Intelligence as a Service

Delivering intelligence and insights to aid decision-making.
Intelligence as a Service

Finding the insights you need for your business continues to be a challenge…

Open-source information helps organisations to navigate and manage the complexity of today’s risky and interconnected world. However, the sheer volume of what’s out there is often overwhelming, making it difficult to distinguish crucial insights from noise.

Through our Intelligence as a Service (IntaaS) proposition, we aim to support clients by answering critical business questions using online data. We provide a cloud enabled one stop shop for digital insights across a broad set of focus areas. Drawing on a depth of intelligence expertise and AI to develop solutions to aid decision-making, improve understanding and track risks in one place.

Intelligence focus areas

Individual

Individual

Entity

Entity

Product

Product

Commodity

Commodity

Industry

Industry

Topic

Topic

Regulation

Regulation

Location

Location

Intelligence services

Screening & Monitoring

Screening & Monitoring

Historical screening and ongoing monitoring of third parties, individuals, commodities and industries so you can keep informed of relevant events and risks concerning your ecosystem.
Risk Sensing

Risk Sensing

Early identification of Indicators and warnings that could adversely impact your business continuity, such as regulatory change, brand and reputation events or supply chain disruption.
Digital Risk Reviews

Digital Risk Reviews

Provide an accurate picture of how a brand is being used online in order to safeguard their reputation. Verifying digital assets to help ensure they are not posing a reputational or regulatory risk to your business.
ESG Performance

ESG Performance

Understand the historic and ongoing behaviours of entities and industries in relation to their ESG commitments, enabling you to stay ahead and keep informed of potential adverse events.
Compliance Checks

Compliance Checks

Monitor companies and individuals against comprehensive structured databases including Sanctions Lists, Export Control lists and Politically Exposed People (PEP’s) to detect infringements, minimising potential risks and resultant legal penalties.
Geopolitical Threat Monitoring

Geopolitical Threat Monitoring

On-going monitoring for locations, topics, people and entities to help them understand the risks critical to their business, and support strategic and operational decision-making process.​
“This service would be of great interest to anyone seeking a managed service to help them deal with a raft of challenges, from protecting their brand and reputation, to informing strategic decision making.”
Chief Security Officer FTSE 100 Company

How it works

1. Targeted data coverage

Clients can select from a broad suite of focus areas covering different types of services. A typical service combines multiple open sourced data streams covering social, forum, podcasts, adverse media, structured data sets to identify threats and insights across a broad range of risk domains globally.

2. Smart automated data collection

Over 4 million articles collected every 15 minutes, filtered using automated technology, artificial intelligence and natural language processing. This element of technology significantly reduces the amount of ‘false positive’ alerts.

3. Specialist human intelligence

Reviews are performed by a multilingual and multidisciplinary team of intelligence analysts who drill down into the data and identify the ‘so what’ and ‘what’s next’. This workflow can also include advisory input from SME’s if required.

4. Centralised platform for reporting

We provide a flexible, interactive cloud-based platform providing access to:
  • Actionable insights through an interactive MI and reporting suite
  • Process flows to manage and track outputs including notifications and reports
  • New service requests via self-serve forms

Case studies

Global pharmaceutical

Our client works with more than 170,000 third parties and on-boards more than 2,000 new entities every year.

Their existing approach was inconsistent, a lack of a systematic approach to monitoring their third-party network exposed our client to a range of risk factors that could have significant consequences for their business. We provided a managed service that used a combination of cutting-edge technology and human analysis to monitor existing entities and screen new ones as they were on-boarded.

We tailored the service to our client’s specific risk profile, reviewed masses amounts of data at scale, checked sector specific sources and integrated with a case management system to allow rapid alerting.

Global financial technology

Our client was interested in identifying potential regulatory changes, or the emergence of new regulations globally across ten specific regulatory domains including but not limited to accessibility, consumer protection and corporate governance.

We were able to stand up this service within a week, producing a quarterly refresh of regulatory change reporting into a risk sensing dashboard. We also identified the current status of the regulation i.e. proposed, effective, adopted, announced or effective and provided the client with the key dates related to each regulatory change.

As a result of this service, our client was able identify early on where changes were required in their processes in order to get ahead of the curve in ensuring compliance with regulation changes in a timely manner.

Global manufacturing

Our client had a strategic priority to grow the market share of its non-combustible products through investing in its social media capabilities and improving visibility of compliance with global and internal regulations.

Within two months, we designed and piloted a managed service to monitor compliance in 21 markets across social media marketing channels, delivering visibility and reporting on compliance as well as brand protection activities and crisis detection and notification.

This managed service was scaled globally, and a Crisis and Incident framework, Standard Operating Procedure, Governance Frameworks and global stakeholder onboarding was delivered in parallel with accessible dashboards.

Global oil and gas company

The client has become aware of the increasing importance of complying with new ESG and Sustainability regulations.

To minimise the potential impact, they wanted to explore this further and identify the potential legal risks associated with ESG and Sustainability, so they can act early and mitigate them. ​We conducted an open-source research investigation across 3 jurisdictions (US, UK and EU) to identify any reporting that could indicate a potential risk of non-compliance or changes within ESG regulations and frameworks.

Our reporting enabled the client to forward project its strategic approach to ESG and Sustainability policy and regulatory compliance.

UK broadcasting

The client needed to monitor their employees’ level of compliance with their social media policy to safeguard their reputation.

We conducted an open source intelligence investigation to identify instances of violations of the client’s social media guidelines, assess how widespread was the issue, and identify the problem areas.

Our analysis helped the client to have a better understanding of the level of compliance with their social media guidelines. They were able to understand the key areas of non-compliance with the guidelines and adjust their internal messaging and training to address these areas of concern.​

Global professional services

Our client was interested to understand the impact the ongoing Ukraine conflict was having on global markets, commodities, consumer products and supply chains.

We stood up the service within 24 hours of the request, producing daily summary reports to capture the key insights and trends to help support our client’s decision-making process.

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Key contacts

Jonathan Daglish

Senior Manager

Shannon Pym

Senior Manager

Elizabeth Langley-Jones

Senior Manager