7wData (MetalSignals)

7wData (MetalSignals) — Satellite-imagery-derived daily inventory and production panel for four industrial metals (aluminium, copper, zinc, iron ore) at named smelter, refinery, port and storage-yard sites worldwide — explicit shadow-inventory coverage OUTSIDE the LME approved-warehouse network, plus machine-learning price/inventory signals at 1-, 2- and 3-month horizons.. Niche specialist — satellite metalytics boutique (1 employee, ~$310K revenue range) covering four metals across six continents; small operation but with a genuinely differentiated, hard-to-replicate asset. Use cases: Front-…

7wData (MetalSignals) offers (Alternative, Geospatial, Supply Chain, Price) — Daily observations for 90%+ of monitored sites within 48h across four metals on six continents — est. low thousands of monitored sites × daily cadence = hundreds of millions of raw imagery-derived observations, distilled into a daily panel of thousands of site-level series.

Front-running official LME/exchange warehouse reports with a 2-3 month lead; physical supply tightness and nowcasting for aluminium, copper, zinc, iron ore; shadow-inventory and Chinese-port stockpile monitoring; supply-shock early warning (copper concentrate shortages at Chilean smelters, bauxite stockpiles at alumina refineries); ML feature sets for metals price forecasting and inventory-level prediction; alt-data label sets for training satellite-to-stockpile regression models.

Coverage spans Other, APAC, UK; Financial Exchanges & Data, Copper, Aluminium, Diversified Metals & Mining; alternative, geospatial, supply_chain, price; commodities, equities, options.