About
This page sets out what Database Providers is, when it started, and who the ratings on this site are meant to serve.
An editorial project since 2018
Database Providers began in 2018 as a small editorial effort to keep track of companies selling business and company databases. What started as private notes on pricing and data accuracy turned into a running set of comparisons that grew year after year. The project is, in one line, an editorial effort that rates and reviews companies selling business and company databases.
It was never built as a marketing directory, and it still is not one. The point was to have a place where someone weighing several data vendors could find a comparison written without a stake in the outcome, drawn from notes kept simply because the questions kept coming up.
No office, work done entirely online
The project has no office. All of its work happens online, from sourcing samples to publishing the final review, and that has been true since the first comparison went up. Vendors reviewed on this site are spread across many regions, so a fixed physical location would not have matched how the work is actually done.
Because reviewing is not tied to a single desk or city, offers get revisited as they change rather than sitting untouched in a one-time list. A provider that shifts its pricing or its data coverage gets a revised entry, not a footnote. Is that slower than publishing once and moving on? It is, but it keeps the ratings closer to what a buyer would actually encounter today.
What stands behind the ratings
The archive holds more than 550 articles on companies that sell business databases, and within that broader set are 100 in-depth reviews that examine individual providers in real detail rather than in passing. That scale did not come from copying vendor material; it came from working through each offer on its own terms.
A short set of principles has guided that work from the start, and none of them have loosened as the archive grew.
- Every review is built on an actual sample of the database, not a marketing sheet supplied by the vendor.
- Pricing claims are checked against public quotes before an article is published.
- Older reviews are revised when a provider changes its offer, instead of being left as an outdated snapshot.
- Editorial opinions are kept separate from any material a vendor sends in.
Reaching the project
Correspondence about the ratings, corrections, or questions about a specific review reaches the project through post@databaseofcompanies.business, which is the only channel it uses. Messages are read and answered personally, without automated replies standing in the way, on weekdays.
There is no separate sales line or support desk to route a message to; whoever writes ends up reading a reply written by the person who actually looked at the review in question.