For Urban Investment: We audit place fundamentals in view of future global economy trends.

For Global Benchmarking: We appraise context, position and perception in the wider world of cities.

For Place Identity: We distinguish the markers and relationships that make cities stand out.

For Leadership Strategy: We survey urban capacity, capability, coalitions and opportunities for reform.

For Place Innovation: We analyse the prospects of your location’s spaces, profile and ecosystem.

For Urban Investment: We baseline city investability, place potential, and ecosystem progress.

For Global Benchmarking: We analyse thousands of performance and perception indexes to assess progress and prospects.

For Place Identity: We evidence concrete specialisms, authentic USP, and wider influence & status.

For Leadership Strategy: We monitor impacts, compare governance and devise 3-10 year targets for leadership teams and agencies.

For Place Innovation: We give partnerships the tools to share and showcase innovation performance and brand metrics.

For Urban Investment: We help locations learn how to optimise for investment, and capital to deploy effectively in priority places.

For Global Benchmarking: We give urban leaders the know how and contacts to learn from their peers and the global leaders.

For Place Identity: We support place communications & brand teams to learn from how it is done, designed and disseminated elsewhere.

For Leadership Strategy: We equip governments and partnerships with latest insights on how to refresh strategy and re-design governance.

For Place Innovation: We provide places, founders and testbeds with practical tools to scale and supercharge.

For Urban Investment: We facilitate and mediate to achieve alignment around big investment priorities, and then forge vision, MOUs and commitment.

For Global Benchmarking: We convert the momentum generated by benchmarking into alliances underpinned by goodwill, appetite, pace and clarity of objectives.

For Place Identity: We bring hands-on support to the task of telling a new story with a broad-based coalition.

For Leadership Strategy: We moderate board meetings, workshops, conferences, and coalition-building around shared strategic agendas.

For Place Innovation: We provide the energy, humour and cross-sector respect to help district teams to shift from a coalition of the willing to an army of the committed.

For Delivery: We help development and investment teams optimise relationships, deliver quick wins, engage and recruit effectively, and curate the right mix.

For Global Benchmarking: We build teams’ capacity to run and interpret benchmarking, enter an ecosystem, monitor impacts, set up city ‘twins’, and broaden working groups across multiple functions.

For Place Identity: We second capability to identity-building organisations so that they can create brand boxes, credible stories and compelling platforms.

For Leadership Strategy: We help create special purpose teams, shape and peer review strategies, crowdsource risks and opportunities, and guide on how to build place-conscious institutions and culture.

For Place Innovation: We help places and projects develop dedicated innovation capacity, charters and terms of reference, and the cadence for wider collaborations to succeed.