# Northern Light > Northern Light makes SinglePoint, a market and competitive intelligence platform. SinglePoint brings licensed research from 150+ providers, an organization's internal knowledge and Northern Light's Curated Intelligence Collections into one governed platform, with every AI answer cited to its source document. Northern Light is a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms and a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave: Market And Competitive Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2026. Northern Light is based in Somerville, Massachusetts, and serves enterprise competitive intelligence, market research and insights teams. SinglePoint is licensed as a platform rather than per seat. It is SOC 2 certified, inherits existing SSO and document-level permissions, operates with zero data retention and does not train AI models on customer content. ## Platform - [SinglePoint Platform](https://www.northernlight.com/platform): Overview of the SinglePoint market and competitive intelligence platform: trusted content, cited AI answers and enterprise-wide sharing. - [AI-Ready Intelligence](https://www.northernlight.com/ai-ready-intelligence): How licensed research, internal content and Northern Light collections are unified and enriched so AI answers stay grounded and cited. - [Intelligence in Your Tools](https://www.northernlight.com/intelligence-in-your-tools): Microsoft Copilot connector and MCP server that bring licensed, permission-aware content into Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI agents. - [Always-On Agents](https://www.northernlight.com/always-on-agents): AI research agents that run Deep Research, answer questions in plain language and keep dashboards and alerts current. - [Curated Intelligence Collections](https://www.northernlight.com/content-collections): Vetted business news, patents, financials, thought leader reports and industry literature, licensed for AI use. - [Primary Research Manager](https://www.northernlight.com/primary-research-manager): Governance for primary market research, with approvals, country-specific compliance, audit trails and study reuse. - [How SinglePoint Works](https://www.northernlight.com/how-it-works): How SinglePoint turns trusted content into governed AI answers with enrichment, permissions and source citations. - [For IT & Executives](https://www.northernlight.com/for-it-executives): Security, governance and the business case for funding and scaling SinglePoint across an enterprise. ## Solutions - [Solutions Overview](https://www.northernlight.com/solutions): SinglePoint solutions by role, by use case and by industry. - [Use Cases](https://www.northernlight.com/use-cases): Competitive positioning, market landscaping, primary research, crisis response, executive briefings and organization-wide self-service. - [Financial Services](https://www.northernlight.com/financial-services): Market, policy and competitor intelligence for financial services teams. - [Life Sciences & Healthcare](https://www.northernlight.com/life-sciences-healthcare): Pharma competitive intelligence across trial data, literature, patents, regulatory signals and pipelines. - [IT & Telecom](https://www.northernlight.com/it-telecom): Competitor roadmaps, patents, standards and regulatory change for technology and telecom teams. - [Manufacturing & Industrial](https://www.northernlight.com/manufacturing-industrial): Market, regulatory and competitor intelligence for manufacturing and industrial teams. ## Customer results - [Case Studies](https://www.northernlight.com/case-studies): Overview of SinglePoint customer outcomes. - [Research Compliance Case Study](https://www.northernlight.com/research-compliance-case-study): A Fortune 500 healthcare company cut compliance review time by 70% across 13 countries. - [Market Intelligence Case Study](https://www.northernlight.com/market-intelligence-case-study): One portal unified 35 syndicated sources for 2,300 active users. - [Consumer Insights Case Study](https://www.northernlight.com/consumer-insights-case-study): A consumer insights team avoided $1M a month in duplicate studies. - [Competitive Intelligence Case Study](https://www.northernlight.com/competitive-intelligence-case-study): A Fortune 500 manufacturer delivered 150 curated briefings with no added headcount. ## Evaluating SinglePoint - [Analyst Recognition](https://www.northernlight.com/analyst-recognition): Northern Light's placements in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant and The Forrester Wave, Q3 2026. - [Gartner Magic Quadrant](https://www.northernlight.com/gartner-magic-quadrant): The 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms. - [The Forrester Wave](https://www.northernlight.com/forrester-wave): The Forrester Wave: Market And Competitive Intelligence Platforms, Q3 2026. - [How SinglePoint Compares](https://www.northernlight.com/compare): How SinglePoint compares with other competitive intelligence platforms on AI use-rights, enrichment, cited answers and pricing. - [Buyer's Guide to Market & Competitive Intelligence Platforms](https://www.northernlight.com/buyers-guide-market-competitive-intelligence-tools): Northern Light's framework for evaluating platforms on the three core jobs: Gather, Interpret and Activate. - [Generative AI Governance](https://www.northernlight.com/generative-ai-governance): What generative AI governance means for enterprise research, and how SinglePoint enforces licensed content, permissions, citations and security controls. - [Request a Demo](https://www.northernlight.com/request-a-demo): Book a SinglePoint demo. ## Guides - [The 12 Best Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms in 2026](https://www.northernlight.com/blog/the-12-best-competitive-and-market-intelligence-platforms-in-2026): Twelve platforms compared by use case: corporate strategy, product strategy, GTM and sales. - [Market and Competitive Intelligence Platforms for Pharma and Biotech](https://www.northernlight.com/blog/market-intelligence-platforms-pharma-biotech): A 2026 buyer's guide for pharma and biotech teams: scientific and pipeline data, citations, governance and leading options. - [Market Intelligence Platforms With Enterprise AI Search](https://www.northernlight.com/blog/market-intelligence-platforms-enterprise-ai-search): How platforms combine enterprise search and generative AI, plus eight evaluation criteria. - [How Enterprise Teams Keep Market Intelligence Organized and Searchable](https://www.northernlight.com/blog/how-enterprise-teams-keep-market-intelligence-organized-searchable): Five design decisions that make research findable and reusable. - [Secure Knowledge Management](https://www.northernlight.com/blog/secure-knowledge-management-strategy-data-security): A six-step, governance-first knowledge management strategy for the AI era. - [What Is Generative AI Governance?](https://www.northernlight.com/blog/what-is-generative-ai-governance-and-why-it-matters-for-enterprise-compliance-and-innovation): The NIST AI RMF traits, what compliance has to prove and how GenAI systems get approved. ## Company - [Leadership Team](https://www.northernlight.com/leadership-team): Northern Light's leadership team. - [Careers](https://www.northernlight.com/careers): Open roles at Northern Light. - [Contact Us](https://www.northernlight.com/contact-us): Contact Northern Light. - [Privacy Policy](https://www.northernlight.com/privacy): User agreement and privacy policy. ## Optional - [Blog](https://www.northernlight.com/blog): Articles, news and events on competitive intelligence, market research and AI.