I spent two years watching sales teams burn $15,000/year subscriptions on data that — when I actually traced it — came from the same public government sources anyone could pull for free, if they knew where to look.
The incumbent data vendors have a real business. They normalize messy government files. They deduplicate across sources. They enrich with phone + email verification. That work has value.
But the $15K/yr pricing isn't about the work. It's about the lock-in: annual contracts, enterprise sales cycles, proprietary APIs that make switching impossible. Smaller buyers — insurance brokers, regional factoring shops, boutique staffing agencies — can't write those checks. They either overpay or go without.
Empire Data Solutions exists to solve that.
What we do
We aggregate public records from 40+ U.S. federal and state agencies — FMCSA, NPPES, SEC, state licensing boards, FDIC, FCC — normalize them into a consistent schema, deduplicate across sources, and verify each row before delivery. We publish pricing. We sell flat files. No annual contracts.
Why government-sourced only
Provenance. Every record can be traced to an agency filing. Compliance teams can verify us.
Legally clean. Public records explicitly designated for re-use. No scraping. No gray areas.
Durable. Our source isn't LinkedIn's ToS or a third-party reseller's inventory. It's statute.
Unique. No competitor focuses on government aggregation at this breadth. Most blend public + private data and can't tell you which is which.