Strategic analysis laboratory

We structurewhat is at stake.

Models · governance · structuring · applied research

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I · What we structure

You come with a problem. You leave with a structure that holds.

01 · Arbitrate

A decision model.

You come withA choice to make between projects, budgets, sites, partners.

You leave withCriteria, tested weightings, arbitration rules, and the tool that applies them.

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02 · Govern

A governance architecture.

You come withGovernance that no longer keeps up: who decides what, at which level, on what basis.

You leave withBodies, circuits, delegations and written rules that can be enforced.

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03 · Deploy

A structure.

You come withA fund, a programme, a sector or a directorate to launch.

You leave withEligibility rules, a selection process and steering, from day one.

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04 · Defend

An arbitration file.

You come withA choice that must hold before a board, a funder, a judge.

You leave withA traced and sourced line of reasoning, attacked by us before anyone else tries.

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II · Our assets

Kernel

The laboratory's engine. Computation, multi-agent simulation, game theory and decision science, brought together in one system.

  1. 01Model

    The actors, their objectives, their constraints, the rules of the game.

  2. 02Simulate

    Thousands of trajectories, to see what each actor will really do.

  3. 03Arbitrate

    Every school of decision in parallel, their gaps in plain sight.

  4. 04Test

    Adversarial audit, counterfactuals, the tipping point of every conclusion.

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Equilibrium reached uᵢ(sᵢ*, s₋ᵢ*) ≥ uᵢ(sᵢ, s₋ᵢ*) No actor gains by changing strategy alone. That is the point where the structure holds.
III · Scale

We structure
a board.a ministry.a sector.a programme.

The governance of an organisation, its bodies, its fundamental trade-offs.

The rules, circuits and choices of a public institution.

A sector, its players, its rules of the game.

Major projects and investments that commit decades.

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The structure changes scale. The method does not.

We work where a choice binds an organisation, a territory or an economy for the long term. Our mandates are not public.

States and public institutionsFunders and fundsIndustrial groupsInfrastructure and major projectsInternational trade
IV · The laboratory

Applied research, then the field.

Our strategic analysis laboratory and our R&D. There we carry out applied research and develop our own technological assets. Every model is tested on our own cases before it goes into a mission.

The laboratory in detail →
I

Computation

Optimisation, sensitivity analysis, measured robustness for every conclusion.

II

Multi-agent simulation

Modelled actors, their interests, their reactions, simulated at scale.

III

Game theory

Strategies, equilibria, coalitions: what each party has an interest in doing.

IV

Decision science

Every school confronted on the same case, their disagreements measured and shown.

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Work

What the laboratory is preparing.

Contact

We take on few cases at a time.

Those we take on, we structure from end to end.