We work with public and private sector clients who need an independent view and help identifying opportunities and challenges. Decision-makers and innovators in other words, committed to outcomes of consequence.

Our Clients Defined

  • Select Clients

    Pre-investment & early-stage start-ups, solo practitioners & freelancers with limited budgets.

  • Signature Clients

    Ambitious growth-stage micro, small & medium enterprises looking to scale up.

  • Sovereign Clients

    Discerning senior leaders & mature organisations with higher-volume requirements.

  • Select Clients Explained

    We understand the challenges of building something extraordinary from the ground up.

    Our Select Clients are innovators, self-starters, and visionaries taking their first steps toward success. Whether you're refining your brand, testing a business concept, or seeking cost-effective ways to stand out, we’re here to provide scalable solutions that deliver impact without overstretching your resources.

    From foundational branding to streamlined marketing strategies, we empower you with the tools to turn your ambitions into actionable growth.

  • Signature Clients Explained

    For businesses ready to take the leap to the next level, our Signature Clients category is designed to support your scaling journey.

    These are dynamic enterprises with a vision for expansion and a need for impactful strategies that drive measurable results. Whether it’s enhancing your digital presence, entering new markets, or optimizing operations, we collaborate closely to create custom-tailored solutions that match your unique growth objectives.

    Together, we’ll lay the foundation for long-term success and sustainable scaling.

  • Sovereign Clients Explained

    For established leaders and organizations that demand precision and excellence, our Sovereign Clients category offers premium, high-volume solutions.

    These clients operate at the intersection of complexity and sophistication, requiring a strategic partner who can deliver consistently high-quality results at scale. From comprehensive campaigns to specialized services that align with your organizational goals, we provide the expertise, innovation, and support necessary to meet your elevated expectations.

    We’re here to help you maintain your competitive edge and achieve continued excellence.

When To Use Us

  • Strategic Decision-Making

    When you need trusted insight to shape long-term strategies, identify growth opportunities, and mitigate potential risks.

  • Market Research and Entry

    When exploring new markets or refining your position in existing ones, and you require tailored analysis and actionable insights.

  • Business Development

    When expanding your client base, strengthening partnerships, or unlocking new revenue opportunities is a priority.

  • Product Innovation and Launch

    When developing a new product or service and you need to ensure it meets market demands and achieves a successful launch.

  • Supply Chain Optimisation

    When new technologies or inefficiencies or disruptions in your supply chain call for expert analysis and practical solutions.

  • Compliance and Regulatory Navigation

    When working through evolving regulatory landscapes and ensuring compliance with complex industry standards and innovations.

  • Performance and Impact Assessment

    When it’s time to evaluate the success of your projects, measure their impacts and outcomes, and refine your approach.

  • Risk Mitigation and Crisis Management

    When facing uncertainty or crises and you require immediate, evidence-based advice to navigate challenges effectively.

  • Operational Efficiency Improvement

    When optimizing workflows, reducing costs, or enhancing your operational processes is essential to achieving your goals.

  • Stakeholder and Reputation Management

    When building your name, managing relationships with stakeholders, and protecting your brand’s reputation in critical moments, is vital.

How You Benefit

Becoming a Client

  • We've met informally and developed an initial sense of fit. If we don’t think there's any affinity or need, we’ll say so and recommend alternatives.

  • You've requested an initial consult to discuss how we can help you achieve a specific goal. This initial conversation allows us to understand your requirements and ensures that our services are well-suited to support your objectives.

  • Upon agreement we formalise the engagement. This will involve agreeing to costs, observing confidentiality, contract and onboarding formalities, agreement on a scheduled start and end of work, and performance requirements.

  • We launch at an agreed date and time and proceed with the execution of services. We maintain routine, scheduled communication to keep you informed of the status of work.

  • When we're advising you, we're sharing our expertise - reviewing your work and your capabilities, monitoring the issues that affect your interests, and recommending options about how you might approach a particular problem.

    When we're doing commissioned work on your behalf, we’re working extramurally - independently undertaking basic research, applied research, or experimental development, and making sure you have what you need.

    When we're providing technical assistance, we’re supporting you on an intramural basis. We work directly and internally with your in-house team to enable or augment your capacity to deliver. This may involve detachment or secondment, depending on the nature of the assignment.

  • Now that we have a clear understanding of your circumstances, we proceed to develop a bespoke plan crafted to align precisely with your requirements.

  • We present our proposal and outline exactly how we’ll help you achieve your goals. We take the time to discuss the details with you, answer any questions and make adjustments as needed.

  • We regularly review and report on the status of our work. We identify changes to your requirements that may have arisen and external conditions that might affect your interests. Any necessary adjustments are made to ensure proper alignment of our services with your goals.

  • You've achieved your goal and it's time to move on. We debrief you on your requirements, provide recommendations that you can take with you and implement as you see fit, and submit a final close-out report to you.

  • After work has been completed, we conduct a detailed internal review of our performance and invite you to contribute to the process. We use this stage in our client engagement to gather and compile feedback to ensure continuous improvement of our services.

  • We’re not the stars of your show. You are. As advisors, we stay in the background, and back you up. We like it that way. We don’t seek out the limelight. We’d much rather be your secret weapon.

  • We’ve been at this a long time. We’ve worked in specialist fields as knowledge service providers to some of the most demanding clients in the world. And now we’re part of your arsenal.

  • We don’t churn out generic product, try to convince you that it’s relevant, and sell it in parallel to your competitors. We work for you, and the research we undertake is customized to your requirements and targets.

  • You’re experts in your field. You need to focus on doing what you do best. Outsourcing your strategic and applied research to us means you don’t get bogged down in the peripherals and lets you focus on business-critical activities.

  • You need to know, but you don’t have the budget for permanent in-house research capabilities. We shoulder that burden and maintain specialist data subscriptions so that you don’t have to.

  • You have to demonstrate that you’ve done your homework. Ai tools and google searches just aren’t good enough. We provide you with the validated information and trusted knowledge that prove to your clients you’re a wise investment.

  • Of course the world is complicated. We translate it and simplify it for you to use. We handle the coded jargon, obscure theoretical frames, complex algorithms, and fiddly models. You get straightforward, easy to use output.

  • You’re smart and experienced enough to look it up yourself, but you don’t have the time. More importantly, your work demands a higher order of objectivity – an independent, impartial viewpoint sourced from a reliable external party.

  • We are the humans in the loop. We apply hard-earned expertise and informed judgment to your requirements. We enthusiastically use technology to augment our work, but there’s nothing artificial about who we are or what we do.

  • Information has to be timely to be useful. Never mind that we’re based in two strategic hubs, or that we operate globally, or what that means in terms of time zone offsets. We’re obsessives. We live and breathe research. We’re always on.