vs newsletters
One editor, one selection, no memory. This comparison on its own page →
Newsletters
- Does well
- A good newsletter is one expert reading for you, once a day or once a week, in a voice you trust. It is quick to read and costs little.
- Misses here
- It has no memory and no coverage beyond what the editor read. Last month's issue is gone from view; the Chinese supplier announcement the editor never saw was never there.
- Cost
- Free to a few hundred dollars a year
Frontier Tech Intelligence
- Adds
- 100+ sources in eleven languages every day, every signal kept with its outlet and date, searchable by company, topic, region and source; the daily digest and the weekly brief written from that record.
- Scale
- 100+ sources, 11 languages, 2,000+ companies scored, 100,000+ dated signals, four leaderboards, twenty standing questions.
- Cost
- $99 a month, 7-day trial, cancel any time.
Keep the newsletter for its voice. Use this for the record it cannot keep.
vs financial terminals
Markets and financials, for finance teams. This comparison on its own page →
Financial terminals
- Does well
- Unmatched on public markets, prices, filings and financial statements, in real time, with decades of data.
- Misses here
- Built around tickers. A private humanoid maker, a Shenzhen actuator supplier or a launch startup has thin or no coverage; what the companies do operationally is not the focus; the price is set for finance teams.
- Cost
- Thousands of dollars a year per seat
Frontier Tech Intelligence
- Adds
- What the companies do: products, deployments, partnerships, supply and constraints, people, including the private and Asian companies with no ticker, scored over time, at $99 a month.
- Scale
- 100+ sources, 11 languages, 2,000+ companies scored, 100,000+ dated signals, four leaderboards, twenty standing questions.
- Cost
- $99 a month, 7-day trial, cancel any time.
The terminal for the market. This for the companies behind it, listed or not.
vs private-company databases
Deals and cap tables. This comparison on its own page →
Private-company databases
- Does well
- The reference for funding rounds, investors, valuations and deal history, with exports and alerts.
- Misses here
- A company appears when money moves. Between rounds, what it ships, where it is constrained and whom it supplies is not the record.
- Cost
- Enterprise contracts
Frontier Tech Intelligence
- Adds
- Funding is one of twenty standing questions; the other nineteen are operational: who is shipping, who is constrained, who supplies whom, who moved into mass production, scored and ranked every week.
- Scale
- 100+ sources, 11 languages, 2,000+ companies scored, 100,000+ dated signals, four leaderboards, twenty standing questions.
- Cost
- $99 a month, 7-day trial, cancel any time.
The database for the deal. This for what happens between deals.
vs analyst firms
Deep, considered, and dated the day it ships. This comparison on its own page →
Analyst firms
- Does well
- Deep, considered, well written, backed by interviews; the right thing to put in front of a board.
- Misses here
- A report is finished the day it is published and expensive per report and per seat; the next one comes next year.
- Cost
- Thousands of dollars per report or per seat
Frontier Tech Intelligence
- Adds
- Continuous and current: the ranking moves every week, the twenty questions are answered every day, the method is published. A report can be written from this record; the record does not wait for the report.
- Scale
- 100+ sources, 11 languages, 2,000+ companies scored, 100,000+ dated signals, four leaderboards, twenty standing questions.
- Cost
- $99 a month, 7-day trial, cancel any time.
Commission the report when you need the argument. Read this to know what changed since.
vs doing it yourself
Alerts, feeds, a spreadsheet, or an analyst. This comparison on its own page →
Doing it yourself
- Does well
- Full control over what you watch and how you judge it; nothing between you and the sources.
- Misses here
- The full cost of reading everything: unfiltered alerts, duplicates, eleven languages, and an evening that ends before the reading does. An analyst on staff reads one language and sleeps.
- Cost
- An analyst's time, or your evenings
Frontier Tech Intelligence
- Adds
- Reading, extraction, deduplication, linking, scoring and ranking done by agents, about 10,000 runs a month, in eleven languages, every day; you start where the analyst would finish.
- Scale
- 100+ sources, 11 languages, 2,000+ companies scored, 100,000+ dated signals, four leaderboards, twenty standing questions.
- Cost
- $99 a month, 7-day trial, cancel any time.
Keep your judgement. Hand over the reading.
vs published rankings
One list, once a year. This comparison on its own page →
Published rankings
- Does well
- A bank's or a magazine's hundred of an industry is a useful map and a conversation starter.
- Misses here
- Typically annual, typically written for investors, with the method rarely shown and no way to see why a company sits where it sits.
- Cost
- Free, or behind a paywall
Frontier Tech Intelligence
- Adds
- Four lists, monthly in public and weekly for members, the eight measures published, an evidence rule for every seat, and a file behind every name with the signals and facts that put it there.
- Scale
- 100+ sources, 11 languages, 2,000+ companies scored, 100,000+ dated signals, four leaderboards, twenty standing questions.
- Cost
- $99 a month, 7-day trial, cancel any time.
A ranking tells you who. This tells you why, and what changed since.