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Intelligence as-a-service

Intelligence as a Service is our way of embedding continuous, high-signal market intelligence into your organization, without forcing your teams to spend time filtering noise, chasing updates, or building context from scratch. Act with clarity, confidence, and make faster, better decisions.

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Our Services

How we help you make faster, smarter decisions

We equip digital asset leaders with the insights and market intelligence they need to lead. Intelligence with influence.

  • We produce bespoke research briefs and updates in the style of institutional equity research, but focused on your topics, not the market’s generic agenda.

    Unlike subscriber research, this is:

    • scoped specifically for your questions

    • written for internal circulation and executive discussion

    • updated on a cadence that matches your needs

  • Helps you to understand how the ecosystem is actually moving beneath the surface.

    • Access to a highly specialized intelligence team with over a decade of experience in digital assets, deep institutional relationships, and direct proximity to the market’s most relevant operators, investors, and infrastructure providers.

    This includes:

    • key infrastructure developments across custody, settlement, tokenization, payments, and on-chain rails

    • competitive and vendor intelligence (who is gaining traction, who is stalling, and why)

    • regulatory and policy signals, with second-order implications

    • market dynamics that don’t yet show up in public reporting

    This work is grounded in:

    • continuous conversations with US-based infrastructure companies

    • close ties to operators, investors, and builders

    • real-time feedback from inside the ecosystem

  • You don’t know your competitors well enough. Let’s fix that.

    • Product: Improve your product strategy with full feature lists of your competitors’ products.

    • Pitch: Know what they’re saying, so you can tell a better story.

    • Pricing: Get your competitor’s complete pricing table. Outflank them, outsell them.

    51 is the only intelligence service for the digital assets industry.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Our team brings 10+ years of experience in digital assets, deep institutional relationships, and an exceptionally strong network across infrastructure providers, investors, regulators, and operators. Because we are deeply plugged into the market on a daily basis, we can quickly judge:

    • whether a development is signal or noise

    • why it matters now

    • and what it means specifically for your business, infrastructure, and strategy

    We don’t replace your internal teams or add headcount.

    We bring experience, judgment, and market context that help your teams move faster and with more confidence.

  • Newsletters and generic research are built for broad audiences. We work the other way around.

    Everything we deliver is:

    • tailored to your strategy, infrastructure, and decision horizon

    • filtered for what actually matters to you

    • and enriched with insight drawn from direct conversations across the ecosystem

    We don’t summarize the market.

    We interpret it, contextualize it, and translate it into implications for your organization.

  • Engagements typically run on a retainer basis, reflecting:

    • the level of customization

    • senior involvement

    • and ongoing access to intelligence, advisory, and market context

    Most clients compare this to:

    • building a senior, specialized internal research function

    • or relying on multiple external vendors

    In that context, the model is usually more efficient, faster, and lower-risk than hiring or assembling fragmented inputs.

  • Highly tailored, highly senior, and very direct.

    There is no fixed “agency process.”

    Every engagement is customized around your:

    • priorities

    • internal structure

    • decision cadence

    • and stakeholders

    We work closely with your teams, challenge assumptions when needed, and focus on clarity over volume. Clients typically describe the experience as:

    • having a trusted external sparring partner

    • gaining early insight instead of late confirmation

    • and saving time while improving decision quality