Competitive and market intelligence
Teams tracking companies, products and market movements.
The problem
- Building a picture of a company by search means many queries and a manual merge, repeated whenever anything changes.
- The valuable finding is usually a relationship — who is connected to whom — and relationships are exactly what a ranked list does not express.
- Coverage is dominated by press releases, which look like many sources and are one.
The approach
- dossier returns mentions, top sources by authority and co-mentioned entities in one call. The co-mention list surfaces relationships you did not know to ask about.
- path finds the shortest chain linking two entities or passages, which is the connect-the-dots operation no amount of searching reconstructs.
- merged_duplicates on a corroboration check distinguishes a press release that travelled from independent reporting.
The parameters that matter
| Parameter | Value | Why |
|---|---|---|
dossier?entity= | the company | Mentions, sources and co-mentions in one call. |
path?from=&to= | two entities | The shortest documented connection between them. |
content_type[] | news, article | Excludes the company’s own product pages when you want outside coverage. |
exclude_site | the company’s own domain | Separates what others say from what they say about themselves. |
curl -H "x-api-key: $UNLOB_API_KEY" "https://api.unlob.com/dossier?entity=Nebius&limit=10"
curl -H "x-api-key: $UNLOB_API_KEY" \
"https://api.unlob.com/search?q=Nebius+acquisition&exclude_site[]=nebius.com&collapse=story"Where this is not the right tool
- Entity resolution is imperfect. Companies with common names or recent rebrands may resolve poorly.
- The index covers the open web only. Filings, licensed databases and paywalled trade press are outside it.
Frequently asked questions
Can I track a company over time?
Yes — combine dossier for the current picture with published_from bounds for change. Store the passage ids you have seen to detect what is new.
Does this cover financial filings?
Only where they are published on the open web and crawled. For systematic filing coverage a dedicated data provider is the right tool.
Build it on the free tier
10,000 requests a month, no card. Every parameter above works on every plan.