Announcements

2026

2025

  • Notes on the year

    A short note to close 2025. Three companies, a thesis that held, and the value of saying no.

  • What good data owes you

    Coverage, freshness, structure, and access. The four debts a data platform owes its users.

  • Bourse joins Relative

    Bourse, the public record of companies, markets, and filings, is joining Relative.

2024

  • Buy, not build

    The best data platforms cannot be built quickly, by us or by anyone. Why we acquire.

  • Written for humans, read by machines

    The largest reader of the public record is no longer a person. Why structured data is the translation layer the internet is missing.

2023

  • Docket joins Relative

    Docket, the public record of government, is joining Relative.

  • Why places

    The physical world is the largest public record there is, and it has the worst interface. The reasoning behind our first acquisition.

2022