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From question to intelligence in days

Three steps

1. You bring the decision.

Not a research request. A decision. A competitor you don't understand. A market you're about to enter. A price you suspect is wrong. A number your sales team keeps hearing that you never published. Tell us what you're trying to decide and what would change your mind, and we'll tell you which intelligence answers it and what it costs. That conversation takes less than an hour and costs nothing.

2. We do the work.

We don't search the internet and summarize what we find. We run your question through a structured method built for that kind of question, gather from public and subscribed sources, check every claim against a primary source, and write it for the person who has to act on it. AI is our infrastructure, the way imaging is a surgeon's. It makes us faster and more precise. The judgment is ours, and a person who knows your name signs off before anything ships.

3. You receive intelligence you can act on.

The first screen tells you what's wrong, what it's costing you, the one move that matters most, the three fixes behind it, and where the proof sits. Behind that screen is the full deliverable. Behind the deliverable is the Evidence Locker. And alongside all of it is Ask Rathvane, a consultant trained on your engagement that answers questions the pages don't.

How much you tell us is up to you

Most firms treat intake as paperwork. We treat it as the first piece of the work, and we let you choose how much of it you want to do.

One brief. A single page from one person. What's the decision, who are the competitors you care about, what have you already ruled out. Enough for us to calibrate to your situation, not much more than you'd write in an email.

A multi-person intake. Your head of sales sees things your head of product doesn't. We route short, role-specific questions to the people who know, and we read the gaps between their answers. Those gaps are often the first finding, and you have it before the engagement properly begins.

Nothing at all. Some clients can't share anything. Some would rather see what a stranger can see. We build the whole thing from public and subscribed sources, and the deliverable tells you exactly what it leaned on. This is the same view your buyers, your acquirers and the answer engines already have of you.

All three produce finished intelligence. The depth of calibration rises with what you choose to share. None of them require a forty-page questionnaire.

What "governed" means

The word gets used loosely. Here is what it means at Rathvane.

Every statement in a deliverable is one of two things: an observation with a capture behind it, or a reading marked as ours. You can always tell which is which, and you can discount the second kind as you see fit.

Observations are checked against primary sources before they ship: the filing, the page, the listing, the answer as it was actually given. Where a source is weak, the deliverable says so. Where we don't know, the deliverable says that too, instead of writing around it confidently.

A structured method decides what gets gathered and in what order, so two engagements on the same question produce comparable work. And a person reviews every deliverable before it leaves, because speed without someone accountable for the result is just speed.

That is what sits between you and the two things you've already tried: an unsourced summary from a chatbot, and a dashboard full of alerts with nobody to call.

The Evidence Locker

Every claim in a Rathvane deliverable links to a dated capture. Click any sentence and you land on the pixels.

A capture holds five things: the answer or page as it appeared, the prompt or query that produced it, the date and time it was taken, the source it leaned on, and a content hash so you can confirm nothing has been altered since.

The locker exists because the consulting model runs on assertion. A deck says a competitor is "moving upmarket." Ask what that rests on and the answer is a partner's confidence. We don't ask you to trust our confidence. We show you what we saw, when we saw it, and how to check it yourself.

A skeptical reader can audit the whole thing. A board can see the trail. A diligence team can verify it without calling us. No firm offers this at any price, because offering it would show how much of the work is assertion.

Ask Rathvane, your consultant in a box

Every deliverable ships with an assistant trained on your engagement.

What you read on the page is the part above the surface. Beneath it sits 60 to 70 percent more research: the sources we rejected, the comparisons that didn't make the cut, the second-order questions we looked at and set aside. Ask Rathvane answers from all of it.

Its first job is the one a senior partner does in the room: when you don't know where to start, it tells you what matters. Its second job is to answer the question you have at eleven at night, with the citation, without waiting for a meeting. Ask it why a competitor was ranked where it was. Ask what the evidence says about a claim your team is making. Ask what we'd do first.

It knows your engagement. It does not know anyone else's. Nothing you ask it is used to train anything.

How long it takes

Timelines are in working days, from the day the intake closes.

| Intelligence | Typical delivery | |---|---| | Industry Outlook | 3 to 5 days | | Public Perception | 5 to 6 days | | Most single products (Core tier) | 6 to 10 days | | Competitive Intelligence Core | 7 to 10 days | | Competitive Intelligence Extended | 10 to 15 days | | Competitive Intelligence Full | 15 to 20 days | | Agent Readiness Diagnostic | [PLACEHOLDER: confirm delivery window in working days] | | Packages (three products with a unified synthesis) | 14 to 22 days |

The free snapshot arrives within the week. If your timeline is shorter than any of these, say so in the first conversation. Sometimes the answer is yes.

Confidentiality

Your intelligence stays yours. We do not share client information across engagements. We do not use client data to train models, ours or anyone's. We do not disclose that you are a client, what you asked, or what we found. Where a deliverable captures a third party's public page, the capture carries a non-affiliation line, and we never publish a client's pixels.

If you need a mutual confidentiality agreement before the first conversation, send yours or ask for ours. [PLACEHOLDER: confirm standard NDA availability]

Start with the decision

We don't need a long brief. We need to know what you're trying to decide and what would change how you decide it. From there we'll tell you exactly how we'd approach it, what you'd receive, and what it costs.