_CASE STUDY: 14NORTH
Accelerated research and reporting for vital analysis of emergent geopolitical issues
_Challenge
14 North Strategies is a leading intelligence firm focused on sub‑Saharan Africa, delivering critical insights by fusing open‑source, proprietary and in‑house data with regional human intelligence.
14 North’s analysts needed a capability that would let them apply their expertise faster and with greater confidence, across a greater volume and wider variety of data, with particular emphasis on fusing their in‑house information with that from open‑source.
_Solution
• 14 North integrated Adarga’s software into its analyst workflows, significantly strengthening analytic capability with support from Adarga mission experts.
• Analysts use Adarga to generate fast, actionable insights and to support deeper research projects. Using Adarga's software they can extend their capability to extract, summarise and connect information, and surface themes across millions of sources.
• The capability to fuse open-source intelligence generated within the application with the company’s own data was recognised as a key differentiator.
_Outcome
“Adarga Vantage is a game-changer. It enables us to draw insights from our extensive repository of past on-the-ground reporting. We also use Adarga to securely fuse insights from past reports with emerging open-source data. It’s a powerful combination that saves us time, driving efficiency, productivity, and quality of outputs.”
– William Linder, CEO, 14 North Strategies
"We use Adarga to support most, if not all, of our analysis. We use the insights it generates as building blocks for our reports and as a means of determining the significance of specific information. This has increased our accuracy and saved us hours."
– Analyst, 14 North Strategies