Metropole builds companies that read what others overlook: a firm's own operating records, the world's supply routes, and the ownership behind a cap table. Each one turns that evidence into a decision someone can act on.
Each Metropole company works on a different body of records for a different customer. All three start from the source material and end with an answer.
Helps established companies learn whether their operating records qualify for AI data licensing, then introduces them to a suitable buyer. A license, never a sale of the business.
A geopolitical risk engine that maps mines, fields, refineries, ports, pipelines and sea lanes, tracks vessels, and scores country risk against your own shipment routes.
Traces ownership to its ultimate owners, screens every party against restricted lists, and delivers a fix list and draft disclosures before a Department of War foreign-risk review.
Every conclusion links back to its source, and we keep what the record shows separate from how we rate it.
If a company is unlikely to qualify, or a route is too exposed, we say so early and in plain language.
Software does the tracing and cross-checking. An accountable person reviews every finding that matters.
We don't take possession of client files, and we use client information only for the work it was shared for.
AI developers now license anonymized business records to train models. Most established firms don't know whether theirs qualify.
Sanctions, instability and chokepoint pressure now decide where copper, cobalt and crude can move, and how fast.
The Department of War's foreign-risk rule took effect on 15 July 2026, with a five-year lookback on ownership and ties.
Metropole Corporation is the parent company of Metropole Data, Metropole Logistics and Metropole Diligence.
We started Metropole because the most consequential information for a business is usually already on the record. It sits in a company's own files, in shipping and commodity data, or in an ownership chain several layers deep. Few people have the time or the tools to read it carefully.
Each of our companies is built around one body of evidence and one customer. They share a standard: cite the source, give the plain answer, and put a person behind every serious call.
Metropole Data helps established businesses find out whether their operating records qualify for AI data licensing, then introduces them to a suitable buyer. You keep your business. You keep ownership of your records.
Buyers license anonymized records to train models. The company and its records stay yours.
Metropole Data is paid a referral fee by the buyer. There is no cost to the business.
We never take possession of your files. The buyer handles extraction and anonymization.
Nothing moves forward without your permission, and you can walk away at any point.
About two minutes. No documents required.
A plain answer on whether your records are likely to qualify.
With your permission, an introduction to a suitable buyer.
You review the terms and decide. No obligation.
Not eligible: client-owned data, privileged material, and health, financial, government ID, children's, biometric or classified data.
Answer five questions on metropoledata.com and get a plain answer on fit.
The Geopolitical Risk Engine maps the assets, corridors and vessels behind global metals and energy supply, scores country risk, and draws your own shipments on top so you can see your exposure directly.
Mines, oil and gas fields, refineries, LNG plants, ports, pipelines, sea lanes and chokepoints on a single globe.
AIS tracking with filters for sanctions matches, dark vessels and ships near chokepoints.
Border and port delays on outbound copper and cobalt corridors.
Your shipments drawn along their routes, set against risk events and instability zones.
Oil demand by top consumer countries, banded from under 1 to over 15 million barrels a day.
Risk events, forecasts and written briefings, with sources listed.
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Metropole Diligence prepares defense-technology companies for Department of War foreign-risk reviews of SBIR, STTR and contract applications. Weeks before the deadline, not after the denial.
Every chain followed to its ultimate owners, with effective percentages calculated.
Mapped to the government's own decision matrix.
People, patents, suppliers and every party screened against restricted lists, with sources linked.
Clear next steps with owners and deadlines, and disclosures drafted for counsel to review.
Ownership at or above 50% is treated as listed. Illustrative example only.
A 10-minute questionnaire.
Software traces and cross-checks. An expert reviews serious findings.
Verdict, ledger, fix list and draft disclosures.
See a full readiness review for a fictional company on metropolediligence.com.
Metropole Diligence is not affiliated with or endorsed by the Department of War or any government agency, and does not provide legal advice.