Who We Help
The Common Thread
“The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it”
Supporting Your Role
Founders & Investors
Strategic foresight and an eye for potential takes access to reliable information and specialist knowledge - to filter pitches, screen claims, identify markets, and make decisions about the prospective value of processes, products, risks and strategies.
Directors & Executives
Senior managers rely on detailed field, operational and supply chain data to design and plan projects, make informed decisions about resource allocation, anticipate challenges to business performance, and maintain stakeholder confidence.
Professionals & Operators
For independent and solo practitioners, access to an independent advisor and soundboard, cost-effective access to the right information, analysis and surge support, without significant infrastructure investment or personnel bloat, is a vital differentiator.
Making it real
Launching and building a successful boutique or start-up from the ground up takes three things: specialist knowledge that takes time to develop, focused study and astute judgment to understand the market for it, and the confidence to take those first steps forward.
Expanding operations
Ambitious organisations and offices looking to scale-up operations have already validated the vision that first animated them and established a toehold in the market. It’s time to take stock, scan the horizon, and identify new opportunities and ways forward.
Maintaining equilibrium
Mature, steady-state enterprises use the experience of building from the ground up and the lessons learned along the way to plan forward, avoid pitfalls, keep things running smoothly, keep competitors at bay, stay fresh and sustain operations for the long haul.
Testimonials
“For any office dealing with public assets, international regulation, and strategic exposure, managing geopolitical risk and operational resilience is high stakes business. We brought CKS in to help us think through the problem. Mike Innes reviewed our plans and made recommendations that helped us avoid expensive mistakes and identified cost-effective alternatives. I can’t recommend him and his team highly enough.”
“What impressed me most was Mike’s understanding that good intelligence isn’t just about gathering information - it’s about delivering practical insights that drive results. The strategic intelligence he provided directly contributed to our winning new business.”
“CKS Director Mike Innes has the ability to bridge the worlds of academic research, intelligence analysis, and legal operations. It made him an invaluable strategic advisor. He brings to the table a combination of hands-on experience, intellectual rigour, and astute operational judgment. An exceptional consultant.”
“I don’t know anyone outside of engineering and developer circles who researches AI as much as these guys do. Everyone in my entourage is an AI user. Mike takes it up a notch - applying it to quality assurance, for research, as an investigator, as a psychologist, as an anthropologist... Next level.”
