Know what's moving in your market sooner, five minutes each morning.
More is published about your field every day than you would guess — scattered across hundreds of news outlets, press releases, trade journals, patent registers and tenders, in many languages. Insights reads that stream every day, translates and de-duplicates, weighs what matters, and delivers it as a single overview: a portal and a daily email you get through over one coffee — or, if you would rather listen, the same briefing as a spoken version for the commute.
Weighted on your questions
"Important" means whatever you say it means. The weighting is configured around your themes, suppliers and technologies — not a generic relevance score from someone else's taxonomy. What sits at the top in the morning is there because it matters to you.
Your data stays yours
A single database file you hold yourself, with daily backups. No subscription holding your archive hostage, no supplier who can pull the plug.
Transparent and traceable
Every item keeps its source and date. You see how many independent outlets report the same thing, and why something was flagged as important.
What your competitor announces next quarter is already online today.
Only: scattered across hundreds of sources, in many languages, among thousands of articles that don't matter. The work isn't finding that one article — it is systematically laying hundreds of them side by side, every single day. Staying ahead is not about holding the most information; it is about being first to do something with it.
How it usually goes
- Separate newsletters and alerts you work through one by one each morning.
- The same event five times in your inbox, from five different outlets.
- Foreign-language sources go unread — often precisely where the news breaks.
- No memory: what you read last month is no longer findable.
- You sense trends but cannot back them up with numbers.
How it goes with Insights
- One daily briefing with the through-line, grouped by theme.
- De-duplicated: one item per event, with every source listed underneath.
- Translated automatically — Ukrainian, Turkish, Chinese and German read along.
- A searchable archive that grows every day and stays yours.
- Signals with numbers: what is accelerating, cooling, or newly connected.
- Listen instead of read: the same briefing as audio, in your podcast app or in the car.
Four questions you shouldn't have to wait for a quarterly report to answer.
This is where open sources become intelligence: not loose news, but answers to the questions your strategy runs on.
Who is moving in your market?
Not just the competitors you already know — especially the ones that didn't exist last year. New entrants, spin-offs, acquisitions and foreign suppliers suddenly appearing in tenders. Anyone announcing a product leaves a trail long before it lands in your market.
Which technology is reshaping your field?
What is emerging, what is accelerating, and does it work for you or against you? The portal follows a technology from first scientific publication and patent filing to the first product at a customer — with numbers on how fast it is moving.
Where is the money going?
Investments, contracts and tenders show what the market actually believes in, often months before it surfaces in revenue figures or trade press.
What is happening outside your line of sight?
The breakthrough in your field rarely appears in your own language first. Foreign-language sources arrive translated, so a development from Ukraine, Turkey or China doesn't reach you months later through an English trade journal.
From raw sources to a briefing you trust.
Four steps, automatic every day. You set the sources and the questions; the rest runs on its own.
Choose and connect the sources
We build the source list together: trade media, regulators, manufacturers, scientific publications, patents, tenders, social accounts. Anything with a feed or a public page can join — and the list stays editable.
Read, translate, de-duplicate
Every article is translated, summarised and scored for relevance. Articles covering the same event are merged into one item with all sources beneath it, so you immediately see how widely something is reported.
Weigh against your questions
What counts as "important" differs per organisation. The weighting is tuned to your themes, and along the way it recognises the entities that matter to you: products, suppliers, technologies, countries. That is what feeds the catalogues and signals.
From daily picture to deep dive
The daily email and the portal give you the daily picture. Underneath sits the depth: click from a signal through to the underlying articles, dossiers per product, supplier or technology with their full timeline, and quarterly analyses of what is structurally shifting. An assistant answers questions from your own archive, citing a source per claim. And when the answer isn't in the data, we research it — a deep dive on a competitor, a technology or a market, written up as a note you can forward.
Six ways to look at the same day.
Everything is connected: from a signal you click through to the articles, from a product to its timeline.
Daily briefing
The through-line of the past 24 hours, grouped by theme, with the sources behind each point. Identical to the email that lands in the morning.
Signals
Automatic detection of acceleration, trend breaks, new connections and cooling — with the numbers attached, so you can retell the conclusion.
Catalogue
A register of the entities in your domain — products, systems, suppliers — each with a timeline, manufacturer, country and maturity level.
Geography
Where is it happening? A map and country ranking based on what the articles actually mention, including week-on-week growth.
Research & patents
Scientific publications and patent families alongside the news, so you see what sits in the pipeline after the press release.
Ask the dataset
An assistant that answers from your own archive — citing a source per claim, rather than from memory.
Insights for drones
This is not theoretical. Since May 2026 a full Insights environment has been running for the drone world: drones themselves, the systems built to stop them, ground robots and uncrewed vessels.
Every working day, hundreds of articles arrive from over 150 sources in eight languages. What comes out is one briefing, a catalogue of more than 1,500 systems with manufacturer and country, and signals showing which technologies are accelerating.
The portal itself sits behind a login — happy to walk through it live in a call. The spoken briefing you can listen to right now: Insights on Spotify.
✨ Daily briefing
A new entrant announces a product launch for the first quarter at a price roughly 30% below the current market level.6 sources
A consortium of three manufacturers secures European funding for a pilot plant, due for completion in 2028.7 sources
Two patent filings point to an alternative production method that roughly halves lead time.4 sources
Click a line to see the underlying sources.
| Article | Priority |
|---|---|
| Market leader acquires a sensor-technology specialist | ★★★★ |
| Regulator publishes draft certification standard | ★★★★ |
| Research institute reports a breakthrough in service life | ★★★ |
| Tender published for a regional rollout | ★★★ |
Alternative materials: +48% articles in four weeks
19 articles in the latest window against 13 before, across 11 sources — no single spike day, so not an incident.
view 19 articles →Two suppliers appear together unusually often
They are named together in 7 of 9 articles; that pairing did not occur before this quarter.
view connection →Attention for the old standard is fading
From an average of 6 to 2 articles a week since the draft standard was published.
view 8 articles →7 partijen voor het eerst genoemd this month
Three of them with more than one mention — those are now in the catalogue under Reference.
view players →| Theme | Δ |
|---|---|
| Alternative materials | +48% |
| Production automation | +12% |
| Certification & standards | +2% |
| Service life & maintenance | −41% |
Signals are recalculated every run; every line clicks through to the articles beneath it.
| Name | Maturity |
|---|---|
| Product line A — second generation | on the market |
| Supplier of core components | — |
| Alternative production method | pilot |
| New entrant (since June) | — |
Names are merged across spelling variants, so one player is also one row.
📡 Sources in this environment
- Trade media & news68
- Manufacturer press releases31
- Regulators & government17
- Patents & science9
- Tenders & registers11
- Standards bodies & associations8
- Statistics & annual reports5
- X accounts22
- Telegram channels6
⚙️ What happens every day
- Collect07:00
- Translate & summarise~15 min
- De-duplicate-38%
- Weigh against your themes~10 labels
- Briefing & daily email07:15
🔓 Accountability
Public sources; every item keeps its link and date. The number of independent sources is shown per article, so you see how widely something is reported.
📦 Recent changes
Two sources added on request: a regional trade journal and the tender portal.this week
Theme "certification" split into standards and inspections, after feedback from the team.last week
Illustration of the interface with neutral content — feel free to click around. Your environment shows your own sources, themes and articles.
The method is not tied to one sector.
Does your field produce plenty of publications, suppliers and technological movement? Then this approach works. The sources and the weighting differ; the machinery underneath is the same.
From exploration to a running portal.
Start small and only scale once it proves itself. You can stop after any phase; whatever is built stays yours.
Exploration
We define the questions, map the available sources and test whether there is enough public material to build on.
- Working session on information needs
- Source list with coverage per theme
- Sample run on real data
Working pilot
A live environment on your sources: daily processing, a portal with the first views, and the daily email.
- Ingest, translation, de-duplication, weighting
- Portal with briefing and archive
- Daily email to the first users
Production & growth
Extend with catalogues, signals and custom views. Maintenance and development.
- New sources and themes
- Monitoring, backups and cost control
- Quarterly analysis and deep dives on request
- Release and ops report: what changed and what needed attention
- Ongoing support
What people usually want to know.
Isn't this just a newsletter with AI bolted on?
The difference is memory and weighting. A newsletter starts empty every day; here every article adds to an archive you can search and compute trends on.
That lets you ask questions a newsletter cannot answer: which supplier has been appearing more often lately, which technology is accelerating, what changed since last quarter.
How does this compare to existing intelligence platforms?
There are roughly three kinds. Large commercial platforms (Janes, Datenna, Sayari, Govini, Semantic Visions) sell a ready-made dataset with enormous coverage — millions of entities, ownership chains, years of history. Specialist analysis tools (GetFocus, and the MIT research by Triulzi and Magee into improvement rates from patent data) do one thing exceptionally well. And open initiatives (Liveuamap, WorldMonitor) show what is happening and which sources exist, without weighting or memory.
Insights deliberately sits in between, with three differences. Tailored rather than off the shelf: sources and weighting are set to your questions, not to an average customer. The archive stays yours: a single database file you hold, not a licence that cuts off access the moment you stop. One picture across the layers: news, patents, science and tenders side by side, with click-through from signal to source article.
And the price differs accordingly. Those platforms do not publish their rates, but as far as is publicly known an enterprise licence typically starts in the tens of thousands per year, rising per module and per seat. For an organisation with global scope that is easy to defend: you buy coverage nobody could build alone. If you are mainly paying for reach you never use, a setup built around one sector and one question sits an order of magnitude below that.
How reliable is it, and can I trace claims?
Every item keeps its original source, date and link. The portal shows how many independent outlets report the same thing — one article from one outlet visibly weighs differently than the same news from five.
Open sources can be incomplete or slanted, especially around conflict. This is meant as a continuous situational picture, not a replacement for formal analysis.
Everything comes from publicly accessible sources: nothing classified, nothing behind a wall, no scraping where it isn't allowed. So you can forward any item, put it in a report or discuss it with a partner without a licensing question. Want your own subscriptions or internal feeds included? That's possible where the licence allows it — those items are then marked as not shareable, so the distinction stays visible.
Where does it run, and who holds the data?
By default on a Dutch server that we manage, hosted at TransIP — no American cloud and no debate about where your data sits. Your own hardware or your own cloud tenancy is possible too, provided we agree on access; without access we cannot fix what breaks. The data lives in a single database file with daily backups, and that file is yours.
If we stop working together, you keep the archive and a full export: no supplier locking your history away. The source set and the weighting are part of the service; if you want to take those over and run it yourself, that is possible for a one-off fee.
How is access handled?
Your people sign in with their own work account, through the identity provider your organisation already uses. We never hold your employees' passwords, and when someone leaves, their access ends with their account. Granting and revoking stays in your hands.
The server itself has no ports open to the internet. Traffic runs over an outbound tunnel, so there is nothing to scan or force from the outside. That saves a good deal of explaining in a security review.
Can we try it small first?
Yes — that is exactly phase 1. A short exploration shows whether your field has enough public material and what a portal would deliver, before you commit to a pilot.
Curious what is circulating publicly about your sector?
Send a note with your field and the question you're wrestling with. I'll come back with a first read on the sources that exist — and I'm happy to show the live environment.