We see what’s coming, before it’s consensus.
Competitive Futures is a strategic intelligence and foresight firm established in 2002. We advise Fortune-scale corporations and national governments on competitive strategy, geopolitical risk, and long-horizon scenario planning. Our principal is a Fellow of the Council of Competitive Intelligence with thirty years of practice and a track record of being right before the headlines caught up — analysis consequential enough to earn personal sanction from the Russian Federation.
Since 2002, Competitive Futures has delivered strategic intelligence to:
IBM · General Motors · Siemens · 3M · DuPont · Johnson & Johnson · Cummins · Toshiba · The National Government of France · The Sovereign Government of Monaco
Our principal has briefed:
The Wall Street Journal CEO Summit · H.S.H. Prince Albert II of Monaco · The United States Intelligence Community · Audiences on four continents across thirty years
What We Do
Competitive Futures offers five lines of work, delivered individually or as integrated engagements. Each produces a named analytical deliverable and a defined decision-support output.
— Competitive Intelligence
— Scenario Analysis
— Geopolitical Risk Analysis
— Strategy Consulting
— Keynotes and Executive Education
How We Work
We are specialists in open-source intelligence and the classical analytical methodologies that preceded the digital age and still outperform it. Our work draws on structured analytic techniques, the foresight and scenario-planning traditions developed across the late twentieth century, the competitive intelligence discipline for which our principal is a Fellow of the governing professional body, and the rigorous sourcing standards of serious journalism and academic research.
We study what competitors and foreign governments do, what they say, what their incentives are, what historical patterns predict, and what their actions reveal. From that material, rigorously interpreted, we produce inferences that are often right before consensus catches up — as our published record demonstrates.
Our analysis is fact-based, independently sourced, and verifiable. Our product is the analytical work itself.
Why Competitive Futures
The analytical methods we use were developed and refined inside national intelligence services across the twentieth century. We apply those methods outside institutional constraints — with the independence private-sector and government clients require from an analytical firm they retain rather than report to. That independence produces analytical product that is rigorous, defensible, and genuinely predictive.
Since 2002, we have delivered predictive, falsifiable analysis on economic, political, and national security trends. We have designed intelligence systems for organizations and deployed in an operational capacity to assess risk in high-stakes environments. We have produced memorable events and trained executives around the world to improve their abilities as analysts and decision makers.
In 2016, our principal published analytical work on Russian intelligence operations that the broader analytical community did not match in the open until years later. In 2022 he was personally sanctioned by the Russian Federation for that analysis.
Competitive Futures is a consultancy that has tested its services when it matters most. Our clients love us and dictatorships fear us.
It would be a privilege to serve your organization.