AIM Services

AIM is a highly respected and leading intelligence firm with a broad range of experience in both business intelligence and media/issues research.

We listen carefully to our clients and help them achieve their goals by leveraging our extensive skills and expertise. 

For over 30 years, our ability to collect, synthesize, analyze, and communicate critical information has helped our clients anticipate threats, capitalize on opportunities, and most importantly, make informed and accurate decisions.

Business Intelligence Services

• Competitive Intelligence
• Marketing & Industry Research
• Sales/Customer Intelligence
• Technical Information Research
• Counterintelligence Support

Media/Issues Intelligence Services

• Media Monitoring
• Issues Management Research
• Opposition Monitoring
• Crisis Management Support
• Reputation Research

Competitive Intelligence

We are experts at identifying, evaluating, tracking, and analyzing both known and unknown competitors. Our highly skilled research analysts are capable of directing comprehensive and systematic CI programs or performing targeted ad-hoc research. For over 30 years, we have been a leader in CI research and analysis and have a reputation for accuracy, integrity, and impact.

Marketing & Industry Research

We help clients measure market potential, define segmentation, spot opportunities, and identify vulnerabilities. Our ability to quickly adapt allows us to investigate a variety of markets/industries with both confidence and accuracy - ultimately providing clients with a detailed analysis of industry and market forces.

Sales/Customer Intelligence

Whether it’s generating targeted sales leads using a rigorous screening process or discovering suppliers, academics, or consultants for clients to partner with, we have helped both large and small companies focus their new business development initiatives on areas with the greatest potential for success and growth.

Technical Information Research

Clients have leveraged our technical expertise in identifying patent relationships and disruptive technologies, analyzing IP trends, and understanding the core of a company’s R&D efforts. We provide clients with discovery tools such as maps, charts and IP landscapes (view sample patent maps).

Counterintelligence Support

Protecting against competitive threats is essential to a company’s survival. We provide counterintelligence training and research to help clients defend themselves. Whether it’s a simulated attack on your business that reveals weak spots (also known as a Red Team Attack) or a training seminar on what employees should not be posting on social networking sites, we are at the forefront of innovative counterintelligence services.

Media Monitoring

We capture and disseminate media activity on a global scale. From mainstream press coverage to social networking trends, we can create an early morning headline index, provide summaries of content, spot emerging trends, and assign favorability ratings to media. We go beyond simply aggregating information by applying human insight to the process.

Issues Management

Almost every organization, including businesses, academic institutions, non-profits, and government agencies, are faced with issues that affect long-term viability. Whether the issues are environmental, political, socioeconomical, or technological, we have the ability to monitor and analyze the issues that threaten organizations.

Opposition Monitoring

In addition to being threatened by external issues, organizations are faced with threats from groups or individuals who are opposed to their products, services, etc. These groups are increasingly using social media to organize and mobilize against their targets. We can monitor these groups using publicly available information to help clients anticipate potential problems.

Crisis Management Support

We can provide clients with global, immediate access to critical intelligence as a crisis unfolds. We can create war room products and processes, 24/7 activity monitoring, and databases of information to deliver an in-depth look at the current situation and estimate directional movement and the impact of future actions.

Reputation Research

Because of our expertise in media and business research, we are able to provide clients with targeted and insightful reputation research. We conduct studies on how an organization is perceived by its clients, as well as closely monitoring global media to intercept potential signals and track ongoing activity related to a company’s reputation. We have worked on high profile issues like the Enron scandal and the Ford/Firestone recall.