Wise Horizon · Market intelligence

The market moves every week. Your decisions can move with it.

Wise Horizon turns the noise of your market into one clear signal per product, every week. It shows which way each outside force is pushing your demand, how hard, where the competition is actually winning, and where each product is heading next.

Not a static report. A living reading, dated and sourced, that reaches the decision while it can still change it.

Weekly readingIllustrative data
Credit cards+0.46
Mortgage-0.08
Personal loan-0.11
Savings-0.08
Account opening-0.44
headwindneutraltailwind
In this reading: cards riding a tailwind, credit stabilising, and account opening under structural pressure.
Weeklya fresh market reading every 7 days
−1 to +1one clear index per product, headwind or tailwind
71 factorsmonitored across 8 families
Sourcedevery reading dated, with its source and confidence
The starting point

The data all exists. The reading arrives late.

No bank is short of indicators. It has indicators scattered across sources that do not talk to each other, on different clocks, read by different people, and pulled together once the decision has already been made.

01

Sources that never cross

Central banks, statistics offices, regulators, the press, comparators, competitor pricing. Each on its own calendar. Nobody puts it all on one desk in the same week.

02

Competition read by memory

You know who is cheaper by a conversation and a screenshot. The relative position shifts month to month, and it is almost never measured at the moment a campaign is approved.

03

Context that never reaches the report

The report explains what happened in the account. It does not explain what happened in the market around the account, which is where half the variation is born.

The question that goes unanswered

When cost per lead jumps 20% in a week, the room splits between the people who blame the campaign and the people who blame the market. Without a dated, sourced market reading, that argument gets settled by opinion.

The product

One index per product. One direction per week.

Wise Horizon covers your main products and, for each, crosses official data, macro and geopolitical signals, and near real-time digital demand. It turns all of it into a score of the expected impact of each factor, with a heatmap, an event timeline, a competitive benchmark and a forward outlook per product. Every reading carries its confidence and its source.

Layer 1

Open market data

Central banks, statistics offices, European bodies, the economic press and sector sources. All public, all citable, all dated.

Layer 2

Your own signals

The demand and auction signals from your own acquisition account, first-party. This is what ties the market's movement to your real funnel.

Layer 3

Proprietary indices

The Wise layer: the probabilistic indices built on top of the first two. This is the product, and this is what you cannot buy anywhere else.

Products covered
5
In banking today: mortgage, personal, cards, savings, account opening
Factors monitored
71
Across 8 families
Competitor profiles
47
Price, range, conditions and auction presence
Update cycle
7 days
A fresh reading every week

Built first for banking, because banking has rich public data and fast-moving competition. The engine is sector-agnostic, and we calibrate it to your market with you.

How to read it

From minus one to plus one: headwind or tailwind.

Each product carries an index between minus one and plus one. Negative means the outside forces are pushing against demand and against the health of the book. Positive means the opposite. The value is the expected aggregate impact, not a sales forecast.

Credit cards
+0.46Strong tailwind
Mortgage
-0.08Neutral, recovering
Savings & investment
-0.08Neutral
Personal loan
-0.11Slight adverse pressure
Account opening
-0.44Strong adverse pressure
-1.00 adverse0.00 neutral+1.00 favourable
The market reading this gives

Credit is stabilising after months of pressure, cards are riding a favourable tide, and account opening is the product under structural pressure, where digital players are taking share and the traditional offer loses the comparison. Each reading opens into the factors behind it, with the source for each one.

The index is a score of expected impact, built by transparent rules. It is not a calibrated probability and not a sales forecast. Illustrative data.

Competitive matrix

Competitive pressure measured, not inferred.

Your competitive position stops being a meeting opinion. Wise Horizon keeps live profiles of the relevant players per product, with price, range, conditions and auction presence, and turns it into a single number: how hard the competition is pulling against you, this week.

SIGNAL 1 Price gap competitive SIGNAL 2 Auction gap losing share ONE NUMBER PER PRODUCT Competitive pressure magnitude · reliability · force
Two signals fuse into one competitive-pressure factor. The price gap says who is cheaper. The auction gap says who is winning the customer. When they disagree, that is the new information.
What this fusion revealed in a real case

In one product we monitored, the price gap was tight: the bank sat mid-pack and the classic reading said "we are competitive." The auction signal showed more than half of demand was being lost by position. Price tells you who is cheapest. The auction tells you who is winning the customer. Different questions, and Wise Horizon answers both.

A real week

What moved, and why it moved.

Not a dashboard you open to go looking. A reading that tells you, from one week to the next, which factors moved and in which direction. Here is mortgage credit, between week 28 and week 31 of 2026.

House prices
+0.81
Inflation
+0.53
ECB policy rate
+0.39
Mortgage spread
+0.32
Weather
-0.44
Debt-service limit
-0.09

The week's aggregate: the mortgage index rose 0.09 and moved from adverse pressure to neutral. Under the number sits a timeline of dated events, each with its source.

1 August 2026
New macroprudential limits take effect
Debt-service capped at 45% with exceptions cut to 10%. Adverse for eligibility, with an effect on origination from September.
6 May 2026
Unemployment rises to 6.1% in the first quarter
Interrupts more than a year of decline. Official source, enters the index directly.
1 April 2026
Non-performing loans at a decade low
Default ratio near 2%, ten times lower than in 2015. Favourable for the health of the book.
7 January 2026
Young-buyer housing support reviewed
Tens of thousands of tax exemptions and public guarantees. Sustains demand in the young segment.
The outlook

Where each product is heading next.

The current reading tells you where you stand. The outlook tells you where the wind is turning — a directional read for the weeks ahead, per product, built from events already dated on the calendar and from the momentum in the reading itself. This is where the edge becomes anticipation: move early where the market is about to favour you, and brace where a known headwind is coming.

Credit cardsNow +0.46 · strong tailwind
Holding
Seasonal card demand is near its peak; the tailwind eases a touch but stays clearly positive.
MortgageNow -0.08 · neutral, recovering
Turning down
Recovering today, but the September macroprudential limits are already dated and bite origination.
Savings & investmentNow -0.08 · neutral
Improving
Deposit competition and the rate path are turning savings from neutral toward favourable.
Personal loanNow -0.11 · slight adverse
Stabilising
The adverse pressure is flattening out; no strong mover either way in the near term.
Account openingNow -0.44 · strong adverse
Still adverse
Digital players keep taking share; the pressure is structural, not a passing dip.
Last 4 weeks Outlook, next 3 weeks This week
The asymmetric play

Two products are turning your way and one is walking into a dated headwind. Savings is crossing into favourable and cards hold their tailwind — lean acquisition in now, while it is cheap to win. Mortgage looks calm today, but the September limits are already on the calendar, so front-load before they bite. Account opening stays under structural pressure — do not spend into the current. Same budget, aimed where the wind is behind it.

A directional outlook for the coming weeks — where each product is heading, from events already dated and current momentum. It is a direction of travel, not a calibrated sales forecast. Illustrative data.

The method

It also tells you when there is no signal.

Most market-intelligence tools only know how to find patterns. Wise Horizon is built with the test the other way around: before it claims a factor explains your account, it tries to prove that it does not.

What we do with every hypothesis

  • Partial correlation, controlling for trend and calendar effects, not the naive correlation.
  • Permutation significance with a thousand resamples, instead of trusting the nominal value.
  • Correction for multiple testing, because testing dozens of factors manufactures false positives by design.
  • A maturation guard: an event less than thirty days old is not scored, because the data has not arrived yet.

What Wise Horizon does not do

  • It does not promise a calibrated sales forecast. It scores expected impact and reads a directional outlook, by explicit rules, not guaranteed outcomes.
  • It does not collect social-media data or personal data. Only public sources and your own account.
  • It does not claim causality from one account. The reading is observational and labelled as such.
  • It does not hide weak readings. A panel with no signal shows up as no signal.
An example, to be clear

We tested three external factors against the real performance of a credit account. The simple correlations looked encouraging. After the permutation test and the correction for multiple testing, none of the panels survived, and the app says exactly that: "not distinguishable from noise." That rigor is what makes the readings that do pass worth deciding on.

The technology, and the guardrails

A rigorous, agentic system. Built to be trusted.

Wise Horizon is a modern agentic AI: a coordinated team of agents that gather, classify and test the market, with an analyst reviewing before anything scores. Powerful, and deliberately contained.

Agentic, with a human in the loop

Agents monitor sources, classify events by factor and impact, and run the tests. An analyst validates before any event enters the index, so speed never overrides judgement.

Public data and your own account

No social-media data, no personal customer data, and no connection to your core banking systems. It works on public sources and your acquisition signals, in a private environment.

Compliant with the EU AI Act

Built to be fully compliant with the EU AI Act, with data held in Europe, inside a company certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001.

EU AI Act compliant ISO 9001 ISO 27001 Data in Europe No personal data No core-system access

Your data and your accounts stay yours, and there is nothing wired into your core systems to unplug. Wise Horizon is a subscription you can stop, not a dependency you inherit.

Who uses it

One reading, three rooms.

Wise Horizon gives product, marketing and leadership the same dated, sourced starting point, so the conversation moves from opinion to evidence.

Product & pricing

Time the move

Read competitive pressure per product and see when the market is a tailwind or a headwind, so a price or product move lands with the current, not against it.

Marketing & acquisition

Explain the number

When cost per lead moves, separate the campaign from the market with a dated reading, and defend or shift budget on evidence rather than opinion.

Strategy & leadership

See the current, and what's coming

See the forces under the numbers, product by product, week by week — and where each product is heading next, so you walk into the decision already knowing what the market is about to do.

No tech stack to adopt

An easy solution, not a tech stack.

A wall of proprietary tool names makes people picture licenses to buy, systems to wire in and teams to train. This is the opposite. You get the reading, we run the engine.

Learned in minutes

Absolutely intuitive

If you can read a chart, you can read this. No onboarding project, no manual, no certification. The weekly reading lands in plain language.

Easy in, easy out

No lock-in

You prove it in a closed-month pilot before any commitment. Nothing is wired into your core systems to unplug, your data stays yours, and if you stop, nothing breaks.

No risk to inherit

No cyber exposure

No access to your core banking systems, no personal or customer data, run in a private environment, and fully compliant with the EU AI Act, inside an ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 company.

Modern AI, safely built

LLM with security layers

Built on large language model technology wrapped in layers of security. The sophistication is ours to maintain, not yours to manage.

You are buying a decision edge, not adopting a platform. Easy in, easy out.

How you get Wise Horizon

Prove it on your own market before you commit.

Wise Horizon is a capability we run with you, not a raw data feed. There is no core-systems integration project. It lives on public data plus your acquisition account, so the first reading to the first decision takes days, not quarters.

Option A

Reading session

One hour with your team on the current reading of your main product. No commitment and no integration at all.

Option B

Closed-month pilot

Full access, one or two users per area, one month, with a defined start and end and a formal review at the finish.

Then, if it earns its place, an annual subscription sized by users and scalable by area. Market exclusivity means we do not sell it to two direct competitors in the same market, and clients of the agency get preferential conditions. If the reading does not change the decision, it is worth nothing. If it does, you see it in the result.

Why Wise Pirates

Bold, independent, and building our own technology.

Proprietary, not repackaged

The Wise indices are our own, not a reseller's dashboard. The best of a great team, frameworks, tech and proprietary data, aimed at your business results.

Measured, dated, sourced

Every reading carries its source, its date and its confidence. Competitive pressure is measured, not inferred.

Honest about its limits

It says when a signal is not distinguishable from noise. The rigor is what makes the readings that pass worth acting on.

An agency that acts on it

The reading does not sit in a slide. It plugs into the teams that turn a market signal into media, pricing and lifecycle moves.

For clients and partners

Preferential conditions for clients of the house, and market exclusivity, so the edge stays an edge.

Safe and certified

EU AI Act compliant, ISO 9001 and ISO 27001, data in Europe, no personal data and no core-system access.

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Frequently asked questions

The questions we hear most.

Last updated: August 2026. Any figures we share are estimates and benchmarks, not guaranteed results.

What is Wise Horizon?
Wise Horizon is Wise Pirates' proprietary market intelligence. For each product it turns the noise of your market into one clear index per week, showing which way each outside force is pushing your demand, how hard, and where the competition is actually winning. Every reading is dated, sourced and carries its own confidence level. It is built first for banking, and the engine extends to other sectors.
Is Wise Horizon a report or a tool?
Neither a static report nor a raw dashboard you have to mine. It is a living reading, refreshed weekly, that tells you what moved, in which direction, and why, with the source behind each factor. It is a capability we run with you, not a self-service data feed, so the signal reaches the decision while it can still change it.
What data does Wise Horizon use?
Three layers: open market data (central banks, statistics offices, regulators, economic press, competitor pricing pages), your own first-party acquisition signals, and the proprietary Wise indices built on top. It uses no social-media data and no personal customer data, and it needs no access to your core systems. Everything public is dated and citable.
Is Wise Horizon only for banking?
Banking is where it runs today, live across five products with dozens of competitor profiles, because banking has rich public data and fast-moving competition. The engine itself is sector-agnostic: the same method of factors, sources, confidence and competitive matrix applies wherever a market moves faster than the reporting cycle. We calibrate it to your sector with you.
How is the index built, and is it a forecast?
Each product carries an index from minus one to plus one: a headwind or a tailwind. It is a score of the expected aggregate impact of external factors, built by transparent rules, not a calibrated probability and not a sales forecast. The value tells you the direction and strength of the pressure on a product, so you can decide with the market instead of against it. Alongside the current index, it reads a directional outlook for the coming weeks per product — where the pressure is heading — from events already dated with a known future effect and from momentum. That is a direction of travel, still not a calibrated sales forecast.
Does Wise Horizon look ahead, or only read the current week?
Both. Every week you get the current index per product and a directional outlook for the weeks ahead: where each product is heading. The outlook is built from events already dated on the calendar with a known future effect, such as a rule change or a rate decision, and from the momentum in the reading itself. It points direction so you can act early and asymmetrically — leaning in where the market is about to favour you, and bracing where a headwind is coming — but it is a direction of travel, not a calibrated sales forecast.
How does Wise Horizon read the competition?
It measures competitive pressure rather than inferring it. It keeps live profiles of the relevant players per product, with price, range, conditions and auction presence, and fuses two signals into one number: a price gap (how your price sits against the market) and an auction gap (how much demand you lose by position). When the two disagree, that gap is the new information.
Does Wise Horizon tell you when there is no signal?
Yes, and that is the point. Before it claims a factor explains your performance, it tries to prove it does not, using partial correlation, permutation significance, correction for multiple testing and a maturation guard on recent events. When a reading is not distinguishable from noise, it says exactly that. The rigor is what makes the readings that do pass worth deciding on.
Is Wise Horizon compliant and secure?
Yes. It is built to be fully compliant with the EU AI Act, runs in a private environment with data held in Europe, inside a company certified to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001. It works on public data and your own acquisition signals, with no personal customer data and no connection to your core banking systems.
Will we be locked in, and who owns the data?
Your data and your accounts stay yours, and there is no connection to your core systems to unplug. Wise Horizon is a subscription you can stop, not a platform your operation depends on. It is designed to sharpen your decisions, not to trap your data.
How do we start with Wise Horizon?
Usually with a reading session on your main product, then a closed-month pilot with a defined start and end and one or two users per area, and if it earns its place, an annual subscription. There is no core-systems integration project: it lives on public data plus your acquisition account, so first reading to first decision takes days, not quarters.
Is Wise Horizon exclusive?
Yes. We do not sell it to two direct competitors in the same market, so the edge stays an edge. Clients of the agency get preferential conditions, and the roadmap follows what the pilot shows is useful to you.
Who uses Wise Horizon inside a bank?
Product and pricing teams use it to time moves and read competitive pressure; marketing and acquisition use it to explain and defend cost per lead against the market; strategy and leadership use it to see the current under the numbers. One dated, sourced reading gives all three the same starting point.
Will I have to learn a new tool?
It is absolutely intuitive and read in minutes, with no onboarding project and no manual. You prove it in a closed-month pilot before any annual commitment, and the weekly reading is designed so anyone can act on it. There is no platform for your team to manage, just the signal. An easy solution, not a tech stack.
Is there any lock-in or cyber risk?
Every product carries some risk; Wise Horizon is built to be about as risk-free as a tool can be. Easy in, easy out: nothing is wired into your core systems to unplug, your data and accounts stay yours, and it runs in a private environment on public data plus your own account, with no personal data. It is built on large language model technology with layers of security, and fully compliant with the EU AI Act.
Is Wise Horizon a mature product?
We are candid about it: Wise Horizon is a recent product, less than a year old and still in beta, improving every week. Reading it well requires understanding the terms and what each index actually means, which is exactly why it is a capability we run with you rather than a self-service feed. You get today's capability and a hand in shaping where it goes, with the rigor guardrails already in place.
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Wise Horizon is a Wise Pirates proprietary capability for clients and partners, with market exclusivity.