A different way to do intelligence work
Businesses have three broad ways to handle recurring research and intelligence work. Each has its place, depending on the question, available resources and level of expertise required.
General-purpose AI tools
Useful for research, exploration and individual tasks. But recurring work still requires someone to provide context, organise sources, check findings and assemble the output each time.
Analyst teams and research firms
Bring experience, depth and judgement to complex questions. However, maintaining that level of involvement for routine monitoring and recurring analysis can be expensive or difficult to justify.
A managed intelligence service
Second Analyst is designed for work that needs to happen repeatedly. The scope, sources, rules and outputs are defined in advance. Configured workflows handle the repeatable steps, and a designated analyst reviews every delivered brief.
Why not use a general-purpose AI tool?
General-purpose AI tools are useful for individual research and analytical tasks. But recurring work still requires someone to provide context, organise sources, check findings and assemble the output each time.
Second Analyst configures and operates a defined process around your recurring requirement. The sources, scope, checks and outputs are agreed in advance, so the work can be repeated without rebuilding the process each time.
Experience behind the work
Mandhir Dua is a strategy and competitive-intelligence leader with 15 years of professional experience, including 12 years leading global competitive strategy and intelligence within a large multinational organisation, followed by independent advisory work with growing businesses.
Mandhir Dua is a strategy and competitive-intelligence leader with 15 years of experience, including 12 leading global competitive strategy and intelligence, then independent advisory work.
He started Second Analyst because recurring intelligence is hard to staff and hard to keep consistent. Growing businesses need regular, trustworthy competitive and market intelligence, but rarely have capacity to build a team for every requirement.
Who is this designed for?
Second Analyst is particularly relevant to growing and mid-sized businesses that need regular market, competitor or commercial intelligence but do not have dedicated capacity for every requirement.
It can also support established strategy and commercial teams that need additional capacity for specific recurring jobs.