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Email us →A leads platform, a research house, your own reading, or GridteamAI. All four are legitimate. They answer different questions at very different prices — here is the whole picture, plainly, so you can pick the right one.
1,113 LIVE PROJECTS · £475bn OF BUILD-OUT, TRACKED
tracks planning applications and tender notices and sends you alerts. Good at telling you a project exists; quiet on the regulatory and funding decisions that come before it.
sells analyst-written sector studies — deep, credible, and priced per report at a level that assumes a corporate library budget.
means reading the primary sources in-house — settlements, consents, registers. Free, sovereign, and a full-time job that resets every month.
reads the primary sources on a published cycle, verifies every figure, and publishes the lot for £995 a year — the map, the boards, 64 sector reports and the record layer.
| GridteamAI | Leads platform | Research house | Do it yourself | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| When you hear about work | Months early — at settlement, consent and pipeline stage | From early planning through to the tender notice | Quarterly, in arrears | Whenever you get to the reading |
| Every figure sourced & dated | printed on the figure | —aggregated feeds, varying provenance | analyst-attributed | you did the sourcing |
| Coverage | 27 sectors, UK & Ireland, one map | Planning applications, tenders and contacts; light on the regulatory and funding decisions behind them | The sectors they choose to write | Whatever you have time for |
| Kept current | Published verification cycle, dated | real-time notices | Refreshed at the next edition | Resets every month |
| The full picture on one screen | the map + the boards | PDFs | 59 tabs | |
| Citable in a board pack | source + date on every figure | —needs re-verification | —if your sourcing survives review | |
| A bespoke question answered | from £1,500 | at consultancy rates | your own time | |
| Built for | Growing UK & Irish businesses | Enterprise sales teams | Corporate strategy budgets | Whoever can spare the analyst |
| Price | £995 a year, everything | From £4,000 a year | £2,000+ per report | “Free” — plus a salary |
If all you need is planning and tender leads with contact names, buy a leads platform. They do that job well, and we don't compete with it. Ours covers what sits behind the leads: the regulatory and funding decisions that set the work moving, with the source for each.
If you need one deep bespoke study a year and budget isn't the constraint, a research house is a fine answer. Our 64 reports cover the same ground at subscription price; Commission exists for the questions that need bespoke work — from £1,500, not £20,000.
If you're already reading the primary sources in-house, you're our kind of reader — check your picture against the free map and boards. The subscription is that reading done every cycle, verified, so your analyst gets their month back.
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