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Perception Advisory

Research on your market, every month

Research, strategy and content on your market, with a weekly brief and the terminal for your team.

It starts with a research project.

Step one

It starts with a market map

Before any retainer, we do one fixed-fee project on your market. You see the work, then you decide.

Private market map

Fixed fee

A private read on your market, built for your product, sales or marketing team.

  • Your peers and competitors
  • The institutional holdings and flows that matter to you
  • Sales and BD signals in your market
  • Three recommendations on what to do next

Credited to your first month if you sign up for Advisory within 14 days.

Co-branded report

Fixed fee

A published report on your data and Perception's record.

  • We do the research and write the content
  • You distribute it under both names
  • Built on your data and Perception's record

Sample work: our section of Epoch VC's 2026 Bitcoin ecosystem report.

Sample deliverable

What's in a private market map

Built for your product, sales or marketing team: dated events like fundraises, partnerships and senior hires for sales, and what users ask for next to your peers for product.

Sample private market map for an invented asset manager: peers, custodian flows, dated sales signals and three recommendations. Companies and numbers are invented. Opens page 1 full size in a new tab.

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  1. 01

    Your peers

    Who's in your market, what they launched, filed and said, and where you sit next to them.

  2. 02

    Holdings and flows

    The institutional holdings and flows that matter to your business, and where they moved.

  3. 03

    Sales and BD signals

    Openings with a date on them: hires, filings, launches and announcements worth a call.

  4. 04

    Three recommendations

    What to do next, ranked.

Fixed fee. It counts toward your first month if you move to Advisory within 14 days.

Perception Advisory

What you get every month

3-month minimum, then month to month with 30 days' notice.

Always on

  • A peer and competitor tracker
  • An institutional holdings and flows tracker
  • Sales and BD signals
  • A live desk, hosted by us or installed in your network
  • The terminal for your team, with 10 seats

Every week

  • A weekly brief on what it means for you

Every month

  • One strategy call a month

Every quarter

  • One prep pack a quarter

As agreed

  • Content built on the research for your own channels, scoped with you

Marketing, PR and communications

Communications built on the research

The record behind your research also shows what to say, who to say it to and when. We scope this work with you as part of Advisory.

Talk to us about communications
  1. 01

    Positioning and messaging

    Your story set against what peers, press and clients say, and the ground no one holds yet.

  2. 02

    Thought leadership

    Op-eds, reports and LinkedIn posts for your executives, built on dated findings with sources.

  3. 03

    Media relations

    The journalists who cover your space, what they wrote last, and angles they can use.

  4. 04

    Launches and announcements

    Timing and angles for your news, checked against what else lands that week.

  5. 05

    Investor and earnings communications

    Prep for calls and updates: what peers said, what analysts asked and what to address.

  6. 06

    Coverage reporting

    Where you were mentioned, how the story moved, and your share of the conversation against peers.

Every week

A brief on what it means for you

Dated findings from the record, each with its source and what to do about it, in your inbox every week.

PerceptionSample weekly brief, week of 5 Oct 2026
  1. THU 8 OCT · PARTNERSHIP

    Samsung Wallet picked Bastion for stablecoin custody, compliance and cross-border remittances, live on 82 million US Galaxy devices in late October.

    Consumer apps now buy stablecoin custody from specialists, so there's a partner deal to bid on.

    globenewswire.com (opens in a new tab)
  2. THU 8 OCT · ESMA OPINION

    ESMA told EU crypto service providers to clear client exposure to unauthorized stablecoins within three months.

    Any EU desk holding non-MiCA stablecoins for clients needs its exit plan by early January.

    esma.europa.eu (opens in a new tab)
  3. FRI 9 OCT · CALL FOR EVIDENCE

    ESMA asked how tokenized collateral works in central clearing. Responses are due 15 January 2027.

    Firms that respond get a say in what collateral EU clearing houses accept.

    esma.europa.eu (opens in a new tab)

The terminal

The same record our research runs on, for your whole team

Perception
Add to watchlistTeam
SearchCoinbaseCategoryAll categoriesChannelAll channelsSourceAll sourcesPeriod30DCompareClear filters
FeedReporters & thought leadersInsights

How the Coinbase story spread Aug 28–Sep 26

Exclude owned media

1,585mentions in this period

VolumeSource activity

10 seats, included with Advisory

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Clients

A selection of current and former clients

How teams use the Perception record in their own work.

  • Swan
  • Native

Sample work

We wrote the media section of Epoch VC's Bitcoin ecosystem report

Epoch's 2026 annual report on the Bitcoin ecosystem carries our "Bitcoin in the Media" section: 356,423 data points from 653 sources, 1 January to 30 December 2025.

Read the report
The Bitcoin Ecosystem, 2026 Annual ReportEpoch 2026 report · pp. 55-56 ↗

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