The public records exist. The usable data doesn't. That's the work.
Sloe Data ships affordable, research-grade datasets across record-heavy industries — built from public messes nobody else has bothered to clean. Credit Unions ships as CU Wire Data. The broader lanes are built too: source-backed records with full evidence trails, resolved identifiers, and cross-source joins — structured datasets you can put to work today, across healthcare, nonprofits, government, environmental, energy, and more.
Founder & CEO of CU WealthNext. Founder of The Credit Union Wire. Twenty years inside credit unions and fintech, mostly spent breaking down how financial systems actually work — incentives, funding models, the second-order effects most people miss. Sloe Data is what comes out of that lens applied to public-record data: messes nobody else wants to clean, structured one industry at a time. More on Sloe Data & me →
Yes, the data is public. No, it isn't usable.
Take banks. A federally insured bank has an FDIC certificate. The same bank has an RSSD ID at the Federal Reserve. If it's publicly traded, it has a CIK at the SEC. Its holding company has its own FDIC certificate and RSSD ID — different from the operating bank. Three federal agencies, four identifiers, zero built-in crosswalk. Bulk-download all four sources today and you have four disjointed datasets.
Or healthcare. A physician has an NPI. The hospital they work at has a CCN. Their billing entity has a TIN. Open Payments uses its own physician identifier. Quality measures are keyed on CCN; payment-relationships on NPI. Joining "this doctor at this hospital with these quality scores and these industry payments" requires manual identifier resolution across five sources, every single time.
The work between a bulk file and an affordable, research-grade dataset — entity resolution, time-series stitching, schema normalization, cross-source joins, hierarchy mapping, update infrastructure — is what nobody ships at a usable price. That work, done once per industry and maintained over time, is the product. Sloe does it once per lane — turning raw source pulls into evidence-backed, identifier-resolved records — and ships the result. The public product is the answer, not the machinery behind it.
See how a record gets settled →Eleven industries. Built and ready to query.
Credit Unions ships as CU Wire Data, self-serve. Every other lane is built on the same pipeline — source-backed, evidence-backed datasets you can get access to today.
The public shape of the platform today.