Most industry data is public. Almost none of it is usable.
The information about most record-heavy industries already exists in the open. Regulatory filings. Public registries. Branch and location records. Ownership and transaction events. Market signals. But the raw form is unusable for daily research — fragmented across agencies, in inconsistent formats, with no shared entity model, no time-series continuity, no peer grouping. The work most analysts do is reconstructing the same dataset over and over from raw inputs.
Sloe Data builds the dataset once and ships it as a research terminal — modeled per industry, structured for repeatable workflows, indexed and joined and peer-grouped and time-series-ready. What professionals build research workflows on, not the raw bytes that need months of cleanup before you can ask a question.
One vertical at a time.
Each industry is its own model. Credit unions don't share an entity shape with banks; banks don't share with hospitals; hospitals don't share with school districts. The pipeline is portable — the ingest, the entity modeling, the peer grouping, the time-series structure — but each vertical is built deliberately, not as a generic data lake.
Credit Unions is live, shipped as CU Wire Data: every federally insured institution, ten years of quarterly history, peer benchmarking, mergers, CUSOs, vendors, lending data, and a 22-equity market index.
Banks is in preview: charters, FDIC certificates, branch networks, Summary of Deposits records, financial snapshots, and structure events — modeled around the bank entity, in early access for operators who want to shape the v1.
More verticals as the pipeline proves portable. The next vertical depends on who asks — request one.
Sloe Data is one person, deliberately.
Builds Sloe Data. Background: former NCUA examiner; founder of CU WealthNext (a separate venture in the cooperative-finance space); twenty years inside the credit-union industry as practitioner, examiner, and operator. The credit-union vertical exists in v1 form because the domain knowledge was already there.
Sloe Data is built as a small, considered operation by design — the discipline of one vertical at a time is easier to maintain at one-person scale than at venture-scaled headcount. Verticals expand when the pipeline proves portable and the demand is real, not when fundraising suggests they should.
Where Sloe Data actually sits.
Funders and partners doing diligence look here, so the honest version:
- Operating entity
- The Credit Union Wire LLC (Michigan limited liability company)
- Brand
- Sloe Data — parent brand. Credit Unions ships as CU Wire Data; Banks ships as the in-preview banks vertical.
- Domain
- sloedata.com (parent brand). cuwiredata.com (the live credit-union product). thecreditunionwire.com (editorial publication under the credit-union product).
- Status
- One vertical live (Credit Unions). One in preview (Banks). Solo operator. For-profit. No outside funding.
- Editorial wall
- Editorial work on The Credit Union Wire follows published editorial standards: no vendor sponsorship of coverage, no paid editorial placement, no influence in exchange for data revenue.
Eleven lanes in the source catalog. One at a time.
The pipeline isn't credit-union specific, and it isn't bank specific. Sloe Data is building toward an eleven-lane platform across record-heavy industries — financial institutions, healthcare, government contracting, religious institutions, environmental facilities, higher education, and more. Each lane has its own entity model, its own source spine, and its own canonical identifiers. The discipline is shared.
Live today. Credit Unions, in the US and Canada. Shipped as CU Wire Data.
In active development. Six lanes with sources mapped and sample pulls underway. There is no shippable preview product yet on any of them — Banks is the furthest along, with the most data ingested. Early access for each opens when there's something real to use.
- Banks — FDIC certificates, branch networks, Summary of Deposits, financial snapshots, structure events. Most advanced of the in-dev lanes.
- Healthcare providers & facilities — CMS Provider Data Catalog, NPPES/NPI Registry, Open Payments, Care Compare.
- Government contractors & grant recipients — USAspending, SAM.gov, FPDS award records, UEI/CAGE resolution.
- Religious institutions & ecosystems — IRS 990, state charity registries, denominational directories, affiliated property and schools. Institutional intelligence only; guardrails published.
- Environmental & regulated facilities — EPA ECHO, state environmental portals, permits and violations.
- Higher education — College Scorecard, IPEDS, accreditation, Title IV.
In source catalog. Nonprofits & foundations · Insurance regulatory filings · Broadband & telecom infrastructure · Municipal finance & procurement.
The order of release depends on demand, not on a fundraising story. If you work in a lane and want it modeled — or if your industry isn't on the list and probably should be — tell us what you'd build with it.
Get in touch.
General: hello@sloedata.com
Press, partnerships, and editorial inquiries on the credit-union side: editor@thecreditunionwire.com
Data access and bulk-export requests live on the product pages — Credit Unions and Banks.