Notes on the context layer.

Guides and explainers on public records, entity resolution, and building on connected real-world data.

• How to run public-record due diligence on a company — The sources, the signals, and how to collapse a six-hour records search into one query.
• Permit-based lead generation: finding businesses about to spend — A building permit is a purchase signal. Here is how to turn public records into intent data.
• KYB vs KYC: what business verification actually checks — They sound similar and solve different problems. Here is the practical difference.
• How entity resolution works (and why name-matching fails) — The difference between a pile of records and a connected picture is one hard problem.
• What public records reveal about a commercial property — An address is a key. Here is everything it unlocks in the public record.
• How to give an AI agent access to public records (MCP) — An agent does not want 17 APIs. It wants to investigate a place. Here is how to give it that.