Most companies that sell real-time data are software companies with a licensing department. They buy collection from someone, normalize it, and compete on the interface. It is a reasonable business, and it puts a hard floor under how early their customers can possibly know anything - you cannot be faster than the source you are reselling.
We started at the other end and built the collection layer first: our own edge nodes, positioned close to where events surface, holding their connections open rather than polling on a schedule. On top of that sit machine learning models trained on an enormous volume of real-time global data, which evaluate every event in flight for urgency, authenticity, and data quality. Delivery is our own edge network too, serving each client from the point of presence nearest their systems over post-quantum encrypted transport.
Owning all three is expensive and slow to build, and it is the only configuration in which the latency figure, the provenance, and the encryption guarantee are things we can actually promise rather than things we inherit.