Research Team Cost Calculator — In-House vs Subscription | Blackridge Research

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In-house project research looks cheap until you add it up: salaries, data subscriptions, travel, verification calls and management time. Compare the fully-loaded number against a tracker subscription.

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Your Estimated Results

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Return multiple: Return on investment:
net of tracker cost
Payback period:
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Why It Matters

The true cost of DIY project intelligence

Most companies never see the full cost of in-house project research because it hides across budget lines. Analyst salaries sit in headcount. Portal and news subscriptions sit in software. Market trips sit in travel. Verification calls sit in phone bills and favors. Manager review time sits nowhere at all.

Assemble those lines and a three-analyst research operation routinely exceeds $300,000 a year — to monitor a slice of the market a specialized provider covers continuously across 150+ countries.

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Every line item counted: Salaries with loading, subscriptions, travel, verification and management overhead.
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An honest replacement share: You choose how much of the work a tracker actually replaces.
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A clean savings figure: Replaceable cost minus subscription — the number that belongs in your budget proposal.
How It Works

Three steps to your number

01

Cost the current operation

Headcount, salaries, research subscriptions, discovery travel and verification spend.

02

Set the replaceable share

How much of that spend exists purely to find and verify projects? 50-70% is typical.

03

Read the comparison

In-house cost, replaceable share and tracker investment side by side.

Methodology & assumptions

The model computes fully-loaded people cost, adds direct research spend, applies your management overhead factor, then takes the share you judge replaceable.

People cost = Researchers × Salary × 1.25
In-house total = (People + Tools + Travel + Verification) × (1 + Overhead)
Replaceable = In-house total × Replaceable share
Net savings = Replaceable - Tracker investment
Use Cases

Who uses this calculator

Construction firms

Compare in-house market research costs.

EPC companies

Evaluate research team efficiency.

FAQ

Your questions, answered

Teams typically judge 50-70% of their research cost base replaceable.
Yes, if they're for discovery purposes.
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