Which technology is actually worth your time?
Market intelligence for innovation, strategy and R&D teams. Start with a strategic question and evalue8 works outward: which approaches exist, which technologies could solve it, which companies provide them, which experts understand the field — and which of them stand up to a closer look.
No venture jargon required. Start from the problem you actually have.
By the time it's obvious, the decision has already been made by default
A supplier mentions a new process. A competitor announces something at a trade fair. A commissioned study arrives six months after the question was asked. The information was public the whole time — it was just spread across thousands of sources nobody had time to read.
And when a recommendation finally reaches leadership, it has to survive people who weren't in the room. Statements that can't be traced back to a source rarely do.
What is changing?
Structure a market and see who is actually in it.Who can solve this?
Approaches, technologies, companies and the experts behind them.Who is credible?
The same criteria applied to every candidate, with sources.Build, buy, partner or invest?
A report your leadership can open and check.From a strategic question to a decision you can defend
You rarely know the name of the technology you need. You know the problem you have. evalue8 works outward from there — and every step is already a usable result.
Identify European startups specialising in AI-based energy management for commercial and industrial buildings — predictive control of heat pumps, PV, battery storage, charging infrastructure and HVAC — that we could integrate into customer projects to cut energy costs, peak loads and CO₂.
Written the way an innovation manager actually asks. Scout can tighten the prompt and ask clarifying questions before it runs.
A three-month scouting project starts as an afternoon
Scout doesn't replace the project. It moves the starting line — you begin with a structured, ranked supplier list and the experts behind it, instead of a blank page and a consultant's proposal.
Vendors compared against the same criteria
Quick Research places every candidate in an identical structure in 10–30 seconds: what they offer, where they are, traction, team, competition, opportunities and risks. That is what makes a shortlist defensible instead of anecdotal.
- Uniform profilesCategory, stage, customers, geography and business model in the same place every time.
- Maturity, honestly statedPilot line, first installations or series production — and what the evidence actually supports.
- Competitors namedIncluding the ones that solve the same problem with a different technology.
- Data gaps flaggedWhat could not be established is written down, not glossed over.
Where the players actually sit — including the ones outside your category
A recommendation that survives the people who weren't in the room
Internal decisions are rarely lost on the analysis. They are lost when nobody can retrace it.
Every statement has a source
Open the evidence behind any line — in the meeting, not afterwards.
Pass the result on by link
A colleague, a business unit or a steering committee reads the same report you did.
Claims tested against your own documents
Release a vendor's material to it and evalue8 checks what the vendor claims against what the sources support.
Six questions it answers well
Market intelligence
Structure a market, see who is in it, and keep the picture current.
Technology scouting
From a problem to the approaches, technologies and companies behind it.
Competitor intelligence
Patents, hiring, launches, partnerships and funding — tracked rather than googled.
Partner & supplier scouting
Compare candidates on substance before the first call.
Expert discovery
Find the researchers and engineers working on exactly your problem.
Build, buy or partner
See what already exists before you commit development budget to it.
You don't need an innovation lab to use this
Innovation & strategy
Watch the field, prepare decisions, brief leadership with something defensible.
R&D and engineering
Find approaches and prior art before committing development budget.
Corporate development & M&A
Map a space you're new to and find the targets in it.
Technology purchasing
Compare suppliers on substance rather than on sales decks.
Corporate venture
Assess startups against your own roadmap, not a generic score.
Managing directors
Get the overview you'd otherwise buy as a study — and keep it current.
One more system to maintain? No.
Innovation teams already carry a portfolio of tools nobody fully uses. evalue8 can be the place you work — or the intelligence behind the place you already work.
Work in evalue8
Scout, research and Cockpit in the browser, with projects shared across the team.
Work in your own tools
Reach evalue8 research from the AI tools your team uses, or bring it into internal systems and automated workflows.
Google Drive · Attio
Pull supplier documents straight from Drive into an analysis, and push results where your team tracks them.
What you research reveals your strategy
Anyone searching for a specific process is telling the world about their roadmap. That is why your research stays inside your team — and why internal documents are only ever used once you release them.
Security & privacy overview- Internal documents only on releaseYour own material is used only when you release it, with clear data separation.
- EU data sovereigntyEuropean hosting and role-based access, designed in from the start.
- Auditable outputEvery statement leads back to a source and an evidence grade.
- Model-agnosticThe right model per task — no dependency on a single provider.
Bring us a question. We'll show you the answer.
Not a demo script — your actual scouting question, run through the product. If it's useful we'll talk. If it isn't, you still have the answer.