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Cross-Network Social Graph for U.S. SMBs

Built and maintained a unified social data asset mapping 18-20M U.S. businesses to real, verified social presences and action-verified audiences

4 engineers + 1 data analyst team members
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Project Overview

The platform ingested multi-network signals for 18-20M U.S. businesses and resolved approximately 20% with verified social mappings during the initial period, growing approximately 20% month-over-month. Data pipelines normalized, deduped, and scored entities on geography, recency, and interaction intensity. This enabled intent-rich audience building (e.g., pizzerias in downtown San Diego engaged within 90 days) and established the validated 5-10 mile radius as the cost/performance sweet spot for local SMB campaigns.

Key Challenges

  • Entity resolution across noisy SMB records and duplicate/incorrect profiles
  • Cross-network identity stitching with strict ToS/privacy constraints
  • Freshness and recency weighting to avoid stale audience drift
  • Rate-limit, anti-spam, and reliability constraints across platforms
  • Provenance tracking and compliant data activation

Technologies & Solutions

Ruby ETL pipelines and schedulers PostgreSQL for entity and interaction graphs Redis for queues/caching Semantic/keyword extraction for category and intent tagging Geospatial indexing and radius queries Event scoring and cohort builders

Key Metrics

18-20M U.S. businesses indexed
~20% verified social mappings in early years
~20% monthly growth in coverage during ramp
4 social networks ingested (FB/IG/Twitter/X/GooglePlus)
5-10 mile geo radius validated for best cost/result

Results & Impact

Action-verified local audiences powering higher-intent campaigns; validated 5-10 mile geo sweet spot for SMB conversion

Cross-Network Social Graph for U.S. SMBs

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