RC Intelligence

Strategic clarity for publishers, societies and vendors

Know What Matters, Understand What It Means, and Make Better-Informed Decisions

RC Intelligence is a tailored monitoring, interpretation and strategic advisory service for publishers, societies and vendors.

The volume of change facing the research ecosystem is rising, across policy, funding, technology, publishing, research integrity and infrastructure, while the time available to interpret what matters is shrinking.

RC Intelligence closes that gap. You stay ahead of the developments shaping the ecosystem and understand what they mean for your strategy, without building the monitoring capability or finding the interpretation time yourself.

What You Receive

A quarterly intelligence briefing

You begin each quarter knowing which developments matter for your strategy and which you can set aside: what is happening, what it means for you, and what to watch next.

A live executive session

You have dedicated time to explore the implications with senior RC experts who already understand your priorities and come ready to discuss what matters.

A competitive landscape review

You understand how the platforms, vendors and organisations you track are positioning themselves, and what those developments could mean for your strategy.

Ongoing dialogue between cycles

When something significant changes between cycles, you have someone to call who already understands your organisation and strategic priorities.

How It Works: Technology for Coverage, Expertise for Meaning

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You get structured coverage without having to build and maintain the monitoring capability yourself.

Our purpose-built system tracks 30+ authoritative sources continuously, across publishing, policy, research infrastructure and funder bodies, with every development classified against a structured taxonomy and scored for relevance to your priorities.

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Our senior experts then interpret what matters.

Not just what happened, but what it means for your strategy and what you might do about it.

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And you get the space to think it through.

Each quarterly briefing is followed by an executive session to explore the implications, challenge assumptions and discuss what they could mean for your organisation. Between cycles, senior RC experts stay on hand as significant developments emerge.

Intelligence From Inside the Ecosystem

Other services tell you what happened. We tell you what it means for you.

We work with the organisations shaping the research ecosystem and our core team is supported by a global network of associates across Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and beyond.

As a Dimensions Data Partner, we draw on the world’s leading research intelligence dataset when a question needs hard numbers.

We are independent of any vendor, funder or publisher interest. The analysis is balanced, and we will name uncomfortable truths.

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Configured To Your Priorities

RC Intelligence is not a newsletter or a generic analyst subscription. We agree the themes, markets and competitors that matter to you – from AI governance and funder policy to open access, research integrity and platform developments – and build the monitoring and briefing around them.

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Senior Expertise on Every Briefing and Every Conversation

RC Intelligence briefings are delivered by Research Consulting’s senior team, people with deep roots in scholarly publishing, research policy and open science, and active roles in the sector organisations shaping it. You deal with the people who do the thinking on every briefing and every call.

What Our Clients Say

The project outputs have been key in shaping our strategic thinking… they translated complex concepts into accessible insights… which made the findings both actionable and easy to engage with.

We had several key questions requiring industry insights… the findings helped us refine our strategy and provided valuable input into our 3-year business plan.

Research Consulting demonstrated a strong understanding of the scholarly publishing landscape, which made their advice and approach especially valuable.

Let's start a conversation

If you’d like to discuss how RC Intelligence could support your organisation, we’d be happy to talk.

Engagements start from £3,000 / $4,000 per quarter. A single-cycle trial is available before committing to an ongoing relationship.

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