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Signal Radar

Today · Apr 12
23Signals today
5High priority
142Clients watched

New Hire

Meridian announced Jill Wiggins as new GC

Lateral

Sterling litigation added 3 partners

Urgent

"Call re: Helios acquisition of Terra Genomics."

Signal Intelligence

The seven signals you should know first

Every external signal that changes the shape of a watched account. Or opens a door to new work.

GC changes

A new General Counsel reshapes outside counsel decisions. Risk at an account you're already serving, opportunity at a target. Flagged on the next scan, not weeks later at your account review.

M&A activity

Acquisitions, divestitures, and post-deal activity reshape a client's legal needs. Integration work, new entity structures, regulatory filings, and the second-order signals that follow (new offices, service-line launches, leadership changes) all surface in the feed.

Lateral hires

A partner at a peer firm moves in-house, or a lawyer you know lands at an account you watch. The move shows up in the signal feed the day it's announced.

New work triggers

Funding rounds, IPO activity, leadership transitions. Public events that create a new reason for an account to need legal work. Surface them before the account has to ask.

Regulatory shifts

Regulatory news hits the web and picks up in scans of the accounts you're watching. Open each one to see what's changed and whether it's a fit for a service line you offer.

Competitor activity

A peer firm announces a hire or publishes thought leadership in a practice area you care about. Know before your partner finds out in a meeting.

Litigation exposure

Public news coverage of regulatory investigations, class actions, or major disputes at watched accounts. Surface the article before your partner sees it in a meeting.

The Problem Today

The stitched-together stack every firm runs

What BD teams actually use today. And why it doesn't work.

Google Alerts

Keyword matching with no context. Can't score relevance, distill noise, or tell a routine mention from a signal worth acting on.

Law360

Strong for litigation signals, but narrow. Misses M&A, leadership moves, and regulatory shifts outside litigation.

LinkedIn

Manual and per-person. Each BD manager scrolls their own feed. No scoring, no shared view, no way to act on what you find.

PitchBook

Excellent data, not built for BD use. No prioritization, no partner handoff, no integration with how BD actually works.

Four tools. Four inboxes. Zero coordination.

The Data Surfer Way

One feed. Scored. Call Prep a click away.

Today

Four tools, four inboxes, no shared workflow. BD managers manually checking LinkedIn. Alerts nobody reads. A spreadsheet that's six months out of date.

Partners find out about GC changes from the new GC's intro call. Cross-sell opportunities surface after someone else wins the work.

Data Surfer client monitoring signal feed

One feed. Scored and ordered. With Call Prep a click away for the signals worth a partner's time.

Retention

Early warning when a key contact at a watched account is leaving, the business is shifting, or a peer firm is showing up in the same signals. Act before the next review.

Expansion

Service-line triggers: a regulatory change at a watched account opens the door for a practice group the target may not know your firm offers. Pre-briefed, one click away.

Origination

The signals that create a reason to call. A watched account opens a new office, launches a service line, or closes a funding round. It lands in the feed, you run Call Prep, and your partner walks in with a specific angle tied to what changed.

What good monitoring looks like

What firms do today

Checking LinkedIn manually when you remember
Google Alerts you stopped reading in 2022
One BD manager tracking 200 accounts in a spreadsheet
Finding out a GC changed from the new GC's intro call
Partners calling BD to ask 'did you know about this?'

What good looks like

Every change at every client, surfaced automatically
Recommendations scored and ordered so the priority ones rise to the top
Call Prep assembled on demand in the app
Post-deal triggers surfaced before competitors connect the dots
BD and partners working from the same live feed

Signal Review

Every signal in one place. Scored and ordered by priority.

Data Surfer signal review interface

Every signal in one place. Weighted, scored, and ordered by priority.

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