Announcing collaboration with Oxford AI, to build the world's most accurate industry forecasting platform.
Authority Diligence
Pressure test investment theses with quantitative forecasts and fresh intelligence from practitioners inside the market.
Authority combines forward looking models, structured market data and recent expert observations to help investment teams understand where a market is heading, not just where it has been.
Built for private equity, growth investors, corporate development and research teams.
Illustrative market output
Installation activity
↑ 14% forecast
Project delay risk
31% elevated
Pricing pressure
Negative through Q1
Practitioner pulse
Recent practitioner observations
“Demand remains healthy, but connection queues are increasingly determining which projects actually move.”
Beyond historical research
Traditional research platforms are excellent at helping teams search what has already been written, reported or discussed. But an investment decision ultimately depends on what happens after you invest. Authority is built around that question.
Authority models continuously estimate relevant future events, market movements and business outcomes.
Practitioners regularly report changes in demand, pricing, procurement, capacity, competition and customer behaviour.
See when quantitative signals and current market sentiment tell different stories. This is often the most important place to investigate.
One live view of the market
Authority brings together independent machine and human intelligence so research teams can pressure test a market from both directions.
Quantified expectations for relevant market events and outcomes, continuously updated as new information arrives.
Structured, timestamped observations from experienced operators, executives, suppliers and specialists inside the market.
Understand why conditions are changing through recent commentary from identifiable industry practitioners.
Ask complex questions across Authority intelligence and trace important claims back to the underlying forecast, data point or expert observation.
Authority models forecast. Practitioners independently report what they are seeing.
During diligence
Real published example
London borough planning certainty · September 2026
Quantitative view
12,044 of 17,807 fully observed applications received a favourable decision within the fixed 180 day window.
Isabella L.B., PhD
Senior land and development specialist · AtkinsRéalis
Expert review
Isabella agrees with the direction of the index, but says lower application volumes and a stronger application mix may explain part of the improvement. No single planning system change should receive all the credit.
Grounded answer
The market is processing applications more consistently, but that does not prove development demand or delivery confidence is stronger. An investment case should treat the improvement as evidence of better decision timing, then test project volume, financing and construction readiness separately.
View the full index and expert review“What could cause this market to underperform our base case?”
“How has practitioner sentiment changed over the last three months?”
“Which parts of management’s growth thesis look strongest?”
“What are practitioners seeing that has not yet appeared in reported data?”
Every answer is grounded in Authority forecasts, structured market intelligence and recent attributed expert observations.
Example workflow
Share the company, sector, geography and key assumptions behind the investment thesis.
We identify the market variables, future events and practitioner perspectives that matter most to the thesis.
Authority combines quantitative forecasts with current observations from relevant practitioners.
Research the market through Authority and see how the outlook evolves throughout diligence and ownership.
Why Authority
Authority is not simply another library of documents and interview transcripts. Our core research object is what happens next.
In this comparison, “traditional platforms” means established document search, market data and expert interview libraries. Authority works alongside them by adding a live, forward looking layer.
| Research capability | Traditional platformsDocuments, databases and interview libraries | AuthorityForecasts and live practitioner signals |
|---|---|---|
| Historical documents | ✓ | ✓ |
| Expert commentary | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fresh practitioner observations | Varies | ✓ |
| Structured practitioner sentiment | Limited | ✓ |
| Quantitative future event forecasts | Not standard | ✓ |
| Changes in outlook over time | Limited | ✓ |
| Model + practitioner view together | Not standard | ✓ |
| Source level attribution | ✓ | ✓ |
Authority complements existing research workflows by adding a structured, forward looking intelligence layer.
Practitioner network
Authority works with experienced practitioners across industries and geographies who regularly share what they are seeing on the ground. Their observations are structured around real market variables.
Experienced operators, executives, suppliers and specialists across markets.
Not anonymous AI inference. Recent human observations with source, context and timestamp.
Built for live deals
Authority can build focused intelligence around a live investment or diligence process, combining the quantitative outlook with fresh practitioner intelligence relevant to the thesis.
Tell us the company, market or thesis you are currently evaluating.
Example deliverables
Authority Diligence
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