Industry intelligence & strategic pricing-analytics
House of Research is built to partner with organisations that are:
Services
Research
Where your next market is, and whether the one you are already in is working. Competitor landscapes, sector risk and opportunity, and contract performance examined before you commit resources rather than after.
Research
Workforce, wage and skills trends tracked across Australian and New Zealand industries, with macroeconomic advisory on the forces actually shaping your business and your sector rather than the ones making headlines.
Research
Becoming the voice your market listens to takes evidence behind the position. Training and seminars that equip your team to read their sector, and research that gives them something worth saying.
Strategic Pricing-Analytics
Every price built twice. Current rates sourced from subcontractors and suppliers, so it reflects what the work costs in today's market, then a bottom-up model costing labour, materials and management from first principles. Reconciling the two gives a price you can defend line by line.
Deep sector analysis and validated data. Every assumption is tested and every finding checked before it reaches you. Insight built to support a decision, not to sit on a shelf.
Every estimate shows its sources, including quotes from named subcontractors for the relevant scope. You can see, test and trust the basis of every bid rather than taking the number on faith.
An optional first step. Before pricing a tender, we check it matches your capability, capacity and strategic direction, so your effort goes into the work you are best placed to win and deliver.
Method
Research and pricing run the same four stages, and you see the working at each one rather than a result at the end.
What the work has to support, who will challenge it, and the precision that actually warrants. Over-engineering an analysis is as costly as under-doing it.
Sources, assumptions, inclusions and exclusions agreed and written down before analysis starts, so the scope of the answer is never in dispute later.
Research findings are tested against independent evidence and a deliberate search for the result that would contradict them. Prices are built two ways, from market rates and from the ground up, then reconciled. Where two methods disagree, that gap is information worth understanding.
A documented deliverable with the model, the sources and the limitations attached, and for pricing work the evidence pack behind every rate. You can defend it without me in the room.
About
House of Research is the independent practice of Sinem Celik, based in Melbourne, working across industry and sector intelligence and strategic pricing-analytics for Australian and New Zealand markets.
The practice runs two streams. Research covers sector growth and performance, labour market and macroeconomic analysis, and thought leadership. Strategic Pricing-Analytics covers tender, contract and benchmark pricing, built two ways and reconciled so the number holds under evaluation.
Much of the work is quantitative: modelling, benchmarking, estimation. But the useful part is rarely the arithmetic. It is knowing which comparison is fair, which data source is load-bearing, and where an apparently precise figure is resting on an assumption nobody has examined.
That discipline comes from a doctorate in investment modelling and from teaching the subject at university level, then applying it in commercial research and pricing.
We partner with hard and soft facility management providers across Australia and New Zealand. Smaller, well-scoped briefs are welcome. A defensible answer to a narrow question is often worth more than a broad report nobody reads.
Contact
If you would rather just write, or send a scope document across, email is fine.
hello@houseofresearch.com.auInitial conversations are free and genuinely useful. Often the fastest way to work out whether the question you have is the question worth answering.
