How it works
How we read companies
You type a company and the cloud it runs on. Smith prepares a read: a short, honest picture of where that company sits and where the funded opportunity is. Here is exactly where that picture comes from, and where it does not.
Where the signals come from
Every read is built from two honest sources: public web pages a company puts out about itself, and licensed business data from established providers. That is it. We do not scrape LinkedIn, and we do not lift private profiles. A company's own website, its public technology footprint, and licensed firmographic and role data are enough to see the shape of the account.
What a read contains
A read is meant to be useful in one glance, not exhaustive. It covers:
- The cloud the company runs on, and the confidence behind that.
- The stack signals around it: the tools and platforms that shape the buying picture.
- The funded play, and the program it fits, so you know what is actually on the table.
- The role to target: the kind of person who owns this decision, described by their function.
The person, and the full map, open inside a workspace
The free read names a role, never a named individual. The named person, the full stakeholder map, and the deeper account detail open only inside an authenticated Alloy workspace, where there is an accountable owner and a signed agreement behind the data. In public, you get the shape. In the workspace, you get the map.
It all runs, and stays, in the EU
Your request does not leave the EU. The read is generated by an AI model running in the EU region, and the data behind it is stored on Forj's own infrastructure in the EU. There is no round-trip to a far-off server and no hidden export of what you typed.
Smith will not guess
This is the important one. When the signal on a company is thin, Smith does not invent a confident answer to fill the gap. A thin read is prepared by hand rather than faked, and it will tell you plainly when the picture is limited. A read you can trust is worth more than a read that sounds impressive, so we would rather show you less and be right than show you more and be wrong.
Your data
If you ask for a read by email, we use that email to send the read and occasional related updates, nothing else, and you can unsubscribe from any message in one click. See the Privacy Policy for exactly what is collected, how long it is kept, and how to have it removed.