It looks like this is targeted at ML/AI but I have a tangentially related question: does anyone know of open source or other publicly available lists of US businesses? Just business name and address?

I’m building out an app and we receive documents from all kinds of vendors from all over the country. The app is for our business to manage our client data. I was hoping to find a list of business I could throw in the db rather then piecemeal add the addresses in one by one as the documents come in.

I looked at some of the data service providers (infoUsa I think was one and d&b being another), but one dataset for just business names and addresses they were asking $50,000 for. I think my use-case is unique in that these companies typically sell this data as sales lead data which it definitely is not in my case (we don’t even sell b2b).

Anyone know of anything like this? I suppose I could just scrape phone books but I think if I can’t find the data we will just resort to one by one entry.