The Research Team
US-based research, with no offshore labor or subcontractors. Our team scopes the work, checks the evidence and reviews the report before delivery.
How does our team actually produce intelligence?
Our team agrees the research scope, checks findings against primary sources and writes the recommendations. We use AI tools to collect and process the underlying data, and review each report before delivery.
How we collect and check the evidence
What data infrastructure do we run?
We built our own data warehouse rather than relying on third-party aggregators, so we query the raw public records directly and cross-reference them:
- Archived consumer discussions across forums and social platforms, searchable by company, product, topic, and sentiment
- SEC EDGAR filings: 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statements, insider transactions
- Federal government contract records (USAspending.gov)
- FEC political contribution records
- USPTO trademark filings
- USPTO patent records
- CMS Open Payments (physician payment data)
- CFPB consumer complaints
- PPP loan records
- H-1B visa applications (salary and hiring data)
- NHTSA vehicle complaints and recalls
- OSHA workplace injury records
Combined coverage: government and commercial public datasets spanning federal regulatory filings, patent and trademark registries, healthcare and pharmaceutical data, financial disclosures, and archived consumer discussions across social platforms. Every data source is refreshed on a regular cadence and optimized for fast search.
How does our verification process actually work?
Every factual claim in an Elevated Signal report passes through multi-agent verification. Multiple independent AI systems analyze the same data and must agree before a finding makes it into the final report. When they disagree, the claim gets flagged for human review. This catches the hallucinations, single-source errors, and confirmation bias that plague both AI-only and human-only research.
We cite every source. Every statistic links back to its origin. If we cannot verify a claim against a primary source, it does not go in the report.
What research has the team published?
Our team publishes original research and analysis on the Elevated Signal blog. Recent publications:
- Business Intelligence Consulting: What It Costs & What You Get: pricing analysis across every tier from McKinsey to freelancers
- Free Competitive Analysis Template: step-by-step framework with data source instructions
- Complete Guide to Competitor Benchmarking: real industry benchmarks for SaaS, ecommerce, and manufacturing
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