{"id":41220,"date":"2026-06-01T11:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/business-profile-data-api-looking-for-feedback-on-fields-samples-and-data-quality\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:27:14","slug":"business-profile-data-api-looking-for-feedback-on-fields-samples-and-data-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/business-profile-data-api-looking-for-feedback-on-fields-samples-and-data-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Profile Data API \u2014 Looking For Feedback On Fields, Samples, And Data Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>[self-promotion] Business profile data API \u2014 looking for feedback on fields, samples, and data quality<\/p>\n<p>Hi <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\">r\/datasets<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure first: this is my own project.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m building FastBusiness API, a business\/company profile data API.<\/p>\n<p>The basic idea is:<\/p>\n<p>Input:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>business name<\/li>\n<li>optional website<\/li>\n<li>optional country<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Output:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>business name<\/li>\n<li>website<\/li>\n<li>business type<\/li>\n<li>country<\/li>\n<li>industry<\/li>\n<li>sector<\/li>\n<li>headquarters<\/li>\n<li>short description<\/li>\n<li>ABN\/ACN where available<\/li>\n<li>stock ticker \/ exchange where available<\/li>\n<li>confidence score<\/li>\n<li>source links<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I built it because I kept needing structured company data for different projects, but the data was usually scattered across websites, public registers, directories, search results, and company pages.<\/p>\n<p>The use cases I\u2019m thinking about are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CRM enrichment<\/li>\n<li>lead-gen datasets<\/li>\n<li>business directories<\/li>\n<li>BI dashboards<\/li>\n<li>ETL\/testing datasets<\/li>\n<li>market mapping<\/li>\n<li>company research workflows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m mainly looking for feedback from people who use datasets\/APIs regularly:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Are these fields useful, or is anything obvious missing?<\/li>\n<li>Would CSV\/JSON sample downloads be more useful than only API access?<\/li>\n<li>Would source links per field matter, or is one source list per company enough?<\/li>\n<li>Is an overall confidence score enough, or would field-level confidence be better?<\/li>\n<li>Would update\/refresh timestamps matter for this kind of dataset?<\/li>\n<li>Would people here care more about bulk exports or real-time lookup?<\/li>\n<li>What sample size would be useful before trying something like this?<\/li>\n<li>Any concerns around using company profile data like this in downstream projects?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I\u2019m happy to add a free sample dataset if that would be more useful for this subreddit.<\/p>\n<p>Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/fastbusinessapi.com\/\">https:\/\/fastbusinessapi.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Nacez\"> \/u\/Nacez <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1ttlxyx\/business_profile_data_api_looking_for_feedback_on\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1ttlxyx\/business_profile_data_api_looking_for_feedback_on\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41220 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41220' data-nonce='72e055e984' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41220 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41220 status 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