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Glossary

First-party data (proprietary data)

Data and infrastructure

First-party data is the information a company collects directly from the people it already has a relationship with: purchases, quote requests, sign-ups, calls to the store.

It is one of the few raw materials a competitor cannot buy, alongside your customer cases and your declared position on a contested question, which is why it decides the distance between two companies running the same artificial intelligence model: the advantage moves to what only you can feed it. The recurring mistake is leaving it scattered across separate systems, where every department owns a slice of the same buyer and nobody has the whole person in front of them.

An example

A retail chain keeps sales in its management system, enquiries in the website form and calls on a switchboard: three stores of first-party data describing the same customer, with nobody lining them up. The asset already exists; the work is recomposing it before buying another tool.

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