We work with clients who innovate. Who cast their eyes to the horizon. Who anticipate challenges, make consequential decisions, and understand the benefits of an independent view.

  • 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

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.

How You Benefit

  • 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 full or part-time in-house research and analysis. 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.