CASE STUDY

Eight Datasets, Eight Weeks: Building One Institutional View for a $500B+ Asset Manager

How Jacobs & Company integrated eight institutional datasets into a unified market intelligence engine powering sales, strategy, and growth.

• Engagement delivered in 2025 • Client details anonymized
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Case Study Diagram
THE PROBLEM

Most teams don't have a data availability problem. They have a data integration problem.

A global asset manager with more than $500 billion in AUM was licensing institutional data from multiple leading providers. The firm had made a significant investment in data, but much of it remained trapped in spreadsheets and disconnected systems.

• Inconsistent naming conventions across providers
• Datasets updated on different cadences
• No reliable relationships between plans, sponsors, and consultants
• Data not integrated into Salesforce
• No unified institutional market view
• Insights trapped in spreadsheets and disconnected systems

AI for scale. Human judgment for precision.

We integrated 8 datasets and 30+ data files from licensed and internal sources into a unified view of 100,000+ plans and 30,000+ companies.

AI CAPABILITIES

Where machines lead

  • Entity resolution
  • Relationship inference
  • Cross-dataset matching
HUMAN EXPERTISE

Where judgment matters

  • Source prioritization
  • Data governance decisions
  • Business logic validation
ARCHITECTURE

From Fragmented Data to One
Institutional View

Institutional Data Architecture
BUSINESS IMPACT

Measurable outcomes, delivered in weeks.

100,000+

Plans Unified

30,000+

Companies Connected

8

Datasets Integrated

8 Weeks

Delivery Timeline

How the Organization Uses the Data Today

01

Strategy & Market Intelligence

Using unified data for planning and prioritization across leadership teams.

02

Sales Enablement

Driving institutional sales team adoption and daily workflow execution.

03

Salesforce & Tableau

Internal teams operationalizing insights within existing systems.

“We build the engine. The client runs it.”

JACOBS & COMPANY — ENGAGEMENT PRINCIPLE

WHAT HAPPENED NEXT

Beyond the Initial
Engagement

During the engagement, Jacobs & Company rebuilt retirement plan, pension plan, and endowment & foundation datasets using publicly available information.

The resulting data proved more accurate and more timely than several commercially available alternatives.

This work is now becoming a new offering launching later this year.

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