We built the index we couldn’t buy.
CollectiveContacts exists because the major sales-intelligence platforms are excellent at software companies and close to useless at everything that runs on a plant floor.
Heavy industry leaves a different paper trail.
The data everyone else buys is assembled from the same handful of public web sources. That works when your prospect has a funding announcement and an engineering blog.
A forty-person machine shop in Ohio has neither. It has a state business filing, a set of trade licenses, permits pulled at the county, an apprenticeship roster and a listing in a regional manufacturers’ association. Those records exist, they are public, and almost nobody indexes them. That is the gap this business sits in.
Pull 25 records free.
Pick a vertical, set your filters, and look at real contacts before deciding whether any of this is worth paying for.