Provenance
Data sources
Every record in CompanyClues comes from a public source below and keeps a link back to it. Per-company naming on company pages uses these source titles and authorities. Licensing notes are as recorded in the release source catalog of 2026-09-01; re-check source terms before redistributing records yourself.
| Source | Authority | In this release | License note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CFPB Consumer Complaint Database | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau | Catalogued; not part of this release | Freely available to use, analyze, and build on; complaint narratives are allegations, not verified facts | Terms |
| CFTC Traders in Financial Futures positioning | U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission | Market-level series: 16,874 weekly observations | U.S. federal public market-positioning data; retain methodology and revision notices | Terms |
| ClinicalTrials.gov study records | U.S. National Library of Medicine | 19,275 verified events | Public submitted records; subject to ClinicalTrials.gov terms and conditions | Terms |
| CMS Open Payments | Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | Catalogued; not part of this release | Public statutory disclosure data; CMS publishes data as reported and corrected | Terms |
| CPSC product recalls | U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission | 124 verified events | Public recall records; retain source links and government disclaimers | Terms |
| DOL H-1B/LCA and PERM disclosure files | U.S. Department of Labor | Catalogued; not part of this release | Public administrative disclosure data; minimize personal fields | Terms |
| EPA ECHO facility compliance summaries | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | 43,783 verified events | U.S. federal public data; review embedded third-party fields before redistribution | Terms |
| Federal Register documents mentioning companies | Office of the Federal Register / GPO | Checked per company; matches below the 0.90 confidence bar are excluded from release counts | U.S. federal public documents; third-party attachments may carry separate rights | Terms |
| Lobbying Disclosure Act filings | U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives | 117,191 verified events | Public statutory disclosures; API terms apply | Terms |
| NHTSA recalls, complaints, and investigations | National Highway Traffic Safety Administration | 949,940 verified events | U.S. federal public safety data; retain source and quality caveats | Terms |
| FDA recalls, 510(k), and PMA records | U.S. Food and Drug Administration | 11,100 verified events | Generally CC0; GMDN and marked third-party content excluded from product exports | Terms |
| OSHA inspections and violations | U.S. Department of Labor / OSHA | Catalogued; not part of this release | Public enforcement data; open cases can change and must be marked provisional | Terms |
| SAM.gov entity exclusions | U.S. General Services Administration | Catalogued; not part of this release | Public exclusions data; SAM.gov data-use terms apply | Terms |
| SEC EDGAR submissions and XBRL company facts | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | 1,834,188 verified events | SEC states EDGAR public filing content is free to access and reuse | Terms |
| Federal prime contract awards | U.S. Department of the Treasury | 422,811 verified events | U.S. federal public award data; retain attribution and source identifiers | Terms |
| USPTO patent assignment and application data | U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | Catalogued; not part of this release | PatentsView data is CC BY 4.0; exclude drawings, third-party documents, and restricted vocabularies unless separately licensed | Terms |
| Configured corporate website and careers-page observations | Individual company websites | Catalogued; not part of this release | Page-specific terms apply; redistribute derived metadata, not copied page text, unless permitted | · |