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Entity ResolutionCustom engagement

Every organization with useful data has the same unglamorous problem underneath it: the same hospital appears under four spellings, those contracts roll up to one parent nobody has written down, and two systems refer to the same county with different codes. Resolving that is the work that makes every downstream number honest, and it is almost always somebody's permanent side project. This is that work, done as a piece of work.

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Entity Resolution — your records, matched to the market

Why this is worth buying rather than building

Matching records is easy to start and very hard to finish. Fuzzy name matching gets you most of the way in an afternoon and then spends two years being wrong in the tail — the acquisitions, the renamings, the identifiers that were reissued, the entity that legitimately split in two. The failure mode is quiet: arithmetic that is technically correct and practically wrong, which is worse than no answer because it looks like one.

We already carry this for the datasets in DeepGarden Data — contracts, plans, parent organizations and counties, crosswalked between release years so that a change in a number means a change in the world rather than a change in a coding system. Doing it against your records is the same machinery pointed somewhere new.

What you send, and what comes back

You send the records you want resolved — organizations, facilities, plans, places — in whatever shape they are actually in. There is no schema to conform to first, because if you could conform them you would not need this.

You get back canonical identifiers, the groupings above them, and a confidence and rationale for each match rather than a bare verdict, so your team can review the ones that matter instead of trusting a black box. Where it is useful, the resolved records are joined to the external market record, which is the point at which your data can be compared with something outside your own walls.

How it is delivered

As a scoped engagement: a defined set of records, an agreed definition of what counts as the same thing, one pass with review, and a decision about whether it becomes a standing arrangement that re-resolves as your records and the market both move.

It also stands on its own as a way to find out whether the rest of this is worth your time. It is the smallest piece of DeepGarden that produces something you can check against reality on your own data, which is why we are willing to sell it separately rather than only as part of a platform.