What is an Inter-Company Signal?
The useful distinction is not between public and private data. It is between outcomes and the work that precedes them.
Companies leave evidence after they move: contracts, filings, CRM updates, job posts, product announcements and revenue.
Evericade is interested in something earlier: verified work activity that can occur while those outcomes are still forming.
We call the aggregated company-to-company patterns that emerge from that activity Inter-Company Signals, or ICS.
An Inter-Company Signal is not the content of a communication and it is not an employee-level record. It is a governed observation about activity between organisations.
The useful dimensions are relational and temporal. Which organisations are interacting? Is activity above or below its recent baseline? Is it accelerating? When did it first move? Does the change persist?
Those observations do not explain themselves. An accelerating relationship might precede a contract, an implementation, a partnership or something mundane. Context still matters.
The point is not that work guarantees an outcome. The point is that work exists before many of the systems we normally use to observe the outcome.