Questions we get asked, answered straight

You can get a draft from any of them in thirty seconds, and we use the same models as part of our infrastructure. What you cannot get from a prompt is the system around it: a method that decides what to gather, a dated capture behind every claim, every number checked against a primary source, eighty-six checks that exist to stop overclaiming, review rounds, freshness rules, and a person who signs off and takes your call. That system took two years to build and costs days of machine time and hours of judgment per engagement. The draft is free. The finished intelligence, with the proof behind every line, is what we make. Why a prompt can't do this.

Yes, extensively, and we're not apologetic about it. AI is our infrastructure, the way imaging is a surgeon's. It is how we gather at a scale no team of analysts could match, how every claim gets checked against a primary source instead of a confident face, and how the work arrives in days instead of months. The method, the review, and the judgment about what the evidence means are human. We would rather tell you how the work is made than have you wonder.

A consultant trained on your engagement, shipped with every deliverable. What you read on the page is the part above the surface. Beneath it sits 60 to 70 percent more research, and Ask Rathvane answers from all of it, with the citation. Ask it where to start. Ask it why we ranked a competitor where we did. Ask it what we'd do first. It knows your engagement and nobody else's.

Their quality comes from their methodology and their analysts. Ours comes from ours. The difference isn't in the rigor. It's in the model. They staff a team for months and charge accordingly. We built a method and the infrastructure to run it in days. And we offer something they don't sell at any price: every claim clicks through to a dated capture of its source. We're not asking you to accept less. We're offering a different path to the same destination, with the proof attached.

Monitoring platforms are useful. They'll tell you when a competitor changes a pricing page or issues a press release. We do something different. We tell you what those signals mean in your situation, what pattern is forming, and what to consider doing about it, with the evidence attached. Some clients use both: the platform for day-to-day tracking, Rathvane for the decisions that matter.

Working days, from the day the intake closes. Industry Outlook in 3 to 5. Public Perception in 5 to 6. Most single products in 6 to 10. Competitive Intelligence in 7 to 20 depending on tier. Packages in 14 to 22. The free snapshot within the week. If your window is shorter, say so in the first conversation.

We cannot see inside any model or promise that a change will produce a particular answer. We don't claim a capture can be reproduced, because answers vary by session and day. We don't promise to rank you in an answer engine on a timetable, because nobody can. We don't produce a single score where the underlying answers vary. And where we don't know something, the deliverable says so instead of writing around it. The limits are published because an evidence trail is only honest if it shows them.