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The platform, end to end.

Cross Gliding is built around four layers: discovery, matching, verification, and the published ledger. Each layer carries its own audit trail.

Discovery engine

Sources feed into a normalized event stream. Every fetched payload keeps an immutable breadcrumb back to the originating registry, directory, or wire.

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┌──────────────┐   ┌──────────────┐   ┌──────────────┐
│ registries   │   │ directories  │   │ press wires  │
└──────┬───────┘   └──────┬───────┘   └──────┬───────┘
       └─────────┬────────┴────────┬─────────┘
                 │                 │
            ┌────▼────┐       ┌────▼────┐
            │ matcher │──────▶│ verifier│
            └─────────┘       └────┬────┘
                                   │
                              ┌────▼─────┐
                              │  ledger  │
                              └──────────┘

Verification ledger

Every company row is a join of source events, scored by a multi-factor confidence model and re-checked on a 30-day cadence. The ledger is queryable as flat rows or as the underlying event stream.

Signal model

Twelve founder and company signals contribute to discovery and verification confidence. Each is independently observable from a public source.

Domain age
Registration date + WHOIS history
Founder LinkedIn delta
Title change from FAANG/incumbent to stealth
GitHub activity
Org creation, repo seeding, contributor concentration
Hiring pages
Career-site changes and first-engineer postings
Patent filings
Inventor + assignee triangulation
Grant filings
SBIR/STTR, EU CORDIS, Innovate UK awardees
Press quotes
First mentions on EU / MENA / APAC newsroom firehoses
Conference appearances
Demo days, founder talks, science fairs
Accelerator rosters
Negative source — flags incubated companies
University spin-out registries
Tech transfer office listings
Domain TLD pattern
.ai / .dev / .co / .studio / regional TLDs
Public job openings
Founder titles on the candidate's careers page

API & exports

Native JSON, JSONL, parquet exports. Optional webhooks for new records and verification transitions. S3 sync available for enterprise customers post-preview.