Which companies are showing signs of a potential need for what we sell?
Identify organisations showing signs of expansion, investment, hiring or emerging demand.
Useful forSales, business development and account teams.
AI Tappers Radar
Know what is changing before it becomes obvious.
Radar monitors the external signals that matter to your organisation and turns them into a concise, evidence-backed view of opportunities, risks and market change.
Configured around your priorities.Monitored on an agreed schedule.Delivered with evidence and next steps to consider.
The problem
The information is out there. Finding what matters is the difficult part.
Important developments are scattered across company announcements, filings, news, regulatory updates and specialist sources. Most teams lack the time to keep watching, filter the noise and connect the signals.
A new hire may mean little. Combined with investment, expansion and a new facility, it may tell a different story. The challenge is recognising the pattern while there is still time to act.
Search answers the question you remembered to ask. Radar keeps watching for the question you did not yet know you needed to ask.
How Radar works
From fragmented information to decision-ready intelligence.
01
Monitor
Scan relevant public and permissioned sources on the agreed cadence.
02
Understand
Identify organisations, events and emerging patterns.
03
Score
Evaluate signals against your strategic priorities and defined criteria.
04
Check the evidence
Retain supporting evidence, remove duplication and challenge weak conclusions.
05
Brief
Surface the opportunities, risks and developments worth attention.
The result is a prioritised view of what may require a decision, with evidence your team can investigate.
What would you want to know earlier?
Start with your business question.
Which acquisition targets are beginning to show momentum?
Track growth, funding, distribution, leadership and capacity changes that warrant a closer look.
Useful forCorporate development, private equity and investment teams.
What are our competitors doing?
Monitor launches, appointments, partnerships, investment and geographic expansion.
Useful forStrategy, commercial, marketing and leadership teams.
Which customers are changing direction?
Spot expansion, restructuring, management changes and strategic initiatives that could affect the relationship.
Useful forKey account, customer success and commercial teams.
Which markets are beginning to move?
Track demand, investment and competitive activity alongside regulatory proposals, consultations and enforcement.
Useful forStrategy, international expansion, legal and compliance teams.
Where are new projects and opportunities emerging?
Identify planning activity, funding announcements, tenders, procurement signals and infrastructure investment.
Useful forBusiness development, bid and project teams.
Which suppliers may present emerging risk?
Monitor financial pressure, ownership changes, operational disruption and geopolitical exposure.
Useful forProcurement, operations and risk teams.
Which trends could materially affect our category?
Track changes in consumer behaviour, emerging technologies, research, start-ups and new products.
Useful forInsights, marketing, innovation, R&D and strategy teams.
Industries
- Private Equity & Investment
- Agencies
- Consumer & FMCG
- Manufacturing
- Construction & Infrastructure
- Logistics & Transport
- Financial Services
- Professional Services
- Energy & Utilities
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- Property & Facilities
Where Radar fits
Research gives you context. Radar keeps watch around your priorities.
The right approach depends on the job. Research providers such as Gartner and Euromonitor, AI search tools, and agencies or consultancies can all contribute valuable insight. Radar adds ongoing monitoring configured around the decisions your organisation needs to make.
Traditional research
Periodic. Broad market context.
Useful for understanding established markets, categories and trends.
AI search
On demand. Query-led.
Useful when you know the question you want to investigate.
Radar
Recurring. Configured around your priorities.
Designed to keep watching for the developments, risks and opportunities that matter to your organisation.
These approaches can overlap. Radar can complement the research subscriptions, advisers and internal expertise you already use.
Managed intelligence, with evidence and human judgement
Intelligence delivered. People retain the judgement.
AI Tappers configures and operates Radar, monitors the workflows and refines the signal framework. Your team receives the intelligence without taking on another system to manage each day.
AI handles the monitoring and structuring. Important signals stay connected to their sources so you can understand what happened and why it was surfaced. Depending on the configuration, briefs can include dates, organisations, related developments and scoring rationale.
Every brief is reviewed by a person before it goes out. Your team retains responsibility for the decisions.
Radar in practice
From commercial opportunities to acquisition intelligence and market trends.
AI Tappers has built and operated Radar systems across different strategic intelligence applications.
Commercial opportunity intelligence
Signal Radar
Turns fragmented external signals into a weekly shortlist of organisations worth investigating.
View Signal Radar case studyAcquisition signal intelligence
M&A Radar
Built to flag emerging beverage brands showing early acquisition potential, using 57 public feeds and a 125-point signal framework.
View M&A Radar case studyMarket and competitor intelligence
Trend Radar
Converts regional and global developments into sourced executive briefs. A regional configuration monitors 49 regional and category feeds.
View Trend Radar case studyThese figures describe specific client configurations. Coverage, output volume and cadence depend on each Radar’s objective and configuration.
What happens when we start
We agree seven things with you:
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Objective
The decision you want to improve
02
Targets
The organisations or markets to watch
03
Signals
The changes that matter
04
Sources
Where to find credible evidence
05
Scoring
How to prioritise it
06
Review
Who reviews each brief before it goes out
07
Output
Who receives the intelligence, when and in what format
What should your business know earlier?
Send us one question you wish your team could answer earlier. Tell us the market, opportunity or risk behind it.
We will send back a sample monitoring approach showing what could be watched, which signals might matter and how a Radar could be configured around the question.