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Research, scoring and the business of intelligence

Field notes on company research from public registers, fit and timing, AI-drafted plans with a human in the loop, and running prospect intelligence in the EU.

Data

DACH company data without a Handelsregister API

There is no official, sales-friendly API for the German, Austrian or Swiss registers. There is, however, a great deal of public, authoritative data if you know where each fact lives, and the discipline to say not established when it does not.

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Scoring

Fit and timing are different questions

We retired the single intent score. Fit asks whether you should sell to a company at all. Signal asks why now, and its evidence loses half its weight every 60 days. Together they set a tier, and the tier decides your week.

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Playbooks

The week-one playbook: from profile to booked meetings

A concrete five-day plan for an agency's first week in Caicle. By Friday you should have a scored pipeline, a branded workspace, and the first approved plans turning into meetings.

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Research

Why company registers cannot be asked about a domain

A commercial register has never heard of nordfracht.example. It knows Nordfracht Logistik GmbH, Hamburg, HRB 118 402. The bridge between the two is the legal notice, and it is why research has to run in two waves.

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Compliance

Running EU-first prospect intelligence without cutting corners

GDPR Article 6, § 25 TDDDG, the AI Act's Article 50 disclosure and the UWG rules on cold contact are not obstacles to outbound. Treated as design constraints, they make it defensible.

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AI

Inside the Strategy Room: three waves, one plan

One large model writing a cold email is a party trick. A team of named specialists that establishes the facts, scores the account and drafts a compliant approach in three ordered waves is a system. Here is how they hand off.

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White-label

Resell intelligence, not a data broker's login

When an agency hands a client a seat in someone else's tool, it hands away the relationship. White-labelling the intelligence layer keeps the margin, the brand and the client where they belong.

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Research

The public-record signals that predict B2B buying intent

You do not need a purchased intent feed to know a company is in motion. Seven signals from registers, job boards and the company's own website tell you when a prospect is about to buy, and each one comes with a source.

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