To Selvan Public Affairs
Dear Saeed
Thank you for taking the time to meet with me and your interest in Delphic Research’s work to elevate the government affairs profession through knowledge. We here at Delphic Research have done the hard work of validating the market opportunity, developing a product that fits the needs of that market as well as the platform to deliver at scale, while establishing early traction with a valuable market vertical.
It’s now time to scale. With that in mind, I appreciate your willingness to dig into the bigger question of what an agency partnership should look like—and how that might intersect with our emerging U.S. go-to-market efforts. As I mentioned, we have found success in selling to companies, organizations, and governments directly, but have been struggling to find the best way to partner with a GR firm to access or support their clients. At its core, our company aggregates policy, political, regulatory, and stakeholder intelligence, synthesizes that intelligence into actionable insights and then directs the relevant knowledge to each subscriber in a way that is meaningful to them.
Our customers value staying abreast of the information that matters to them but, at the same time, they don’t want to spend their valuable time checking out multiple sources each day or having to operate a stack of technology applications.
Meet Argus
Our business strategy and approach to the market is to use technology in the service of people, building tools that don’t require government affairs professionals to moonlight as technologists or programmers to operate. Philosophically, we see technology as a force multiplier, not the center of the story.
Instead, we combine technology, domain expertise, and human talent to deliver a finished product, with the core channel being our Executive Daily Briefing. Argus is at the heart of that. Argus allows us to monitor thousands of unique sources where information of relevance might emerge and then process critical intelligence it finds into actionable information – and with the ability to deliver that in many different formats, co-created with our customers.
Why now
There has never been a more important time for government affairs professionals to lean into the intelligence they need to serve their clients and principals. We are currently living through an incredible period of policy uncertainty and volatility.
At the same time, we have also seen an increase in governments’ willingness to act through increased regulation as well as various other instruments of state power. In fact, in just the first few years of this decade, G20 countries introduced 40% more new regulations per year than in the decade previous. Furthermore, a 2024 Grant Thornton Survey (UK) found that 77% of respondents anticipated even more regulatory obligations in the future.
Again, thank you so much for taking the time to meet with me. I sincerely hope to have the opportunity to continue our discussion and to see if there is some scenario where Delphic and Selvam Public Affairs might work together soon. With sincere best wishes,
With sincere best wishes
Jason Grier