The short answer
MarketPrior helps investors, analysts, corporate development and procurement teams research companies and markets from public records. Describe a market as filters — country and region, industry code, employee band, funding stage, amount raised, technology, hiring and recent trigger events — and get a list of companies, each with the dated public events that put it there. Open a cited risk × upside report on any of them, ask questions across the company corpus and the open web with citations, export the list to CSV, save the search to be alerted to new matches, or pull it all over the REST API.
At a glance
- Best for
- Deal sourcing, acquisition targets, partners and suppliers, sector maps
- Filters
- Country, region, industry code, size, stage, amount raised, tech, hiring, events
- Events
- 12 trigger types, from Form D raises to new registrations
- Coverage
- Registers or filings in 42 countries; deepest in the US, France and Norway
- Per company
- Free verdict and scores; a full cited report per company
- Output
- CSV export, saved-search alerts, REST API and MCP
How do you build a list of companies in a market?
Start from what defines the market for you, not from a keyword. Every filter runs on the same company corpus as the lead product, and every company carries the public records behind it.
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Set the boundaries
Countries and regions (including EU regions), and NAICS, NACE, NAF or SIC code prefixes for the industry.
- 2
Set the shape
Employee band, funding stage, amount raised, technologies detected on the website and the departments that are hiring.
- 3
Add a recent event if it matters
Keep only companies with, say, a Form D raise, a new registration or an officer change within a window you choose, up to a year.
- 4
Sort and read
Sort by relevance, most recent event or intent. Every event links to the public record it was read from.
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Keep it current
Save the search and companies that newly match arrive as alerts. Export the list to CSV when you need it elsewhere.
What is moving in a sector right now?
A list tells you who is there; events tell you who is moving. Each event in the trigger feed is read from its public source, so a sector map built on it shows raises, new entrants, leadership changes and distress as they are filed — not when they are announced.
| Question | Event in the feed | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Who raised money? | Form D filing or amendment | United States |
| Who won public contracts? | Federal contract award | United States |
| Who is new? | New company registration | UK, France, Norway, Estonia, Lithuania |
| Who opened a new site? | New establishment | Norway, France |
| Who changed leadership? | Executive change | US, UK, Norway, France |
| Who is building a team? | Hiring spike | Any country |
| Who adopted a technology? | Tech adoption | Any country |
| Who is in trouble? | Insolvency or dissolution (opt-in) | UK, France, Norway, Lithuania |
Risk events such as insolvency appear only when you ask for them, and never raise a company’s intent score.
How do you go from a list to a decision on one company?
Every company on a list can be screened for free: a verdict, a risk score and an upside score. The full report adds the cited detail — ownership and investors, filings and financials where they exist, litigation, sanctions and adverse media, traction signals and a memo — and unlocks per company.
- Acquisition targets: ownership and control, registered charges, litigation as a defendant, insolvency notices.
- Partners and suppliers: sanctions on the company, its officers and its owners; enforcement; adverse media.
- Deal sourcing: Form D history, investors traced from filings, hiring and web traction.
- Competitors: what the company does, its tech stack, open roles and recent events.
What can you ask across the data?
Ask is the chat analyst in the dashboard. It searches the company corpus with the same filters, reads the trigger feed, opens your reports and searches the open web — and cites what it relies on. It answers with lists, tables and text; it does not draw charts.
- “Which software companies in Norway were registered in the last six months?”
- “Find logistics companies in France with 50 to 250 employees that are hiring.”
- “Which US healthcare companies filed a Form D in the last 90 days?”
- “What does this company sell, and who does it compete with?” — answered from the open web, with links.
- “Who else sits on this company’s board?” — for companies in your workspace.
How do you take it into your own tools?
Lists export to CSV. Search, the trigger feed, lists, exports and reports are also available over the REST API and as MCP tools with scoped keys, drawing on the same plan as the dashboard — so a research pipeline or an internal agent reads exactly what the app shows.
Where the data is thin
- Depth varies by country: the company corpus is deepest in the US, France and Norway and thinner elsewhere. The coverage pages list exactly what is read in each country.
- Private-company financials appear only where a register or a filing publishes them.
- MarketPrior does not compute market sizes or sector forecasts. Ask can find published figures on the open web and cite them, but they remain the publisher’s numbers.
- Contacts are masked until you reveal them with lead credits, and each field keeps its source.