Research and Data Infrastructure

Intelligence you can build on.

We help academic institutions, corporations, technology companies, and research organisations understand markets, people, and businesses through verified research, commercial data products, and large-scale structured data collection.

Market Research
Market Insights
Data Collection
Survey Fieldwork
Respondent Panels
Custom Research
Data Annotation
AI Training Data
Lead Products
Enterprise Datasets
What we do

Three core services

Each service operates independently and can be engaged separately or combined depending on the scope and nature of your project.

01
Market Research

End-to-end research capability for academic, corporate, and institutional clients. We design, field, and deliver studies using trained agents and verified respondent networks.

Survey design and methodology
Fieldwork and agent coordination
Respondent recruitment and panels
Academic and institutional research
Corporate market studies
Focus groups and qualitative work
NGO and development research
02
Market Insights

Commercial intelligence products built from our evergreen business and talent datasets. Delivered as reports, cross-tab analyses, lead products, and rolling subscription access.

Evergreen dataset subscriptions
SME and business intelligence
Talent and professional data
Sector deep-dive reports
Verified lead products
Industry benchmarking
Investor and M&A intelligence
03
Data Collection

Large-scale, structured data collection and processing for technology platforms, AI companies, and enterprise buyers worldwide. We handle volume, quality control, and delivery at project scale.

Large-scale data labelling
Data annotation and tagging
AI and ML training datasets
Structured data pipeline projects
Data cleaning and normalisation
Multi-language content at scale
Platform-scale procurement projects
Capabilities

What each service delivers

Every engagement is custom-scoped and delivered against agreed outputs and timelines.

Market Research
Respondent networks

Pre-verified, consented respondents across SMEs, professionals, graduates, students, and consumers. Available for client-led or Apt-managed studies.

Market Research
Offline field collection

Trained field agents with offline-capable mobile tools. Operates in low-connectivity environments across urban and peri-urban locations globally.

Market Research
Academic partnerships

Full-service research support for universities and institutions: design, compliant recruitment, fieldwork, data cleaning, and final delivery of publication-ready datasets.

Market Insights
SME business intelligence

Continuously updated data on SMEs and businesses: technology adoption, hiring demand, payment behaviour, financing needs, and growth signals.

Market Insights
Talent and professional data

Skills availability, career mobility, salary benchmarking, graduate pipeline, and job-seeking status across professional and graduate audiences.

Market Insights
Verified lead products

Contact-level records filtered by industry, size, location, and technology usage. All records trace to explicit, use-specific consent before delivery.

Data Collection
AI training data

Structured collection of labelled, annotated, and tagged datasets for machine learning and AI model training across languages, regions, and contexts.

Data Collection
Data annotation at scale

High-volume annotation, classification, and tagging for technology platforms and enterprise buyers. Quality-controlled with defined delivery SLAs.

Data Collection
Structured data pipelines

End-to-end procurement, collection, normalisation, and delivery of structured datasets for platform-scale technology projects and supplier procurement programmes.

Who we serve

Our audiences

We work with organisations that need reliable intelligence to make decisions, build products, or advance research.

Universities and research institutions

Academic researchers and institutions needing verified respondents, compliant fieldwork, and clean datasets for publication-grade studies.

Market Research
Technology and AI companies

Platforms and AI labs needing large-scale structured data, annotation, labelling, and training datasets at project or enterprise scale.

Data Collection
SaaS companies

Software businesses who need ICP-matched leads, software adoption data, and market sizing intelligence.

Market Insights
Fintechs and banks

Financial services providers needing SME payment behaviour, financing demand, merchant data, and segment intelligence.

Market Insights
Recruitment and staffing firms

Talent businesses needing employer hiring demand, candidate pipeline intelligence, salary benchmarks, and skills availability data.

Market Insights
NGOs and development organisations

Development sector organisations commissioning baseline studies, impact evaluations, and community-level data collection across hard-to-reach populations.

Market Research
Investors and consultants

Investment firms and advisory companies needing sector intelligence, growth signals, and market sizing data for due diligence and strategy work.

Market Insights
Digital marketing agencies

Agencies needing business advertising behaviour, spend data, new business pipelines, and consumer segment intelligence.

Market Insights

Every engagement is custom-scoped.

We don't publish fixed rates. Reach out with your project brief and we will respond with a proposed approach, timeline, and scope. All engagements begin with a conversation.