Data sources and licences
Version 2026-10-29-draft · Effective [EFFECTIVE DATE]
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getLeads sells company-level information, not profiles of people. This page lists the sources that feed the lead engine today, the open datasets we plan to add, and what every export carries.
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Sources in use today
| Source | What we use it for | Terms |
|---|---|---|
| AI model (Google Gemini) | Suggests companies that may fit your buyer profile, the role to approach and an opening line | AI output. Treat it as a suggestion: every company it suggests goes through the checks below, and AI-written text is not checked |
| Each company's own website | Checks that the site is live, has valid HTTPS, is not parked or for sale, and names the company | The company's own published facts. We read public pages only |
| Public web search results | Finds or confirms a company's website, and an optional company page link, when the suggestion has none | Search result snippets and links, used to check a lead |
| ExchangeRate-API | Currency rates for display prices (not lead data) | Free plan terms; "Rates By Exchange Rate API" link in the footer |
LinkedIn is not a data source and not a required check. A lead without a LinkedIn page can still be delivered, and it is not a failed lead. Where we find a company's LinkedIn page, for example linked from the company's own website, we may show the link as an optional signal. We don't fetch LinkedIn pages.
[CHECK BEFORE PUBLISHING: the round-4 lead checks still open LinkedIn company pages. Switch that off in the lead engine before this sentence goes live.]
Planned open datasets (not live yet)
We plan to build leads from open, licensed datasets. None of these feed getLeads yet. Each one is listed here, with its notice, before it is switched on.
| Source | What we would use | Licence | Required notice |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overture Maps Foundation — Places | Business name, category, location, website, published phone | Community Data License Agreement – Permissive 2.0 (CDLA-Permissive-2.0) | "Contains data from the Overture Maps Foundation, overturemaps.org, available under CDLA-Permissive-2.0." Include the licence text with shared data. |
| Upstream Overture Places contributors | (inside Overture) | CDLA-Permissive-2.0, Apache 2.0, CC0 | "Overture Places includes data from Meta, Microsoft, PinMeTo, Krick, RenderSEO, DAC, BrightQuery, Birdeye, Uberall, OpenTravel Alliance (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare (Apache 2.0) and AllThePlaces (CC0 1.0)." |
| Foursquare Open Source Places | Business name, category, location, closed date | Apache License 2.0 | "Copyright 2024 Foursquare Labs, Inc. All rights reserved. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0." Foursquare's NOTICE file and the Apache 2.0 licence go with exports. |
| UK Companies House | Company name, number, status, registered office, filing dates (no officers) | Open Government Licence v3.0 | "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0." |
| Brønnøysund Register Centre (Norway) | Organisation number, name, status, address, bankruptcy/winding-up flags (no sole proprietors) | Norwegian Licence for Open Government Data (NLOD) 2.0 | "Contains data under the Norwegian licence for Open Government data (NLOD) distributed by the Brønnøysund Register Centre (Brønnøysundregistrene)." |
| France — Recherche d'entreprises API (INSEE Sirene) | SIREN/SIRET, name, status, address, activity code (no directors; units that opted out of publication excluded) | Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) | "Source: Annuaire des Entreprises / base Sirene (INSEE), Licence Ouverte 2.0, data updated [DATE]." |
| GLEIF — Legal Entity Identifier data | LEI, legal name, status, addresses | CC0 1.0 | Courtesy credit: "LEI data courtesy of GLEIF (gleif.org), CC0 1.0." |
| Wikidata | Brand to official website, founding/dissolution dates | CC0 1.0 | Courtesy credit: "Includes data from Wikidata, CC0 1.0." |
Not used (their terms don't allow it): Google Maps/Places, Yelp, Yell, Yellow Pages, Europages, Kompass, Crunchbase, the OpenCorporates free tier, and contact-data vendors. If OpenStreetMap data is ever added, it is kept separate and credited "© OpenStreetMap contributors" under the ODbL.
What every export carries
CSV, JSON and Google Sheets exports carry:
- An attribution line: "Lead suggestions are written by an AI model and checked against each company's own website and public web search results."
- Per row: the source, the licence (your own outreach under our Terms, no resale) and the date.
- A removal link per company: [SITE DOMAIN]/remove-my-data?ref=[LEAD ID].
- A buyer warning: "You are the sender. Check email-marketing law before contacting these companies. Germany, South Africa and Nigeria need prior consent." See Email compliance.
When an open dataset above goes live, its licence notice is added to every export.
Accuracy
Web data can be out of date, and AI suggestions can be wrong. We check each lead again when you unlock it, and you don't pay for a lead that fails. See the Refund & Credit Policy.