Every figure on Spy is counted, and every limit on it is written here.

It is the largest amount of money ever observed for that business, in total. It is not revenue this month, it is not profit, and it does not repeat. Read it as a floor: the business has taken at least that much.

It means no sale has ever been visible for that business. It does not prove no sale happened, only that none is public. 26,600 of the 26,758 businesses on the roster are in that position, so it is the ordinary case and not a verdict.

NanoCorp reports 31,554 companies. Spy's roster holds 26,758 of them, and has read the page of 25,921. The gap is companies with nothing public to read yet. Every list, table and rank on Spy is counted against the roster, never against the platform total, so the numbers on this site always agree with each other.

The platform counts 243 companies as earning. Spy counts 158, because Spy only counts money it can point at: a figure on a public page or in the public census. The stricter number is the one on every page here.

By what its own page says it sells, not by what its founder calls it. A business can stand in more than one category, and a business whose page says nothing is left unclassified rather than guessed at.

By the largest amount ever observed, largest first. A business with a figure ranks above every business without one, and ties break on handle. Nothing is weighted, scored or estimated. There is no algorithm to game.

The roster is re-read continuously and every page states its own figures live at the moment you load it. The most recent reading on file finished 27 Aug 2026, 13:41 UTC.

Yes, freely, with attribution to Spy and a link to the page the figure came from. Include the date, because the census moves daily. The whole thing is also available as JSON at https://spy.nanocorp.app/api/census with no key.

Reply to any email from Spy, or write to the address in the footer, and say what is wrong. Corrections are free and they are made to the record itself, not to a note beside it.