DataHex for Research Firms
Take Your Research Data Direct to Market
Govern your research data, build higher-value insight products, and license them through your own hosted marketplace.
Take Your Research Data Direct to Market
DataHex Data Library gives research agencies one governed inventory of their data assets, each with a tracked data DNA, a named owner and access controls. The products you choose to license publish straight to a hosted DataHex Data Shop storefront, sized to your catalog and run by RoZetta, so your team stays focused on research rather than platform engineering.
- 01 · GOVERNResearch data in one library
- 02 · DEVELOPRaw data to insight products
- 03 · PUBLISHLibrary to Data Shop, one step
- 04 · HOSTEDA right-sized marketplace, run for you
The research agency challenge
Valuable data, limited routes to market
Research agencies produce data that institutions want to license: surveys, panels, economic series, sector research and proprietary indicators. Turning it into a governed, licensable product line takes capabilities most agencies were never set up to build.
Data spread across projects
Data sets live with individual studies and analysts, with no single inventory of what the agency holds or could sell.
Reports, not products
Insight is delivered as reports and one-off extracts, rather than as data products customers can subscribe to.
Marketplaces are not a core competency
Licensing, entitlements, payments and delivery are specialist infrastructure that sits outside a research agency’s expertise.
Long time to market
Building or buying an enterprise-scale platform can take longer than the commercial opportunity lasts.
From governed catalog to marketplace
Monetize your data products direct to market
The data your research produces is governed in a data catalog, then published to a marketplace ready for monetization, all on a single DataHex platform. The products you license are the same governed assets your team maintains, so there is no second catalog to build, reconcile or keep current.
- 01
Govern internally
Research data sets are onboarded, profiled and owned in a governed data catalog.
- 02
Mark as licensable
The owner flags which products, or which cuts of them, are available for license.
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Publish to the marketplace
Each product goes live with sample charts, distributions and coverage timelines, so customers can judge fit before subscribing.
- 04
Sell and track
Customers discover, access, check out and connect. Usage flows back to the catalog.
Your first data products live in weeks. 130+ out-of-the-box connectors, sample-file upload, and a Governance Agent that drafts each data product for review mean a populated catalog and a live storefront early, not after a multi-month rollout. Priority products go live first, and the rest follow in bulk.
What you get
Greater share of revenue
Monetize data assets through subscription, annual and bundled options to increase direct-to-client sales.
Access to new segments
Serve funds, academics and corporates economically with self-serve onboarding and card payment.
Lower cost to serve
Automated workflows eliminate manual handling and management of smaller transactions.
Licensing matched to the deal
Click-through terms for small purchases and full agreements for enterprise licenses.
Entitlements that mirror contracts
Subscription, entitlement and quota management at user, application, department and company level.
Your branded shop front
A storefront configured and white-labeled to your visual brand.
Right-sized and hosted
A marketplace sized to your catalog, run for you
Marketplace platforms are not a core competency for most research agencies, and they should not have to be. DataHex Data Shop is hosted and operated by RoZetta, and sized to the catalog and customer base you have today, with room to grow.
Nothing to build or run
RoZetta hosts and operates the storefront, with high availability and 24/7 support.
Start with what you sell today
Launch with a focused catalog and add products, segments and pricing models as demand grows.
A known cost of ownership
A transparent number up front and a predictable one each year, with flexible commercial models.
Commerce handled end to end
Checkout, license agreements, payments, entitlements, delivery and usage reporting included.
Data asset DNA
Define and track the DNA of every data asset
A living knowledge graph connects every asset, column, owner, glossary term, classification, quality signal, lineage edge, policy and contract. Relationships are first-class: not just that a data set exists, but what it means, where it came from, who owns it, how it is used, and whether it can be trusted.
01Meaning and classification
- Business-first name, description and glossary terms, so a data product means one thing across the agency
- Classification against your taxonomy and sensitivity levels: public, internal, confidential, restricted
- Custom taxonomy per tenant, shipped as version-controllable YAML
02Origin and methodology
- Source, collection method and upstream licenses recorded against each asset
- Automated table, column and pipeline lineage from SQL, dbt, Airflow and Spark, with OpenLineage ingestion
- Impact analysis: change a source and see every downstream product it touches
03Quality and data contracts
- Quality metrics for completeness, freshness, schema stability and primary-key uniqueness
- Scheduled freshness, volume and integrity tests with alerting
- A data contract on every product: expected schema, required semantics, assigned quality tests and execution history
04Licensing and usage
- Redistribution rights and third-party restrictions modeled as first-class governance objects
- The Compliance Agent extracts entitlement, redistribution and retention terms from license agreements and data contracts
- Usage by internal teams and external licensees, and failed searches that signal unmet demand
Ownership and access
Clear accountability, controlled access
Products are organized into governed domains, by research practice, sector or region, each with clear ownership. Policies are defined once and enforced across the catalog, data stores and agentic access.
Named owners
Each product has explicit owners on its detail page, visible to everyone who finds it.
Stewards approve access
Stewards approve requests for the products they own; admins hold platform-wide override, so approvals do not bottleneck.
Fine-grained controls
Access scoped to product, table, partition and row level, enforced for people and AI agents alike.
Approval workflows
Multi-step and configurable, with justification captured and permissions synced to the source of truth.
Masking and classification
Policy-driven masking protects sensitive fields, and classification travels through lineage and delivery.
Complete audit trail
Every user operation and data-access event recorded, with compliance reporting on the same substrate.
Product development
From research data to high-value insight products
The value of research data grows with each step from raw collection to packaged insight. DataHex gives agencies the transformation and product development capability to move up that chain, with every derived product governed in the catalog from the start.
Raw data
Research, survey, panel and third-party source data ingested, cleansed and conformed.
Curated data sets
Normalized, documented series with quality tests and history, ready to license.
Analytics
Derived metrics, aggregates and time series that answer common customer questions.
Insight products
Indicators, signals and indices packaged for institutional workflows, on subscription.
What makes it possible
Agile data loading
Efficient loading for structured and unstructured data, applying consistent normalization rules and resolving data quality issues.
Data enhancement services
Build, test and launch derived data products by combining your data with new internal or external data assets.
Samples and previews
Live sample charts, distributions and coverage timelines establish demand before full launch.
Demand insight
Usage and failed-search signals show which products to build next.
Your product roadmap
Examples of what research can become
Two DataHex products show where a research agency’s roadmap can go: from methodology and data to signals that institutions subscribe to.
DataHex Thematic Studio
Build thematic investment signals from research content and disclosures, and package them as licensable thematic data sets, baskets or index inputs.
Explore DataHex Thematic StudioCISSA Economic Lens
An example of economic-performance research packaged as a signal product, showing how an agency’s methodology can become a subscription line.
Explore CISSA Economic Lens
See how your research can become a product line
A walkthrough tailored to your use case, product ideas and target customers.