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For governments

Coordinate evidence across agencies when a decision has consequences.
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Where things get stuck

Government teams often have evidence in different agencies, with no shared structure for deciding what deserves a response. The recurring constraints are coordination and decision.

These are the three blockers that come up in almost every conversation we have with governments.

  • Pattern 01

    Early warnings are separated from the mandates, budgets, and regulatory decisions they should inform.

  • Pattern 02

    Agencies use different taxonomies and evidence standards, so coordination starts with translation.

  • Pattern 03

    Procurement and accountability make it difficult to test a response before committing to a large program.

What you get

What governments typically end up with.

  • Result 01

    Connect emerging technology to policy goals and the decisions a public body must justify.

  • Result 02

    Give agencies a shared evidence base for procurement, investment, and program choices.

  • Result 03

    Make assumptions and tradeoffs visible across the people responsible for a response.

Build capability

We also build capacity. Build Sessions have taken non-technical public-sector teams, including at the City of Amsterdam, from idea to working prototype in a single day.
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Where to start

How governments usually work with us.

Governments usually start with Bespoke Projects, €15,000 to €50,000 per project.

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Our recommended public-sector path starts with one Session, so there is something real to judge before a procurement decision. Start with a Signals Session.

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Relevant use cases

The situations governments bring us most often, with the client work behind each one.

Policy impact assessment

Government bodies and NGOs use the platform to assess how emerging technologies impact specific goals (e.g. NDCs, SDGs), so the evidence is there when a decision has to be justified.

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Related impact cases

Charting the Energy Transition

In partnership with IEEE, we turned the PES Technical Roadmap into a comparative foresight tool their teams use internally, to weigh decisions about the energy transition toward net zero by 2050.

2026
Scanning the Green Transition in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Foresight radars for UNDP's five-year Green Transition programme in Bosnia and Herzegovina, surfacing citation-backed signals of change across decarbonisation, circularity and environmental justice to feed directly into portfolio reviews and programming decisions.

2025