Based on techniques developed in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and continuously enhanced over 15 years, our proprietary Tactical Behavior Assessment® (TBA™) methodology provides the tools to discover what others are missing regarding the facts and motivations behind corporate and personal disclosures.

Completeness
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Accuracy

Obtain Better Information from Interactions with Management

BIA's proprietary TBA methodology incorporates the psychology of how people disclose information.  Applying the BIA methodology enables you to formulate more strategic questions and ask questions in unpredictable and non-confrontational ways to avoid repetitive and rehearsed answers. The methodology results give a clearer understanding of management’s true level of confidence to close information gaps.

Analyze Management Disclosures

BIA looks at management disclosures through a different lens, using behavioral analysis to yield new insight into management's level of conviction and concerns on a range of topics. You can then make more informed decisions based on the BIA assessment of the completeness and responsiveness of management statements.

Conduct Due Diligence

Business Intelligence Advisors applies a methodical approach to acquiring knowledge about investment decisions. Learn more about a company's executive team, reputation, litigation and other key operating attributes through both open and primary research from unique, unpaid sources.

Customized Client Approach

Business Intelligence Advisors recognizes that every one of our clients is unique. As such, BIA works with each client through a dedicated account manager to customize service offerings that best meet that client’s needs.
 
"Everyone's looking for an edge. Quarterly conference calls are a very important source of company-specific information. If you can interpret that information better than anyone else, you have an edge."

- HBS Professor, Christopher Malloy 

 

 

"BIA has helped us tremendously. Our partnership with BIA helps us identify and keep quality companies."

- Ariel Investments, Mellody Hobson 

Watch a Quick Overview of Behavioral Analysis

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Behavioral analysis attempts to understand, explain, describe and predict what people do and say. BIA’s approach to behavioral analysis relies on a strict analysis, based on a proprietary methodology. These behaviors are gender, cultural and language neutral.    

 How does BIA use Behavioral Analysis to help clients?

  • Prepare for and assess management meetings
  • Analyze scripted and non-scripted statements and interviews, in both transcript and video formats
  • Measure the level of completeness, confidence and accuracy of responses to questions

BIA Between the Lines News

Using our proprietary methodology to analyze world events

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BIA's Top 10 Most Absurd Behavioral-Laden Responses

 12/27/2017

In this edition of Between the Lines, we look back and analyzed thousands of management disclosures we had reviewed over the past year. As we analyzed these exchanges to extract hidden insights, some behaviors didn't require much analysis to stand out. 
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Even All-Stars Need to Work on Their Game

 10/20/2017

In this edition of Between the Lines, we use the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team to analyze their sell-side questions skills and show how BIA’s recommended question types could have helped them gain more insight from management.
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Sessions Gives Himself Permission to Say No

6/23/2017

In this edition of Between the Lines, we examine the recent testimonies of former FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, both of whom refused to answer many questions during their hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee on June 8, 2017, and June 13, 2017, respectively.

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About Us

BIA's proprietary Tactical Behavior Assessment methodology was derived from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and is used to identify language and behavioral cues that indicate when an individual isn't being entirely candid. Founded in 2001 on the principle that methodologies originally developed for the national intelligence community could be powerfully applied to the private sector, we've been working with institutional investors, venture capital firms, private equity firms, and other entities since, helping them gain unique insights by using our approach.

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