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Data & Market Intelligence — Beyond Scraping

A scraper pulls pages. It doesn't know if it's allowed to, or if the number is right.

Web scraping just fetches pages. Data & Market Intelligence is what has to happen around that for the numbers to be usable in a real business decision: knowing which data points actually matter, checking whether a site's terms allow collection at all, tracing every figure back to its source, routing anything uncertain to a person, and scoring the confidence of every field before it reaches your dashboard.

Targeted extraction

We identify the specific data points that matter for your decision, not every field on the page.

Legal review, first

If a site's terms prohibit scraping, that source is handed to a person, not collected anyway.

Provenance

Every figure is traceable back to the exact page and timestamp it came from.

Human handoff

Ambiguous pages, blocked sources and low-confidence reads go to a person, not a guess.

Confidence & QA scoring

Every field in every database carries a confidence score, so you know which numbers to trust and which to check before you act on them.

Scraping vs. data intelligence

A scraper pulls pages. Data & Market Intelligence delivers trusted, decision-ready data.

A generic scraper fetches pages and extracts text, which leaves you cleaning, deduping and verifying before anyone can use it. We build the layer around the fetch: targeted extraction, terms-aware collection, defined schemas, confidence scoring on every field, and human review where automated collection isn't allowed.

Diagram comparing traditional scraping, which pulls pages into raw unstructured output requiring manual work and carries no provenance, against Data & Market Intelligence, which runs targeted extraction, terms-aware collection, schemas and confidence scoring, and human review to produce a structured, sourced, decision-ready company profile delivered via dashboard, API or database export.
What we do

Seven problems, one capability

Market intelligence

Demand, pricing and category movement tracked continuously rather than surveyed once a year.

Competitor intelligence

Assortment, price changes, promotions and positioning, monitored across the sites that matter.

E-commerce intelligence

Listings, stock, reviews and marketplace behaviour matched back to your own catalogue.

Supplier intelligence

Who your suppliers are, what changed, and where concentration risk sits.

Regulatory monitoring

Rule changes in your markets, surfaced with the source they came from.

Customer intelligence

Your own transaction and behaviour data, structured so it can actually be questioned.

Data enrichment

Existing records completed, corrected and kept current against external sources.

Not sure which one you need?

That is what discovery is for. Most engagements start with a question, not a specification.

How we work

A consulting partnership, not a signup

  1. 01
    Discovery

    Two to three weeks. We work out which decisions are being made blind, what data exists, and what a useful answer would look like.

  2. 02
    Pilot

    One narrow slice, run on your real sources. You see accuracy, provenance and confidence scores before anything scales.

  3. 03
    Production

    The pipeline runs on a schedule, with human review where it earns its cost. We build and integrate the software the intelligence lives in — the dashboard, the API, the workflow.

  4. 04
    Hold accuracy

    Sources change and sites break. We monitor, repair and keep the numbers trustworthy — that is the part most projects underestimate.

Where we've applied it

Two engagements

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Top 500 Global Financial Institution

A design framework for payment-provider and merchant data at scale

Context
A global financial institution needing a current, consistent read on the payment landscape in one geography — which providers operate there, and which merchants accept which cards and methods.
The problem
The data existed, scattered across an enormous number of merchant and provider sources in no consistent shape. Assembling it by hand consumed analyst time on a scale that made refreshing the picture impractical, so decisions were made against a view that was already ageing.
What we built
The design framework first — what constitutes a provider record and a merchant profile, which fields matter, which sources are permitted, and how a value is judged reliable. Then governed collection run against it, with provenance and confidence on every field, human review targeted where an error would change a decision, and merchant profiling delivered within the same engagement.
Capabilities
Framework designSource discoveryMerchant profilingProvenanceHuman-in-the-loopConfidence scoring
The platform we deliver on

Our own data intelligence pipeline

Every engagement runs on infrastructure we built and operate: governed source discovery and acquisition, AI enrichment, evidence and provenance on every field, confidence scoring, human review where it pays, and structured delivery into your systems.

You are not buying the platform. You are buying the outcome it makes possible — which is why we can start in weeks rather than quarters.

  1. 01Source discovery & acquisition
  2. 02AI enrichment & structuring
  3. 03Evidence, provenance & confidence scoring
  4. 04Human review
  5. 05Structured delivery — API, warehouse, dashboard

Bring us a decision you are making without enough information.

A discovery session is a working conversation, not a demo. You will leave it knowing whether this is worth doing — including if the answer is no.

Start with a conversation

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