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External Intelligence for Anticipatory Planning

Stop explaining why you missed your quarter. Start seeing what's about to move your numbers. Connect external signals to your plan while there's time to act.

Every planning meeting should start from shared intelligence about what's changing in the world—not an investigation into how the forecast missed.

The familiar pattern

"We didn't see it coming" is no longer acceptable.

Your plan was built on assumptions. Some of them changed this week. The signals existed—in commodity markets, customer earnings, regulatory filings. They pointed to the impact weeks before it showed up in your numbers.

Every quarter, somewhere
"The supplier cost increase didn't appear in the P&L without warning."
The supplier's cost pressures were building in commodity markets and trade data for weeks before the invoice price changed. The signals were there. They just weren't connected to your planning assumptions until after the fact.
The signal-to-planning gap

Traditional planning infrastructure looks in the wrong direction. Your dashboards show what already happened inside your organization. Your forecasts are built from internal data that updates only after external conditions have shifted.

The connection between external signals and internal assumptions—the bridge that makes early detection possible—typically doesn't exist until someone manually builds it. And by then, it's reactive rather than anticipatory.

The question isn't whether you could see the signals. It's whether you will.

We work with CFOs and FP&A teams to build the signal-to-planning connection systematically—connecting external movements to the specific variables you actually monitor, flagged when they cross the threshold into material relevance for your business.

How it works

Detection, connection, and intelligence—delivered early enough to matter.

SignalRadar augments your planning tools. It adds an external intelligence layer that surfaces changes in the signals your plan depends on before your internal metrics catch up to them.

1
Detect external movements
Continuous monitoring of commodity markets, regulatory filings, customer earnings, supply chain signals, monetary and other macroeconomic conditions. When external pressures build, you see it before it appears in your P&L.
2
Connect to your assumptions
External signals are mapped to the specific planning variables you monitor—not generic industry sentiment, but direct connections to your raw material and energy costs, input prices, customer demand assumptions, margin forecasts or whatever metrics are most critical to your business.
3
Surface before the quarter confirms
Intelligence arrives weekly, flagging when external movements cross your materiality thresholds. Planning meetings start from "here's what's changing" instead of "let's figure out what happened."
See SignalRadar in action

Free weekly intelligence reports

Each week, SignalRadar publishes free external intelligence across key commodity and cost categories. These are examples of what the platform can do for your business— once applied to the specific metrics that actually move your plan.

Energy Costs Weekly Intelligence Report
Energy Costs
Crude oil, natural gas, and refined products impact on your operational costs
Industrial Metals Weekly Intelligence Report
Industrial Metals
Steel, copper, and aluminum price movements affecting your margin assumptions
Agricultural Commodities Weekly Intelligence Report
Agricultural Commodities
Corn, wheat, cocoa, and crop price signals driving your input costs
Free weekly intelligence reports launching June 2026

See it on your numbers.

The free reports show the concept. The real value is when we build this for your business—connected to your specific planning assumptions, your materiality thresholds, and the variables that actually move your forecast.

Let's build one for you