rickw mainly that you can’t really rely on “buying intents” from platforms.
Understanding how they track “buying intent” gives an idea of why. For example, they track that someone at a company is searching on the internet for “CRM”. Does it mean that the company is looking to buy a CRM or that one or two employees from their massive 5k headcounts did a random CRM search on a Wednesday morning?
Winning a grant or getting funded is an event, not a buying intent. It’s not “because I got funded” that I am actively looking for a solution.
But “when someone got funded, 70% of similar companies are buying X, Y, and Z solutions”. Buying intents are extremely hard to get. Events and probability of looking for a solution are easier, but they’re still probabilities.