Getting the Data You Need Should be Easy.

Bolster is a New Zealand based veteran-owned technology startup. Decades of experience with governments and inside Silicon Valley tech has helped us build products that let organisations do what's right - faster.

Our organisational integration product leverages SMAQ (the Structured Model for Analytical Questioning) to simplify information management and improve speed to action. SMAQ applies to any organisation with access to data and mission focus.

Event-Centric Analysis Meets Event-Driven Architecture.

At the core of our products is our methodology, the Structured Model for Analytical Questioning (SMAQ).

To predict future events, customer needs, competitor intentions, we rarely find answers in a single piece of collection or one particular data integration; we require analysis. Many great data analysis and visualisation tools exist today, but combining event-centric analysis, event-driven architecture with systems thinking, and intelligence know-how sets Bolster apart for actionable insights.

An intelligence practitioner's priority is not what they know but what they don't yet know. That's why they make assessments to manage ambiguity; that's what you do when you don't know. There will always be risk here, but we can minimise risk through our SMAQ methodology as a structured and disciplined approach to systematic analysis.

SMAQ provides a framework that enhances systems' ease of use for users, teams, administrators and decision-makers. It does so by ensuring the compounding of knowledge within the data asset.

The applicability of the event-centric model with domain-specific customisation, required properties and defined relationships quickly reveals the value of collaborative analytical environments. This assists all who interact with the system to better traverse the ever-growing and evolving data landscape.

SMAQstack mobile event creation allows operators to record observations as they go; it systematically externalises their assessments and exposes them at the earliest stage to accelerate deliberation on different opinions, reducing bias and other common organisational pitfalls. The increasing challenges organisations face demand increased collaboration, both internally and with partners. SMAQ is ideal for this.

SMAQ creates a bridge between larger-scale data sources or sensor streams, making them more consumable to operators, analysts and decision-makers. 

From the outset, SMAQ has benefited from the use of indicators. Indicators are increasingly used across many domains and businesses, including; cyber, law enforcement, defence, finance, healthcare and politics. Indicators are observable actions or events, and they can be used to monitor and anticipate change. The value add is that indicators highlight early signs of significant change that otherwise can often be overlooked. 

Building an organisation's knowledge base using SMAQ means data can be utilised at all levels; tactical, operational and strategic. SMAQ is easily adaptable, and a different implementation can be stood up and productionised extremely quickly to target a specific problem.

Whatever your business, if you have data and want to do more, get in touch to book a demo.