Public Data Brokers: 20 Companies Selling Government-Sourced Intelligence
Catalog of 20 firms that repackage public records — customs shipments, property filings, court dockets, and procurement data — into commercial intelligence products.
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| # | Company | Website | Public Data Focus | Why Similar |
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| 1 | Panjiva | https://panjiva.com | Aggregates customs-agency and trade-partner shipment data, including company-level import/export records across multiple countries. | Like ImportGenius, sells searchable company-level trade intelligence built from public/government-sourced customs shipment records. |
| 2 | PIERS (S&P Global Market Intelligence) | https://www.spglobal.com/market-intel... | U.S. waterborne import/export bill-of-lading data derived from U.S. customs filings and manifest records. | Directly commercializes detailed bill-of-lading and customs records for trade intelligence, competitor monitoring, and lead generation. |
| 3 | Source Intelligence / SourceIntel | https://www.getsourceintel.com | U.S. customs bill-of-lading records, shipping manifests, and public trade databases for supply-chain intelligence. | Markets public customs and manifest data as searchable intelligence on importers, suppliers, and shipment flows. |
| 4 | Trademo | https://www.trademo.com | Government and customs authority trade content, shipment data, and shipping-manifest intelligence. | Offers trade intelligence and shipment-level data sourced from customs/government records, overlapping with ImportGenius’s use case. |
| 5 | TradeInt | https://www.tradeint.com | Bill-of-lading records, shipping data, and customs data from major trading economies. | Commercializes searchable customs and B/L shipment records for prospecting, market research, and trade intelligence. |
| 6 | BillOfLadingData.com | https://billofladingdata.com | Official customs records and bill-of-lading data for import/export analysis. | Core offering is access to government-filed B/L and customs records in a searchable trade-data platform. |
| 7 | Descartes Datamyne | https://www.descartes.com/resources/k... | Import/export trade data gathered from customs records, with shipment details on buyers, sellers, products, volumes, and values. | Like ImportGenius, it sells searchable customs/shipment-level trade intelligence used for supplier discovery, competitive research, and supply-chain analysis. |
| 8 | ImportYeti | https://www.importyeti.com/ | U.S. customs and bill-of-lading shipment records made searchable by supplier, importer, product, and shipment activity. | Close alternative focused on searchable import records for supplier sourcing and competitor shipment intelligence. |
| 9 | CargoFax | https://cargofax.co/ | Daily U.S. import data from official customs-derived bill-of-lading sources, exposed for trade intelligence and exporter prospecting. | Provides searchable U.S. import shipment records and company filters for lead generation and trade-flow analysis. |
| 10 | ATTOM | https://www.attomdata.com/ | Real estate and property records: tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, building permit, boundary, neighborhood, and hazard data. | Sells a searchable/licensable product built from public-record real estate data, much like ImportGenius sells commercial intelligence built from customs records. |
| 11 | Regrid | https://regrid.com/ | Nationwide parcel, assessor, ownership, situs address, land-use, and related property/location data sourced from counties and official parcel sources. | Commercializes fragmented local government land records by standardizing them into a licensable nationwide dataset, analogous to ImportGenius standardizing customs data. |
| 12 | DataTree by First American | https://dna.firstam.com/totalview-home-page | Property records, recorded land document images, title plants, HOA data, listings, and homeownership/mortgage information. | Packages public-record property and recorded-document data into a paid research platform, similar to how ImportGenius turns raw public trade records into a commercial product. |
| 13 | Docket Alarm | https://www.docketalarm.com/ | Federal and state court dockets, filings, PACER-connected records, and IP/public-agency legal records via search, alerts, analytics, and API. | Turns dispersed public court records into a searchable subscription product and API, paralleling ImportGenius’s model of monetizing hard-to-use government records. |
| 14 | Trellis | https://trellis.law/ | State and federal court docket data, filings, company litigation reports, and legal analytics delivered through search and API. | Commercializes court-system records by aggregating and standardizing them into a workflow product, which is structurally very similar to ImportGenius’s public-records business model. |
| 15 | GovSpend | https://govspend.com/ | Government spending, purchase orders, bids, RFPs, contracts, contacts, and meeting-transcript intelligence across SLED and federal markets. | Sells normalized government procurement records and public-sector buying intelligence instead of trade data, but the business model of packaging public records for commercial insight is highly similar. |
| 16 | GovWin IQ (Deltek) | https://iq.govwin.com/neo/public/index | Government procurement opportunities, contract/spending data, agency budgets and priorities, buyer contacts, and competitive intelligence for federal, state, local, and Canadian markets. | Like ImportGenius, it monetizes public-sector records and procurement signals by making them searchable and decision-ready for sales and BD teams. |
| 17 | OpenCorporates | https://opencorporates.com/ | Company registry filings, entity status, directors/officers, filings, and corporate relationship data from official registries worldwide. | Commercializes primary company-registry data in standardized searchable/API form, echoing ImportGenius’s approach of turning government records into commercial intelligence. |
| 18 | Enigma | https://www.enigma.com/ | Business registrations, licenses, permits, liens, violations, incentive filings, and other government records tied together through business identity resolution. | Builds paid business intelligence products from fragmented government records, making it a close analog to ImportGenius outside the trade-data niche. |
| 19 | Sayari | https://sayari.com/ | Corporate registry data, beneficial ownership, customs/trade filings, sanctions lists, export controls, and regulatory filings across many jurisdictions. | Very close model-wise: it sells investigation and compliance intelligence built from primary government registries and trade/regulatory records. |
| 20 | BuildZoom Data | https://www.buildzoom.com/data | Building permits, contractor license data, property permit histories, and construction activity data aggregated from building departments and licensing authorities. | Monetizes hard-to-collect local government records in a standardized commercial dataset, similar to ImportGenius’s use of public records in a vertical market. |
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