Live Data Technologies
Jobs & Workforce alternative data provider · 2 listed datasets
Datasets from Live Data Technologies (2)
Live Data Technologies is a provider of person-level employment and job-change data. It maintains longitudinal records intended to show who works at a company, when a person changes employer or title, and how workforce composition changes over time. The company markets the resulting feed to investors, artificial-intelligence developers, sales and marketing platforms, and people-analytics teams.[1]
Live Data Technologies says that it tracks 160 million professionals, performs 16 million profile checks per day, re-verifies each profile every 10 to 14 days, and detects approximately 449,000 job changes per week.[1] These operating figures are self-reported. Independent reporting by Le Monde confirms one external application: the newspaper cited a company analysis of two million office and remote workers when discussing differences in layoffs and promotions.[3]
What It Does
The service is designed as a continuously refreshed feed rather than a one-time directory. It detects reported employer changes, title changes, promotions, and departures and associates them with a historical employment record. Customers can filter coverage by company, sector, role, or seniority and monitor public and private organizations.[1] The data can therefore be aggregated into headcount, tenure, attrition, departmental growth, executive movement, and talent-flow indicators, or used to update individual records in another system.
Data and Methodology
Live Data Technologies states that it queries and parses information from the open web and uses other data providers to enrich selected fields.[2] Its public product description says that longitudinal history extending at least five years helps its change-detection process distinguish a genuine move from noise and that records are deduplicated before delivery.[1] The consulted pages do not disclose a complete source inventory, jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction coverage, match-rate statistics, or independent estimates of false positives and negatives.
Employment records on the open web are not equivalent to payroll records. People may update public profiles late or not at all, hold concurrent roles, use ambiguous titles, or remove information. Consequently, a detected change is an observed online signal rather than definitive proof of an employment event. Le Monde's use of a company study demonstrates that the data can support workforce research, but the article does not constitute a general audit of the collection method.[3]
Delivery and Pricing
Delivery options include a REST application programming interface, scheduled flat files, transfer into a customer's cloud data warehouse, and access through the Maiden Century platform.[1] Live Data Technologies does not require customers to use a proprietary dashboard. It describes pricing as an annual license determined by coverage and delivery requirements and offers prospective customers a data test based on sample records. Public price amounts were not found in the consulted sources.[1]
Buyers and Use Cases
Investors can monitor executive departures, hiring velocity, headcount inflections, and movement between competitors. People-analytics teams can compare workforce structure, tenure, and attrition. Sales and marketing products can refresh customer-relationship records when contacts change employer, while AI developers can license structured employment histories for training or inference.[1] In journalism, Le Monde reported company findings that fully remote workers in a 2023 sample had a higher probability of layoff and lower probability of promotion than office workers, illustrating how aggregated records may be used to study workplace practices.[3]
Corporate and Privacy Disclosures
The legal notice identifies Live Data Technologies, Inc. as a California-registered company with an address in Santa Barbara. It states that the company processes professional and employment information obtained from public databases, the open web, data providers, and other third parties, and that contact data may be sold directly or through third-party products for business marketing.[2] These disclosures are more specific than the homepage's general description of compliant open-web sourcing.
The company publishes a California Consumer Privacy Act form through which a person may request that their personal information not be sold; requests may also be submitted by email and may require identity verification.[4] The existence of an opt-out mechanism does not by itself establish compliance in every jurisdiction, and customers remain responsible for determining whether a proposed use of person-level data is lawful.
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More about Jobs & Workforce
Jobs & Workforce is one of the signal families covered by The Alternative Data Encyclopedia, with 16 providers and 179 datasets listed in the register. For how the signal is generated, its caveats and the compliance considerations, and the full provider list, see the category article.
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