Data Accelerator Program New Partner Guide
Onboarding overview for new data providers joining the Data Accelerator Program and partnering with Amass Insights to monetize their data.

1. What Is the Data Accelerator Program?
Welcome to the Amass Data Accelerator Program, a mutually beneficial network of Alternative Data companies. This partnership strives to inspire, inform, and enrich its members within the data industry. We’ll customize your messaging & in some cases, your data products, for our main audience: hedge funds with significant data budgets. We achieve this through good old-fashioned hard work: collaborating on your messaging/marketing, leveraging our industry-leading digital resources, and hitting the pavement on your behalf through our vast data buyer network.
The Amass Insights Data Accelerator Program is a structured partnership program for data providers who want to:
- Quickly test and validate their datasets with real institutional and corporate users
- Understand where and how their data delivers the most value
- Turn pilot usage into repeatable, scalable commercial relationships
Through this program, Amass works closely with selected data providers to:
- Match their data to the right buyers, use cases, and workflows
- Reduce friction in evaluation, integration, and procurement
- Provide structured feedback that improves product-market fit and commercial outcomes
This guide explains how the partnership works in practice—from onboarding and technical enablement through pilots, commercial deals, and ongoing collaboration.
2. Program Goals & Benefits
2.1 For Data Providers
As a member of the Data Accelerator Program, you can expect support across four main areas:
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Discovery & Positioning
- Identify the most relevant buyers for your data (e.g., investors and asset managers, as well as corporates, strategy teams, and data scientists).
- Clarify and refine your core value propositions and priority use cases.
- Position your dataset alongside adjacent or complementary datasets Amass sees in the market.
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Evaluation & Validation
- Get your data in front of qualified prospects with clear evaluation scopes.
- Run structured trials and pilots that test your data in real workflows.
- Collect qualitative and quantitative feedback on coverage, quality, latency, and usability.
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Commercial Acceleration
- Turn successful trials into production deployments and contracts.
- Experiment with pricing, packaging, and licensing based on buyer response.
- Build a repeatable sales motion through Amass-led introductions and co-selling.
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Product & Roadmap Insight
- Learn which features or dimensions drive actual purchasing decisions.
- Identify gaps or enhancements buyers repeatedly request.
- Inform your roadmap, documentation, and go-to-market strategy with real-world data.
2.2 What Amass Brings
Amass operates at the intersection of data buyers and data providers. Through the Data Accelerator Program, we bring you:
- Market Intelligence – A view across datasets and buyer needs that helps refine how your data is framed and where it fits.
- Curated Access – Targeted introductions to buyers whose needs match your strengths, rather than broad, unqualified outreach.
- Structured Process – Clear steps from first discussion to evaluation, pilot, and commercial agreement.
- Feedback Loop – Ongoing insight from buyers and Amass’s own work with your data (where applicable).
3. Partnership Model: Roles & Expectations
The Data Accelerator Program is designed to be collaborative but lightweight. We aim to minimize overhead while ensuring both sides can operate effectively.
3.1 What You Can Expect from Amass
As a Data Accelerator partner, Amass will typically provide:
- Qualified Demand & Use Case Matching
- Inclusion in relevant shortlists when your data fits an active or emerging use case.
- Context on buyer needs, constraints, and evaluation criteria before you engage.
- Sales & Evaluation Support
- Participation in or facilitation of calls with prospects.
- Help designing trial & pricing structures, success criteria, and upgrade paths.
- Assistance navigating buyer questions about quality, methodology, coverage, and implementation.
- Data & Product Feedback
- Feedback drawn from buyer conversations and, where applicable, Amass’s own analysis.
- Suggestions on documentation, schemas, onboarding, and tooling to reduce friction.
- Insight into overlapping or adjacent solutions we see in the market.
- Visibility & Positioning Support (where appropriate)
- Inclusion in relevant Amass content, landscapes, and playbooks.
- Potential co-marketing (e.g., case studies, webinars, or thought leadership) where there is clear mutual value.
