Company Risk Snapshot
A short scope check confirms whether the request fits the standard $225 package.
How It Works
A Straightforward, Defined Research Process
BCI begins with the business decision, confirms the appropriate research scope, conducts bounded public-source research and analysis, and delivers a written assessment focused on what the findings mean for that decision.
Step 1
Choose a Service
BCI offers five starting points:
- Company Risk Snapshot
- Corporate Intelligence Brief
- Enhanced Due Diligence
- Company Monitoring
- Custom Research
If you are not sure which service fits, describe the company, the business decision, and the issues you need to understand. BCI can determine the appropriate starting point.
Step 2
Tell BCI What You Need to Understand
The initial intake is intentionally short. You provide:
- The company you need researched
- The business decision or relationship involved
- The issues or concerns that matter most
- Your desired timing
You do not need to design the research methodology or know how to frame formal intelligence requirements. Describe the decision and what you need to understand. BCI develops the appropriate analytical framework.
Step 3
Confirm the Scope
The scope-confirmation process depends on the service selected.
Corporate Intelligence Brief
BCI reviews the request and confirms that it fits the standard $550 scope before payment is requested.
Enhanced Due Diligence
BCI confirms the priority issues and provides the final scope, price, deliverable, and anticipated turnaround before payment.
Company Monitoring
BCI verifies the baseline assessment and agrees on the monitoring scope before subscription activation.
Custom Research
BCI reviews the requirement and provides a written scope and quote before work begins.
If the selected service is not the appropriate fit, BCI may recommend a different package or a custom scope rather than force the assignment into the wrong service level.
Step 4
Payment and Project Start
Standard one-time engagements are prepaid after the applicable scope has been confirmed.
Company Monitoring begins when the monitoring scope has been approved and the recurring subscription has been activated.
Published turnaround begins only after:
- The scope has been confirmed
- Required payment has been received
- Any required client information is available
- BCI issues the Project Start confirmation
The Project Start confirmation identifies the accepted service and anticipated delivery window.
Step 5
Research and Analysis
BCI reviews relevant lawfully accessible public sources and evaluates the findings in the context of the client’s business decision.
Source selection depends on the company and the questions being addressed.
Established Facts
Information supported by reliable public-source evidence.
Analytical Judgments
What the available evidence reasonably indicates when considered in context.
Positive or Mitigating Indicators
Information that reduces, qualifies, or provides context for an identified risk.
Information Gaps
Material questions that cannot be reliably resolved from the available public information.
Research Discipline
Research Is Bounded to the Agreed Service Level
Research continues only until sufficient reliable public-source information has been collected to address the agreed questions at the applicable service level.
If the research identifies an issue that would require materially deeper investigation, BCI identifies that issue rather than automatically expanding the engagement or adding charges.
Deeper work can be separately scoped when warranted.
Step 6
Receive the Assessment
One-time engagements are delivered electronically as a PDF report.
Depending on the service, the assessment may include:
- Executive assessment
- Material findings
- Principal risk indicators
- Positive or mitigating indicators
- Material information gaps
- Overall Proceed / Proceed with Controls / Avoid assessment
- Recommended controls or practical next steps
Company Monitoring provides monthly updates plus interim notice where warranted for material developments identified during scheduled monitoring.
After Delivery
Follow-On Work Is Optional
The initial assessment may provide everything needed for the decision.
A Company Risk Snapshot may identify an issue that warrants a Corporate Intelligence Brief or Enhanced Due Diligence. An important ongoing relationship may later justify Company Monitoring.
Follow-on work is considered only when the findings justify it and is not automatically added to an engagement.
Research Boundaries
Lawful Public-Source Corporate Research
BCI focuses on companies, business entities, corporate leadership, and decision-relevant corporate risks using lawfully accessible public information.
BCI does not perform:
- Consumer background investigations
- Physical or electronic surveillance
- Impersonation or pretexting
- Unauthorized access to systems or accounts
- Technical penetration testing
- Acquisition of restricted or improperly obtained private information
Publicly reported cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, leadership, governance, and other corporate-risk issues may be assessed when relevant to the engagement.
Information Gaps
When Public Information Is Incomplete
Public-source research cannot always resolve every material question.
When reliable public information does not support a conclusion, BCI identifies the issue as an information gap rather than presenting an unsupported judgment as fact.
In some situations, the information gap itself may be relevant to the business decision.
Next Step
Start With the Business Decision
Choose a service or describe the company and what you need to understand.