What you can commission
Commission research, explore future options, design a service or enterprise, plan a pilot, or build your team’s capability. Four connected services give the work a clear scope.
Foresight and futures strategy
Which future changes should shape our next strategy?
Explore changing conditions, define desirable futures and test your strategy against different possibilities.
Scenarios explore possibilities and uncertainty. Agree the planning horizon and the decision they should inform.
Systems and regenerative design
What do people need, and what should we design?
Research lived needs and redesign a service, enterprise, programme or institution with the people affected.
Enterprise scopes can include demand, pricing, costs, routes to market, ownership, governance and financing assumptions alongside intended renewal.
Transition strategy and implementation support
How do we turn an ambition into a workable pilot?
Turn a direction into a practical plan: what to pilot, who will act, and how the work will be resourced.
Agree the implementation boundary, host, adoption powers and ongoing responsibilities. Review commitments as conditions change.
Futures and systems capability
How can our people use these methods themselves?
Help teams and communities use research, futures and design methods through live questions and practical work.
For people, communities, businesses and teams. Assess capability through its use in live work, with relevant domain expertise.
Paid research scopes
Design research and human-centred design connect lived realities with useful alternatives.
Commission context-and-needs discovery, customer research, co-design or prototype testing within Systems and regenerative design, independently or as part of a larger engagement.
Agree questions, participants, accessible methods, responsible practitioners, outputs, timeframe, fee and intended use. Outputs may include findings, needs and opportunity maps, design principles, evidence gaps and next tests.
Confirm relevant expertise. Establish consent, confidentiality, knowledge use, credit and appropriate compensation. Findings can change the brief.
Shape the engagement
A paid inquiry into context, needs, potential and the next decision.
A bounded strategy, design or pilot with agreed outputs and reviews.
Implementation, capability or stewardship with clear responsibilities.
Confirm expertise and capacity before accepting work. Agree scope, exclusions, outputs, milestones, full costs, fee, payment, evidence limits, participant terms and handover.
These scopes describe possible work. Outcomes, client results and expertise are published only where verified. An unmet need or interview response alone does not establish demand.
Begin with a brief
Bring a research question, a strategy decision, a service or enterprise idea, or a pilot.