Not OP but I think he means market research data. I've thought about this as well. You pay some researcher some money to write a report on growth of a particular segment of an industry. Trade groups often do this and you hear stats like "Mobile usage expected to grow by X% in developing countries over the next Z years". But it is a multi-page report, probably including graphs, on some particular topic.

It matches roughly the kind of data I was talking about. It is expensive to generate since you have to pay a researcher some amount of money to write the report. The resultant report generally can be re-sold multiple times.

My problem with this kind of data is that you will be competing against AIs pretty soon which will drive the cost to generate such reports down. And the price you can charge per report will be tied to how good a report you are capable of generating. It is also a saturated market already so the real play is driving the cost of generation down, not what I want.

Instead of selling reports, would it make more sense to create dashboards that let users slice + dice data and view the insights?

In other words, instead of being a Gartner, focus on being a Crunchbase. That way, you can sell to both the end users of these insights (the companies in these industries) as well as the market research companies, themselves.