 Artificial intelligence is transforming research and the contracts that underpin it.
Vendors are forming strategic AI alliances, embedding machine learning into platforms and promising faster, smarter insights.
We see this especially in the legal content market. In his Jinfo Blog "Legal AI alliances – is it time to negotiate better terms?", Stephen Phillips talks about:
- The AI workload paradox
- Linking pricing to performance and risk
Yet with these advances come new complexities in pricing, ownership, and renewal.
Following our recent insightful Community session, we've published the Jinfo Report "Contract negotiation role play – analysis and practical strategies for your negotiations" which reveals six practical ways to strengthen your negotiating position:
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Understand vendor incentives and structure
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Leverage relationships at senior levels
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Prepare renewals early
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Monetise non-financial value
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Qualify new technology investment
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Use potential consolidation as a bargaining chip.
Negotiation today is no longer just about price, it's about understanding technology, value, and timing.
TDNet Discover is a platform which demonstrates the shift to AI-powered natural-language search, concept discovery and research summarisation.
In the Jinfo Blog "TDNet Discover product review: AI meets information management", I have outlined the findings in my new detailed product review report and recorded product demo.
We are currently researching and discussing how information managers also have a critical role in mitigating the risks associated with adverse-media monitoring and Web scraping:
So, for the avoidance of doubt, information professionals are now more crucial than ever, for:
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Understanding alliances and consolidation
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Contract negotiation
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Risk mitigation.
I welcome your comments and invite you to become a subscriber if you're not already.
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"How to scrape the web for news and adverse-media monitoring"
18th November 2025
Jinfo Community
The appetite for news continues to grow, and social media platforms continue to outstrip traditional news media channels.
Web scraping is an increasingly attractive approach to gather news, but it's not without its challenges. Scraping the web for adverse-media, or negative news, further complicates the issue.
So, how can you build a comprehensive news and adverse-media monitoring capability?
Join Toby Cook from Opoint to discuss the practicalities of web-scale news scraping, and adverse-media monitoring.
Please complete our short 5-minute survey, to inform the conversation about the monitoring of negative news, and receive a copy of the results. All responses are confidential, and will be reported on during this Jinfo Community session.
"Transforming knowledge management at BASF – GenAI and the evolution of QKnows"
10th December 2025
Jinfo Community
Join Stephan Ballenweg, BASF Head of Knowledge Systems, as he shares insights from the journey of QKnows – the internal knowledge and information management platform at BASF.
Stephan will walk through key milestones in the development of QKnows, sharing the strategies that helped secure buy-in from senior stakeholders and IT colleagues, including the use cases, justification for the platform, cooperation with especially IT and GenAI adoption.
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