Research · Proprietary Data · Custom Systems

Turning difficult business problems into working solutions.

Research · Data
Products · Business Systems

Arch Metrics works on problems where the answer doesn't already exist — whether that means building a proprietary dataset, designing a primary-research program, creating a workflow to collect and validate information, or building the product needed to make a complicated process work.

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Founded 2011 25+ hedge funds, private-equity firms and operating businesses Primary research · Proprietary data · Custom products

What Arch Metrics Does

The work starts where the off-the-shelf answer runs out.

The decision matters, and the information or the system needed to make it isn't there yet. So we build it.

Get to the real problem

What decision is actually being made, and what would genuinely answer it.

Build what's missing

The dataset, the research program, the workflow, the product — whatever the answer requires.

Make it operational

Something that runs in practice, with the controls that make it worth trusting.

On AI: we use it where it earns its place — accelerating research, prototyping, quality assurance and workflow automation. It is a multiplier on the work, not the work itself.

Selected Work

Evidence built for decisions that couldn't wait for someone else's dataset.

Private Equity Diligence

TAM Validation & Market Mapping

Building the dataset
that didn't exist.

A private-equity deal team needed to size and understand a market where the existing estimates were inadequate for the decision in front of them. Rather than reconcile third-party figures, we built a census-style business universe from the ground up using geographic and business data.

To qualify that universe, we designed a custom call-center workflow operated by teams in Mexico, the Philippines and India, used to verify businesses and identify software usage. Recorded calls were transcribed and compared against moderator-entered answers as an additional layer of quality assurance — so the deal team could rely on the underlying responses, not just the summary.

Workflow

Geographic Discovery
Business Universe
Shop Qualification
International Fieldwork
Recorded-Call QA
Market Evidence

“The work was incredibly helpful — the clear communication and structured data cuts significantly accelerated our analysis and made the results easy to act on.”

Private Equity Client

Public Data Acquisition

Fuel Footprint

When the data is fragmented,
build the acquisition system.

Municipal assessor and CAMA property data is technically public and practically unusable — scattered across hundreds of jurisdictions, held on different vendor platforms, released under different rules and delivered in different shapes.

We built the system to go get it: structured outreach and request tracking across jurisdictions, then a normalization and entity-resolution pipeline that turns incompatible vendor exports into one queryable, scoreable dataset.

Data flow

Municipality
Public Record
CAMA Data
Normalize
Resolve
Addressable Household

142Municipal requests submitted
89Inbound municipal communications
21CAMA datasets received
15Datasets imported
102,094Usable CAMA rows
74,266Postcard-addressable households
47,515Scored households

Institutional Research

Primary Research for Investors

Decision-ready evidence,
collected first-hand.

Arch Metrics has supported 25+ hedge funds, private-equity firms and operating businesses with survey programs, bespoke primary research, market diligence, customer research and alternative-data work.

Surveys remain a real and well-exercised capability — questionnaire design, targeted respondent sourcing, moderation and analysis. They are one instrument among several, selected when they are the right way to get the evidence a decision requires.

Survey programs
Bespoke primary research
Market diligence
Customer research
Alternative data
Expert & operator outreach
Data visualization

Selected Products & Systems

The same capability, applied in different operating environments.

Each of these was a real organization running critical work on spreadsheets, email and institutional memory, with no product available to replace it. Different domains, the same problem: build the system, then make it run in production with real users depending on it.

Grant Administration

BHYC Foundation

An end-to-end grant-management operating system replacing paper applications, photocopies, manual trustee review and award administration — from intake through scoring, deliberation and disbursement.

404Education grant applications
$1.27MAwarded
3,384Trustee dollar judgments

Web & Native iOS

Myth Society

A web and native iOS operating system for a private shared-vessel syndicate: scheduling, member coordination and the day-to-day administration of shared assets.

1,618Reservations
58Active member households
SixBookable vessels

Community Coordination

Neighborly Circle

A private coordination product helping churches and community groups organize meals, rides, visits, events and resources around the people in their community who need support.

Developed through direct customer discovery and iteration with church leaders.

Event Operations

Merrick Team Race

Event operations software covering registration, waivers, teams, volunteers, racing, scoring and live results — one system running the entire event rather than a stack of forms and spreadsheets.

121Junior sailors (2026)
22Teams (2026)
75Races (2026)

About

Arch Metrics · Founded 2011

Bromley Dougherty founded Arch Metrics in 2011, out of a background in financial markets, research, data and zero-to-one product building.

What this work usually needs is someone willing to learn a complicated domain properly, and able to move between the business question, the data, the technology and the execution without handing the problem off at each boundary.

He served in the Pennsylvania Army National Guard as an M1A1 tank driver.

Give us the difficult problem.

If you have a business problem that has lived in spreadsheets, email, manual processes or institutional knowledge for too long, Arch Metrics may be able to help.

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