Research & Consulting
We create strategic intelligence engines, based on our practice of running continuous horizon scanning to detect weak signals before they become obvious trends.
Engines for Understanding What’s Next
Changeist is a strategic foresight consulting firm that helps organizations stay ahead of change through systematic horizon scanning and scenario development. We create strategic intelligence engines by continuously tracking trends to spot weak signals before they become major disruptions.
Our research process flows through six steps: setting the right questions, sensing what's emerging, connecting the dots to understand implications, building scenario frameworks, crafting stories that bring futures to life, and identifying real strategic opportunities. We design custom horizon scanning systems, build trend libraries that track hundreds of signals, and create hands-on artifacts that help leaders actually experience possible futures.
Our futuring approach builds multiple scenarios that test your current strategies and uncover blind spots, helping you explore how today's changes might play out tomorrow. We work across industries—from technology and finance to healthcare and media—with recent projects including media futures forecasting for major US companies and innovation strategy for global tech firms.
Everything we do—every signal we track, every scenario we build, every prototype we create—has one goal: helping organizations see what's coming and respond faster when change outpaces traditional planning.
Project Spotlight
UNDP Future Trends and Signals System — 2023
Changeist was co-commissioned by the United Nations Development Program to define, design, implement and extend a global platform for collecting and developing signals and trends for use by UN experts, staff and partners in strategy, policy and program design. This project was carried out with strategic design unit Smithery.
Designed organizational processes for signal collection and curation, collective sensemaking, and strategy application. Managed research sprints for sustainable finance moonshot, Human Development Report Office, and pan-African horizon scanning.