Government agencies publish large record sets that name businesses and the firms that serve them: which accounting firm audits a retirement plan, which company maintains an elevator, and when each relationship changed. I clean those records, connect them, and turn them into named, ranked lists a firm can act on.
For accounting firms with an employee benefit plan audit practice. Every audited retirement plan names the firm that signed its audit. I show which firms hold which plans, which relationships have moved, and which plans sit closest to a decision.
For elevator service and inspection companies. The state records every elevator, every inspection and every permit. I show which buildings have an elevator that failed its last inspection, which certificates lapsed, and which have no service company on record.
Every figure I deliver traces to a specific public record that you can pull yourself. Nothing is modeled, estimated, or bought from a list broker.
Public records are messy in predictable ways: firms rename, companies are acquired, filers make typos, and one building sits at several addresses. I match records on identifiers rather than names, and I check anything that looks like news before calling it news. Where the records cannot support a claim, my documents say so. Being able to tell the difference is most of the work.
The same approach works wherever relationships leave a public trail: licenses, permits, inspections, filings. If a market you sell into is on record, tell me which one. I will tell you whether the records can support a list, and what it would take.
Brass Tacks Data is run by Vlad Desansky, a data engineer and analytics developer based in Pensacola, Florida. It is a one-person practice: the person who builds the data is the person you talk to.
Tell me the market, the territory, or the question. If the records can answer it, I will tell you what it takes and what it costs. If they cannot, I will tell you that instead.