The cost of questionnaire-based market research (survey) is increasing exponentially and offers mediocre results without an enormous question bank and harmonization with other surveys.(See 🖱 blogpost)

Manual data acquisition is an error-prone and boring task for humans that requires many working hours (often not credited in consultancies, law firms, or research institutes.)

Wrangling spreadsheet tables or word processor documents by people without data knowledge is the 🖱 data Sisyphus.

🌳 Organizations that cannot afford to build a large enough data team to sustain consistent, extensive data collection and processing (many large institutions and companies)

🪴 Who cannot hire even a single data engineer or a data scientist (medium-sized companies, NGOs)

🌱 Who do not even have a permanent IT function (about 2 million European small enterprises and civil society organizations)

The European Union, the World Bank, OECD, and UN have facilitated the creation of more than 80 so-called ‘data observatories’ to help companies, researchers, NGOs, and governments systematically collect data and knowledge.

We are currently building one prototype for the European Music Observatory financed by the European Union and music industry players (cc 3-4 million euros.) We would like to take over existing or start new observatories in 2 years at least 5)

Our observatories are competitive, because they use high-quality open source scientific software; they exploit the new Data Governance Act and Open Data Directive, deploy web 3.0 data synchronization, and offer great value-added research products.

The European Union, the World Bank, OECD, and UN have facilitated the creation of more than 80 so-called ‘data observatories’ to help companies, researchers, NGOs, and governments systematically collect data and knowledge.

The different observatories offer different types of knowledge products, such as statistical yearbooks, various apps, and database access.

Most of them use web 1.0 technologies, inefficient knowledge accumulation. Already 20 of them have been discontinued.

We are developing software solutions that exploit our platforms: we harmonize surveys, statistical data, automate research reporting, elements of market monitoring or ESG reporting.

We are currently building one prototype for the European Music Observatory financed by the European Union and music industry players (cc 3-4 million euros.) We would like to take over existing or start new observatories in 2 years at least 5)

Each observatory gives us intimidate customer access to 3-4 large universities, 1-2 large consultancies, and various specialist institutions.

Buma/Stemra like copyright management agencies, music export offices, festivals and venues, University of Amsterdam, Sant’Anna, Economic University of Bratislava, ministries of culture, grant agencies.

University of Amsterdam, Europeana, Sant’Anna, Hungarian Film Fund

Connected financial and sustainability reporting: bank consultancies, big four audit companies, large environmental NGOs.

Antitrust agencies, law firms, economics consultancies working with mergers and other competition related issues.

The observatory platforms usually have a build-up cost of about 3-5 million euros and an annual running costs of 0.1-3 million euros.

Some of our basic products are included in the platform service.

Our existing observatories give us access to the market and public surveying markets (cc 30-40 billion euros in the developed nations), particularly to its software component (about 10 billion euros).

retroharmonize integrates pre-existing questionnaire-based surveys and new surveys. It is aimed at large, international survey companies (Kantar, Gfk) and large international survey programs (Eurostat, GESIS).

Our existing observatories gave us access to environmental impact assessment and currently we build an ESG reporting tool with a central bank, a value bank, and a big four company.

We hope to gain at least 10% global market share on the observatory platform management market to pay our basic data science team and R&D.

The two co-founders, 🖱 Daniel Antal, CFA and 🖱 Andrés García Molina, PhD, and the core team manage the ecosystems’ development, develop knowledge management, and direct the software development. 🖱 Team on full screen

Each observatory has a broader team of users, data and knowledge curators, and developers. The most developed 🖱️ Digital Music Observatory has 16 institutional users and a team of about 20 music and data professionals. The newer observatories have a smaller, initial service development and data curatorial team.