They Knew
Six Months
Before The
Market Did.
847 competitive briefings delivered last quarter. Average lead time: 23 weeks before public disclosure.
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before trusting us with their strategy.
Google Alerts surface what a competitor wants you to know. We surface what they're trying to hide.
Google indexes public content after publication — press releases, blog posts, earnings calls. That's the story a competitor's PR team approved. Intercept monitors pre-publication signals: provisional patent filings (public 18 months before grant), job requisitions that telegraph R&D direction, and pricing page A/B variants visible only to specific geographic IP ranges.
We also monitor 140+ niche sources — regulatory comment letters, FTC pre-merger notifications, FDA 510(k) submissions — that are technically public but practically invisible without systematic collection.
The result: a briefing that reads like a deposition exhibit, not a news digest.
Nothing — because everything we do is legal, public-record sourced, and defensible in court.
Every source Intercept uses is either a public government record, an openly accessible web property, or a licensed commercial dataset. We do not use social engineering, pretexting, corporate espionage, or any method that would implicate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Our methodology was reviewed by outside counsel at two Am Law 100 firms. The opinion letters are available to clients under NDA. Three of our pharmaceutical clients have shared Intercept deliverables directly in litigation without redaction.
If a competitor "finds out" you're using us, it means they're reading the same public record you are — and they're behind.
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Request a Sample BriefYes. Three have. Two more are currently retained as experts in pending litigation.
Intercept employs former USPTO examiners, ex-BigLaw associates with IP litigation backgrounds, and OSINT analysts who previously worked in government intelligence. Every analyst maintains a documented chain of custody for their sources.
Our Litigation Support tier includes: analyst depositions, expert reports formatted to FRE 702 standards, and a dedicated liaison to your outside counsel. General counsel at two Fortune 500 pharma clients have used Intercept deliverables as exhibit foundations in ITC proceedings.
Standard intelligence clients receive briefings with full source citations. Litigation tier clients receive source preservation protocols from day one.
Fourteen primary databases, 140 secondary sources, and three humans who read the footnotes.
Our collection layer ingests: USPTO (patents + trademarks), EPO and WIPO (international filings), SEC EDGAR (8-K, S-1, proxy disclosures), FDA submissions, FTC pre-merger notifications, state regulatory filings in 50 jurisdictions, LinkedIn job requisition data via licensed API, and pricing intelligence via distributed browser infrastructure.
Automated ingestion handles volume. Human analysts handle interpretation. A hiring spike in "ML infrastructure" means something different depending on whether it's paired with a new AWS partnership or an expiring NVIDIA contract.
Every briefing includes a source appendix. You can pull the thread yourself.
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Request a Sample BriefPatent filings: within 48 hours. Pricing shifts: within 6 hours. Hiring signals: daily digest at 7am your time.
Standard clients receive a Weekly Intelligence Digest — a two-page brief covering all monitored competitors, formatted for executive review. Flash alerts trigger on material events: a new patent cluster, a pricing change exceeding 15%, or a hiring surge in a defined role category.
Enterprise clients receive a dedicated Slack channel with real-time analyst commentary. M&A support clients get a 24-hour response SLA on ad-hoc requests — "what do we know about this company's IP exposure in Germany" — with a written response, not a forwarded search result.
Patents, pricing, and hiring. The three signals that actually predict what a competitor does next.
Patent monitoring: New filings, continuations, office actions, allowances, and abandonments. We track prosecution strategy, not just grant announcements. A continuation filing on a broad claim tells you more about competitive intent than a press release.
Pricing intelligence: List price changes, packaging restructures, regional variants, promotional pricing, and sales-team-reported discounting patterns from our commercial data partners.
Hiring signals: Role velocity by function, seniority distribution, geographic clustering, and keyword analysis of job descriptions — the language a company uses to hire tells you what they're building.
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Request a Sample BriefProven Outcomes
What clients did with the lead time.
A SaaS client detected a competitor's pivot to usage-based pricing via job postings for "billing infrastructure engineers" and a provisional patent on metered licensing.
A pharma client's GC received an alert on a competitor's accelerating continuation strategy in a key therapeutic area — 8 months before the first granted claim.
An M&A team used Intercept's hiring velocity analysis to identify a target company's undisclosed engineering buildout in Germany — before due diligence began.
A client renegotiated a vendor contract after Intercept surfaced the vendor's pricing change window — three weeks before the renewal conversation.
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