Who uses this?

Academic researchers

Darknet market research currently requires months of infrastructure work: building scrapers, collecting data, cleaning it, before any analysis can begin. Dark Markets provides continuous, structured data feeds that let researchers skip straight to analysis. Subscription pricing is designed to fit within typical research grant budgets.

Public health agencies

Early warning is the core value proposition. When a new synthetic opioid appears on darknet markets, price and availability data can provide months of advance notice before the substance shows up in overdose statistics and emergency room data. That lead time can be used to deploy naloxone, issue public health advisories, and target harm reduction resources geographically.

Law enforcement and intelligence

Market data reveals patterns: supply disruptions after enforcement operations, vendor migration between platforms, the emergence of new distribution networks. Attempts to manipulate the platform's markets are themselves intelligence, since coordinated manipulation reveals organisational structure.

Policy organisations

Evidence-based drug policy requires evidence. Continuous pricing data enables researchers to measure the impact of policy interventions in near-real time rather than waiting years for retrospective studies.