Intelligence used to be a privilege of states.
Nation-states have always run continuous intelligence operations, because the cost of being surprised is existential. beacon49 exists because that is now true for companies too - and because the machinery to do it properly finally exists. We build that machinery, point it at your world, and run it for you.
Built by Track49
Track49 is a data engineering company in Victoria, British Columbia. We spent years building collection and analysis pipelines that read the open world at industrial scale - and watching organizations make consequential decisions on a fraction of the available picture, assembled by hand, under deadline.
beacon49 is that machinery turned into a product: the discipline of professional intelligence practice - requirements, collection, analysis, dissemination - run as a continuous service, one custom-built data market per client. It is the research team every organization needs and almost none can staff.
Everything we collect is grounded in OSINT practice - legal, ethical, built on what the world publishes. No pretexting, no scraping behind logins we don't hold, no gray areas your counsel would wince at.
Every score is timestamped as it is produced, with no hindsight baked in. We would rather show you an auditable record of what we knew and when than a polished story after the fact.
A data market is built for one organization and served to it alone - tuned by your team's own judgment until it becomes something no shelf product can reproduce.
2019
Track49 founded, Victoria BC
100M+
Documents processed to date
24/7
Every market, every client
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Scoping calls are taken by the team that defines and runs your data market - not a sales layer. Tell us what you can't afford to miss.