Introducing Delphic Research
Dear Andrew and Christopher,
Thank you for your interest in Delphic Research and our work to elevate the government affairs profession through knowledge.
We 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. So, with that in mind, I’m extremely enthusiastic about a potential partnership with you and believe wholeheartedly that you could both be instrumental in taking this business to the next level.
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.
We operate on a subscription B2B business model, with Canadian subscription rates averaging CAD $3,500 per month and believe that the equivalent price in USD is achievable. Moreover, there are myriad demonstrated opportunities to increase wallet share with natural add-ons, examples of which I’d be pleased to discuss with you.
With minimal investment, there is a defensible pathway to get to USD $20M within five. But to be frank, there is a pathway and clear argument that the potential for this business is much larger than that. The company is targeting a large, growing, and largely underserved sector when it comes to some of the most critical information challenges they face.
Meet Argus: Our Proprietary Knowledge Engine
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 use technology 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 forms. Indeed, in many respects our approach to acquiring, synthesizing, and disseminating information has created the potential to leverage it as a true platform company organized around serving the information and knowledge needs of those working in government affairs.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible
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 which is arguably the most volatile and uncertain period of policy certainty since the end of the second world war. At the same time, we have also seen an increase in governments willingness to ace, through increased regulation and various other instruments of state power. Indeed, by way of example, in the 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.
Across almost every measure, we are seeing evidence that we are living through a historically significant period of policy uncertainty. According to the US Federal Reserve (“The Cost of Rising Uncertainty”, April 2025), “uncertainty regarding economic and financial conditions, geopolitical risks, and policy outcomes has been remarkably elevated” and that their review of six metrics capturing this uncertainty had them conclude that the uncertainties for the United States “have reached their highest levels in decades”. The Bank for International Settlements annual report this year found that their attempts to model an economic outlook “is clouded by heightened policy uncertainty.” The International Crisis Group just recorded the highest number of global political risk events in a decade.
For companies, policy and regulatory risk has become business risk. In a PWC Global Compliance Survey, 40% of executives cited regulatory risks as a “Top 5” threat and research has demonstrated that increased policy uncertainty translates into higher market volatility.
This is a moment in history when government affairs professionals should be even more attuned to the need for high quality, timely intelligence, from as many reliable sources as possible. Let’s see this as an opportunity to act.
Jason Grier
jason.grier@delphicresearch.ca