PHAROS TECHNOLOGIES
UK Registered Company
Northern Ireland Intelligence

The economic picture
of Northern Ireland,
integrated.

Pharos Technologies builds AI-powered intelligence products for Northern Ireland's institutions, government, and business community — putting decades of public data to work in real time.

11
Local Government Districts
15+
Integrated data sources
196
Metric categories
5M+
Data points

Two products. One intelligence infrastructure.

Pharos serves distinct audiences through purpose-built product surfaces — each drawing on the same integrated data foundation.

BUSINESS & CORPORATE
Pharos Intelligence

Economic and business intelligence for NI's corporate and SME market. Understand the markets, sectors, and geographies that matter to your business — with data previously accessible only to organisations with dedicated research teams.

  • LGD-level economic and demographic profiles
  • Company formation, dissolution, and survival rates by sector and area
  • Earnings, employment, and labour market intelligence
  • Cross-domain analysis connecting business conditions to community context
  • Natural language query interface powered by AI
GOVERNMENT & INSTITUTIONS
Pharos Government

Policy and economic sensitivity analysis for NI's public sector and research institutions. Understand how economic conditions and policy changes land across communities — with outputs designed for the briefing room.

  • Economic sensitivity mapping across all 11 LGDs
  • Policy scenario simulation with community-level impact ranking
  • Demographic composition analysis grounded in Census 2021
  • Cross-domain intelligence connecting economic, health, and social data
  • Briefing-note-ready export with full methodology transparency
01
Integrated data, not aggregated links

Every source is normalised into a common schema. Cross-domain queries — earnings against health outcomes, company formation against qualification levels — run instantly without manual assembly.

02
AI-generated analysis on real data

Natural language queries return plain English answers grounded in real NI data. Analytical outputs are generated automatically and presented in a form ready for briefings and reports.

03
Built specifically for Northern Ireland

The platform reflects NI's distinct economic context — its LGD geography, its cross-border dimension, its public sector composition, and its unique demographic and political landscape.

04
Scenario and sensitivity analysis

Model the impact of policy changes, economic shocks, and market shifts across NI's communities — with outputs ranked by exposure and explained by underlying demographic drivers.

Built on Northern Ireland's authoritative public sources

Every source is ingested, normalised, and kept current — providing a single queryable layer across NI's economic and demographic landscape.

NISRA
NI Statistics & Research Agency

Economic indicators, labour market statistics, population data, and weekly deaths — auto-ingested across all NI geographies.

CENSUS 2021
NI Census 2021

44 demographic categories covering population, health, housing, employment, qualifications, religion, identity, and tenure.

COMPANIES HOUSE
UK Company Registrations

Full NI, England & Wales, and Scotland datasets — formation dates, company status, SIC codes, officer data, and addresses.

ONS / ASHE 2025
Annual Survey of Hours & Earnings

Earnings data by LGD, occupation, industry, age group, skill level, and public/private sector split.

NI EXECUTIVE
Ministerial & Spending Data

Public expenditure, ministerial meetings, travel, and special adviser records providing a full government transparency layer.

CRO IRELAND
Republic of Ireland Companies

Cross-border company data enabling all-island business intelligence and cross-jurisdictional economic analysis.

Agriculture
7 categories
Benefits
12 categories
Census 2021
44 categories
Crime & Justice
20 categories
Earnings
12 categories
Education
16 categories
Employment
6 categories
Environment
6 categories
Health
15 categories
Housing
18 categories
Labour Market
14 categories
Transport
14 categories
Jack Duffy
FOUNDER, PHAROS TECHNOLOGIES
  • Finance, data, and software professional
  • Former Big Four technology consultant
  • Northern Ireland economic and political specialist
  • Pharos Technologies Limited, registered UK company

Why Pharos exists

Northern Ireland's public data is rich, granular, and largely inaccessible in any integrated form. Government departments, research institutions, and businesses that need to understand NI's economic geography have historically faced the same problem — the data exists, but connecting it requires weeks of manual work and significant analytical resource.

Pharos was built to solve that. Drawing on a background in management consulting and a detailed understanding of NI's economic, demographic, and political landscape, Pharos Technologies integrates the authoritative public sources into a single platform — and applies AI to make that intelligence queryable, analysable, and immediately useful.

The result is a capability that has not existed in Northern Ireland before: real-time, cross-domain intelligence at the level of individual communities — available to the institutions, businesses, and researchers that need it most.

Pharos Technologies Limited is a registered UK company, founded and built in Northern Ireland.

Request a demonstration

Pharos is available for demonstration to government departments, research institutions, and corporate organisations with a genuine interest in NI economic intelligence.

Demonstrations take approximately 30 minutes and are tailored to the questions and use cases most relevant to your work.

All enquiries are treated in confidence.

COMPANY Pharos Technologies Limited
REGISTERED Belfast, Northern Ireland

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