Commercial research services
Focused research and intelligence for businesses making important commercial decisions. Each project is scoped around the question, geography, evidence available and depth of analysis required.
Current focused offers
Commercial Opportunity Research Brief — US$500 founding price
Identify and prioritise up to five evidence-backed commercial opportunities or signals in one tightly defined market—not a generic lead list.
Competitor & Market Decision Brief — US$750 founding price
One decision, one market or segment and three competitors, assessed through current public-source evidence.
SEO Spend Check — US$350 founding price
A fixed-price decision report for businesses deciding whether SEO, content or AI visibility spend is justified.
Commercial Opportunity Research
Available within Business Research on Demand, the Commercial Opportunity Research Brief helps a business identify which visible projects, companies, markets or commercial developments deserve attention—and why. It combines evidence, fit assessment, prioritisation, uncertainty and a recommended next action. It is research and judgement, not generic lead generation.
Other available services
Business Research on Demand
Focused investigation of commercial questions that do not fit a productised service.
Product Opportunity Validation
Desk-based validation first, with interviews or participant research scoped separately when required.
Market Entry Research
Desk-based screening and intelligence for businesses assessing a new country, region, segment or market.
Research Retainers
Ongoing intelligence for suitable clients after an initial project establishes the need and working fit.
Founding pricing and scope
- SEO Spend Check — US$350: one bounded independent spend-decision diagnostic.
- Commercial Opportunity Research Brief — US$500: one tightly defined market and up to five prioritised opportunities or signals.
- Competitor & Market Decision Brief — US$750: one decision, one market or segment and three competitors.
- Business Research on Demand — from US$400: one narrowly defined question with a concise evidence-linked answer and source register.
- Product Opportunity Desk Validation Screen — from US$650: one product hypothesis, one target user and one market, using desk research only.
- Desk-based Market Entry Screen — from US$1,250: one country, one defined offering and one entry decision.
Want to see one first? Read a complete anonymised sample research brief — twelve pages, including the comparison matrix, the confidence grading on every finding, and the case against our own recommendation.
Founding Client Pricing is available to the first three suitable paid clients for this product, subject to fit and scope.
The founding-client rule applies separately to the three focused productised offers. Other work is quoted by scope. Before work begins, Arceon confirms the question, coverage, outputs, timing, evidence constraints, exclusions and fee. Where available evidence cannot responsibly answer the question, we narrow the scope or say so.
Every project starts the same way: you describe the decision, we reply within 1 business day, and we confirm the scope, the fixed fee and the delivery date in writing before any work begins.