Benchmark the market you invest in.
You read hundreds of companies a year — and today that knowledge evaporates into memos and spreadsheets that can't be compared. On Beacon, every company arrives on the same published definitions with its data integrity scored. Your deal flow becomes a dataset. Your portfolio reads against a baseline that's actually real.
Build your own benchmarks — from the market you actually see.
A fund screens 500–1,000 companies a year. That's a proprietary view of the market nobody else has — if the numbers were comparable. Beacon makes them comparable: every company you evaluate shares figures on the same definitions, measured the same way, integrity stated.
Screen this quarter's SaaS deals against every SaaS deal you've seen. Know what "good" looks like at $5M ARR in your market — from your own evidence, not a survey PDF.
The edge, compounding
Every company screened sharpens your baseline. By year two, your benchmark of the market you invest in is an asset no data vendor can sell your competitors — because it's built from your own deal flow.
Every company you read, in context.
Your screened universe
Every company that's opened a data room to you, on standardized metrics — your private benchmark of the deals you actually see, comparable at last.
Your portfolio
Current portfolio companies against each other and against your screened universe — the same definitions on every side. Spot the outlier early enough to help, not just to report it.
The Beacon network
Anonymised benchmarks from companies across Beacon add the market-wide baseline — aggregates only, blended with at least seven companies, nobody identifiable. The context your own deal flow can't reach.
Standardized metrics. Scored trust.
Self-reported decks made every diligence a translation exercise. Beacon's standard replaces it with figures you can rank on.
Standardized metrics
One published definition per metric across every company — "NRR" means the same thing in your tenth deal as in your first. The definitions are public →
Data integrity score
How complete and consistent the data behind each figure is — stated up front. A weak score is a diligence finding in itself.
Forecast reliability score
Management's forecasts scored against what actually happened. You see whether this team historically hits plan — before you underwrite the next one.
Beacon indices
Segment growth, retention and efficiency indices from the network — the moving baseline you price and compare against.
Credit decisions on live, verified figures.
Revenue-based lenders and venture debt live and die on the quality of a company's numbers. A Beacon company's figures are continuous, traceable and scored — and its cashflow and runway are forecast on live data, with the forecast's own track record attached.
- Monitoring without the chase — live figures on a granted seat replace the quarterly reporting-package hunt.
- Peer context on the covenant — a miss reads differently when the whole segment moved. The baseline is attached.
- Early honesty — deterioration shows as a path forming, not as a surprise at the next reporting date.
The same standard, both directions
Operating companies steer by these benchmarks too — closing the gaps you're screening for. A market that runs on one standard is better to invest in. Peer Benchmarks for companies →
Built from what was shared with you. Nothing else.
Your benchmarks are built from figures companies granted you — data rooms you were invited into, portfolio seats you hold — plus the anonymised network blend. No company's private figures ever reach you through the network: aggregates only, blended with at least seven companies, never identifiable. Each company sees and controls its own grant. That boundary is why companies keep saying yes.
Read every company in context. Build the baseline yourself.
Reader seats are free forever. Capital benchmarks ship in a later wave; this page describes the designed behaviour.