Open-Source Research
The publicly available picture, assembled into evidence. How a brand, a topic, an individual or a counterparty appears across search, news, social, reference sources and AI assistants, and what that picture is shaped by.
Open-source research is the disciplined assembly of publicly available information into evidence that supports a decision. The sources are open — search results, news archives, public filings, regulatory records, social media, reference sources and AI-assistant outputs. The discipline is in how the material is gathered, verified, interpreted and presented.
How a brand, a topic or an issue currently surfaces across search, news, social, reference sources and AI assistants — verified and dated. We assemble the picture exactly as a stakeholder would meet it, then record where each part of it came from.
Sources
- Search
- News archives
- Social
- Reference sources
- AI assistants
What you get
The picture as stakeholders encounter it, captured as evidence with provenance.
Public-record research on individuals, organisations and counterparties, for due diligence, litigation support, reputation work and stakeholder mapping. We establish who is who, how they connect and what the record shows, held to the editorial standard the matter demands.
What we assemble
- Public-record profiles
- Connections & affiliations
- Prior statements & coverage
- Risk signals
Held to
- Editorial standards of the matter
- Confidentiality
- Sourced & dated
What you get
An evidenced map of who is who, how they connect, and what the public record shows.
Structured assembly of what competitors are publicly doing, into the picture that informs strategy. Messaging, hiring, product and coverage signals, gathered from the open record and organised so the pattern, not just the parts, is visible.
What we gather
- Messaging
- Hiring signals
- Product signals
- Media coverage
- Paid spend estimates
What you get
A sourced read of the competitive landscape, ready for the strategy room.
Every finding sourced and dated. Provenance is part of the work, so conclusions can be audited and gaps acknowledged. We document method as well as findings, which is what lets the brief stand up when it is challenged.
How we work
- Primary sources where possible
- Dated captures
- Documented method
- Acknowledged gaps
What you get
A brief that includes how we found what we found. Defensible under scrutiny.
The services this powers.
The same capability, applied across very different briefs.
