Data Sourcing and Intelligence Infrastructure

Your team shouldn't spend half its time wrangling data vendors. We handle sourcing, vetting, contracts, and pipelines. You work with the data.

Where buying data breaks

The hard part is not finding vendors. It is turning claims into a decision.

Most teams do the evaluation in fragments. By the time the contract is signed, nobody owns the full chain from source to production.

01

Vendor claims arrive as PDFs, demos, and sample CSVs.

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Coverage is tested differently by every internal team.

03

Legal, procurement, and engineering work from separate facts.

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The feed launches without a clear owner for quality or renewal.

What Forage installs

A single operating model for source, contract, pipeline, and owner.

We sit between the market and your systems: independent enough to pick the right source, technical enough to make the data run.

Decision artifact

One recommendation memo, one benchmark table, one implementation plan. Procurement, engineering, and the business stop arguing from different source material.

A data engagement should produce decisions every week.

The sequence is intentionally narrow: define the job, compare the market, close the right commercial path, and make the feed reliable.

  1. 01

    Define

    We sit down with your team. What data do you actually need? How will it be used? What does good look like?

    Use-case brief
  2. 02

    Source

    We go through the vendor landscape for your specific use case, comparing coverage, accuracy, freshness, and price.

    Vendor shortlist
  3. 03

    Procure

    Contract negotiation, subscription consolidation, vendor management. We handle the procurement side so your team doesn’t have to.

    Commercial plan
  4. 04

    Operationalize

    Pipelines, normalization, quality checks. The data shows up in your systems clean and on time.

    Production feed

Who This Is For

If your team spends more time managing data vendors than using data, we should talk.

Sales and RevOps who are tired of bad contact data

Recruiting and HR looking for workforce and comp data

PE and VC firms that need investment datasets and market maps

Corporate Strategy tracking competitors and market shifts

Data and AI teams feeding external data into models and products

What You Get

20–40%lower spend

By consolidating overlapping vendors and renegotiating terms.

Weeksnot months

No more months-long vendor evaluation cycles. We get data into your systems fast.

Better Coverage

We find the vendors that fill gaps in what you already have.

Higher Conversion

Cleaner data means emails actually land, records actually match, and pipeline actually grows.

A Real Data Practice

Not a patchwork of one-off purchases. An actual strategy that scales with your company.

We are useful because we are not another data vendor.

Vendor-Neutral

We don’t sell data and we have no inventory to push. When we recommend a vendor, it’s because they’re the best fit for you.

Build or Buy

Sometimes a vendor is right. Sometimes the dataset is worth owning. We help decide which path to take and can execute either one.

Production-Ready

We don’t hand you a spreadsheet of vendor names and call it a day. We build pipelines, run quality checks, and deliver data ready for production.

Focused Expertise

We’ve evaluated hundreds of data vendors and built data infrastructure at companies you’ve heard of. This is the only thing we do.

Frequently asked questions

  • No. We're vendor-neutral. We help you figure out what data to get, where to get it, and how to get it into your systems. We don't resell data and we have nothing to push.

  • Yes. We start by auditing what you already have. If a vendor is working, we keep it. If it's not, we find something better. No rip-and-replace for its own sake.

  • Yes. When off-the-shelf data doesn't cover what you need, we build it. Web scraping, FOIA requests, data partnerships, whatever gets the job done.

  • Yes. We build the ingestion pipelines, normalization layers, and quality monitoring. Your engineering team stays on product work.

  • Most projects start with a 2-week discovery and audit. Vendor evaluation and procurement runs 4 to 6 weeks after that, with pipeline work happening in parallel. Expect to see data flowing within the first month.

Bring the vendor mess. Leave with a decision path.

Send us the vendors, contracts, samples, and data quality problems you are already carrying. We will turn them into a sourcing and implementation plan.

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Useful first-call material

  • Current vendors and renewal dates
  • Sample files or schema docs
  • Coverage gaps users complain about
  • The business workflow the data should power