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Stephen Phillips Jinfo wins CILIP’s inaugural “McFarlane & Ward Information Management” award
4th December 2025

The award recognises Jinfo’s work in supporting information professionals with independent research, product reviews, practical strategies and networking.

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Stephen Phillips December 2025 update
3rd December 2025

Contents:
  • Mitigating third-party risk
  • Review of Matchplat
  • Why you shouldn’t rely on GenAI for news.

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Anja Chemnitz Thygesen Review of Matchplat – combining AI with traditional industry code searching
27th November 2025

Matchplat is a new player with an interesting approach to building company lists, which combine AI with traditional code-based searching.

Jinfo has had access to their beta product, due to launch in early 2026, and here are some of our findings.

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Anja Chemnitz Thygesen November 2025 update
5th November 2025

  • Understanding alliances and consolidation
  • Contract negotiation
  • Adverse-media and Web scraping risk mitigation.

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Stephen Phillips Essential strategies for contract negotiations
30th October 2025

Jinfo’s recent "Contract negotiation role-play" Community session consisted of two vendor-client contract negotiating scenarios.

Following the session, we have published a detailed report of six highly-effective levers for vendor negotiations.

This blog gives an overview of the session, and describes two of the six key takeaways.

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Anja Chemnitz Thygesen TDNet Discover product review: AI meets information management
28th October 2025

Jinfo has reviewed TDNet Discover, a platform that combines traditional search with the intelligence of AI. It aims to redefine how organisations discover and manage knowledge.

Having also spoken to TDNet about the recent enhancements, we have produced a detailed product review report, and a demo recording of the user interface.

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Stephen Phillips Legal AI alliances – is it time to negotiate better terms?
16th October 2025

Strategic alliances amongst legal content vendors are reshaping legal research, and embedding AI into platforms.

These investments come with the promise of improved efficiency and efficacy, and premium pricing.

Information managers can use the "workload paradox", and inherent inaccuracy risks, to mitigate potential price increases.

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Anja Chemnitz Thygesen October 2025 update
8th October 2025

  • Legal information vendors and AI tools
  • Managing expert networks by using Inex One
  • Due diligence and integrity research.

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Anja Chemnitz Thygesen Expert networks, a new priority for information managers
17th September 2025

In recent months, Jinfo has focused on expert networks and their growing role in research and decision making. Here we summarise some of our findings.

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Anja Chemnitz Thygesen September 2025 update
3rd September 2025

In this issue:

  • Critical-thinking skills and metacognitive reflection for GenAI
  • Contract negotiation role-play.

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