Building an Insights Exchange
Follow Carbon Arc’s four-year journey of building an insights exchange—solving data fragmentation, scaling fundamentals, and transforming how organizations consume data.
Carbon Arc: Exchange not Marketplace
Beyond the Marketplace Model Traditional data marketplaces operate like wholesale warehouses—vendors list entire datasets for sale, buyers purchase complete feeds, and transactions happen at the product level. You want satellite imagery? Buy the full global feed. Need social sentiment? Subscribe to the complete brand monitoring service. This marketplace approach forces buyers into all-or-nothing decisions that […]
Breaking the Data Feed Monopoly: Why Framework-Based Pricing Changes Everything
The Hidden Tax of Data Feeds The data industry has operated on a fundamentally flawed model for decades. Organizations pay massive upfront fees for entire data feeds, consuming perhaps 5% of what they actually need while shouldering 100% of the cost. A hedge fund analyzing 50 companies pays the same price as one tracking 5,000. […]
