Swensonia Consulting LLC
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What We Do
Market & Competitive Intelligence (MCI)
Systematic tracking of competitor positioning, product releases, pricing signals, and strategic pivots across public channels that aren't easy to read.
Business Model Development
We apply Business Model Generation and Strategyzer methods through online and in-person workshops to build value propositions and ROI-focused models.
Metaconsulting
Psychoanalysts have their own therapist to strengthen their practice. Consulting groups need the same — we specialize in strengthening fellow consultancies.
Product Strategy Support
Translating raw research findings into clear, actionable strategic recommendations: prioritization inputs, positioning rationale, gap analysis, and concrete, prioritized next steps.
Landscape Monitoring
Structured overviews of competitive landscapes — category dynamics, key players, market positioning, white space, and emerging entrants worth watching very closely.
Market Intelligence and Shy Data Signal Surfacing
Sector-level analysis using OSINT tradecraft to surface trends and shifts before they reach mainstream reporting, analyst decks, or watered-down memes.
Intelligence with a product manager's lens.
OSINT is a discipline, not a Google search. I apply structured collection frameworks to publicly available information — job postings, filings, patent databases, press releases, conference talks, social signals, and more — to build evidence-based pictures of markets and competitors.
The output isn't a data dump. It's analysis framed to support real decisions: what to build, where to compete, and what to watch.
01 - Define the intelligence question — what decision does this research need to support?
02 - Identify and systematically collect from relevant open sources.
03 - Synthesize across sources to surface patterns and inconsistencies.
04 - Deliver structured analysis tied to product and strategy priorities.
05 - Monitor for signals that change the picture over time.
Position Statement: About Fighting for Evolution in Scholarly Communications
OSINT-driven product strategy with a maverick stance on open access and research metrics.
Swensonia is led by a product strategist and OSINT-driven (open-source intelligence) market and competitive intelligence consultant who spent years on the divisive side of one of scholarly publishing's longest-running debates: how open the research record should be, and how we measure what matters in it.
As Senior Director of Product Management, working with fierce advocates on my teams, I fought for positions that were not always popular. I pushed to surface clear identification of open access (OA) content within Scopus search results, backed early integrations of alternative metrics like Altmetric's "donut" and Plum Analytics' visualizations, and helped lead the introduction of CiteScore as a more transparent alternative to the traditional Journal Impact Factor. I bring that same conviction to ScholarDork (https://scholardork.com), the bibliometric tool I am building now and will do so on future bespoke tools that I build for free, public consumption, and bespoke projects for my clients.
But conviction is not the same as tribalism. I can work for either side of this debate, and I do, on one condition: that the open access being advanced is ethical and legal. I advocate hard for responsible OA, and I take just as seriously the critics who have called out the predatory publishers and economically questionable models that exploit it. Heterogeneity in scholarly publishing is not the safe position. It is the honest one.
Clients who work with Swensonia gain deep bibliometric, scientometric, and social-graph expertise, a proven track record of OA-aware product strategy and metrics innovation, and a consultant with the backbone to argue for what the evidence supports. That is the work, for societies, university presses, platforms, and infrastructure providers.
Let's talk about what you're trying to figure out.
I'm available for project-based engagements, ongoing research retainers, and advisory conversations. If your product team is making decisions without a clear picture of the competitive landscape — or if your current research process isn't keeping pace — I'd like to hear about it.
ScholarDork
ScholarDork (www.ScholarDork.com) is a research intelligence tool for journalists, independent researchers, and any deadline-driven professional who needs primary sources fast and can't afford to be wrong. Instead of juggling a dozen specialized databases or trusting a search engine buried in SEO content, you type what you're looking for in plain English and ScholarDork searches across scholarly literature, business and corporate records, and open-source intelligence simultaneously, returning real papers with real DOIs, verified company filings, and citable briefings you can put your name behind. It solves the credibility gap that Google and ChatGPT both leave open: Google surfaces what ranks, not what's true, and ChatGPT will hand you a confident citation that doesn't exist. ScholarDork is built on the opposite premise — every result traces back to a verifiable source, so the researcher racing a deadline gets speed without sacrificing the one thing their work depends on: being able to prove it.
Interested in early access? Send an email to info@swensonia.com with the subject line "Access Request" to [YOUR EMAIL HERE], and allow 2–3 business days for a reply with a password granting full access for an indeterminate period. Please note: ScholarDork is still in active development — we're fine-tuning features and adding sources — so we'd recommend not relying on it yet for any work you can't afford to redo.
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