The data is public. It is just scattered.

Strohmann brings public data from registers, authorities and organisations into one model of private and public markets, makes it usable, and derives by rule what no single register prints. Every value carries its source.

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Commercial registers, lobby registers, transparency registers, holdings reports, funding databases, procurement portals: authorities, parliaments and organisations publish a great deal. But each register speaks its own format, its own language and its own rhythm, and none of them names the other.

Anyone with a question that touches two registers reads both today, with a notepad in between. Strohmann reads over 140 sources, joins them on what the registers themselves print, and shows every value with its source and its date.

An ontology is the format of joined data.

A market does not consist of rows. It consists of things, what is true of them, how they connect, and what follows from that.

Figure 1. Four things from three registers on one line, joined on what the registers print; on the right, the rules that derive what none of them prints.

Entities: The things that exist: a legal entity, a person, a position, a payment. A register prints them; we name them once, for every register.
Properties: What is true of them, each value with the register it came from and the date that register said so.
Relations: Who holds which office where, who owns whom, who paid whom. Joined only on what both registers name: a register number, an LEI, a lobby register number.
Rules: What no register prints, derived from sourced values: a shared board member, the same parent company, a move out of an office. A rule names its evidence, invents nothing and overrules no source.

Joined, usable, sourced.

Over 140 sources become one model you can search and read, and from which connections follow that no register prints.

Over 140 sources

Registers, authorities, parliaments and organisations from Germany and Europe, each read on its publisher’s rhythm, each cleared legally before it is read.

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An ontology, rules, evidence

How scattered registers become one model, and how connections follow from it that no register prints.

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For everyone who works with public data.

Newsrooms: From a register number to a dossier, every line citable with its source and date.
Investors and analysts: Boards, holdings, lobbying and donations of a legal entity in one place, across markets and sectors.
Compliance and procurement: Who stands behind a business partner, according to the registers, before you sign.
Your own tools: The same data through an interface for your own agents, read-only.