💻 Technology May 22, 2026

D&B's database of 642 million businesses was built for humans, not AI agents. So they rebuilt it.

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D&B's database of 642 million businesses was built for humans, not AI agents. So they rebuilt it.
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Dun & Bradstreet has spent over 180 years building a comprehensive commercial database. Its Commercial Graph, covering 642 million businesses and their relationships, corporate hierarchies and risk profiles, was designed for people. Credit analysts, risk managers and sales professionals who could wait for query results and work through ambiguous entity matches. AI agents cannot do any of those things.When D&B's customers started pushing agents into credit, procurement and supply chain workflows,

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