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Issue 225 September 2026Latest

What a sanctions-screening project taught us about matching civil contractors

We went shopping for entity resolution and priced Senzing, Splink, AWS and the MDM suites. The best answer to our company-name problem turned out to be an open source matcher built to screen sanctions lists. Here is the whole search, what OpenSanctions got right, and what a civil platform has to build that nobody sells.

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Issue 118 September 2026Rework

$450,000 in, $175,100 out: what the research says a $5 million civil job keeps

A $5 million civil job plans on a $450,000 margin. Published research says it keeps $175,100. Every figure sourced, with the three we cannot measure named.

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