R4 — Buyer Intelligence

Know which buyers to prioritise, why they matter, and how to approach them.

A four-part buyer targeting and outreach package — built around your product, your HS code, and your chosen market. Not a database export. Not a list of names.

Best commissioned after you have selected your target market.

Price £300–£600 Based on confirmed profile count
Delivery 4 to 6 working days After questionnaire completion
Buyer Profiles 6–25 Profiles Each assessed against the same eight-factor framework
Payment Card Authorised * Charged only once your price is confirmed
What You Receive 4 Deliverables Not a single PDF
R4 Buyer Intelligence — four-part buyer targeting and outreach system
What You Receive

Four deliverables. One connected system.

R4 is a four-part buyer intelligence and outreach package that moves from overall opportunity, to individual buyer evidence, to campaign organisation, to buyer-specific outreach.

Deliverable 01

Executive Report

The strategic overview for your campaign — buyer landscape, master ranking, key findings, priority bands and immediate campaign recommendations.

understand the full buyer opportunity and know where to focus your sales attention.

Deliverable 02

Buyer Profiles

Up to 25 individual company assessments — legal and operating profile, buying evidence, supplier network, eight-factor assessment, opportunity interpretation and practical contact routes.

understand the commercial picture behind each buyer before you make contact.

Deliverable 03

Campaign Workbook

Two working files: a Buyer Comparison Workbook for analysing and prioritising the buyer set, plus a CRM & Outreach CSV for executing and managing the campaign.

compare buyers analytically, sort by factor and move contacts into a working CRM campaign.

Deliverable 04

Sales Outreach

Buyer-specific outreach packs built from each buyer’s evidence — recommended contacts, commercial rationale, one bespoke first email written from the buyer’s actual situation, and a short alternative-contact opening where needed.

start with one credible reason to talk, one clear commercial angle and one low-effort next action.

The Problem

Too much export outreach begins with the wrong list.

Directories, databases and LinkedIn can identify potential companies. What they rarely provide is the commercial intelligence needed to decide which ones deserve attention.

What exporters usually rely on

Trade directories, LinkedIn searches, purchased contact databases, and word of mouth. Fast to access, but often limited in verification, buying evidence and commercial context.

What those sources often do not reveal

Whether a company is actually buying your product. How much, how often, and from which origins. Whether it is tied to existing suppliers.

What goes wrong

Weeks spent contacting unsuitable companies. Generic messages to buyers committed elsewhere. No way to know who deserves attention first — or why.

What you actually need

Not more names — a disciplined answer to which buyers are worth pursuing, who to prioritise, and how to approach them.

Category Distinction

This is not a buyer list.

R4 may look similar to purchased contact databases or freelance list-building, but it solves a different problem.

A bought buyer list or database R4 Buyer Intelligence
Company names from a directory Buyers assessed against available shipping transaction records
No confirmation of genuine import activity Import frequency, volumes, and recorded origins assessed per buyer
No prioritisation — treat every name the same Buyers ranked through a consistent eight-factor assessment, with priority bands and evidence coverage
No insight into existing supplier relationships Supplier network, sourcing relevance and market overlap assessed
Generic outreach for every name Buyer-specific outreach built from each buyer’s evidence and commercial situation
An unstructured contact list to manage manually Buyer Comparison Workbook plus a CRM & Outreach CSV with campaign-management fields
Data with no commercial interpretation Opportunity interpretation, buyer-specific commercial rationale and bespoke first-email guidance for every included buyer
Inside Each Deliverable

What each component contains — and how you use it.

Deliverable 01

Executive Report

The starting point for your campaign. The Executive Report gives you a structured view of the buyer landscape and your priority prospects before you look at individual companies.

  • Summary of your Questionnaire and agreed scope
  • Buyer market landscape — active importers, concentration and structure
  • Master ranking of all qualified buyers
  • Priority bands — High Priority, Medium Priority and Lower Priority
  • Key findings and immediate campaign recommendations
  • Assessment methodology overview
  • Direct links from the master table to each buyer profile and outreach pack
Commercial outcome You see the priority buyer opportunity in one place and know where to focus sales attention before making contact.
Executive Report sample extract — master buyer table and ranking

Snapshot shown: This is an extract from the Master Buyer Table. The full Executive Report ranks and summarises all included buyers — up to 25 — so you can compare the complete buyer set and see where to focus first.

Deliverable 02

Buyer Profiles

Up to 25 individual company assessments — consistent in structure, specific in detail. Each profile explains the evidence, assessment and commercial logic behind one qualified buyer.

  • Verified legal identity, current status and operating profile
  • Relevant purchasing activity, scale and shipment evidence
  • Sourcing origins, supplier network and market overlap
  • Eight-factor assessment with overall score and evidence coverage
  • Opportunity interpretation — reasons worth approaching and points to be aware of
  • Recommended contact routes and contact notes
  • Overall commercial view for the exporter
  • Direct link to the buyer-specific Sales Outreach pack
Commercial outcome You approach each company with evidence about its buying behaviour, sourcing pattern and commercial potential — rather than treating every prospect the same.
Buyer Profile sample extract — company profile, eight-factor assessment and opportunity interpretation
Deliverable 03

Campaign Workbook

The Campaign Workbook section turns the analysis into two practical working files: one for analytical comparison and one for campaign execution.

  • Buyer Comparison Workbook (.xlsx) with ranked buyer rows and F1–F8 scores
  • Separate factor-ranking tabs for analytical comparison
  • CRM & Outreach File (.csv), structured one row per contact
  • Contact fields plus Outreach Status, Decision Window, Last Contacted, Next Action, Owner and Notes
  • Ready for CRM import or direct campaign management
Commercial outcome The analysis becomes a working sales pipeline rather than a static report.
Campaign Workbook sample extract — Buyer Comparison Workbook and factor sorter

Snapshot shown: Only a small section of the Campaign Workbook is visible here. The complete workbook contains all included buyers, their rankings and F1–F8 scores, together with the supporting CRM & Outreach file for managing the campaign.

Deliverable 04

Sales Outreach

A buyer-specific outreach pack for every included buyer. Each first email is written from the buyer backwards: buyer profile → commercial situation → best outreach angle → email.

  • Recommended contacts in practical priority order
  • Buyer-specific commercial rationale — why this buyer may have a reason to talk to this exporter
  • One primary commercial angle chosen for that buyer’s actual situation
  • One complete bespoke first email for the primary contact
  • A buyer-specific hook within the first two sentences
  • Only the two or three exporter facts that support the chosen angle
  • One clear, low-commitment next-action question plus the standard referral sentence
  • If another named contact is used, only a short alternative-contact opening changes; the substantive body is reused
  • Friendly, knowledgeable and commercially realistic tone, with no unsupported claims; uncertainty is turned into a polite qualification question
Commercial outcomeYou begin outreach with a concise, buyer-specific message designed to earn a commercially useful reply — not a generic sales email applied across the list.

Buyer contact information is provided for relevant professional B2B outreach. You remain responsible for complying with applicable privacy, data-protection and electronic-marketing requirements.

Sales Outreach sample extract — outreach rationale and bespoke first email

Snapshot shown: This example shows the outreach rationale and bespoke first email for one buyer. The full R4 package provides a separate buyer-specific outreach pack for every included buyer — up to 25 in total.

The Methodology

How buyers are assessed and prioritised.

Every qualified buyer is assessed against the same controlled eight-factor framework. The score supports consistent comparison; it does not pretend to predict which buyer will reply first.

F1 · 15%

Supplier Accessibility

How open does the buyer appear to be to working with additional suppliers?

F2 · 15%

Purchasing Activity & Scale

Does this buyer buy often enough, and on a big enough scale, to be worth the exporter’s time?

F3 · 15%

Commercial Stability & Payment Risk Indicators

Are there manageable commercial or payment-related warning signs to consider?

F4 · 15%

Product & Channel Fit

Does the buyer’s business model, product range and customer base fit the exporter’s offer?

F5 · 10%

Sourcing Relevance

Does the buyer’s sourcing pattern show relevant experience with the exporter’s country, region or comparable supply markets?

F6 · 10%

Shipment / Order Fit

Does the buyer’s purchasing pattern look practical for the exporter’s capacity and order size?

F7 · 10%

Timing & Supply Fit

Does the buyer’s purchasing pattern fit when and how the exporter can realistically supply?

F8 · 10%

Contact Accessibility

How strong is the factual contact coverage and how many practical routes exist to reach the buyer?

Each profile also shows evidence coverage. Where a relevant factor cannot be scored reliably, it is marked NS and excluded from the available denominator rather than being forced to zero. This keeps uncertainty visible instead of disguising it as a negative result.

Priority bands: High Priority 65–100 · Medium Priority 40–64 · Lower Priority below 40.

How each bespoke first email is written

The governing principle is buyer first: Buyer Profile → commercial situation → best outreach angle → email.

Buyer situation first
The message starts from the buyer’s actual commercial position and why this exporter may be relevant. The buyer-specific reason for contact should be clear within the first two sentences.
One primary commercial angle
Each email focuses on one credible reason to talk — for example supplementary supply, seasonal cover, contingency, second-source qualification, or a qualification question where fit is uncertain.
Selective, credible detail
Only the two or three exporter facts that support the angle are used. Unsupported claims are excluded; where the evidence is uncertain, the email turns that uncertainty into a polite question.
One clear next action
The email ends with one low-effort next-action question and the standard referral sentence. If another named contact is used, only a short alternative-contact opening changes before the same core body.
How to interpret R4: Every buyer has passed the qualification gate. Priority scores show where sales attention is likely to be most worthwhile, while evidence coverage shows how strongly each assessment is supported. Buyer-specific emails are then written from the company’s actual commercial situation in a friendly, concise style, normally 120–160 words, with one clear next action. Scores, rankings and outreach recommendations are decision aids — not guarantees of buyer response, supplier switching or a commercial outcome.
Evidence & Quality

Why you can trust the findings.

R4 combines documented transaction evidence, structured analysis and personal review to produce commercially usable conclusions.

Primary Sources

Buyer activity is assessed using licensed international trade transaction data together with relevant company, registry, commercial and public-source research.

Company Verification

Before a completed profile is locked, the buyer’s legal identity, jurisdiction, registration or company number, current status and incorporation or registration date are resolved from suitable evidence.

Evidence vs. Inference

The report distinguishes confirmed facts, calculated comparisons and analyst judgement. Material uncertainty or conflicting evidence is stated rather than silently resolved.

Data Limitations

Data coverage and recency vary by market, product and source. Where evidence is limited, that limitation is stated and reflected through evidence coverage and, where necessary, NS rather than an invented score.

Anthony Wolff, Founder, TradeMatch Pro

Anthony Wolff

Founder — Four decades of international trade and credit intelligence

Every R4 report is personally reviewed before delivery. The review tests conclusions drawn from ambiguous transaction patterns, checks company identities, distinguishes evidence from inference, and ensures that recommendations are commercially defensible.

TradeMatch Pro combines the accessibility of a fixed-price report with the judgement and quality control normally associated with bespoke research.

The Investment Case

What R4 replaces.

The real comparison is not with the cost of a contact list. It is with the time, specialist data, research and analysis needed to build the same campaign-ready foundation yourself.

Doing it yourself

  • Identifying reliable shipping data sources
  • Obtaining and cleaning transaction records
  • Resolving exact legal company identities
  • Researching each company individually
  • Analysing purchasing activity and scale
  • Comparing supplier networks and sourcing relevance
  • Locating practical contact routes
  • Building and applying a consistent scoring system
  • Constructing comparison and CRM-ready files
  • Writing a buyer-specific first email for every included buyer
  • Reviewing conclusions and outreach for consistency

Buying disconnected data

  • A database subscription — still requiring product-specific screening and verification
  • External research — quality, methodology and transaction verification can vary
  • A contact list — typically without prioritisation or analysis
  • Generic outreach templates — not connected to buyer-specific evidence
  • No integrated comparison and CRM execution files — you build them separately
  • Outputs may still need combining, reconciling and operationalising

R4 — £300–£600

  • Buyers assessed against relevant trade and company evidence
  • Controlled eight-factor assessment per buyer
  • Ranked with priority bands and evidence coverage
  • Contact accessibility assessed and practical routes identified where supported
  • Buyer Comparison Workbook plus CRM & Outreach CSV
  • One bespoke first email for every included buyer
  • Alternative-contact opening where another named route is used
  • Personal analyst review before delivery
  • 4 to 6 working days delivery
  • One revision if scope is not met

R4 does not guarantee an order or a buyer response. It provides a disciplined, evidence-led foundation for targeted outreach — replacing weeks of fragmented research with a connected system ready to use on delivery.

Is R4 Right For You?

Who R4 is for — and who it is not.

R4 is the right choice when you:

  • Have selected a target market and product and are ready to begin buyer outreach
  • Need a focused group of real, verified buyers — not thousands of unscreened names
  • Want to know which buyers to approach first and why
  • Are prepared to conduct professional outreach and manage a structured campaign
  • Want intelligence that goes deeper than a contact database
  • Are an export consultant commissioning buyer intelligence for a client

R4 is not the right fit when you:

  • Have not yet selected a target market — consider R1 first
  • Want thousands of generic leads across multiple countries
  • Expect buyer replies or purchase orders to be guaranteed
  • Need a formal credit report on a specific buyer
  • Are not yet operationally ready to export or fulfil orders
  • Want buyers across multiple products or categories under one fee
The Process

From order to campaign-ready in 4 to 6 working days.

1

Your card is authorised for the £600 maximum

Your card is authorised for £600 — the maximum R4 price. No money is taken at this point. Stripe holds the authorisation while we carry out the availability check. You will see a pending transaction on your card statement, but no charge is made.

2

We check availability and confirm your price

We check transaction-data coverage and the likely qualifying buyer universe for your product and market. Within two working days, we email you with the profile tier we can support and the applicable price — £600, £500, £400 or £300. If the price is below £600, you have 24 hours from our email to object; if we do not hear from you, the order proceeds automatically at that price. If fewer than six suitable profiles can be supported, we notify you and no payment is taken.

3

We take payment, you complete, we deliver

Once your price is confirmed — and, for a reduced price, once the 24-hour objection period has passed — the agreed amount is charged to your card. You then complete the Questionnaire, and we build the four-part R4 package and deliver it by email within 4 to 6 working days of receiving it.

Scope & Limitations

What R4 guarantees — and what it does not.

The scope is made clear before work begins, so you know what is included and where data limitations may apply.

What is guaranteedBuyers are assessed for your specific product and target market using available licensed international trade transaction data plus relevant company and public evidence. Delivery is within 4 to 6 working days of Questionnaire completion, with one revision if the report materially fails to meet the agreed scope.

Contact accessibilityContact accessibility is assessed for every buyer. Relevant named contacts and direct business routes are supplied where responsibly supported; where only a company-level, telephone or referral route is available, that limitation is stated. Contact details are never guessed.

Final profile countA buyer must pass the legal/entity and commercial qualification gates and show a plausible relevant buyer, importer or distributor route for the product. Weak contact coverage (for example, no direct email address), limited sourcing evidence or uncertain shipment fit do not automatically exclude an otherwise credible buyer; those limitations are reflected transparently in the assessment. We confirm the applicable profile tier and price before production begins.

R4 identifies relative opportunity and observable signals — it does not predict buyer responses or guarantee supplier switching. Rankings, priority bands and buyer-specific outreach recommendations are decision aids, not promises of a commercial outcome.

Responsible useR4 provides buyer intelligence and potential business contact routes, not legal approval for a particular communication. Use contacts only for relevant, proportionate professional outreach, identify your business clearly, make privacy information and opt-out easy to access, and honour objections promptly.

Credit assessmentR4 is not a formal credit report. Company verification and Commercial Stability & Payment Risk Indicators form part of the eight-factor buyer assessment, but R4 does not establish an individual buyer's creditworthiness and should not be used as the sole basis for extending open-account trading terms.

One market, one productR4 covers one target market and one product category per commission. Multiple markets or product lines require separate reports.

Commission R4

Everything included. Delivered in 4 to 6 working days.

£300–£600

Final price based on confirmed qualifying profile count

21–25 profiles £600
16–20 profiles £500
11–15 profiles £400
6–10 profiles £300
Fewer than 6 profiles Report not produced
  • Executive Report — buyer landscape, master ranking and campaign recommendations
  • Buyer Profiles — structured evidence, eight-factor assessment, opportunity interpretation and contact routes
  • Campaign Workbook — Buyer Comparison Workbook (.xlsx) plus CRM & Outreach File (.csv)
  • Sales Outreach — one bespoke first email per included buyer, plus alternative-contact opening where needed
  • Delivered within 4 to 6 working days of Questionnaire completion
  • One revision if the report materially fails to meet the agreed scope
  • Personal review by Anthony Wolff before delivery
  • Your Questionnaire handled confidentially and used only for purposes necessary to produce and deliver your report

* Your card is authorised at £600 but not charged. The final amount is only taken once we have confirmed your qualifying profile count. If that amount is below £600, you have 24 hours from our email to object; if we do not hear from you, the order proceeds automatically at the confirmed price. Delivery follows within 4 to 6 working days of receiving your completed Questionnaire.

Common Questions

Answers to the questions that matter before ordering.

No. A list of company names is only the starting point. R4 assesses buyer activity and commercial fit, applies a consistent eight-factor methodology, ranks the qualified buyer set, explains the evidence in individual profiles, provides comparison and CRM execution files, and creates buyer-specific Sales Outreach packs. The intelligence, interpretation and campaign structure are the product.
No. R4 shows relative opportunity using observable evidence and a consistent eight-factor framework. It can help you decide where to focus attention and how to approach each buyer, but it cannot predict buyer decisions, replies or supplier switching. A lower-ranked buyer may respond before a higher-ranked one.
Every buyer included in the final R4 must have at least one relevant named contact and a usable business contact route. However, a direct individual email address cannot be guaranteed in every case. Where a verified direct email is unavailable, we may provide another supported route such as a company telephone number, switchboard, general business email or referral route. Contact details are never guessed.
Buyer activity is assessed using the most recent relevant transaction evidence reasonably available for the market and product. Coverage and recency vary by source. Each profile shows evidence coverage, and where a relevant factor cannot be scored reliably it may be marked NS rather than being forced to zero.
A buyer must pass the legal/entity and commercial qualification gates and show a plausible relevant buyer, importer or distributor route for the product. Weak contact coverage (for example, no direct email address), uncertain shipment fit or incomplete sourcing evidence do not automatically exclude an otherwise credible buyer; those limitations are reflected transparently in the factor scores, evidence coverage and opportunity interpretation.
The final price adjusts to the number of profiles we can support: £600 for 21–25, £500 for 16–20, £400 for 11–15 and £300 for 6–10. If fewer than six suitable profiles can be supported, no report is produced and no payment is taken.
Yes. R4 now separates the two jobs. The Buyer Comparison Workbook is supplied in Excel for analytical sorting and factor comparison, while the CRM & Outreach File is supplied as CSV for import into a CRM or direct campaign management. Field mapping varies by CRM, so compatibility with every platform cannot be guaranteed.
No. R4 includes legal/company verification and observable commercial or payment-risk indicators as part of the buyer assessment. It does not constitute a formal credit report and should not be used as the sole basis for extending open-account trading terms. Formal credit assessment on a specific buyer requires a separate credit intelligence service.
We screen buyer names against appropriate official sanctions sources and review credible public information for material adverse issues that could affect commercial suitability. Possible matches are checked against identifying information before conclusions are drawn. This is a screening and due-diligence check, not a substitute for specialist legal, sanctions or compliance advice.
When you place your order, your card is authorised for £600 but not charged. Within two working days, we confirm the profile tier we can support and the applicable price. If we can support the full 21–25 profiles, £600 is charged and production begins. If fewer profiles qualify, we email you the reduced price — £500, £400 or £300 — and you have 24 hours from that email to object. If we do not hear from you within those 24 hours, the order proceeds automatically and the reduced amount is charged. The objection period is fixed at 24 hours because card authorisations lapse after seven days, and we must take payment before then. Once payment is taken, we send you the Questionnaire and deliver within 4 to 6 working days of receiving it. If fewer than six profiles can be supported, no report is produced and no charge is made.

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