'Relationship Science' may sound like the latest online stop to find a date, but in fact this data-driven startup is squarely focused on the type of courtship that results in fruitful business dealings.
"I consider insurance to be a tremendous relationship-oriented business," Relationship Science Founder Neal Goldman said recently in an interview with PC360. "Staying connected and close to your clients is critical" as well as being "ahead of the curve" when it comes to anticipating the needs of producers and prospects, he said.
Industry-specific intelligence
Goldman's company just launched a free "News & Alerts" service that capitalizes on proprietary technology to provide professionals with curated industry- and business-specific intelligence. The Relationship Science software combs "hundreds of thousands of sources not available in a single place anywhere else," according to a press release about the enhanced service, and then provides subscribers with a thorough, customized daily dossier on pertinent individuals, companies and industries.
A streamlined version of this feature was previously available to Relationship Science subscribers. This new, ambed-up News & Alerts service is available for free to anyone.
"We help relationship-oriented people… find the intersections where business opportunities emerge," said Goldman (pictured at right), a former investment banker and founder of Capital IQ, a financial data platform that was sold to McGraw-Hill in 2004.
Relationship Science launched in 2010, and was the byproduct of more than 800 people and three years of groundwork. Goldman said this type of hyper-social-networking service was sorely needed to help quiet the amount information noise now thrown at today's business professionals.
So far, he added, some investment banks, non-profit organizations and corporations have become regular subscribers to the service.
Opportunity trigger with relationship paths
The fresh News & Alerts feature could be particularly valuable to insurance professionals, Goldman said.
"Our specialty is disambiguation," he said. "People love this because every day it combines an opportunity trigger with relationship paths to show you how you get to this person.
Two more selling points:
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- The service can filter out irrelevant information by detecting unrelated duplicate words, names and phrases.
- Insights gleaned from more than 6 million business and policy leaders, companies, and organizations as well as specialized industries and topics (such as mergers and acquisitions, or specific school or company alumni)
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The site, which is pictured below in a provided screenshot, also offers users access to in-depth business profiles, executive work history, board memberships, nonprofit donations, personal interests, awards, investments and an array of other intelligence.
"We've already had a lot of success helping both enterprises and individuals unlock the hidden value of their relationships," Relationship Science CEO Domenic Graziosi said in a statement. "Now we're making it easier than ever for our users to stay on top of the important news impacting their businesses."
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