Your externalbusiness research team

Exploring a new market, trying to understand a competitor, or checking key risks before a partnership or commitment?

Taiwha researches markets, company backgrounds and transaction risks around our clients’ actual business needs. We check key facts, compare options, and explain the evidence behind our assessment and the questions that still need answers.

Work with us on an ongoing basis, or start with one specific question.

What are you considering right now?

New opportunities—which market should we explore first?

Compare demand, competition and entry conditions in light of your products, resources and delivery capabilities, and identify directions worth investigating further.

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Customers, channels and partners—who should we understand first?

Research candidates’ businesses, signs of demand and conditions for working together. Set out whom to investigate first, why, and what to confirm when you make contact.

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Why are competitors winning orders?

Compare products, pricing, channels, delivery and service to understand what may influence customer choices and identify improvements worth testing.

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Costs and policies have changed. How should we adjust our plan?

Trace how the changes could affect customers, costs and delivery, and compare the conditions for continuing, adjusting the approach or postponing a commitment.

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Do we understand our partner’s background and business relationships?

Research company backgrounds and business relationships, map key dependencies, and distinguish supported information from questions that need further verification.

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What risks should we check before signing or paying?

Examine the counterparty’s background, transaction arrangements and ability to fulfil the agreement. Identify risks to delivery, payment and collection, along with facts and questions that need further checking.

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Research

Explore our completed research to see how we analyse questions, use sources and reach our assessments.

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How we work

We find and check information, connect the relevant facts, identify changes worth attention, compare their possible effects and develop an evidence-based assessment of risk.

  1. Capture
  2. Connect
  3. Detect
  4. Simulate
  5. Assess
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Ongoing research support, or one question to start

Ongoing research partnership

For clients who need to keep track of markets, competition and business risks.

We begin with your business and current priorities, then agree on the research questions, workload and delivery schedule for each stage. As your business progresses, we update existing research and discuss new questions.

Monthly or quarterly fees depend on the agreed scope and workload. We agree on arrangements for new or expanded tasks before proceeding.

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Commissioned research

For clients with a specific question who want to start with a single project.

Tell us what you are considering. Research begins once we agree on the scope, materials needed, deliverables, fee and timing.

Each project is quoted separately. We deliver the research and clarify questions within the agreed scope.

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What are you working on, and what do you need to understand?

Tell us briefly about your situation, what you want to find out and any timing requirements. You do not need a complete research brief—we will start by clarifying the question together.

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Please use public or non-sensitive information for the initial conversation. Paid research begins after the scope, fee and timing are agreed.

Taiwha helps you analyse problems and prepare decisions. It is not investment, legal, tax, medical, psychological, immigration, or education advice, and it does not guarantee forecasts, returns, admissions, funding, governance, or business results.