This is a compelling article, but then when you try to see what the product is, you have to submit your email / request a demo. In my experience, hiding your product behind a demo is a bad sign that the product has flaws. It also puts you in contact with a salesman or account manager which is typically geared towards a high pressure sale event of the product. I'd be interested to hear other people's experiences with this model, though.
Freebase was not just "shut down" out of nowhere. A data dump is still available, and some of it was merged into Wikidata but overall the resource was found to be of poor reliability. It may have had very accurate data <i>on average</i>, but this was not enough for many Wikidata use cases.