The BattleFin Group is preparing to launch its Alt Data Consensus (ADC) estimates platform on May 14th at the BattleFin NYC event aboard the Intrepid aircraft carrier, aiming to democratize access to alternative data that has traditionally been reserved for sophisticated hedge funds with large budgets and data science teams. The platform aggregates signals from multiple vetted alternative data providers and delivers them in one standardized framework, giving investors a continuously updated consensus built from real-world data.
Previously, alternative data could only be leveraged by sophisticated hedge funds with big budgets and data science teams. The launch of ADC estimates allows buy-side firms to get a sense of which alt datasets relate to which tickers, KPIs and company moving data points. The mapping, tagging, modeling and outputs have been taken care of, according to the company.
With the platform, investors can see where the alternative data sources agree or disagree with Wall Street predictions. Because it updates constantly between official reports, investors can act on information as it happens. Alternative data providers spanning consumer transaction data, workforce intelligence, web traffic, app and mobile intelligence, geolocation data, survey data and more are integrated into the ADC platform.
This growing consortium of industry-leading data providers ensures that the consensus is built on the most relevant and high-quality datasets available today, said BattleFin. Since the vendors on ADC have to follow a rigorous vetting process, the company says only datasets demonstrating measurable signal relevance for institutional use cases are included. Investors don’t have to worry about wasting time with needless information.
Being able to easily access actionable insights is something particularly important today, with the war in Iran, global tariffs, rising oil prices and heightened market volatility making it more complex to get an edge. Traditional financial reports and analyst estimates may not give investors a clear picture of what’s really happening. Earnings reports are backward-looking, and relying on analyst opinions can prove risky if the call is wrong.
“Our new Alt Data Consensus platform is the missing aggregation layer for alternative data,” said Tim Harrington, CEO at The BattleFin Group. ADC was built from the ground up to complement fundamental research, serving as a benchmark and risk management tool designed to empower analysts and guide investment decisions, he said. The platform moves beyond broad predictions to provide insights at the key performance indicator or KPI level, allowing investors to track the specific metrics that actually drive stock prices.
ADC acts as an early warning system too, bridging the gap between official reports and allowing investors to see exactly when the market’s expectations are off. With ADC, investors will be able to see how multiple providers' views on the same company or sector align or diverge, spot divergences from Street expectations that provide a signal investors can investigate, calibrate conviction between earnings, and reduce vendor management overhead with one integration point. Investors don’t have to worry about maintaining separate onboarding, normalization and QA pipelines for each provider independently.
ADC is slated to launch publicly on May 14th at the company’s BattleFin Discovery Day in New York. There, investors and traders can see in-person demonstrations of ADC buy-side investor use cases. For those who can’t wait, ADC has opened a waitlist for interested buy-side investors to get exclusive early access.
Investors need more than financial reports and analyst calls to make a decision about a stock. They need a variety of data points they can leverage to make moves in real time. ADC offers them that.
