Auditing and benchmarking our clients’ open-source methodology

• Support the client by drawing on our multimedia source expertise and surge capacity;

• Audit and benchmark the client’s current in-house methodologies, demonstrating what Ridgeway could uncover that they could not and sharing our team’s insights into new trends, developments and limitations regarding open-source research and analysis.

Our brief was focused on collecting and presenting primary sources rather than analysis and assessment. We therefore avoided making assumptions about what would be relevant to our client, focussing on delivering a transparent and detailed presentation of available information so our client could make an independent assessment.

We deployed researchers trained in open-source techniques alongside analysts skilled in Arabic and Russian, whose cultural perspective unearthed and exploited valuable information. Our thorough and intensive approach uncovered entirely new original sources for the client.

Our team delivered:

• A verified, complete portfolio of relevant open-source visual multimedia;

• A full account of our approach and methodology to provide clarity and confidence in the quality, depth and range of our research.

• A full account of our approaches to support the client in building their own in-house capabilities.