The verification of appropriate licensing, practice and experience of a business subject reduces the likelihood of default or fraud during the term of a business relationship. Corporate intelligence gathering post-contract ensures ongoing honesty, and can provide valuable insight into subject's operating style.

Competitive intelligence (non-partner) is an invaluable aid to businesses that wish to have a clear picture of rival's capacities, patnents, global/market positioning, and overall strategy. Identifying first those documentary sources of industrial intelligence, then those human assets with appropriate subject-matter knowlege is essential to any competitive intelligence gathering operation.