Company
The record needed a keeper.
Product data is a trillion-euro problem wrapped in the ugliest infrastructure on the internet. The gap is not missing software; it is a missing institution. GetProductData exists to be that institution: the keeper of canonical product data, accountable to the method it publishes.
- We keep
The record
Canonical product data with provenance, statistics, and honest confidence, served through one API.
- We keep
The vocabulary
The Dictionary: every attribute defined, labeled in eight languages, grown by evidence under a constitution.
- We keep
The Method
The reasoning, published and citable. The rules bind our own agents before they bind anyone else.
- We keep
The promise
Never break the reader: pinned versions, aliases forever, merges reversible, corrections as events.
The thesis
Steward, not owner.
Barcodes are forty years old and resolve to nothing. Every retailer re-types the same spec sheets; every manufacturer answers the same questions forever; shopping agents now inherit the mess at machine speed. Someone has to keep the record, and nobody volunteered.
We did. Canonical product data, researched by agents under a written constitution, adjudicated by public rules, published with provenance and confidence. The honesty is structural, not aspirational: claimed and measured never merge, conflicts ship visibly, corrections arrive as webhooks.
Identifiers and facts belong to no one, so the company is the steward of the data, not its owner. What we sell is the work of keeping the record straight: research, adjudication, statistics, maintenance, and the guarantee that nothing breaks the reader. That guarantee is the business model, and it only works if it stays true.
Operating principles
The same rules we sell.
Each principle is enforced in the platform before it is printed here; a principle that cannot be enforced in code is prose, and prose does not govern a record.
- P-01The method is public. The reasoning, the promotion gates, the adjudication rules, and the source tiers are published and citable. Disagreement is welcome; it arrives with page numbers.
- P-02Honesty is structural. Epistemic status, confidence, and contested flags are first-class fields, not footnotes. We would rather return a qualified truth than a confident guess.
- P-03Usage funds the work. Plans and credits, listed as numbers. We do not sell ads, do not resell personal data, and do not run a marketplace with a thumb on the scale.
- P-04Rights holders have a loop. Any manufacturer can review and contest claims attached to its products; corrections ship as events, never as silent edits.
- P-05No lock-in by design. Date-pinned versions, additive releases, exportable data, identifiers that redirect forever. Leaving must be easy for staying to mean anything.
The numbers we run on
Accountability, measured.
A company that sells honesty publishes its own. Current state lives on the status page; what changed lives in the changelog, dated and counted.
People
A small team, on purpose.
One codebase a person can hold in their head; one standard a person can read in a sitting. We hire rarely and deliberately, for people who read spec sheets the way others read fiction; open roles appear here when they exist, and there is no careers theater in the meantime.