The question your board will ask
Evidence, regulation and strategy for the people who will have to justify the decision afterwards — in finance, government, defence and health.
Begin where the pressure is
Each opens on the question clients actually arrive with, then answers it — what we would do, how long it takes, and the engagement that proves it.
Financial services & insurance
Risk, compliance and data leads at insurers, pension funds and banks.
Public sector & government
Ministries, agencies, municipalities and regional development bodies.
Defence & critical infrastructure
Those responsible for procurement, resilience or strategic autonomy.
Healthcare
Hospital and clinic leadership, health authorities, medical faculties and health-technology companies.
SMEs & exporters
Small and mid-sized companies deciding where to expand, and with whom.
Scaleups & investors
Founders, boards and operators scaling into regulated markets, and the investors backing them.
Three ways to start
Scoping review
2 weeks · fixed fee
We establish what you are actually deciding, what evidence you already hold, and whether the question needs us at all.
- Two structured sessions with your team
- Review of existing documentation and data
- A written scope with options, effort and sequence
Assessment
6–10 weeks · fixed scope
A structured review against a defined standard — regulatory, methodological or strategic — returned as a prioritised action list rather than a report that sits on a shelf.
- Baseline against the applicable framework
- Benchmarking against comparable organisations
- Findings ranked by exposure, with owners and sequence
- A workshop handing the findings to the people who act on them
Retained advisory
6–12 months · monthly
For organisations under continuing regulatory or geopolitical pressure, where the question changes faster than a project can answer it.
- Standing access for named decision-makers
- Quarterly horizon briefings on your specific exposure
- Board and committee material on request
Selected work
Ethical AI in life and non-life insurance
Published — Public framework, October 2024 Defence & infrastructure · 2025AI-enabled defence technology procurement
Framework — Adopted for procurement assessment Public sector · 2022Algarve Tech Hub internationalisation strategy
12 months — Multi-stakeholder strategic planThe same four steps, whatever the sector
Frame the decision
What is being decided, by whom, against what standard, and by when. Most engagements change shape here.
Build the evidence base
Primary data, public registers, stakeholder interviews and your own systems — assembled so the conclusion can be traced back.
Test it adversarially
Findings are challenged against comparable organisations, alternative readings and the questions a supervisor or board would ask.
Hand it over
A prioritised action list and a working session with the people who own the actions. Documentation a regulator can follow without a site visit.
- Markets covered
- 6
- Sectors served
- 6
- Working languages
- 3
- Response time
- 48h
In a single internationalisation study
Insurance to defence to tourism
English, Danish, Portuguese
To every scoping request
Start with the decision
Tell us what you are deciding and roughly when. If we are not right for it, we will say so on the first call.