Leading databases index the companies they found. We start from 100M+ classified domains and screen them against your exact thesis — with evidence for every inclusion and every exclusion.
We operate several AI platforms and provide large-scale specialized datasets — 300+ enterprise organisations run on our data, including one of Europe's largest telecom operators, adtech and cybersecurity platforms, web-filtering vendors, and a leading airline metasearch.
Every vendor promises coverage. The difference is where the list starts — and whether you can audit why each company is on it.
We start from the entire active web — 100M+ domains, already classified across 700+ categories.
Your thesis, in plain language, becomes the filter. Every candidate site is read and scored against it.
Every call ships with a verbatim snippet and source URL. Monthly deltas keep the universe alive.
Twenty companies from a real vertical: the confident fits, the fits keyword databases miss, and the false positives we deliberately excluded — each with the reason.
| ID | Category | Classification | Founder | Certs | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target M-01 | fit | CNC — defense, aerospace, medical | family | AS9100D, ITAR | “a fourth-generation, family-owned CNC company” |
| Hidden M-02 | keyword-missed | Stamping & assembly — automotive | family | — | “family-built, American-owned since 1965” |
| Excluded M-01 | excluded | Precision machined components | — | — | “a wholly owned subsidiary” — already consolidated |
For polished mid-caps, a conventional database serves you well. Our edge is everywhere the long tail lives.
Job shops and family operations whose sites say “trusted since 1972,” not “B2B SaaS.” We read what they actually do.
“Distributors with in-house service techs, no PE owner” isn't a database filter. It's one sentence of thesis text for an LLM.
Point us at a thesis you think is covered. We show what your tools missed or misclassified — with evidence.
From platform BD teams to search funds to corp dev — each gets the universe pointed at the question they actually ask.
Not a login to a database — a mapped universe for your thesis, in files your team can work immediately.
Every screened company with all signals, confidence scores, evidence quotes, and source URLs. CSV, Excel, or CRM-ready.
Top fits, keyword-missed fits, documented exclusions, and honest insufficient-evidence cases. See a live one →
Every removed candidate with the reason and the quote. Roughly one in ten keyword-perfect candidates turns out to be already group-owned.
New entrants, ownership changes, leadership changes, offering pivots — the universe stays alive after delivery.
Every company is ranked the same way, and the weights are public — so you can audit why anything sits where it sits.
Subsector, service model, recurring offering, footprint, compliance — how closely the company matches the written thesis.
An identifiable decision-maker and an independent owner. Companies already inside a group score zero here, whatever their fit.
Long history, thin visible bench, generational language — deliberately capped so context never outranks fit.
Nothing inferred, nothing purchased from data brokers — extracted from what companies publish, with a quote behind every value.
Plus vertical-specific signals per engagement: UL 508A panel shops, ISO/IEC 17025 scopes, ASME stamps, NADCAP approvals, OEM authorizations, rental fleets, chemical service programs…
Keep your database for profiles and workflow. Use the census to know what it can't see. Many clients run both.
Our classification database covers 100M+ active domains across every IAB content category. Search any industry to see the total addressable universe — the denominator most buyers never quantify before they start sourcing.
Try the industry counterThe long tail is where keyword-based databases lose coverage — and where acquisitive companies hide.
Every vertical is B2B or commercial-industrial by policy. The ten below carry live specimen reports with full signal transcripts.
No “ready to sell” flags, no revenue guesses, no owner profiling, no distress detection — and no consumer-captive verticals. A vendor that documents what it refuses to infer is one whose positive classifications you can trust.
Read our standardsOne email. We send the specimen report the same day — every company scored and ranked with full signal transcripts, including the ones we refused to include and why.
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