About

Capital needed a sharper customer read. So we built one.

Sorrel turns public review data into investment-grade intelligence for Investment Committees and Boards.

Trusted by firms, funds and operators allocating capital.

The thesis

The data wasn't the problem, the approach was.

Customer reviews are a vast and rich source of customer data. Platform ratings are out of date, blunt, and skewed by platform algorithms, meaning the data is too lightweight to reliably inform strategy and investment decisions.

We set out to solve this data gap, designing a multi-stage framework to convert unstructured review text into customer intelligence built for high-stakes decisions.

We spent years fine tuning all aspects of the framework, meaning company research can now be conducted on a scale previously unfeasible, at an accuracy previously impossible.

We proudly work with world-class private equity funds, investment banks, consultants and boards when diligencing, growing and exiting consumer and hospitality brands.

The team

Specialists in hospitality & consumer strategy, M&A, customer insights and language modelling.

We have run strategy inside hospitality and consumer brands, advised on their sale, and built the language models that now read them.

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Sam Cadogan
Founder
  • Venture capital
  • M&A
  • Hospitality
  • Chartered accountant, ICAEW
  • CEO of the Year, Consumer Insights — C-Suite Insider (2024)
  • Most Influential CEO — CEO Monthly (2026)
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James Sandrini
Strategy
  • Strategy Director, The Big Table Group
  • Strategy Partner, Collinson
  • Co-Founder, 48.1 brand strategy agency (exited)
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Jessica Thomas
Commercial
  • Co-Founder, SynthSurvey  
  • Founder, Ten Bear Group, consumer insights consultancy (exited)
  • Commercial Insights, Brandwatch
  • Social Intelligence Insider 50 (2024)
  • 50 Digital Women to Watch (2022)
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Murat Karacam
Technical
  • Founder, Xenios Tech
  • NLP, LLM and AI-agent systems
  • 10+ years engineering production data and language systems
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Henry Paterson
Architecture
  • Design engineer, Aerospace agency
  • Engineering, Igni Ferroque Consulting
  • Aerospace engineering, Bachelors
To date

Evidence the teams making the calls rely on.

Used by leading PE firms, investment banks, consulting firms and boards across
diligence, value creation, and exits.

41,000+
multi-site hospitality group locations
235m+
monthly active users across target TMT groups
$415bn+
aggregate value across target and competitor groups
A PhD-designed language taxonomy trained on 1m+ human-annotated reviews.
Trusted by teams allocating capital
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