WHAT THEY DO

Research studies the ground the company builds on — markets, competitors, software, and sources. It researches; that is all it does. It does not build, sell, or decide — it reports what is true, with the source named, so every other department can build, price, and decide on facts.

Five desks carry the work: Markets & Competitors, Software & Technology, Data & Sources, the Standing Watch, and Deep Studies.

HOW WE DO IT

• Every material claim carries its source and the date it was checked.
• Estimates are labelled estimates; anything that cannot be verified is reported as unverified — never smoothed over.
• Fact and judgment are written as different things, so the seat that decides can weigh each on its own.

WHAT THEY’VE DONE

• The Kinds of Software Companies Buy — the company’s master study of what businesses actually pay for, every price cited to its source.
• The software landscape and enterprise studies the Technology department builds from.
• The cybersecurity knowledge corpus — over a hundred sourced, numbered pages every department draws on, and growing.