All the relevant intelligence on your sector, in 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.
Public sources only
Nothing classified, nothing behind a wall, no scraping where it isn't allowed. Which means everything you see is shareable — internally, with partners, or in a report.
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.
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.
Four questions you should be able to answer every quarter.
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.
Portal, daily email and evolution
You get a private web portal and a daily email. Both tell the same story, so you can read wherever suits you. The setup keeps moving with you: new sources, new themes, new views.
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 uncrewed and autonomous systems
This is not theoretical. Since May 2026 a full Insights environment has been running for the uncrewed and autonomous domain: drones, counter-drone, ground robots and uncrewed vessels. Built inside defence innovation practice and in daily use ever since.
Every working day, hundreds of articles arrive from over 130 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 method is not tied to one sector.
Does your field produce plenty of public 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, or handover to your own team.
- New sources and themes
- Monitoring, backups and cost control
- Handover or 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.
What does it cost to run?
Processing costs are low because a cheap pre-selection filters the noise first: in the live defence setup it lands at a few euros a day across hundreds of articles. Hosting on top of that is negligible at this scale.
The investment sits in building and tuning, not in running it. A hard daily spending ceiling is built in, so costs cannot run away.
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.
Where does it run, and who holds the data?
That is a choice: on your own hardware, on a European server, or inside your own cloud tenancy. The data lives in a single database file with daily backups, and that file is yours.
There is no vendor lock-in: if we stop working together, you keep both the archive and the configuration.
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.