Durable home for authoritative structured datasets with transform layer

Durable home for authoritative structured datasets with transform layer targets a $1.8B = 600,000 potential institutions/publishers × $3,000 ACV average for dataset-publishing & discovery tooling total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% CAGR (industry estimate for data catalog & research repository tooling growth — source: industry reports on open data and data catalog market, 2023-2025).

Key trends driving demand: Open-data mandates from funders and governments are increasing — this creates recurring demand for certified publication workflows and permanent archives.; AI/LLMs are driving demand for high-quality, provable datasets — purchasers and curators will prioritize sources with provenance and checksums.; Shift from ad-hoc hosting to curated dataset-as-product thinking — organizations want publish + render + API capabilities, not just raw file hosting.; Web archiving and persistent identifiers are becoming standard requirements for reproducible research — services that bridge archival storage with modern web UX will be sought after..