Open & official data · kept like an archive

The world's public data,
collected and kept
for every industry.

Companies and markets. Energy and climate. Health, research, security, mobility, culture. DataVault gathers the open and official data that exists across the world, keeps every version of it, and makes it ready to query — so the answer you need is already on the shelf.

EU-sovereign, hosted in Europe Every version kept, nothing overwritten Sources from every continent

Data concierge

Tell us your question. We'll point you to the data.

Describe what you're trying to do — in plain language — and the concierge finds the datasets in the vault that can help, and explains how they fit together.

Built for every industry

Whatever you work in, the data is already here

The same vault serves a bank, a hospital network, a grid operator, a newsroom, and a research lab — because the open data each one needs is collected and kept in one place.

Finance & banking

Central-bank series, exchange rates, market and Treasury data, company filings and sanctions for counterparty and credit work.

Company intelligence

Business registries, ownership, legal-entity identifiers and procurement awards across dozens of countries.

Cybersecurity

Known-exploited vulnerabilities, threat feeds, attack techniques, certificate and routing data for defenders and MSSPs.

Energy & utilities

Grid load and generation, gas flows, renewable assets, EV-charging and wholesale prices across markets.

Healthcare & pharma

Drug terminologies and labels, clinical trials, adverse-event reports, provider registries and disease surveillance.

Insurance & risk

Disaster alerts, storm and flood data, emissions and climate signals, plus company and sanctions exposure.

Public sector

Legislation, spending and tenders, official statistics and nonprofit records — cross-administration, finally joinable.

Real estate & land

Transactions, cadastral and geographic data, building and energy signals to read a market before it turns.

Retail & consumer goods

Open product, food and ingredient databases, recalls and safety notices, and demand-side indicators.

Research & academia

Scholarly works, funders and institutions, protein, gene and chemical knowledgebases, and open scientific data.

Media & culture

Museum and library collections, encyclopaedic knowledge, broadcast and the open record of public events.

Logistics & mobility

Aviation and maritime data, transit feeds, vehicle and recall records, trade flows and supply-chain signals.

Data on all kinds of topics

From company filings to the position of satellites

The vault isn't one domain — it's the open record across many. A sample of what's on the shelves:

Company registries Public procurement Sanctions & compliance Official statistics Markets & finance Environment & climate Weather & forecasts Space & earth observation Biodiversity & nature Cyber threat intelligence Law & legislation Demographics & society Trade & supply chain Aviation & mobility Energy grids Culture & heritage Geography & places Food & products Science & research Health & medicine
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Cross-domain intelligence

Where the record meets the world.

These are not single-feed dashboards. They are join patterns from the vault: public records, energy grids, procurement notices, company registries, sanctions, official statistics and earth-observation catalogs meeting in one place.

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Latest intake from the live vault

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Real activity vs reported activity

Grid draw falls before filings do. Industrial electricity draw, company place and sector, and Eurostat production show distress before the accounts arrive.

BE-ELIA-0108 gridBE-FLUVIUS-0109 distributionEU-EUROSTAT-0002 sts_inpr_mBE-KBO-0101 key-ready

Money vs matter

Contract awarded, ground not broken. Public money can be compared with construction evidence to spot delay, mismanagement or oversight risk.

EU-TED-0004 tendersBE-EPROC-0106 BelgiumEU-SENTINEL-IMG-1704 prepared heavy queue

Tender integrity

A company younger than the tender wins. Incorporation date, awards and ownership graphs expose front-company and collusion patterns that only exist in the join.

BE-KBO-0101 formationEU-TED-0004 awardEU-GLEIF-0007 ownership trail

Emissions with a name

An orbital plume tied to an operator. Atmospheric signals and industrial-site registries can turn anonymous emissions into accountable facilities.

Sentinel/Copernicus catalog pathKBO + place facility attributionArcGIS Hub sites

Who feels the spike first

Energy price shock, mapped to sector exposure. Power prices and energy-intensive company clusters show where margin pain appears before closures or earnings.

BE-ELIA-0108 price/loadEU-EUROSTAT-0002 sectorKBO/NACE density

Drought to default

Vegetation stress joins finance exposure. Crop stress, agri-company location and subsidy reliance become an early warning layer for lenders and insurers.

Sentinel NDVI preparedKBO/NACE farmsTED/CAP subsidiesweather stress

Risky hands

Public money traced through ownership. Tender winners can be walked through LEI and sanctions graphs to find multi-hop exposure to risky entities.

EU-TED-0004 awardsEU-GLEIF-0007 graphEU-OPENSANCTIONS-0008 sanctions
Grounding: source families above are present in the DataVault catalog or prepared as gated/heavy sources. The cards demonstrate analytic joins, not accusations about named companies. Production use runs inside the platform with provenance, filters and raw vault artifacts.

Notebook workbench

A real analysis desk, not just a search box.

Inside the platform, analysts can move from a live source or raw vault artifact into a notebook: query the database, run bounded Python, produce charts, and ask AI to help shape the next step without losing provenance.

SQL on the vaultRead-only queries across sources, records, snapshots, signals, entities and searchable blob metadata.
Python & visualsUse Python for dataframes, joins, charts and quick modelling without exporting sensitive work to random tools.
AI assistanceAsk for the query, the chart, the sanity check or the next hypothesis; keep the analyst in control.
Evidence-firstEvery table can point back to source, snapshot, timestamp, checksum and raw vault artifact.
Notebook · intake-to-insightSQL · PYTHON · AI
cell 01 · sqllive vault
select source_id, topic, taken_at, records
from vault.latest_intake
where topic in ('procurement','cyber','energy')
order by taken_at desc
limit 50;
cell 02 · pythonvisualize
# group fresh intake by topic and collector
df.groupby(['topic','collector']).records.sum()
  .sort_values().tail(12).plot(kind='barh')

AI analyst: “The highest fresh intake is concentrated in environment and cyber. I can build a trend chart by collector, or pivot this into a source-health table with dead-letter risk.”

Graph & complex network analysis

Some questions are not tables. They are networks.

Ownership, procurement, sanctions, source coverage, geography, topics, evidence and signals all become more useful when you can see the relationships. The Investigations workbench lets a user describe a use case, lets AI choose a graph model, then renders a bounded network with metrics and provenance.

Find hidden structureCentral nodes, bridges, clusters and multi-hop paths surface patterns that rows hide.
Bounded by evidenceNodes and edges carry record, signal, source and blob references, so visual insight stays auditable.
AI-guided graph choiceEntity neighborhood, procurement cluster, sanctions proximity, geography-topic and evidence graphs are selected from the use case.
Live source networkwaiting for intake data

Example from current platform data

Loading the latest collected snapshots and topics to draw a source-topic-country network.

Grounding: this mini-network is generated from the same live marketing telemetry endpoint: latest successful snapshots, source names, topics, countries and current topic volumes.

Private Data Exchange

Have a dataset others need? Market it here.

DataVault can also become a marketplace layer for companies, research groups, public bodies and industry organisations that want to sell or license their own datasets to analysts already searching for answers.

Qualified demandYour data appears where buyers are already modelling risk, markets, operations, ESG, supply chains and public-sector questions.
More value in contextA private dataset becomes more powerful when it can be joined with public registries, procurement, sanctions, geography, energy and statistics.
Governed accessDatasets can be listed with clear licensing, provenance, versioning, access rules and EU-sovereign hosting expectations.
New revenueTurn niche operational, sector, sensor, benchmark or research data into a product without building a marketplace from scratch.

Private listings are reviewed case by case. We focus on lawful, well-described datasets with clear ownership, usage rights and real analytical value.

Example market board reviewed listings · governed access

Industrial capacity indicators

Aggregated machine-utilisation or logistics signals for sector exposure, credit risk and supply-chain analysis.

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Specialist healthcare benchmarks

Anonymised operational benchmarks, waiting-time indicators or facility-level market intelligence for healthcare planning.

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Climate, site and asset observations

Curated field, sensor or inspection datasets that become more useful when joined to assets, companies and geography.

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Why most AI work stalls

The models aren't the problem. The data is.

Across every major study of the last two years, the same story repeats: enterprises pour money into AI, and most of it returns nothing — not because the algorithms fail, but because the data underneath was never ready.

95%

of generative-AI pilots return zero measurable profit

Billions spent, no impact on the bottom line — what researchers call "pilot purgatory."

Source: MIT Project NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025
80%

of AI projects fail — twice the rate of other IT

Root causes cited: poor data infrastructure, fragmentation, unclear ownership.

Source: RAND Corporation, 2024
42%

of companies scrapped most AI initiatives in a single year

Up sharply from 17% the year before; the average org abandons ~46% of proofs-of-concept before production.

Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence, 2025

Where the time actually goes

Experts hired to build models spend their days finding and cleaning data

Before a single model is trained, teams burn most of their effort just locating sources, reconciling formats, governing access and scrubbing errors. It's the most expensive misallocation in modern analytics.

Data prep & cleaning~45%
— of which cleaning26%
— of which loading19%
Model & deploy~23%

Roughly 45% of a data professional's time goes to finding, loading and cleaning data — more than model training, selection and deployment combined.

And it's a precondition to even starting: 62% of teams name weak data governance their top barrier, while siloed, fragmented data is the obstacle cited most often.

Sources: Anaconda, State of Data Science (time allocation) · Cloudera / Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, 2026 (governance & silos)

The projects that never begin

Many companies don't start at all — because they don't have the data

The hardest failures are the invisible ones: ideas shelved before a line of code, because the organisation simply doesn't hold the data the question needs.

7%

of enterprises say their data is completely ready for AI

Meaning 93% know they're building — or hesitating to build — on a foundation that isn't there.

Source: Cloudera & Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, 2026
60%

of AI projects without AI-ready data will be abandoned

Gartner's projection through 2026; 63% of organisations lack — or aren't sure they have — the data practices AI needs.

Source: Gartner, 2024–2025
43%

name data quality & readiness their single biggest obstacle

Ahead of skills and tooling. The blocker isn't the algorithm — it's not having the data to feed it.

Source: Informatica CDO Insights, 2025

Where DataVault comes in

Dare to ask.
We bring the answer.

DataVault removes the part that kills AI projects. The data the world publishes is already collected, kept and ready to query — so you skip the discovery, the wrangling, the governance scramble, and go straight to the question. The ones who can't even start today can start tomorrow.

Lower cost

Don't pay to re-collect the world

The open and official sources are gathered once, for everyone. No per-project pipelines to build, no data-janitor hours, no foundation to rebuild from scratch.

Faster

Start at the question, not the plumbing

The data is already loaded, cleaned into a common shape, governed and kept current. What used to take months of prep is a query away today.

More value

History and joins you couldn't get alone

Every version is kept, and sources meet that never lived together — so you can answer questions that were impossible when your data sat in silos.

months of data discovery ask the concierge build & clean pipelines already collected & kept "we don't have the data" you do now

What people do with it

One vault, many questions answered

A few of the ways teams put the data to work — each combining sources that used to live in a dozen places.

Bank · risk

Watch a portfolio for trouble

Catch counterparty drift before the annual review: register changes, insolvency notices, sanctions hits and late filings, surfaced per portfolio.

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Insurer · underwriting

Price climate & catastrophe risk

Layer historical storms, floods and emissions against exposure to read how a region's risk is shifting over time, not just today.

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Private equity · sourcing

Find targets by behaviour

Spot firms winning contracts, hiring and expanding capacity — months before they show up in a paid database.

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Research · data science

Assemble a dataset fast

Pull publications, trials, gene and chemical references and official statistics into one place, already kept current and historical.

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Security · operations

Prioritise what to patch

Cross known-exploited vulnerabilities and exploit-prediction scores with threat feeds and routing data to focus the team where it matters.

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Public sector · analysis

Join data across departments

Bring companies, subsidies, procurement and infrastructure into one view — built from records you already publish, finally connected.

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How it works

Collected, kept, and ready

Collect

Gather the sources

Hundreds of open and official feeds, in whatever shape they ship, on a schedule that fits each one.

Keep

Archive every version

Nothing is overwritten. Each change is kept, so yesterday's record is still there tomorrow.

Query

Search and join

Browse by topic, open the raw records, and join datasets that never lived together before.

Analyse

Work it in the platform

Notebooks and an AI analyst turn questions into queries, tables and charts — in plain language.

Intelligence, built in

Ask in plain language — get data back

Data concierge

For anyone arriving with a question. Describe the problem and get pointed to the exact datasets that help, and how they fit together.

  • Understands plain-language use cases
  • Matches them to the right sources
  • Explains how to combine the data

AI analyst

Inside the platform, a data-analyst and dashboard specialist that takes a research question, writes the query, runs it safely, and returns the results.

  • Turns questions into real queries
  • Runs them read-only on the vault
  • Returns tables, charts and next steps

Why keep it this way

Public data is everywhere. Kept well, it becomes an asset.

History you can't get later

Most sources show only today. Because every version is kept, you can see how things changed — data nobody can reconstruct after the fact.

One place, joined together

The value isn't a single feed — it's company records meeting procurement meeting sanctions meeting statistics, resolved and ready.

EU-sovereign by design

Hosted in Europe on European infrastructure, drawing only on open and official sources — built for regulated work.

Always current

Sources are checked and refreshed on their own cadence, and a self-healing collector keeps the whole living system honest.

Start here

Bring a question. Leave with the data.

Ask the concierge what the vault holds for your problem, or sign in and explore the full collection, build a notebook, and put the AI analyst to work.

See it work

Ask a question. Get the data — already joined.

No pipelines, no waiting. The concierge points to the right sources and the analyst returns the answer from the vault.

DataVault platform: a plain-language question matched to four open data sources, returning a joined results table of companies, contract values and sanctions flags

Questions & answers

What people ask about DataVault

What is DataVault?
DataVault is an EU-sovereign data platform that collects the world's open and official data, keeps every version of it, and makes it ready to query. Instead of building data pipelines for every project, teams start at the question — the data they need is already gathered, cleaned and current. DataVault is built and operated by Galactic Automation BV.
What data does DataVault provide?
DataVault aggregates hundreds of open and official sources across company registries, public procurement, sanctions and compliance, finance and markets, official statistics, cybersecurity threat intelligence, energy, environment and climate, health, scientific research, mobility, trade and culture — from dozens of countries.
Is the data in DataVault legal and open to use?
Yes. DataVault collects only open and official data that is lawfully and freely available — public registries, official statistics, regulators, scientific repositories and standards bodies — each kept under its own source licence. DataVault does not scrape private or personal data.
How is DataVault different from a data vendor?
DataVault keeps every historical version of each source, so you can see how data changed over time — history that can't be reconstructed later. It resolves identities across sources so datasets join, and it's hosted in the EU. The result is lower cost (no re-collecting), faster delivery (no pipeline building) and more value (questions you couldn't answer from siloed data).
Can organisations sell private datasets through DataVault?
Yes, by arrangement. Companies, research groups, public bodies and industry organisations can contact DataVault about listing private or proprietary datasets for licensed access. We review ownership, lawful usage rights, provenance, quality and analytical value before listing anything, so buyers can discover governed datasets next to the open-data context that makes them more useful.
Why do most AI projects fail?
Independent research from MIT, RAND and Gartner finds most AI projects fail not because of the model but because of the data — it was never discovered, governed, cleaned or connected well enough to build on. Studies report that around 95% of generative-AI pilots show no measurable return and roughly 80% of AI projects fail. DataVault removes that data-readiness barrier.
Is DataVault EU-sovereign and GDPR-compliant?
Yes. DataVault is hosted within the European Union on European infrastructure and draws only on open and official sources. It is built for regulated industries working under GDPR, NIS2 and DORA.
Who is behind DataVault?
DataVault is built and operated by Galactic Automation BV, an IT, AI and cybersecurity company based in Zottegem, Belgium, founded by Stijn Van Hijfte. The team has delivered data, AI and security work for regulated institutions.
How much does DataVault cost?
DataVault is offered as a subscription to the platform, alongside tailored advisory and build services from Galactic Automation BV. Pricing is scoped per engagement — contact stijn@thedatavault.eu to discuss your use case.

Sources. MIT Project NANDA, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 · RAND Corporation, The Root Causes of Failure for AI Projects (2024) · S&P Global Market Intelligence, AI initiative survey (2025) · Anaconda, State of Data Science (time-allocation benchmark) · Cloudera & Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, Taming the Complexity of AI Data Readiness (2026) · Gartner press release, Lack of AI-Ready Data Puts AI Projects at Risk (2024–2025) · Informatica, CDO Insights (2025). Figures are drawn from published third-party research and reflect industry-wide findings, not DataVault results.