Thirty years
of public data.
The public internet has never been read as one.
The most revealing information is in no document. It is in the links between them.
- Read.
- Resolve.
- Connect.
- Compare.
- Prove.
What we read
Many kinds of public sources, from company registries and court records to social networks and web archives, each read back to its oldest record.
Sources
Company registriesOfficers, owners, filings and accounts.
Financial filingsAnnual reports, fundraisings and insider trades.
Courts and insolvencyJudgments, dockets, bankruptcies and liquidations.
Sanctions and enforcementSanctions lists and regulators’ actions.
Web archivesSaved versions of pages, including deleted ones.
Social networksPosts, comments, follows and forums.
News and podcastsArticles, interviews, broadcasts and transcripts.
Public money and lobbyingContracts, subsidies, donations and lobbying registers.
Property, aircraft, shipsWho owns the buildings, jets and vessels.
Domains and DNSRegistrations, servers, certificates and shared tracking codes.
Patents and trademarksApplicants, inventors, and new names before launch.
DocumentsReports and files left online, with their metadata.
Jobs and reviewsJob ads, employee reviews, complaints and inspections.
Ad librariesWho paid for which ads, when, and who saw them.
Academic and nonprofitPapers, co-authors, grants, foundations and their boards.
Code and appsRepositories, commits, packages and app listings.
Maps and imagerySites, street views and satellite images.
Open webIndexed pages and public documents.
Primordial Aspect