Organisations rarely suffer from too little climate information. They suffer from information bought for questions nobody quite specified.
Information can be costly, so it pays to start by identifying what will actually make a difference to your decision.
We start with the requirement: what would you need to know, with what confidence, to make this decision or claim? We then audit what you have – analysis, data, models, reports, operating knowledge, expert judgement – and test it for its relevance, credibility and sufficiency. Finally, we report on the gaps, answering plainly for each one – would closing this actually change what you do, and can it be closed in time to matter?
How we work
- Decisions license purchases. Data and analysis is worth buying only if it would make a difference to your decisions. We check whether you actually need it and whether it can do the work it needs to in your reasoning. We will tell you when you already have the information you need or when no available information can deliver the precision you want.
- Method-agnostic. The right move might be climate analysis or it could be internal data collection, knowledge elicitation with your engineers and operators, a scenario exercise, simulation, or structured deliberation. As long as it meets sound epistemic standards, we are agnostic about how information is produced. What matters is that it answers the question.
- Evaluate it before putting it to use. Before an analysis or product carries weight in your reasoning, the link doing the work gets tested – because a sophisticated chain with one unvalidated step inherits that step’s weakness, invisibly.
- Commissioning that protects you. Where research must be bought or built, we write the specification, design the study, broker the providers, and quality-assure the result – so what arrives is what the decision needed, not what the vendor wanted to sell you.
What you take away
An evidence base you can navigate, showing what each piece of evidence supports, gaps and how they matter, a record of why you chose not to buy, and specifications for commissioning the work worth doing.
The most valuable item on many evidence backlogs costs nothing – it is the purchase you discover you don’t need.
Talk to us about your evidence base