Equity Data Solutions collects and produces commercial market intelligence. Aperture, our visualization and insight engine, turns it into scores, rankings and country briefings for researchers and investors.
MERI scores 158 countries on readiness for foreign market entry. Open methodology, cited sources. Aperture is built and operated by Equity Data Solutions.
MERI is a screening tool. It has not yet been validated against outcomes, and it is not investment advice.
We gather source material at scale and turn it into structured data and written intelligence. Built on official and published sources, each cited with its licence. Every capability carries one of three labels: available in Aperture, available on request, or in development.
View Capabilities3,200+ statistical and official data sources, 1.8 million time series and 100 million+ data points, with bilateral trade records since 1948. MERI scores 158 countries on readiness for foreign market entry.
49,000 news and publisher feeds and 7.6 million news articles collected. Country briefings are AI-drafted from cited sources and labelled as such.
Sanctions exposure and similar red-flag indicators, shown by country on Aperture country pages and traced to their sources.
A written report on a country or market, or a file of series or trade data cut to your specification, drawn from the same cited sources.
We can add sources and collect to a specification: new publishers, registers or statistical series, brought into the same provenance and checking pipeline.
Named-entity extraction from news runs at pilot scale. Corporate filings archive (SEC EDGAR) collected; entity matching and ownership analysis in development.
Every figure traces to its source, retrieval date and licence. Where official data is missing or late, the portal labels the series with a caveat.
View MethodologyTier-1 official sources first—statistics offices, regulators, central banks. News and secondary sources are tagged as such.
Automated schema, completeness, duplicate and freshness checks on every source. Current source health is public.
Series become scores, rankings and country profiles. Written briefings are AI-drafted from cited sources and labelled as such.
Delivered through Aperture: rankings, country profiles, comparisons and CSV/PDF export, each with source attribution.
Coverage is uneven across the world by design, and we say so plainly where it is thin. Each figure below carries its definition and can be reproduced on request.
| Figure | Value | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Sources tracked | 52,000+ | Every source in the register: 3,232 data sources plus 49,019 news feeds |
| Statistical and official data sources | 3,200+ | Data sources in the public register on Aperture |
| News and publisher feeds | 49,000 | RSS feeds registered for news collection |
| Time series | 1.8 million | Distinct series observed |
| Data points | 100 million+ | Sum of observations across those series |
| News articles | 7.6 million | Articles collected; an estimate, not an exact count |
| Source artifacts archived | 32 million | Raw payloads held with a provenance record |
| Bilateral trade records | 4.2 million | Yearly trade-flow records since 1948; an estimate |
| Traded commodity codes | 6,360 | Harmonized System codes |
| Markets profiled | 234 | Country and territory profiles on Aperture; 158 scored and 156 ranked under MERI v1.0.0, scored year 2024 |
| Indicators | 188 | Indicators defined in Aperture |
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