Oscar combines experienced human research, public-sector knowledge, structured data and AI-assisted gathering to build the evidence your team needs.
Research can cover organisations, structures, people, policies, strategies, suppliers, competitors, markets, procurement activity and public-body change. It can be delivered as a standalone project or used to enrich data, support a report, power a feed or contribute to a wider intelligence workflow.
Research Services is Oscar's flexible public-sector investigation and evidence-gathering capability. It is used when the information required is fragmented, changing, difficult to validate, spread across multiple sources or not already available as a clean structured dataset.
What research can support
Research can answer a specific information gap, enrich an existing dataset, monitor a market, support a report, configure a feed or provide the evidence behind an intelligence workflow.
Oscar researchers can investigate organisations, public-body structures, named people, source material and market context, validating information and adding judgement where data alone is insufficient.
Gather evidence around sectors, policy themes, buyers, competitors, supplier activity, procurement trends, public-body change and emerging opportunities across UK public services.
Use AI-supported workflows to collect, classify and summarise public-body material such as news, annual reports, strategies, policies, plans, consultations and other online collateral.
Start with the information, source, organisation group, market or change you need to understand or monitor.
Research can use Oscar's organisation, postholder, contract, spend and supplier data as context or a starting point.
Combine judgement and validation with scalable gathering, classification and summarisation.
Outputs can enrich databases, feeds, reports, dashboards, alerts and client workflows.
How a research project works
Research can be delivered as a one-off project or configured as ongoing monitoring where the information changes over time.
Example research themes
These are examples rather than fixed packages. Research can be configured around a specific market, public-body group, source type, competitor set, policy topic or intelligence requirement.
Collect and organise annual reports, strategies, policies, consultations, plans, committee papers, news items and relevant website collateral.
Investigate parent relationships, service responsibilities, leadership arrangements, governance, structural change and organisational context.
Research market areas, policy themes, service pressures, buyer groups, procurement activity and emerging opportunity indicators.
Investigate competitor activity, supplier presence, buyer overlap, awarded contracts, frameworks and public-sector positioning.
Research senior roles, named postholders, role changes, leadership structures, decision-making groups and stakeholder networks.
Configure AI-enabled workflows to gather, classify, summarise and score new public-sector material for reporting, feeds and alerts.
Possible outputs
The output should match what happens next. Sometimes that is a briefing; other times the value is in a structured dataset, a maintained source library or an ongoing monitoring stream.
A wider Oscar capability
Research Services is not isolated from the rest of Oscar. The same evidence-gathering capability can support multiple downstream uses.
Use research to find missing fields, resolve structures, identify postholders, confirm relationships or add context to existing data.
Feed newly gathered evidence into Reports where the next step is interpretation, comparison, analysis and strategic conclusions.
Turn recurring research and source monitoring into structured data that can be delivered through Feeds or exposed through Oscar\'s capability and integration layer.
How Research relates to other Oscar services
Research is the natural starting point when information has to be found, checked or monitored. The resulting evidence can then feed into other Oscar services when the requirement goes further.
Use Reports when the primary requirement is interpretation, market analysis and a decision-ready answer built from the available evidence.
Explore Bespoke Reports →Use Feeds when the primary requirement is structured, recurring or live delivery into files, CRM, BI, APIs, connectors or other systems.
Explore Data Services →Explore Oscar\'s growing catalogue of public sector data and AI capabilities, or configure a new capability around a specific retrieval, validation, classification, summarisation or other client requirement.
Explore Capabilities →Use Oscar's core databases when the information you need is already available as maintained organisation, postholder or sector data.
Explore Databases →Use the live intelligence layer for contracts, tenders, buyers, suppliers and commercial market activity.
Explore Contract Intelligence →Use supplier intelligence to explore public-sector contract and spend relationships, market presence and competitor position.
Explore Supplier Intelligence →Start with the information gap, source type, organisation group, market or change you need to understand. We can shape the right combination of human research, Oscar data and AI-assisted gathering from there.