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DECISION SUPPORT PLATFORMS

Your research loses relevance.
We keep decisions informed.

Prescouter’s decision support platforms connect researched intelligence, agreed scoring criteria and scheduled updates in interactive tools – helping your team answer new leadership questions, compare options and defend strategic choices with current evidence.

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The world's top companies work with PreScouter
BHP
Anglo American
Baker Hughes
Lhoist
Chevron
European Commission
Hydro
SLB
BHP
Anglo American
Baker Hughes
Lhoist
Chevron
European Commission
Hydro
SLB
BHP
Anglo American
Baker Hughes
Lhoist
Chevron
European Commission
Hydro
SLB
BHP
Anglo American
Baker Hughes
Lhoist
Chevron
European Commission
Hydro
SLB

The World's Top Companies Work With PreScouter

Baker Hughes

Lhoist

Chevron

European Commission

Hydro

SLB

Ørsted

BHP

Anglo American

Baker Hughes

Lhoist

Chevron

European Commission

Hydro

SLB

Ørsted

BHP

Anglo American

Baker Hughes

Lhoist

Chevron

European Commission

Hydro

SLB

Ørsted

BHP

Anglo American

Proven Outcomes

Decision support platforms in action.

See how Prescouter turns complex research into working tools that help teams compare technologies, assess companies, test assumptions and return to the evidence behind each recommendation.

Test Electricity Demand Assumptions in Shared Dashboards
Nonprofit Energy Research Institute

Test Electricity Demand Assumptions in Shared Dashboards

The Challenge

The institute needed a validated electricity demand model covering AI, data centers and crypto mining, with evidence from different sources brought into a consistent structure for testing future scenarios.

The Solution

Prescouter assessed 70+ regions, analyzed 1M+ data points and brought together 1,000+ reports, databases and expert inputs, delivering 4 modular Intelligence Briefs and 2 interactive dashboards for scenario analysis in under 3 months.

Put Competitor Patents to Work for R&D
Fortune 500 Consumer Goods Company

Put Competitor Patents to Work for R&D

The Challenge

Competitor filings sat across separate geographies and classification systems, leaving R&D teams without a shared view of existing claims, duplicate research risks or opportunities to file before competitors.

The Solution

Prescouter mapped 3,914 competitor patents, benchmarked 4 leading competitors, identified 47 whitespace opportunities and flagged 23 IP conflict areas, deploying 3+ real-time IP dashboards that helped cut manual analysis time by 95%.

Rank Biopolymer Producers Against Practical Supply Requirements
Global Hygiene Products Company

Rank Biopolymer Producers Against Practical Supply Requirements

The Challenge

The company needed to establish which PHA, PLA and PGA producers could supply at scale, then compare candidates against hygiene requirements without rebuilding the same company research for each discussion.

The Solution

Prescouter mapped biofermentation across 4 Intelligence Briefs and built a tool ranking 67 companies by capacity, non-GMO status, IP, LCA, feedstock, funding, network strength and geography, with hygiene filters supporting leadership communication and planned upkeep.

Reassess Cement Carbon Capture With Comparable Evidence
Building Materials Leader

Reassess Cement Carbon Capture With Comparable Evidence

The Challenge

The client needed to compare post-combustion carbon capture options for cement, account for changes through 2040 and reconsider previously dismissed technologies using evidence that could support a defensible shortlist.

The Solution

Prescouter organized 46 technologies across 4 families in an interactive decision model extending to 2040, with validation from 5 experts and 9 technology providers, helping the client revisit rejected options and produce a shortlist.

Make Packaging Research Searchable by Consumer Need
Global Pet Food Company

Make Packaging Research Searchable by Consumer Need

The Challenge

The packaging team needed ideas grounded in consumer needs for its long-term strategy, with a practical way to compare formats from pet food and adjacent sectors during future planning discussions.

The Solution

Prescouter scouted 100+ packaging formats from pet food and adjacent industries, then built an interactive dashboard organized by function and consumer pain point, giving the packaging team filters to explore ideas for long-term strategy.

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Research should stay useful.
Build a tool your decisions can return to.

A decision support platform organizes evidence, comparison criteria and analytical tools around a recurring business choice. Prescouter defines that choice with your team, researches relevant technologies, companies, patents, markets and regulations, and checks critical findings with experts. We build the agreed scoring, filters and scenarios into dashboards or applications, then establish scheduled refreshes so teams can revisit options, trace recommendations and answer new questions without starting the research again.

The Prescouter Difference

Why choose Prescouter for decision support platforms?

Software vendors give you tools to populate, BI dashboards give you internal performance views and one-off research reports give you findings at a point in time. We add researched external intelligence, expert checks and agreed decision criteria and bring it together in one working platform for recurring strategic choices.

Area of Focus
Typical Dashboard Tool
The Prescouter Approach Recommended
Starting Point
Typical Change Program Begins with available datasets and the charts users want to see.
The Prescouter Approach Begins with a recurring decision, the people accountable for it and the evidence they need to choose between specific options.
Data Sources
Typical Change Program Depends on connected feeds and information your team supplies or licenses.
The Prescouter Approach Adds researched technologies, companies, patents, markets and regulations to relevant client inputs, with source references that support review and follow-up questions.
Evidence Validation
Typical Change Program Leaves users to check whether supplied information supports the intended conclusion.
The Prescouter Approach Checks critical claims against independent sources and expert input, records conflicting findings and identifies evidence gaps before they influence a recommendation.
Scoring Logic
Typical Change Program Provides configurable calculations that users must translate into decision criteria themselves.
The Prescouter Approach Develops criteria with your team, documents their definitions and weights, and makes scores traceable to evidence so comparisons can withstand leadership scrutiny.
Platform Upkeep
Typical Change Program Relies on your team to manage research updates and source changes.
The Prescouter Approach Establishes a refresh schedule, ownership and agreed alert triggers so material changes can be reviewed and reflected in the platform over time.
Decision Use
Typical Change Program Presents metrics for users to interpret and connect to subsequent actions.
The Prescouter Approach Structures evidence for leadership updates, portfolio reviews and go or no-go calls, with filters and scenarios that answer the questions behind those decisions.
Why It Matters

Why invest in reusable decision evidence

Companies invest in decision support platforms when repeated research, disconnected spreadsheets and aging presentations slow important choices, leaving teams to defend recommendations with evidence that no longer reflects their options or requirements.

Reuse Research Investment

Keep company profiles, technology assessments and source references available after the initial project. Your team can answer follow-up questions from the same evidence base, reducing repeated collection work and preserving the reasoning behind earlier recommendations.

Compare on Merit

Evaluate candidates against criteria agreed before the shortlist takes shape. Documented definitions, evidence and weights help technical and commercial teams explain why an option ranks higher, where uncertainty remains and what would change the recommendation.

Respond to Change

Scheduled refreshes help teams review new entrants, patent activity, regulatory developments and changing supplier capabilities. Keep the evidence behind recurring choices current enough to revisit assumptions before the next portfolio review or investment discussion begins.

Defend Strategic Choices

Give leadership a clear route from recommendation to supporting evidence. Shared filters, documented assumptions and accessible source references make it easier to explain trade-offs, address objections and agree what further research a consequential decision requires.

Our Services

Your decision defines the work. We build accordingly.

Research and Data

Start with relevant evidence. We investigate technologies, companies, patents, markets and regulations, reconcile conflicting findings and structure source references around the recurring questions your team needs to answer during strategic reviews.

Decision Criteria

Define the choice first. We work with your team to establish the decision, user requirements, assessment criteria and scoring weights, giving every comparison a clear rationale that reviewers can examine and discuss.

Dashboards and Scoring

Make comparisons usable. We build interactive dashboards, ranking tools, decision models and scenario applications with agreed filters and scoring logic, so teams can test assumptions and explain why particular options deserve consideration.

Supplier and Partner Databases

Keep candidates comparable. We develop searchable supplier and partner databases with evidence on capabilities, capacity, geography and other agreed requirements, helping teams assess candidates and revisit earlier evaluations as their needs change.

Expert Validation

Test claims before commitment. We consult relevant experts to examine technical feasibility, commercial assumptions and missing evidence, recording where their judgment supports published findings and where further investigation would strengthen a decision.

Refreshes and Alerts

Keep evidence ready. We agree update intervals, research responsibilities and alert triggers, then refresh relevant records and flag material developments so your team can review changing assumptions between scheduled leadership or portfolio discussions.

How It Works

Our decision support platform process.

Four focused stages take you from a recurring strategic question to a working platform, with decision criteria, validated evidence and an agreed plan for keeping information current.

Define the Decision

Agree the recurring choice, intended users, required outputs and assessment criteria, including what leadership needs to see before approving an option or requesting further investigation.

Research and Validate

Gather relevant external intelligence, check key claims with experts and document source quality, contradictions and gaps so comparisons reflect the strength of the available evidence.

Build and Test

Develop the dashboard or application, apply agreed scoring and filters, and test real decision questions with your team before refining the outputs for regular use.

Refresh and Review

Set update intervals and alert triggers, assign responsibilities and review the platform against new questions so the research and decision logic remain useful after launch.

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Behind the Analysis

Evidence needs more than a source.
Each finding must earn its place.

We connect research across technical, commercial, legal and operational questions, checking whether the evidence supports your criteria and recording uncertainty so your team knows what a recommendation can reasonably claim.

Decision Evidence Sources

What it adds:
What We Avoid

Four ways decision dashboards go wrong.And what we do instead.

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Industries We Serve

Different industries ask different questions.
Give each decision the evidence it needs.

Across sectors, Prescouter helps teams turn research into shared decision resources, bringing technical, commercial and regulatory evidence into a form colleagues can question, compare and use again.

Life Sciences

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Drug development teams need shared evidence to revisit pipeline candidates as research findings, clinical priorities and competitive activity change over time.

Recent engagement

Prescouter assessed 300+ drugs in early development for a biopharma company, providing evidence to support decisions about expanding its neuroscience pipeline.

Consumer Markets

Consumer Goods

Product teams need common research tools to compare consumer needs, ingredient claims and competitor activity across successive development and portfolio reviews.

Recent engagement

For a global pet food company, Prescouter organized pet digestive health claims from products, publications and patents into an interactive dashboard of trends and gaps.

Industrial Materials

Chemicals & Materials

Materials teams need searchable technical and patent evidence to compare candidate chemistries, examine IP concerns and revisit options as performance requirements change.

Recent engagement

Prescouter assessed 150 ceramic capacitor patent families, profiled 65 and organized nearly 300 dispersant compounds into 7 chemical categories within an interactive patent dashboard.

Industrial Operations

Manufacturing

Manufacturing teams need consistent evaluation criteria and shared requirements to compare operational investments as stakeholder needs and supplier capabilities develop over time.

Recent engagement

For a consumer products manufacturer, Prescouter interviewed 15+ stakeholders and evaluated 5 ERP vendors against company requirements to support the vendor selection decision.

Resources & Energy

Natural Resources

Resource teams need common comparison tools to reassess software and technical options as operating priorities, asset requirements and provider capabilities change.

Recent engagement

Prescouter evaluated 30+ software providers for predicting unconventional resource performance for an oil and gas major, shortlisted 17 and recommended 3.

Consumer Markets

Food & Beverage

Food and beverage teams need shared evidence to reassess packaging choices as buyer requirements, material options and company commitments change over time.

Recent engagement

For a juice maker, Prescouter examined sustainable beverage packaging commitments across 30 food service brands and conducted 10 interviews with buyers.

Aerospace

Aerospace & Defense

Engineering teams need traceable technical comparisons that colleagues can revisit as system requirements, integration constraints and candidate technologies change during development.

Recent engagement

Prescouter examined 15 naval energy storage types for a defense contractor, supporting its assessment of options while developing a shipboard energy system.

Energy Transition

Energy & Utilities

Energy teams need shared market and technology evidence to revisit investment choices as policy, demand and commercial readiness change across planning periods.

Recent engagement

Prescouter estimated the CO2 utilization market through 2030 for a renewable energy company and ranked leading technologies to support decisions about market entry.

Ingredients

Specialty Ingredients

Ingredients teams need searchable supplier and product evidence to revisit substitution decisions when specifications, availability or customer requirements change across product lines.

Recent engagement

Prescouter screened 742 products offered by 72 suppliers for a specialty chemicals company seeking alternatives to the emulsifiers used in its formulations.

Life Sciences

Biotechnology

Biotechnology teams need accessible regulatory evidence to reassess development and market decisions as requirements change across jurisdictions and internal programs progress.

Recent engagement

For a multinational biotechnology company, Prescouter produced 17 reports on regulatory intelligence to inform its review of requirements and related business decisions.

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Client Praise

Useful Beyond Delivery
In our clients' own words.

Hear from clients about working with Prescouter, from examining technical evidence to communicating recommendations and putting research into the hands of teams responsible for consequential choices.

“They provided reports with an appropriate amount of detail to explain the technology to someone unfamiliar with it.”
Kendall Sampson-Kitzul Applied Process Technology Engineer Mosaic
“Very well structured and comprehensible meetings and documentation.”
Peter Barth Global Product Manager Jointing Solutions Georg Fischer
“Open to feedback and came back with client-focused solutions.”
Sameer Upadhyaya VP Engineering Edwards
“They did a great job walking through the highlights of the report — respectful and receptive to questions.”
David Grissom Senior Director Global Customer Experience and Commercial Analytics Taconic
“Great quality of work shown from day 1. Deep understanding of our needs and consistently delivering results, sometimes exceeding our expectations.”
Romain Aubris New Product Planning & Market Insight Program Lead Sanofi
“They take time to understand the problem and ask all the right questions to ensure the research is done right first time.”
Dave Coultas Carbon Capture Principal Scientist Infineum
“The Prescouter team was a pleasure to work with and effectively communicated useful insights from our customers.”
Julia Brown Strategic Marketing Manager Phothera
“Any time we need unbiased perspective on the subject, Prescouter delivers consistent superior quality intel on our tight timelines.”
Vlad Zaitsev Director of Strategic Insights & Analytics Abbott
“Prescouter was able to compile and analyze a large amount of information related to our project and present it in an organized fashion.”
Luis Figueroa Research and Development Engineer Flowserve
“To have Prescouter on our team is like having an infinite number of experts in every imaginable area of research.”
Inna Maltseva Senior Principal Scientist, R&D CooperVision
“They’ve been a tremendous partner.”
Christi Putman Senior Director Research and Development Procter and Gamble
“For the project we asked for, I do not think a more seasoned consultant would have done a better job. They delivered.”
Keith Wilcoxen Head of Strategic Partnerships, R&D Tesaro

Common Inquiries

Frequently asked questions.

A decision support platform brings evidence and comparison tools into a shared resource for a recurring business choice. You might use one to assess technologies, rank suppliers or review a product portfolio. Prescouter builds the platform around your decision, adding researched external intelligence, agreed criteria and practical filters. Scheduled refreshes help your team revisit the evidence as options and requirements change.

These terms overlap, so the useful distinction is what the deliverable actually contains. Decision support systems help people evaluate choices, while a decision intelligence platform may connect data, analysis and decision workflows. Prescouter uses decision support platform for a dashboard or application built around your recurring choice, with researched external evidence, agreed scoring and scheduled updates. The scope should specify those capabilities rather than rely on a category label.

R&D teams can use patent dashboards to examine competitor activity, scoring tools to compare technologies and searchable company databases to assess development partners. Scenario models help teams test how assumptions affect a shortlist. Prescouter has built tools for biopolymer producer comparisons, cement carbon capture selection and consumer packaging research. The right format depends on the recurring question, assessment criteria and evidence your reviewers need.

BI dashboard software commonly helps you connect data and examine internal performance. A Prescouter platform starts with a strategic choice and adds the external research needed to evaluate options, including technologies, companies, patents, markets or regulations. We develop criteria with your team, check critical findings with experts and agree refresh requirements. A competitive intelligence dashboard, for example, can connect competitor patent activity to specific R&D questions.

The inputs depend on the decision and can include technology assessments, company profiles, patents, market evidence, pricing information and regulatory developments. Relevant client information and expert input help test assumptions and interpret findings. We connect this evidence to your agreed criteria, filters and scenarios, keeping supporting references accessible. Your team can then examine both the comparison and the reasoning behind it before making a recommendation.

We agree the refresh schedule, responsibilities and alert triggers as part of the platform scope. Updates can address company capabilities, new technology evidence, patent activity, market conditions or regulatory changes, depending on the decision. Your team knows which information is reviewed, when that review happens and what merits attention between updates. The cadence and ongoing support are defined around your needs rather than assumed from launch.

Innovation, R&D, strategy and product teams use these platforms to compare options and prepare recommendations. Procurement, IP and other specialists may contribute requirements or review evidence relevant to their responsibilities. Leadership can use a strategic dashboard during portfolio reviews, investment discussions and go or no-go calls. Shared criteria and source references give these groups a common basis for questioning assumptions and agreeing the next action.

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Bring the question your team keeps revisiting. Make progress.

No sales pitch. Just a focused 30-minute call about your recurring decision, the evidence behind it and what your team needs to answer with confidence.

Our Quick Onboarding Pathway

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Pick a time that works

We’ll send a calendar invite with flexible options across time zones.

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Quick discovery call

30 minutes to discuss your decision, current research, intended users and the comparisons leadership needs before agreeing the next action.

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Custom proposal

Within 48 hours, you’ll receive a clear scope, proposed platform format, research requirements and next steps for your review.

Tell us which recurring decision needs stronger evidence and how your team compares its options today.

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