Ships, satellites, harvests, footsteps. Every alternative data provider, catalogued with coverage, history, delivery, and price. Free to read.
Every chapter opens with a primer — what the data is, what it predicts, what it costs — followed by the full provider register.
…and nine further chapters, from app usage to on-chain data. Browse the full register
373 providers listed, 276 verified to date — including a dedicated chapter of free and open sources. Verified means the site is live, on its own brand, and editorially checked — never paid placement. Coverage grows weekly; listings are informational, not investment advice.
Public and open-source sources — free to access, if not always easy to. Satellite archives, regulatory filings, on-chain explorers, and official statistics.
Consumer spend panels, ticker-mapped weeks ahead of reported revenue.
SKU-level prices, assortment, and traffic scraped daily across thousands of retailers.
Entity-level sentiment scored from news, filings, and earnings calls in real time.
Store visits and movement panels, resolved at the individual location level.
Emissions, controversies, and physical climate risk, measured independently of issuer disclosure.
Imagery with ML detections: ships in ports, cars in parking lots, crop health from orbit.
Vessel tracking, port congestion, bills of lading, and container-level freight flows.
Job postings, headcount signals, and hiring velocity across millions of employers.
Crop yield nowcasts, climate risk indices, and commodity supply signals, field by field.
DAU, MAU, retention, and revenue estimates for mobile apps globally.
Purchase-level data extracted from anonymised email inboxes at panel scale.
Loan origination trends, delinquency signals, and private credit market flows.
Parsed regulatory filings, court records, lobbying disclosures, and government contract awards.
Primary research: one-on-one calls with industry practitioners and quantified survey panels.
Industrial sensor feeds, energy consumption signals, and connected-device telemetry.
Exchange flows, wallet clustering, and market microstructure for digital assets.
Claims data, prescription flows, clinical trial signals, and patient journey analytics.
Pre-IPO revenue estimates, VC funding flows, and private company operational metrics.
The alternative data market has grown into a multi-billion-dollar industry, yet its map remains private property. The established guides are excellent — and expensive, and closed. An analyst at a mid-sized fund still cannot answer a simple question without a sales call: who sells what, and roughly at what price?
This atlas takes the opposite position. The register is open to anyone. Vendors may claim their entries, file samples and due-diligence documents, and stand for review by verified buyers. We earn our keep from vendors who want richer entries — never from gating the map itself.