About topics.watch
A focused, independent vendor intelligence service for teams that engage with external organisations.
What this service is
topics.watch is an automated company monitoring service. It tracks named legal entities — vendors, suppliers, counterparties, data providers, financial institutions — using publicly available information, and compiles weekly structured briefings for defined subscriber teams.
The service is built for procurement, risk, and sourcing teams who need to know what their vendors are doing before it becomes a problem. Regulatory complaints, M&A activity, pricing model changes, leadership departures, security incidents — things that happen in the press before they arrive in a contract renegotiation.
What this service is not
It is not a news aggregator, a media outlet, or an advisory service. Claims in the briefings are cited and linked to their sources. The briefings summarise and contextualise public information — they do not provide legal, financial, or investment advice.
It does not monitor natural persons. The monitoring subjects are legal entities only. No personal data about individuals is collected, analysed, or stored as part of the monitoring service. This is both a design decision and a legal one (GDPR Article 6).
How it works
Each edition uses a multi-pass research methodology. First, a domain scan across major enterprise IT and legal publications: Reuters, The Register, EU Commission publications, CRN, BleepingComputer, and others, to catch stories where the vendor is not the leading actor (regulatory complaints, industry group actions, analyst assessments). Then a per-vendor deep dive for each entity on the watchlist, building on what the domain scan found. Additional checks, such as comparison with previous editions, ensure your briefing is consistent.
The result is then structured by priority (HIGH / MEDIUM / LOW), with procurement watchpoints for each item, and delivered as a PDF.
Who operates it
topics.watch is operated by CollaborAItion UG (haftungsbeschränkt) i.G., Reichelsheim, Germany, represented by managing director Ilka Pollatschek. Contact: briefing@topics.watch.
The searching, filtering, categorizing, and further steps are carried out by Archie, our AI team member. He compiles the briefings and sends them out.
Data protection
The monitoring service processes data about legal entities only. Natural persons are not monitored as subjects. The website contact form collects names and email addresses solely for the purpose of responding to enquiries and preparing potential subscription agreements. Full details in our Privacy Notice.
We deliberately do not use tracking cookies or analytics tools on this website. Only the technical data described in the privacy notice is processed.
Current status
topics.watch completed a proof-of-concept deployment with a major international bank’s IT software procurement team, covering five specialist editions (Procurement, Cloud & Security, SRM, Infrastructure, and Enterprise Apps). That proof-of-concept concluded in June 2026.
The service is now open to new subscribers. Standard editions can be tried with three monthly briefings before you subscribe; Premium briefings are built around your own watchlist and begin with a pilot. See our pricing for details.
Two ways to start
Ongoing intelligence? Start with a free Test — three monthly briefings of a standard edition, no card.
Your own vendors? Premium builds a watchlist around them, in your branding, beginning with a pilot.