Enterprise · Market Intelligence · Competitive Strategy

Intelligence that
arrives before
the headline

Lacuna Signal is enterprise-grade deterministic intelligence for organisations that cannot afford to be surprised. Monitor 500 documents simultaneously across editorial, academic and patent channels — and detect acceleration patterns weeks before your competition acts.

Deterministic — every finding reproducible and defensible
Three intelligence lenses overlaid in one combined view
500 documents · Patents · News · PDF delivery
Trade secrets and proprietary documents never leave your device
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Free trial: 20 documents · No credit card required

Trend Discovery · Brazil + Europe · last 30 days
📈 Trend Discovery
Top emerging terms across 57 RSS feeds — no topic needed
quantum
Emerging ↑
sanctions
Fading ↓
→ Take "quantum" into Pulse to validate across press · academia · patents
⚡ Pulse — validating quantum
📰 Editorial
+4%
🔬 Research
+38%
⚙ Patents
+72%
⚡ Pre-competitive — patents accelerating · media quiet
Intelligence window: 6–18 months before mainstream coverage
Value per organisation / month
Manual monitoring across the team (est. 40h/analyst)hundreds of hours
Equivalent analyst cost£3,500+
Lacuna Signal — company subscription£249
Net saving from month one>£3,000
Who uses Lacuna Signal

Built for teams that
sell intelligence as a product.

Lacuna Signal is not a research tool. It is a production intelligence platform — for organisations where knowing what's emerging before the market does is a competitive advantage.

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Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences
R&D intelligence · Regulatory affairs · Market access

Pulse Patents detects filing acceleration in competing therapeutic areas before any press coverage. Trend Discovery surfaces regulatory vocabulary shifts across global health agencies. Pulse Research maps where academic consensus is forming — and where your pipeline still has room.

Signal advantage: identify the pre-competitive window — when competitors are patenting heavily but the market hasn't priced it in yet.
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Food, Beverage & Consumer Goods
Category strategy · Innovation · Regulatory monitoring

Trend Discovery scans 57 regional feeds and surfaces emerging consumer vocabulary — ingredient trends, health claims, sustainability narratives — before they reach mainstream trade press. Corpus analysis of regulatory filings maps where labelling requirements are shifting across markets.

Signal advantage: detect a regional trend 6–12 weeks before it saturates — enough time to brief R&D or adjust communication strategy.
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Consulting & Advisory
Market intelligence · Strategy · Due diligence

Deliver client reports with a reproducible methodology. Every gap, every trend, every pattern is traceable to source — your findings withstand scrutiny because the algorithm is deterministic, not a black-box model. PDF export means your deliverable is ready for client presentation without reformatting.

Signal advantage: differentiate your intelligence product with a methodology clients can audit — and regulators can review.
Two tools · one intelligence workflow

Discover first.
Then validate.

Most intelligence platforms ask you to start with a topic. Lacuna Signal starts before that — surfacing what's emerging from 57 global RSS feeds before you know what to look for. Once a term surfaces, Pulse validates it across three independent signals.

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Trend Discovery

You don't always know what to look for. Trend Discovery starts before the topic — scanning global press continuously and surfacing what's gaining momentum right now, across regions and languages. The terms it surfaces become the input for Pulse validation.

57 feeds · 12 regions · 4× daily · up to 180-day archive
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Pulse — Editorial

Is the press picking this up — or still ignoring it? Pulse Editorial measures how fast a topic is growing in news coverage week by week. A topic the press hasn't found yet, but patents are accelerating on, is your intelligence window.

The Guardian · NewsData.io · RSS
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Pulse — Research

Is academia already converging on this — or is the field still open? Pulse Research tracks publication output year by year. Academic momentum precedes commercial adoption by 2–5 years: the papers being written now are the markets forming next.

OpenAlex · 250M+ works indexed
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Pulse — Patents

Is industry quietly investing in this before anyone is talking about it? Patent filings are the earliest available signal of commercial intent — they precede press coverage by 2–5 years and often precede academic publication. Acceleration here, silence elsewhere: that's a pre-competitive window.

Lens.org · EPO · PatentsView · USPTO
Reading the pattern across the three Pulse lenses: ⚡ Patents up · media quiet = pre-competitive window (6–18 months) · 🔬 Research growing · press absent = publishing opportunity · 🔥 All three accelerating = act now · 📰 Media buzz · no patent/academic backing = evaluate carefully · ● Flat across all three = monitor
Why Signal · not a generic intelligence tool

Deterministic.
Not probabilistic.

Every intelligence platform claims to find signals. Most use probabilistic models that vary between runs, cannot be audited, and retain your data to improve their own product. Lacuna Signal does none of this.

Boardroom-defensible

Same corpus, same parameters, same result — always. Present your findings to boards, clients or regulators with a methodology that can be independently verified. No black box. No opaque model.

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Zero data retention

Your proprietary documents, competitive intelligence files and strategic analyses never leave your device. We cannot see them, store them or use them. Not by policy — by architecture.

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PDF delivery

Export complete analysis reports as PDF for immediate client delivery, board presentations or regulatory submissions. Your intelligence workflow ends with a document your audience can hold.

5 corpus comparison

Compare up to 5 document sets simultaneously — your corpus against competitors, temporal cohorts, or regional variants. Same engine, same methodology. Differences are real, not methodological noise.

Patent explorer

8 patent databases pre-queried from your corpus terms — Google Patents, EPO, WIPO, USPTO, Lens.org, INPI Brasil and more. No manual query construction. No missed databases.

500
500 documents

Process an entire industry corpus in a single analysis. Annual reports, regulatory filings, academic surveys, news archives — 500 documents processed deterministically in your browser, zero upload.

Signal vs Scope — a different market

Scope is for researchers.
Signal is for organisations.

The difference is not just document limits. Signal is built for teams that produce intelligence as a commercial output — where findings need to be defensible, deliverable and actionable at organisational scale.

Lacuna Scope — for individual researchers
100 documents · academic corpora
Publication velocity (OpenAlex)
Compare up to 3 corpora
Export CSV, HTML, PNG
No Patents · No News monitoring
£14.99 / user / month
Lacuna Signal — for organisations
Trend Discovery — global press monitoring
Patents + News — Pulse Editorial · Research · Patents
5 corpora comparison
PDF export — client-ready delivery
Patent Explorer — 8 databases
£249 / organisation / month · up to 25 users
Pricing

One subscription.
Entire organisation.

Um preço fixo mensal por organização — sem contar licenças, sem surpresas. Até 25 usuários gerenciados pelo administrador da sua empresa. £249/mês.

Lacuna Signal
£249
organisation / month
Up to 25 users · managed by your admin · Annual billing available
500 documents · 500 terms · 5 corpus comparison
  • Trend Discovery — 57 feeds · 12 regions · 4× daily · 60-day archive
  • Pulse Editorial · Research · Patents — three independent momentum signals
  • Patent Explorer — 8 databases pre-built from corpus terms
  • News Intelligence — RSS monitoring + targeted search
  • PDF export — client-ready analysis reports
  • All Lacuna Scope analysis views included
  • Geo Gaps · Polarity · Consensus · Co-occurrence · Clusters · Timeline
  • AI Advisor — bring your own API key
  • Priority support · Onboarding session included
  • Zero retention — all analysis runs in your browser
Start free trial — 20 documents

No credit card required · Full Signal features during trial

One subscription · up to 25 users · £249/month
Replace hundreds of hours of manual monitoring · Net saving from month one

Need unlimited scale, SSO and sovereign deployment? See Lacuna Core →

Your competitors are reading
the same headlines you are.

Lacuna Signal shows you what the headlines haven't covered yet. The pre-competitive window. The patent cluster no journalist has noticed. The academic acceleration that precedes the market shift.

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Or contact us for a team demo — hello@lacunalabs.eu