About gleantree

What a Gleaning is

Gleaners gathered what the main harvest left behind — not because it was hidden, but because nobody else thought it worth the effort. We do not manufacture surprises; we surface what was always there. Every Gleaning is traceable to a primary public record.

Every Gleaning has the same three parts:

• Fact — verifiable and traceable to a primary public-record source: an IRS Form 990 filing, a building permit, a contract award.
• Signal — what makes it worth extracting from the noise: a number against a peer benchmark, a three-year trajectory, an unexpected connection.
• Relevance — framed in the reader’s own vocabulary, so it lands the way a colleague’s “thought you’d want this before Tuesday’s meeting” would.

Two surfaces, one source

Signal Spring is the producer — the scheduled, write-heavy pipeline that turns raw public data into the weekly gleantree digest. Signal Surface is the consumer — the interactive, read-heavy workbench you’re looking at now, for search and dashboards. The digest tells you what changed; the workbench lets you go dig.

One method, many domains

A Gleaning from 990 data and a Gleaning from commercial-real-estate permit data are the same kind of thing — same form, same criteria, same voice. What varies is the content of each layer, not its structure. Shipping today: Nonprofit 990 Intelligence. On the roadmap: commercial real estate and government contracting.

The name

“Glean” carries centuries of meaning — gathering what the main harvest left behind — and it maps cleanly to the product’s value: the public records nobody else reads.

Questions? Reach us at hello@gleantree.com.