No single vendor owns our truth.
We acquire facts through official APIs first, licensed feeds second, and governed web collection third — through providers that stay replaceable. What we own permanently is our warehouse, knowledge graph, provenance ledger, and scoring.
Building on Apify
Apify's marketplace of reusable Actors, scheduling, datasets, and APIs makes it the fastest place to prove a source: we can stand up collection for a new buying trigger in days, not months. That speed is why the Local Opportunity Radar pilot runs on it today.
Reusable scrapers, browser automation, structured datasets, and API delivery in one platform.
Apify accelerates us but never becomes the system of record — our warehouse, history, and scores do.
Actor and dataset documentation: apify.com → docs.apify.com/actors · docs.apify.com/storage/dataset
Sources, in order of preference
We work down this list and stop at the highest tier that answers the question.
Authoritative APIs and open data
Government registries, regulatory filings, corporate disclosures, official market feeds. Highest authority, predictable schemas, easiest provenance — always our first choice.
Licensed datasets and feeds
Commercial feeds where data is essential, hard to collect, or legally sensitive — with contracts that permit storage, derived scores, and multilingual delivery.
Customer-authorized data
Your CRM, inventory, or private documents — logically separated by tenant, never used for shared training without explicit permission.
Permitted public-web collection
Targeted, documented, proportionate. Every source reviewed for terms, access signals, and personal-data presence before activation.
Derived and synthetic data
Wherever the question allows it, we keep scores and aggregates — not dossiers. Company-level opportunity scores instead of employee profiles.
Where we go as sources scale
Each provider below is a future adapter behind our standard observation format — never a new system of record.
Bright Data
Enterprise-scale collection, proxies, managed acquisition
Fallback when a source outgrows prototyping in reliability or volume.
Oxylabs
Proxies, unblocking, headless browsing across international sources
Resilient alternative for difficult, dynamically rendered pages.
Zyte
Managed extraction and developer-friendly collection APIs
Structured extraction pipelines as source count grows.
Firecrawl
Websites converted to clean, AI-ready structured content
Source-document preparation for retrieval and knowledge bases.
Diffbot
Automatic entity, product, and relationship extraction
Enrichment input and external knowledge-graph cross-checks.
Browserbase
Cloud browsers for agents that complete permitted workflows
Later execution layer — moving from recommending an action to completing it.
ScrapingBee · ScraperAPI
Simple API page retrieval with proxy rotation
Commodity adapters and fallbacks for straightforward sources.
Browse AI · Octoparse
No-code extraction and monitoring
Fast business-user prototypes before engineering a source properly.
Crawlee · Crawl4AI
Self-hosted, code-controlled crawling
Long-term control for sources that prove stable and valuable.
Advantage goes to the most trusted supply chain — not the biggest crawl.
Source registry, provenance on every signal, suppression honored everywhere. Read our privacy position.
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