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Research for markets that refuse to sit still.
Practical guides to building source-backed market intelligence, tracking change and giving people—or agents—facts they can verify.
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What Is a Stealth Startup, and How to Find Them Anyway
A stealth startup is a company operating with no public announcement. Here is what stealth mode hides, what it cannot hide, and how to find them.
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How the evidence layer gets built.
What Is an MCP Server? A Plain-English Guide
An MCP server exposes tools and data to an AI application over the Model Context Protocol. What that means, how it works, and how to connect one.
4 September 2026
9 min read
The Data Marketplace for Agent-Ready Web Data
What a data marketplace is, what agent-ready web data means, and how nine live feeds are priced when the receipts ship with every row.
4 September 2026
9 min read
The Central Digital Platform, Explained for Suppliers
What the Central Digital Platform is, who registers, how share codes and unique identifiers work, and how it fits with Find a Tender.
4 September 2026
9 min read
Browser Agents in 2026: What They Break On
A browser agent drives a real browser to finish a task. Here are the four ways they break, and when a verified feed beats live browsing.
4 September 2026
9 min read
Agentic Workflows That Need Live Web Data
Five agentic workflows that only work on live web data, each mapped to a real feed with real rows, and the ask-before-it-acts pattern.
4 September 2026
10 min read
The Best MCP Servers for Giving Agents Real Data
A category map of MCP servers that give agents real data: files, code, databases, web search, page retrieval and live receipted feeds.
4 September 2026
9 min read
Choosing a B2B Data Provider in 2026
The five questions to ask any B2B data provider, a comparison of the provider types, and how scraper.io answers each one.
4 September 2026
10 min read
Find a Tender API: What It Gives You and What It Doesn't
The Find a Tender OCDS API returns national releases with no CPV, region or value filter. What it exposes, what it hides, and how to work with it.
4 September 2026
10 min read
UK Tender Alerts for Electrical Contractors: Where Council Work Is Actually Posted
Where UK council electrical work is really published: the national registers, the regional portals, and the standing lists that reach neither.
4 September 2026
10 min read
API Deprecation Report — September 2026
What is sunsetting and when: 46 deadlines inside 30 days and 21 breaking changes, read straight off 132 vendors' own notices.
4 September 2026
3 min read
Champion Moves Report — September 2026
107 executive and board moves out of SEC 8-K filings this run — 44 departures, 46 of them C-suite, every name checked against the filing itself.
4 September 2026
3 min read
How to keep a market map current without rebuilding it every month
A practical model for turning a one-off market spreadsheet into a maintained, source-backed view of companies, facts and changes.
5 August 2026
8 min read
What counts as evidence in a Live Market?
A source link is a start. A trustworthy market value also needs a supporting excerpt, observation time and an honest label for inference.
5 August 2026
7 min read
We reviewed 20 AI vendors across 60 official-source observations. Here is what the baseline can—and cannot—tell you.
An honest account of Scraper.io's first reviewed AI vendor baseline: its scope, coverage, evidence mix and missing temporal proof.
5 August 2026
9 min read
From a company list to a live dataset: the workflow we use
A practical playbook for defining the market, verifying each match, adding useful fields and deciding what should trigger review.
5 August 2026
6 min read
Eight web signals worth monitoring before a market moves
The public-web changes that often reveal a new product, changing go-to-market motion or a company moving into your category.
5 August 2026
7 min read
How to give agents fresh context without giving them fresh hallucinations
A technical pattern for supplying agents with current web facts, source evidence, uncertainty and a safe route to human review.
5 August 2026
8 min read
The live dataset brief: a copy-and-paste template
A short template for scoping the market, fields, evidence standard, refresh cadence and delivery workflow before collection begins.
5 August 2026
5 min read
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