What we publish under a permanent number.

A website can claim anything about itself. Words on a page are cheap, and we are not exempt from that. So whenever we finish a piece of work worth standing behind, we deposit it in a public archive and take the number that comes with it.

Why we deposit instead of just publishing here

An archived record gets a DOI — a digital object identifier. It is registered with a central agency, it does not change, and it cannot be quietly deleted or edited by whoever wrote the document. A page on our own domain can be rewritten tomorrow; an archived record with a number cannot.

That is the whole point. A claim of being a real, operating company is only worth something if a reader can check it somewhere we do not control. The archive is one of those places, together with the public business register, the phone number and the post address on our company page.

Published work

Open Government Data for Business Entity Verification: A Practitioner's Source Inventory of U.S. and International Business Registers

Issued

12 October 2026 · Version 1.0 · 9 pages, 3 figures, 4 tables · report

Author

Zhihai Wu, Strata Data LLC — ORCID 0009-0009-4221-1985

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.23309339

Archived at

zenodo.org/records/23309339 (operated by CERN)

Licence

CC BY 4.0 — free to copy, cite and republish with attribution

Buyers, payment processors, advertising platforms and search systems keep asking the same question about a supplier, a publisher or a website owner: does a real, reachable organisation stand behind this name, this address and this domain? This report treats that question as a data problem, because almost all of the evidence needed to answer it is already published.

It compiles 28 open sources — company registers, federal procurement and financial datasets, environmental and safety enforcement records, labour statistics, intellectual-property registers and international cross-border systems — each with its live endpoint and refresh cadence. It then sets out a five-signal verification ladder running from statutory registration up to independent third-party records, with weights and stop conditions. Finally it works a complete, reproducible example on a real New Mexico limited liability company, so that every check can be repeated by a reader.

The finding we keep coming back to: verification rarely fails because evidence is missing. It fails because the evidence sits in ten unrelated systems and nobody reconciles it.

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North American Land Border Freight Corridors, 1996–2026

Issued

13 October 2026 · Version 2026.10 · 5 tables, 4 figures, 11 files · dataset

Author

Dilisights, operated by Strata Data LLC

DOI

10.5281/zenodo.23331342

Archived at

zenodo.org/records/23331342 (operated by CERN)

Licence

CC BY 4.0 — free to copy, cite and republish with attribution

The United States records what crosses its land borders every month and publishes the file. The raw table runs to a few hundred thousand rows, which is why the one question people actually ask — is the northern border still the big one? — rarely gets a straight answer. This dataset aggregates 276,749 of those records, January 1996 to August 2026, into five tables that can be read directly, with the four charts drawn from them.

Two findings carry most of the weight. The Mexican border overtook the Canadian border in 2017; by 2025 it carried 59.0% of US land truck crossings. And the traffic is concentrated: Laredo alone accounts for 23.2% of all US land truck crossings, and the top five crossings together account for 54%.

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How to cite it

Wu, Z. (2026). Open Government Data for Business Entity Verification: A Practitioner's Source Inventory of U.S. and International Business Registers (Version 1.0). Strata Data LLC. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23309339 · author ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4221-1985

Dilisights (2026). North American Land Border Freight Corridors, 1996–2026 (Version 2026.10) [Data set]. Strata Data LLC. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23331342