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Press kit, datasets, and a citation guide for Fonteum Research.

Everything a journalist or researcher needs to cite Fonteum Research: a press kit, downloadable datasets, a factsheet, and a copy-paste citation guide. Free to cite with attribution.

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Media inquiries
press@fonteum.com

We respond within one business day to credentialed media requests. Include the outlet, the question, and the deadline.

What Fonteum is

Fonteum is a public-records evidence platform covering US, UK & Australia public records, plus global sanctions and entity identifiers, spanning healthcare, federal procurement, sanctions and watchlists, federal enforcement, intellectual property, securities filings, and global company registers. Production registry status is reported separately from loaded and fresh coverage. Dated platform counts come from the public platform-stats snapshot; source-file hashes are reported where present, and deterministic fact-to-signature linkage is not claimed.

Cited pages show available source, observation-date, and limitation metadata. Those fields can be absent. Freshness is source-specific: loaded observations are reported separately from publisher cadence. We draw from the documented federal-source catalog, including CMS NPPES, CMS PECOS, CMS Care Compare, OIG LEIE, SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, OFAC, EU and UK sanctions lists, SEC enforcement releases, EPA ECHO, DOL WHD, CFPB, CPSC, NHTSA, FMCSA, MSHA, PHMSA, and NLRB.

Read more: /about · /methodology · /sources · /research

What we do not claim
  • ·We do not pre-screen, endorse, or recommend providers. Source-cited is not the same as pre-vetted.
  • ·We do not claim our datasets are a complete market census. They are bounded snapshots of public-record data on a stated date.
  • ·We do not run paid placement on rankings. Featured slots, where present, are labeled and never rerank organic results.
  • ·We do not sell patient, customer, or end-consumer behavioral data. Provider-level public-record data only.
  • ·We do not display unsupported superlatives ("#1 in the country") on provider profiles or research summaries.

Full doctrine at /editorial-policy.

Source families

The press shorthand is multi-vertical: healthcare providers, federal procurement, sanctions and watchlists, and federal enforcement records. The list below links to family-level source pages; loaded observations, record metadata, and limitations vary by source.

  • CMS NPPES / PECOS / Care Compare / Open Payments
  • HHS-OIG LEIE and Corporate Integrity Agreements
  • SAM.gov Exclusions and Entity Registration
  • USASpending.gov Federal Award Data
  • OFAC SDN, EU Financial Sanctions, UK Sanctions List
  • SEC Enforcement Releases
  • EPA ECHO, DOL WHD, CFPB, CPSC, NHTSA, FMCSA, MSHA, PHMSA, NLRB
Founder & reviewer bios

Fonteum was founded in 2026 to build the source-linked research layer for U.S. public records across healthcare, procurement, sanctions, and federal enforcement.

The editorial layer is independent of commercial decisions. Dr. Montecillo reviews clinical claims in methodology sections and signs off on study limitations; she does not direct source selection, study scope, or research prioritization. All published findings are re-checkable against the cited public-record sources.

Press contact: press@fonteum.com

Dr. Jennifer Montecillo, MD

Co-founder · Non-practicing medical reviewer · Gullas College of Medicine, 2019

Dr. Jennifer Montecillo, MD — Gullas College of Medicine, 2019 — is co-founder of Fonteum. She serves as the non-practicing medical reviewer across Fonteum's published studies, providing clinical context without practising medicine.

Reviewed by Jennifer Montecillo, MD, medical reviewer. Non-practicing medical reviewer.

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Research desks

Three editorial desks group every published study by the kind of question it answers — not by the underlying source dataset. Each desk page lists the studies, the source families, and the doctrine guardrails for that beat.

Featured datasets

Four federal datasets, each with source attribution, snapshot date, and row count. Single-table CSV + JSON — opens cleanly in Excel or Sheets. Free to cite with attribution. Full catalog at /data →

How to cite Fonteum Research

Every published study is free to cite. Please include attribution and a link back to the study URL. The limitations panel on each study page is the source of truth for what the data does and does not cover — please reference it when summarizing findings.

Copy-paste citation template

Fonteum Research, "{Study Title}," {Month YYYY}.
https://fonteum.com/research/{study-slug}
Dataset: https://fonteum.com/research/data/{study-slug}.csv

Drop the “Dataset:” line if the study has no downloadable CSV; the linked study page still renders the full limitations panel and methodology.

AP-style short citation (inline)

(Fonteum Research, {Month YYYY})

Suggested attribution

  • First reference: Fonteum Research (an independent research organization studying the local economy).
  • Subsequent references: Fonteum.
  • Link requirement: Link the headline finding to the canonical study URL (e.g. fonteum.com/research/<study-slug>).
  • Limitations reminder: Datasets are bounded snapshots, not market census. Please reference the limitations panel on the study page when summarizing.
For journalists

A story angle drawn from Fonteum's provenance methodology. Links to the source surface that backs the angle, with the source family already attributed. Additional dataset-specific angles will be added as study pages ship.

Pitch desk: press@fonteum.com

  • The source-backed provider graph as a methodology story

    Source: Fonteum sources registry + provenance graph

    Lede

    Many provider-data products present values without a field-level source citation or silently merge records from several systems. A different pattern uses named public-record sources and renders the available citation metadata beside displayed fields, while disclosing when record-level source or date values are absent.

    Data point

    Where a displayed field has linked provenance, Fonteum can show the originating source, an observation date, methodology or confidence metadata, and display permission. Availability varies by source and response; fields may be null or absent, and no deterministic signature link is implied. The schema is documented at /data-provenance and /data/schema.

    So what

    The methodology is the business story. Public-record aggregation sits inside live debates about provider-record accuracy, data licensing, consumer protection, and source transparency. A reporter can use Fonteum as a worked example of a system that keeps source facts distinct and discloses missing provenance instead of silently filling gaps.

    Tension

    The doctrine has tradeoffs. Source-cited is not the same as pre-vetted, and a buyer who wants a quality stamp will not find one. Several state-board datasets are restricted from redistribution and will never appear in this graph. Whether 'public record cited, never overclaimed' is a defensible long-term posture — or an unstable middle ground — is a real disagreement inside the industry.

    Suggested external experts (independent of Fonteum)

    • CMS or ONC interoperability and provider-data policy lead
    • FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection
    • A health-data-portability academic (e.g. Mark Savage, Jodi Daniel)
    • A state attorney-general consumer-protection desk
For data users

If you are evaluating Fonteum for research, enrichment, or B2B use cases, the data-platform page is the right starting point — it lists every available dataset, the source family it's anchored on, and four sample B2B export concepts.

Data platform → /data

Live dataset catalog (CSV + JSON where available), four sample B2B export concepts, and a doctrine block describing what we explicitly do not provide.

License or scoping inquiries: press@fonteum.com · /contact

Open data platform →Source library →Research digest →

Logo kit

Fonteum logos for use in coverage. SVG originals; scale losslessly to any size. Do not recolor the mark or alter the wordmark letterforms.

Factsheet

Free to cite with attribution. This factsheet is rendered from the research registry and its saved snapshot values. See the cited source observations and limitations; these counts are not a real-time currency claim.

Active NPIs (NPPES)
6.8M+
Integrated sources (platform snapshot August 11, 2026)
111
CMS PBJ nurse-staffing rows
1,322,946
Published research studies
69
Historical count-reference date (dates vary by metric)
May 9, 2026
Latest committed research artifact
May 8, 2026
Covered in

No external coverage yet. Research assets are available for citation.

The press kit, citation templates, and downloadable datasets above are everything a desk needs to run a story today — without a press mention. When external coverage publishes, it will be listed here as an itemized link list, not a stock logo strip.

Covered Fonteum research? press@fonteum.com · /contact

Embargo policy

Advance access

Fonteum may grant journalists advance access to unpublished data or findings under embargo. Embargo terms are agreed in writing (email) before any material is shared.

Embargo period

Standard embargo periods run 24–72 hours before public release. Longer embargoes require founder sign-off and are granted case-by-case for major investigations.

Embargo breach

Publishing embargoed material before the agreed lift time revokes the outlet's eligibility for future advance access. Fonteum does not pursue legal remedies for standard embargo breaches, but we do not grant future advances to outlets that have breached.

Accuracy corrections

If a published piece misrepresents Fonteum data, we will publish a correction on this page and notify the outlet. We expect the outlet to update its article or append a correction.

Attribution

Stories using Fonteum data must credit "Fonteum Research" and link to the study page. Stories quoting the Fonteum team must not paraphrase in ways that alter the meaning of the statement.

Embargo requests: press@fonteum.com

Send an inquiry

We respond within one business day to credentialed media requests. Include your outlet, deadline, and the question you need answered.

Rate limit: 5 submissions per hour per IP.

Or email directly: press@fonteum.com

Downloadable assets

Logo kit, headshot placeholder, and reference links for journalists preparing coverage.

  • Factsheet (print view)

    Open in browser, then print / save as PDF

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  • Methodology overview

    Citable at fonteum.com/methodology

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  • Data sources registry

    Full source family ledger with Tier, refresh cadence, and ToS posture

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What’s on file, by the numbers

Platform snapshot · 2026-08-11

13.4Mproviders & companiesProviders, organizations, owners, and facilities on file
26.2Msource-linked factsSource-linked field facts in the dated platform snapshot
90sources with dataDistinct snapshot source IDs with at least one positive record count
73fresh sourcesDistinct source IDs whose latest positive-data snapshot falls within the preceding 45 days
111sources integratedActive registry rows; integration does not establish a load
13state Medicaid jurisdictionsDistinct states represented in the state-exclusions serving table

Integrated, with-data, and fresh-observation counts are separate. No platform-wide source-completeness count is published. Completeness is source-specific and must be evaluated against the named source's expected scope. State coverage is a separate jurisdiction measure.

Source authority is record-specific

Use the issuer named on the record.

Fonteum spans federal, state, and global public publishers. A source page or returned record identifies its issuer and dataset where that metadata is available. A platform registry count does not assign every page to one authority or establish loaded, fresh, or complete coverage.

Browse source records and their stated limitations →

Reproducible by design

Inspect the evidence each published figure actually supplies.

Source and date

Research pages expose the named public file and observation date where those fields are available. Source-file SHA-256 coverage is separate; facts do not currently link deterministically to signatures.

Available derivation

Studies with a retained release and committed derivation link the SQL or method used. Other studies state the evidence and reproduction limits they actually have.

Daily observations

Dated table row-count observations can detect local drift. They do not imply that an upstream publisher released or Fonteum ingested new data that day.

Named medical review

Reviewed by Jennifer Montecillo, MD, medical reviewer. Non-practicing medical reviewer.

Read the full provenance and attestation methodology →

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