Portfolio

Artificial Intelligence & Software

The AI Maturity Model

An ebook with Databricks to help companies understand and measure their performance across the critical pillars that determine an organisation’s ability to create sustainable value from AI.

The Road to AGI

An MIT Technology Review: Insights executive brief, commissioned by Arm, exploring the latest thinking on defining and reaching artificial general intelligence and what it means for compute.

Unlocking Enterprise AI

A white paper and survey, informed by interviews with 28 C-suite executives at companies including Rivian, Conde Nast, Novartis, Flo Health, Mastercard and Dream Sports.

Energy & Environment

The Resilient Cities Index

A white paper on the Economist Impact global benchmark of urban risk, response and recovery, including insights on top performing cities, challenges faced, and best practices for resilience.

Sustainable Plastics

We led the delivery of a University of Birmingham policy commission report to produce evidence-based recommendations to the UK government to address the plastic pollution crisis.

Going Geospatial

A collaboration with Economist Impact and Pictet focusing on geospatial data, which is used everywhere from improving crop yields to tracking the effects of climate change.

Science & Technology

How to boost your academic career

An immersive article for Elsevier, publisher of journals including Nature and Cell, on the power of peer reviewed publications to accelerate academic careers and best practices for researchers.

The Lancet at 200

A retrospective on The Lancet’s 200 year anniversary, drawing upon the lessons of its history and looking ahead to the journal’s efforts to tackle the global health challenges of today.

The Future of Entertainment

An article for MIT Technology Review Insights on how emerging tech is remaking the media and entertainment industries, opening new business opportunities for the technologically savvy.

Health & Biotech

Plastics, Health and One Planet

A comprehensive analysis of the latest evidence on health and plastics, published in advance of the UN INC Treaty talks in Geneva, 2025, in partnership with the University of Birmingham and WWF.

Investing in ‘Bio-Infrastructure’

An investment outlook and market map with Ada Ventures, a UK-based venture capital firm, exploring the startups working at the intersection of health, deep-tech and AI.

Using Cosmology to Fight Cancer

A Sifted and Debiopharm interview with Concr, a biotech company, looks at how data innovations from astrophysics are driving discoveries and treatments in cancer biology.

Finance & Business

Deploying Machine Learning

A report with JPMorgan Chase and MIT Technology Review: Insights on how enterprises are scaling machine learning beyond experimentation, featuring interviews with Novartis and Microsoft.

Wealthtech

A Sifted Intelligence report on the seismic shift in the way young people are managing their money, through interviews with fintechs and investors Valour, Creandum, and Capdesk.

Building an Effective Finance Function

A Sifted guide to scaling finance teams in fast-growing companies, featuring interviews with CFOs, investors and founders with companies including WeTransfer, Outward VC and Silvr.

Cybersecurity

Machine Earning

An article for the Economist Impact Tech Frontiers platform on how advances in AI are transforming financial cyber-crime, both by aiding criminals and helping in cyber-defence.

Reversibility in the Agentic Era

A report for Economist Impact, commissioned by Rubrik, exploring the information security challenges of AI agents and the importance of reversibility for cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity Leadership Insights

We supported the editorial delivery of EY’s 2023 cyber survey, looking at key trends across areas including supply chain cyber risk, cloud at scale and talent.

Education

The Future of Education

We provided writing, research and expert interviews for a landmark Google for Education and Canvas8 study highlighting insights about the future of education across 24 countries.

Emotion, Cognition and AI

A Microsoft-commissioned white paper by The Economist Intelligence Unit explores the importance of social and emotional learning in a fast-changing educational landscape.

The Staff of 2030

An Economist Intelligence Unit and Microsoft study surveyed 1,034 pre-service and early-career teachers to gauge their views, opinions, and predictions on the future of teaching.