bid' everyone has seen it. The teams that win hear the permit-filed signal weeks earlier — here's the signal chain and how to watch it continuously.