Know your strengths, your gaps and who to connect.
Decide where to focus, which partners to bring in and which companies to attract, based on evidence rather than member lists and old studies. We build the workflows that map your sector and keep watching it.
No single organisation, expert or dataset holds the complete picture. DataScouts brings together evidence and expertise from across an ecosystem, combining human curiosity with data, technology and AI, so better decisions rest on a bigger picture.
For cluster managers, network leads, regional development agencies and sector programmes.
The value and gaps of an aerospace sector
Simplified from our work with ChristchurchNZ.
Strategy needs a picture that is complete and current.
Member lists miss half the picture
The companies that matter are not always the ones in your network.
Studies go stale
A one-off mapping is outdated within a year, and redoing it is costly.
Focus choices need evidence
Boards, funders and partners want to see why this sector, this gap, these partners.
From a one-off study to a running capability.
Configured on your sector definitions and criteria, validated by your own experts.
Sector and capability mapping
Who is active, what they can do and where the value chain has gaps, beyond your member base.
Output: players, capabilities and gaps
Cluster readiness assessment
How mature is a sector or value chain in your region, and what is missing to grow it?
Output: a readiness profile with evidence
Partners, suppliers and attraction targets
Evidence-based shortlists for R&D partnerships, supply chains and companies to attract.
Output: scored, sourced shortlists
A shared evidence base
Partners contribute what they know to one base that grows with every contribution, and use it to find collaborators and facilities.
Output: a shared, governed knowledge base
Start with one decision.
A strategy update, a funding round or an attraction campaign: we start where a decision is due.
Define the focus question
The sector, the decision it supports and who will use the result.
Map and validate
Your taxonomy and criteria, with findings checked by your sector team and local experts.
What you validate: A first map of players, capabilities and gaps, checked with your sector team and local experts, before deciding to keep it running.
Keep it current
Ongoing monitoring of new entrants, investments and moves, feeding your programmes, matchmaking and reporting.
From regional strategy to shared intelligence.
The value and gaps of an aerospace sector
A map of the players, capabilities and gaps in the region's aerospace and smart aviation sector, used to decide where to focus economic development.
Read the case →A shared evidence base that partners build together
Producers, innovators, researchers and transition organisations contribute knowledge to one shared base, and use it to find collaborators, test facilities and expert communities across regions.
Visit Foodleap →Your data and your knowledge stay yours.
What your team, members and partners know is your network's asset. We keep it protected.
- A private environment for your organisation
- EU-hosted and GDPR-compliant
- Never shared with other clients or used to train shared models
- Taxonomies, knowledge base and methods remain your assets
- Export to your own systems via API
Which decision should your sector picture support?
Start with one sector and one question. We'll show how it becomes a picture that stays current.