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Workshops

Private workshops for critical decisions

Working sessions that combine advisory rigor with briefing clarity, giving your team a shared understanding of what is changing and a sharper way to act on it.

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Who this is for

Executive teams

Leaders who need a shared read before capital, technology, or market decisions move.

Boards and committees

Directors working through risk, resilience, and long-term institutional direction.

Investors and strategy teams

Teams testing exposure to macro pressure, AI infrastructure, and market structure.

Policy and civic leaders

Rooms navigating state capacity, industrial policy, and strategic competition.

The workshop

Built around the decision confronting your team

Each workshop starts with the audience, the question, the time horizon, and the signals that would change the view.

A useful workshop leaves the team with clearer assumptions, sharper options, and a shared frame for what to watch.
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Workshop topics

Private intelligence workshops

Each workshop is built around the decision, audience, time horizon, and signals that would change the view.

Capital allocation under uncertainty

Investment and balance-sheet decisions when the signals are incomplete.

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AI infrastructure, compute, and energy

Where compute, power, and capital intensity reset competitive position.

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Industrial policy and strategic competition

How states and firms compete for durable advantage.

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Market structure and execution risk

The rules and frictions that decide whether a strategy clears.

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State capacity and institutional bottlenecks

Where execution, permitting, and coordination bind.

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Risk signals, resilience, and watch points

What to watch as risks start to reprice.

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How it works

From chaos to clarity

The session turns complex systems into a clear way to read what is changing, then translates that read into choices, risks, and watch points.

01 / Question

Define the question

Clarify the audience, the context, and the decision environment the workshop has to serve.

02 / Frame

Build the frame

Translate research into a clear argument with mechanisms, trade-offs, and implications.

03 / Signal

Deliver the signal

Give the team a sharper way to interpret change and act under uncertainty.

Formats

Workshops built for the decision context

Format

Scenario workshop

Assumptions are tested, scenarios are mapped, and the range of outcomes is clearer.

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Format

Executive working session

The team leaves with one shared, pressure-tested read on the situation.

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Format

Board workshop

Directors leave with tighter framing on the risk and the conditions that would change it.

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Format

Private briefing workshop

A leadership room leaves with the signal and a clear view of what to watch.

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Founder

Brendan Hart

economist, entrepreneur, and executive advisor
Brendan Hart speaking with a handheld microphone.Founder

Brendan Hart is an economist, entrepreneur, and executive advisor with two decades of experience building organizations and leading transformation across technology, defense, human capital, and government.

Through his writing, teaching, and advisory work, Hart provides economic intelligence for leaders who need to understand how markets, institutions, technology, and capital shape economic power.

He began his career as a team leader in the United States Marine Corps' premier antiterrorism unit, and went on to co-found SVA and BMNT. He holds degrees from Dartmouth College and the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

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Build the workshop your team needs

Send the decision context, the audience, the timing, and the question the workshop should clarify.

You will receive a reply with format, fit, and next steps.

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