Your clients expect proprietary intelligence. Most consultancies still build it manually.
CRED gives consulting firms the data foundation to deliver market analysis, competitive benchmarking, and client intelligence competitors cannot replicate.
Consulting Intelligence Platform
Client Account Intelligence
Client accounts ranked by intelligence signal
TerraVox
Energy
Health
87
Threat
Low
Opp.
High
Fulcrum Partners
Financial Services
Health
61
Threat
Medium
Opp.
Medium
Stratus Retail
Consumer
Health
44
Threat
High
Opp.
Low
NovaBridge
Technology
Health
92
Threat
Low
Opp.
High
Prospect inflection signals
Meridian Capital
New CEO hired
94
Vantage Group
Series C announced
88
Apex Logistics
Transformation initiative
82
Orion Retail
M&A process active
91
Cascade Health
Competitive threat detected
76
Three consulting problems. One intelligence layer.
CRED closes the intelligence gap across client delivery, business development, and proprietary benchmarking.
01
The Intelligence Gap
Clients pay for insight competitors cannot replicate, but research behind market sizing, benchmarking, and commercial intelligence is still assembled from public sources every other firm can access.
02
The Pipeline Problem
Companies signaling advisory need through leadership change, funding rounds, competitive pressure, or M&A activity are visible in the data before they call a consultancy.
03
The Build vs Buy Gap
The firms building durable data advantages do it through proprietary assets. That takes years. CRED gives consulting teams a compounding intelligence layer from day one.
- Client intelligence assembled manually from public sources
- New business dependent on relationships and referrals
- Competitive benchmarks built from disclosed data only
- Market analysis takes weeks to produce
- Proprietary data advantage requires years to build
- Client intelligence enriched with signals competitors cannot access
- New business pipeline fed by companies showing engagement signals
- Competitive benchmarks built from real operational performance data
- Market analysis produced in hours, not weeks
- Proprietary data advantage available from day one
From signal to decision in one platform.
Every client signal, market move, and prospect inflection is continuously updated from CRED's intelligence across companies, contacts, and connected systems.
Connect
Unify everything.
Bring client data, target-market data, and external signals into one continuously updated intelligence layer.
Score
Rank every opportunity.
Score every client account, prospect, and market signal against the indicators that predict advisory need and client value.
Surface
Deliver at decision time.
Push the right intelligence into pre-pitch briefs, client reviews, benchmarks, and market-entry analysis.
Every client conversation improves when you already know what the market knows.
Independent consultants win premium positioning when they arrive with market data, competitive intelligence, and evidence that demonstrates real expertise.
Client Conversation Intelligence
Pull market intelligence, competitive signals, and commercial benchmarks before every client conversation so the discussion starts from evidence, not discovery.
Business Development Intelligence
Score every company in your coverage universe continuously, then surface the accounts approaching an inflection point before competitors make the first call.
See what CRED surfaces on your client base and target market.
Schedule Executive BriefingThe intelligence your clients expect, built on data competitors cannot access.
CRED gives engagement teams the market intelligence to deliver recommendations that are harder to replicate, and business development teams the signals to reach the right clients first.
Your output is only as proprietary as the data behind it.
Market analyses built on live signal data, competitive assessments benchmarked against peer performance, and commercial intelligence that reflects what the market actually knows.
- Market sizing and sector analysis updated continuously
- Competitive benchmarking across 50M+ companies
- Commercial due diligence with independent audience intelligence
- Transformation sizing based on comparable organizations
Client Engagement Intelligence
Pre-Engagement Briefing: Target Company
Market Position
72
Below peer median on commercial performance
Competitive Threat Score
64
3 competitors gaining share in core segments
Commercial vs Peer Median
58
18% revenue-per-customer uplift identified
Audience Intelligence
81
Audience retention above benchmark
Operational Improvement
47
Comparable organizations achieved 22% efficiency gain
The companies that need a consultancy right now are already signaling.
CRED identifies companies approaching advisory inflection points, then ranks them by signal strength, fit, and relationship context.
- Leadership changes with a strategic mandate
- Funding rounds and M&A processes requiring diligence
- Competitive threats creating urgency
- Engagement signals from events and thought leadership
Prospect Inflection Pipeline
Companies Approaching Advisory Inflection
6 companies showing active advisory signals this week
Meridian Capital
Financial Services
New CEO
94
Vantage Group
Consumer Goods
Series C
88
Apex Logistics
Logistics
Displacement
82
Orion Retail
Retail
M&A active
91
We will show you the companies in your market approaching an advisory inflection point right now.
Schedule Executive BriefingThe intelligence advantage that used to require a research team.
CRED provides the intelligence layer so specialist practices compete on expertise without building internal data capability.
Commercial Due Diligence Support
Independent market picture, audience intelligence, commercial benchmarks, and competitive position for M&A and investment contexts.
Sector Intelligence for Retainer Clients
Continuously updated market signals, competitive moves, and benchmarks that deepen client relationships without recurring research overhead.
Market Entry Intelligence
Markets, segments, and geographies scored against category momentum, competitive concentration, audience size, and whitespace.
Market Entry Intelligence
Target Market Opportunity Scanner
Financial Services / UK
88
72
Healthcare Tech / Nordics
91
41
Logistics / DACH
64
68
Consumer / Southeast Asia
79
55
B2B SaaS / Benelux
83
38
Healthcare Tech Nordics flagged as primary entry recommendation.
Submit any client or target market. We will return a full intelligence report within 48 hours.
Get a Sample ReportThree moments where CRED changes the outcome.
The page rhythm stays practical: choose the decision moment, then inspect the intelligence that changes the conversation.
Pre-Pitch Intelligence Brief
Before a New Business Pitch
Benchmark Position
Below median / 3rd quartile
Active Competitive Threats
2 competitors gaining share
Commercial Whitespace
$14M addressable uplift
Leadership Signal Activity
CFO change 6 weeks ago
Engagement History
MD attended sector event
Recommended action
Open with the peer benchmark gap before the client defines the brief.
Intelligence infrastructure for consulting firms that compete on insight.
The data model is consulting-specific, but the structure follows the homepage: framed rows, bordered metrics, sparse labels, and tokenized surfaces.
| Data point | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Client Benchmark Score | How a client benchmarks against peers across commercial, operational, and competitive dimensions |
| Prospect Inflection Signal | Companies approaching a leadership change, funding event, or strategic inflection |
| Market Opportunity Score | Which markets, segments, and geographies represent the highest-fit expansion opportunity |
| Competitive Threat Score | Which competitors are gaining ground on a client and where displacement risk is highest |
| Engagement Depth Score | How deeply embedded your firm is across a client organization |
| Practice Area Benchmark Index | Custom scoring across a defined universe for proprietary benchmark publishing |
50M+
Companies in the intelligence database
700M+
Contacts tracked globally
200+
Data connectors
4.6B
Consumer profiles
$303B
Global management consulting market 2024
$457B
Projected market size by 2032
~20%
Knowledge workers searching for information weekly
60%+
Consultants whose business is majority referral-driven
Your clients expect proprietary intelligence. CRED makes it possible.
The market intelligence your clients expect is already in the data. CRED makes it available across client delivery, business development, and proprietary benchmarking.
See your live intelligence assessment.
We will show what CRED surfaces on your client base, target market, and practice area before you commit to anything.
Schedule Executive BriefingReceive an intelligence report.
Submit any client or target company and receive a report covering commercial benchmarks, competitive position, market signals, and leadership movement.
Get a Sample Report