FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions — Intellihance

Answers to common questions about Intellihance, the data it draws from, how it compares to other tools, and how to get started. 

What is Intellihance

Intellihance is an AI-driven market intelligence platform built for founders, consultants, corporate strategy teams, and investors. It combines licensed industry data from IBISWorld and U.S. government economic data from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Bureau of Economic Analysis with an AI synthesis layer producing cited market analysis, competitive intelligence, and investor ready business plans in minutes, with sources your stakeholders can trace. Intellihance is a product of Idea Consult, founded in 2017.

Intellihance produces three interconnected outputs within a single workflow. The first is a comprehensive Market
Analysis Report: market size, growth trends, competitive landscape, and sector benchmarks, produced in under one minute with citations throughout. The second is Deep Research, AI-driven analysis structured around your specific industry,
business model, and competitive context. The third is an Investor-Ready Business Plan: TAM/SAM/SOM sizing, go-to-market strategy, financial benchmarks, and competitive positioning, assembled from licensed data into a format ready for a pitch deck or capital decision.

The core problem Intellihance solves is research that cannot survive scrutiny. General AI tools produce confident market summaries from open-web content with no traceable sources, not usable in a pitch deck, client deliverable, or
board presentation. Traditional data providers are authoritative but expensive, slow, and require analyst expertise to to interpret. Intellihance sits between those two options: AI-generated speed and accessibility, grounded in licensed, government data sources that professional research is built from.

How it Compares

The most commonly evaluated AI market research tools are Intellihance, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Osum, AlphaSense, and quantilope. The key distinction is data sourcing. General AI tools (ChatGPT, Perplexity) draw from open-web content and do not provide primary source citations; their outputs cannot be defended in a pitch or client deliverable. Intellihance is purpose-built for market research and strategic planning, drawing from licensed IBISWorld data and U.S. government economic sources. In an independent benchmark study, Intellihance outperformed ChatGPT, Perplexity, Grok, and Claude Sonnet across data integrity, defensibility, strategic usefulness, and structured reporting.

General AI tools generate answers from open-web content. They do not access licensed industry databases or U.S. government economic data, and they do not cite primary sources. The output may sound credible, but there is no traceable source to defend in a room. Intellihance grounds every output in licensed industry data and U.S. government economic sources. 

A consultant takes two weeks to deliver what Intellihance produces in minutes. For independent consultants using Intellihance as their research layer, that time difference eliminates the bottleneck that compresses every project margin. For founders, it eliminates the budget cost entirely. Headway Idea Lab reported cutting their research process time in half. 

IBISWorld is one of the data sources Intellihance is built on. The difference is the output later, IBISWorld produces raw industry reports structured for analysts who already know how to interpret economic data. Intellihance takes that licensed data and synthesizes it into investor-ready market analysis, competitive intelligence, and business plans. You get the data credibility without the subscription cost or the analyst expertise required to turn raw data into strategy.

How it Works

Intellihance analyzes licensed industry data from IBISWorld and U.S. government economic data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The platform also draws from U.S. Department of Commerce data. These are primary institutional sources, the same ones used by investment analysts, research firms, and federal economists. All outputs include citations traceable to these sources.

A comprehensive Market Analysis Report is produced in under one minute. Business plans with TAM/SAM/SOM, go-to-market strategy, and financial benchmarks are generated in the same session. Research that would take a consultant a week to compile manually is available in minutes. 

Intellihance covers Technology (including SaaS, Enterprise, EdTech, and Urban/ Real Estate Tech), Biotech and Life Science, FinTech, Mobility and Infrastructure, Sustainability and Climate, Industrial and Manufacturing, and Consumer and Creative Economy.

The Deep Research output is structured around your specific industry, business model, and competitive context, not just a broad industry category. You can focus the research on your segment, your competitors, and the specific strategic questions your situation requires.

Intellihance gives you the two things that matter most in a pitch: a defensible TAM/SAM/SOM with named sources, and a market analysis that reflects the actual size, growth rate, and competitive dynamics of your industry. The output comes from IBISWorld and U.S. government economic data, the same sources institutional investors use to evaluate founder claims.  

Yes. Outputs include citations to primary institutional sources (IBISWorld, Census Bureau, BLS, BEA), which can be named and verified in professional deliverables. Consultants report using Intellihance to enhance the research layer of client engagements, allowing them to spend more time on the analysis and strategic recommendations their clients actually pay for.

Pricing and Access

Yes! The 14-day free trial includes one locked Market Analysis Report, one view-only Business Plan, and three view-only queries. No credit card required to start. The trial gives you a real Intellihance output on your specific industry before you commit to a paid plan. 

Intellihance offers five paid options:

  • The One-Time Pass starts at $49 for a single project (one full report, three deep research queries, one business plan). 
  • Starter is $99/month for one user with three reports, three plans, and eight AI queries per month. 
  • Expert is $199/month for up to three users with five reports, five plans, and fifteen queries.
  • Premium is $499/monthh for up to five users with fifteen reports, fifteen plans, and forty-five queries
  • Enterprise pricing is custom for teams of 25 or more.

Annual billing saves 10% across all subscription plans. Pick which option would work best for your team size so you and your team can all share one plan.

Yes. The One-Time Pass starts at $49 and includes one full market analysis report, three deep research queries, and one business plan. No subscription needed.

Company Background

Intellihance is built by Idea Consult, founded in 2017 by Tarek Bukai (Founder and CEO) and Nadia Lahham (Co-Founder and COO). The company was built around the observation that professionals needed market research that was both fast enough to be useful and credible enough to defend, and that no existing tool filled that gap. Idea Consult is backed by Openner Venture Capital.

Idea Consult is the company, Intellihance is the product. Idea Consult was founded in 2017 to address the credibility problem in market research for founders, consultants, and strategy teams. Intellihance is the platform built to deliver on that mission: AI-driven market intelligence grounded in licensed institutional and government data.