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It seems to be targetting pre-production release startups/companies who need access to real data, structured and appearing exactly like real APIs they intend to roll out in production, from which to build their products. Then when it goes live it switches to the real data feeds which this company's API directly mimics.

That's what I'm guessing. It could be used for AI stuff but also other useful datasets that are closed off or require special access.

I'm guessing a lot of defence contractors and other heavily regulated industries (ie, healthcare, insurance, pharma, etc) have similar problems in the dev process of not having access to real data. This was the leading pitch:

>> Data is valuable for helping developers and engineers to build new features and better innovate.

That's just my guess though.



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