# Base Employee Data

Base Employee Data is designed to be used in **HR tech, lead generation, and HR intelligence**.

| **Talent sourcing**         | Build data-driven HR technology tools and enhance your talent intelligence using data about global talent. |
| --------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Investment intelligence** | Discover promising talent and analyze changes in specific companies or industries.                         |
| **Lead enrichment**         | Get comprehensive employee data at scale and fill in the blanks with up-to-date information.               |

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## Summary

| Feature            | Details                   |
| ------------------ | ------------------------- |
| Available via      | Flat files/API            |
| Delivery frequency | Daily, weekly and monthly |
| Available formats  | JSONL, Parquet, CSV       |
| Scraping since     | 2016-07                   |

{% hint style="info" %}
Employee profiles are constantly being scraped from a queue of profiles, prioritizing the ones with recent changes. Some profiles are no longer accessible.\
As such, a complete data refresh is not feasible.
{% endhint %}

## Related links

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