We help funders, governments, and operators get system‑level clarity and a 90‑day action plan.
Progress stalls when leaders can’t see how incentives, constraints, and actors actually interact. Remaining blind turns silence into assent. We accept the world as it is—then map it so you can change it to what it should be.
Mission: to transform complex social service systems into actionable intelligence for strategic decision-making.
Our Origin — Solving the Impossible Inside Real Systems
The world’s largest distributed R&D network for “wicked problems.” We learned to surface bottom‑up signals, make sense of messy experiments across countries, and translate complexity into pathways institutions can actually move on.
We brought those capabilities into one of the world’s most urgent domains—transforming mental health support for young people across 20+ countries. Our team led digital innovation, workforce development, systems redesign, multi‑sector ecosystem building, and the architecture required to scale solutions that matter.
What We Do
We help funders, governments, and operators move systems forward by providing what they’re missing most:
We map the pressures, incentives, and invisible dynamics shaping a system. Outcome: A shared “system picture” and 3–5 validated leverage points.
Every system has three types of actors: movers, provers, and smoothers. We help each group see its role and coordinate so momentum spreads instead of dissipates.
Outcome: Roles, handoffs, and a cadence that compounds movement.
Portfolio Pathways
We build pathways for solutions to spread , digital mental health innovations, workforce strengthening, data + feedback architectures, rapid experimentation models and more
Outcome: A portfolio roadmap with triggers, thresholds, and scale criteria.
Mini‑case 1: Within 8 weeks, we aligned forty agencies around a single adolescent mental health pathway and launched a 90‑day implementation sprint.
Mini‑case 2: We redesigned feedback loops to surface frontline signals weekly, cutting decision latency from months to days.
How We Work With You
Phase 1 — Systems Mapping (Weeks 1–4)
Interviews, incentives, capabilities, constraints, opportunities.
Deliverables: System map, stakeholder roles, early hypotheses
Phase 2 — Leverage Analysis (Weeks 5–6)
Identify 3–5 intervention points. Validate with data and stakeholders.
Deliverables: Leverage point briefs with evidence and risks.
Phase 3 — Alignment & Action (Weeks 7–8)
Convene leaders, build a shared picture, define a 90-day action plan.
Deliverables: Action plan, owners, metrics, and cadence.
Is This For You?
You’re Ready If…
Funders
Pain: Fragmented efforts, unclear ROI.
Outcome: A visible pathway for catalytic investments with measurable results.
Governments
Pain: Cross‑agency misalignment and stalled execution.
Outcome: A shared picture, leverage points, and a coordinated 90‑day sprint.
Operators
Pain: Pilots that don’t scale.
Outcome: Portfolio pathways and thresholds that unlock spread.
We’ve solved system‑level problems in 20+ countries—not in slides, but in reality.
We combine R&D, implementation, and systems sensemaking into one capability.
We understand catalysts—the people who make systems move.
We turn ambiguity into action, complexity into traction, and noise into signal.