Consulting service
Data & Analytics Solutions
Data and analytics solutions turn Douglas Insights market models into products your team uses every quarter: data feeds, installed base models and dashboards. Instead of a one-time report, you get maintained numbers with a documented method behind every figure.
The problem
Where this usually goes wrong
Reports that age in a drawer
A study bought in January is quietly wrong by October and nobody owns the update.
Spreadsheet sprawl
Every team keeps its own version of the market model and no two agree in the QBR.
Black-box data vendors
Feeds arrive without methodology, so finance will not sign off on plans built from them.
Planning cycles stall while teams argue about whose number is right, and decisions default to last year plus a percentage because nothing current is trusted.
Our approach
How Douglas Insights solves it
Agree the data contract
Metrics, definitions, granularity, refresh cadence and delivery format fixed in writing.
Build the base model
Market, installed base or demand model constructed bottom-up with full source register.
Automate the delivery
Files, API or dashboard, matched to how your team already works.
Maintain and document
Scheduled refreshes with a change log, so every revision is explained rather than silent.
What you receive
Named deliverables, not vague workstreams
- Maintained market data feed on agreed cadence
- Installed base or demand model with assumptions open
- Decision dashboard for planning and QBR use
- Data dictionary and methodology documentation
- Change log with every refresh
- Analyst support hours for interpretation
- Single source of truth adopted across teams
Where this applies
Typical situations
Every figure ships with a numbered source. Interviews, filings and trade data are logged in a source register, and the working model is part of the deliverable.
Read the methodology →Common questions
Data & Analytics Solutions: frequently asked questions
What formats can data be delivered in?
Spreadsheet packs, flat files, a lightweight API or a hosted dashboard. Most clients start with files and add the dashboard once definitions settle.
How often is data refreshed?
Quarterly is standard. Monthly and event-driven refreshes are available where the underlying market moves faster.
Can this start from a report we already own?
Yes. An existing Douglas Insights report converts directly, and third-party studies can be audited and rebuilt into a maintained model.
Is the methodology shared?
Fully. Every feed ships with a data dictionary and method note, because numbers your finance team cannot audit will never make it into the plan.
Data products
Data this service draws on
Chemical commodity prices by country
Monthly unit values by country from national customs statistics, verified by the research desk, with a subscriber dashboard for every commodity.
- Monthly prices by country
- Producer and plant registry
- Dashboard with CSV export
Production cost analysis by country
The direct cash cost of making a tonne: raw materials, utilities, packaging and labour priced in six countries, every input with its source and year. PDF and Excel in 48 hours.
- Cash cost per tonne, 6 countries
- Every input sourced and dated
- PDF + Excel in 48 hours
Manufacturing plant cost and setup reports
Manufacturing plant project reports: what a plant costs to build, run and return, with capex, unit cost and IRR across six regions and an Excel model.
- Capex, opex and IRR by region
- Sourced country cost benchmark
- Vendor-quoted machinery
Drug pipeline reviews by therapy area
Every drug candidate in clinical development for a therapy area, counted by phase from registered trials and reviewed by the research desk, with sponsors, readouts and a 40–50 page review.
- Candidates by phase and sponsor
- Readout calendar
- Excel tracker of every asset
Scope a data & analytics solutions engagement
A 30 minute call to define the question, then a fixed fee proposal within 48 hours with named deliverables and timeline.