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Vane

Direct market intelligence for high-stakes dealmakers

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Strategy researchers and M&A analysts waste over 12 hours every week navigating gated articles, registration walls, and SEO-bloated market chatter while racing to deliver board-level insights.

Vane streamlines executive research by routing queries through a direct access layer that instantly surfaces fully readable, high-intent market data while discarding paywalls and sponsored fluff. Strategy teams receive clean, citation-backed market briefs without spending hours hitting subscription friction or creating temp accounts. By bridging corporate licensing credentials directly into a unified search experience, enterprise teams accelerate deal diligence and competitive analysis by 4x.

Vane is building the standard intelligence infrastructure for high-velocity corporate decision-making.

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Problem
  • When I perform competitive analysis under tight board deadlines, I want to review accurate market reports, but hard paywalls and mandatory login barriers burn 10+ hours per week per analyst.
  • Why Now: Executive decision velocity has doubled while publisher paywalls have grown 350% more restrictive across business news outlets.
  • When I evaluate M&A targets across niche industries, I want clean financial press releases, but search engine results are dominated by 80% SEO-sponsored link farms.
  • When I archive industry research for corporate compliance, I want full-text un-gated sources, but broken links and paywalled references destroy audit trails.
  • Existing Alternatives: Manual corporate credit card expense forms for one-off articles, shared team passwords on spreadsheets, or copying text snippets from cached search engines.
Solution
  • High-Level Concept: Bloomberg for open executive research, delivering clean signal without paywall barriers.
  • Enterprise credential aggregation engine that seamlessly verifies organizational subscriptions across 500+ news and trade journals.
  • Fluff-free search indexing that automatically strips SEO keyword farms and sponsored landing pages from strategic queries.
  • One-click executive briefing builder that compiles full-text research citations directly into board-ready slide decks.
Distribution
  • Corporate Strategy Directors at Fortune 500 firms and PE Associates managing $100M+ deal flow with immediate budget authority.
  • Direct account-based outreach targeting Heads of M&A on LinkedIn with customized competitive intelligence audits.
  • Integration partnerships with enterprise browser management platforms like Island and Talon.
  • Invite-only executive briefing webinars hosted alongside boutique management consulting firms.
Pricing
  • Value Ladder: Free tier with 25 clean queries per month
  • Pro Tier at $250/seat/month
  • Enterprise Tier at $1.5k/team/month with custom publisher SSO.
  • One Metric That Matters: Number of fully resolved executive research briefings generated per active seat per week.
  • Market Sizing: SAM of 200k strategy and M&A professionals across North America and Europe, yielding a $120M Year 1 potential market.
Scale Costs
  • Proprietary publisher licensing agreements and legal compliance infrastructure for syndicated content.
  • High-concurrency headless browser farms required for real-time page rendering and credential handshakes.
  • Enterprise-grade SOC2 Type II data security and private tenant hosting.
Expert Opinions
Avg: 9.0
  • world-class Chief Strategy Officer in SaaS with $200M+ ARR scaling experience
    9
  • leading Managing Director in Private Equity with $2B+ AUM
    9
  • former VP of Product at enterprise search pioneer
    9
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