Nine platforms, twenty countries, one decision.
The situation
A social intelligence platform was expanding coverage into twenty countries across nine platforms. Sub hour latency, non English content, country level geo, and pull based delivery only. A $500,000 annual data budget, and no clear view of who could actually serve it.
The work
We mapped the viable providers platform by platform, modelled pricing against their real monthly volumes including credit models and tiers, then ran managed evaluations on seven shortlisted providers against their own requirements, on their own trial keys. Each came back Fit, Partial Fit or No Fit, with the trade-offs named. The market moved underneath the engagement: one candidate was acquired and stopped being available standalone, which is exactly the kind of thing a live evaluation catches and a desk review does not.
The outcome
The recommended stack met every requirement at roughly $190,000 a year, leaving over $300,000 available for the next wave of expansion.
Mulberry provides a far better value than the major consulting firms at a very competitive price. They don't just run a few quick tests and dump it in a spreadsheet, but conduct a thorough qualitative and quantitative analysis that helps us discover our strong and weak points.
