Wikistrat is the world’s first crowdsourced consultancy.

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Wikistrat is the world’s f irst crowdsourced consultancy.

Wikistrat operates a global network of more than 2,000 subject-matter experts (SMEs) working collaboratively via our online platform to help decision-makers identify solutions to complex strategic challenges.

Our crowdsourced approach enables public and private sector clients to obtain deeper insights about the future and plan more creative policy options and strategies, with unparalleled speed and cost efficiency.

Wikistrat’s crowdsourcing methodology – Collaborative Competition™ – allows for the generation of diverse and interdisciplinary insights unavailable through traditional analysis, complete transparency, and client interactivity.

We leverage our experience – gained through hundreds of crowdsourced studies and simulations combined with big data analysis – to deliver a range of bespoke analytic services.

Global network of 2,000+ experts

Real-time collaboration on an interactive platform

Delivered three times faster

Diversity of insights and expertise

Transparent crowdsourcing methodology

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“Intelligence is no longer just stolen secrets, but the wisdom of knowledgeable observers. Wikistrat delivers exactly that.” - General (ret.) Michael V. Hayden, Former Director CIA, Former Director NSA

Our Services at a Glance

1. Crowdsourced Simulations: Structured studies and exercises for strategic planning, scenario forecasting, market research and risk management.

2. Intelligence Monitoring: Real-time monitoring and tracking of geopolitical or market stability to provide strategic early warning of deviation from a baseline, potential instability and changes in economic conditions.

3. Red-Teaming: Rapid review, critique and proposition of alterations and improvements to a policy paper (or draft) by a team of experts, challenging conventional wisdom or a corporate strategy.

4. Wargaming: Use of multiple teams to roleplay actors, countries or enterprises to understand how the future can unfold, through both intra-actor collaboration and inter-actor competition.

5. Analyst Briefings: Access to Wikistrat’s network of 2,000 experts for quick-turnaround analyses, briefings and expert panels on specific issues and ideas.

6. Executive Memo Service: Customized policy memos within a three-hour turnaround for dealing with a crisis or breaking news.

7. Subscription Service: Monthly reports synthesizing key insights from dozens of simulations, highlighting key risks and opportunities regarding trending geopolitical affairs.

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“One of the strengths that we see for this crowdsourced approach is the amount of eyes assembled to look at an issue in a short amount of time. For this reason, huge amounts of information can be processed and synthesized much faster than with linear models.” – Tim Haffner at U.S. Africa Command

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“Wikistrat’s delivery was two standard deviations above the norm and far exceeded expectation. That level of performance is rare. The data and information was rich and useful, but it was the speed that blew me away – we found it hard to keep up.” – Dick Bedford, Deputy DCOS SPP, NATO, Allied Command Transformation (ACT)

Wikistrat’s crowdsourced analytic services model is:

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AGILE: Different analytic teams are assembled, on demand, to analyze an issue in response to global, regional or country-level events. This allows us to quickly tailor the assembled crowd to intensely analyze the issues at hand.

INNOVATIVE: Crowdsourced consulting leverages the insights and skill-sets of a large and diverse group of SMEs, all collaborating in real time. Its superiority to an individually-driven analytic services paradigm is based on the model’s ability to mitigate individual biases while simultaneously allowing the group to optimize the ideas and argumentation of each individual.

RAPID and COST-EFFECTIVE: Crowdsourced consulting produces results at approximately one-third the time and total cost of delivering an equivalent service through traditional means. An average Wikistrat engagement involves between 80–100 analysts and typically delivers two years’ worth of effort (measured in hours) in three weeks.

Groups have greater intellectual diversity:

• They generate perspectives that would otherwise not be considered.

• This enables the group to consider a wider range of possibilities, and then choose amongst them.

Groups have greater analytical independence:

• They are better able to avoid the pressure to conform their analysis.

• This creates a mitigating tendency against a small group of heavily-biased, assertive individuals unduly influencing the group’s thinking.

Groups have greater aggregative capabilities:

• The mechanism exists to turn individual minds (in expertise, intuition and judgment) into a collective judgment.

• The best decisions are often the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise.

AGILE INNOVATIVE RAPID & COST-EFFECTIVE

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Former National Security Advisor to the President of the United StatesSupreme Allied Commander Europe Commandant, Marine Corps

Former Senior CIA ExecutiveFormer Acting Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Former Director, National Security Agency Former Director, Central Intelligence AgencyFormer Principle Deputy Director, National Intelligence

Director, U.S. Chamber of CommerceSenior Advisor, Robertson Foundation for Government

Chairman, Center for International Private Enterprise

Former Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI)U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)

General James L. Jones

David R. Shedd

General Michael V. Hayden

Gregory Lebedev

Stephen Cambone

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wHat do you get?

Intelligence Monitoring

Crowdsourced Simulations

Structured Knowledge Base

Live Access to Simulation

Final Report Infographics Presentation to Decision-Makers

Big Data Collection

OSINT Gathering

Interactive Dashboard

Risk Indices and Modeling Timely Reports Presentation

to Decision- Makers

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Collaborative Competition is Wikistrat’s patent-pending methodology for pursuing collaborative analysis and forecasting, combined with competitive elements. Collaboration brings wider and more diverse input into the analysis, overcoming various cognitive biases while enabling the generation of fresh, better-refined insights. Competition – between analysts and analytic outputs – spur innovation and creativity, allowing counterintuitive ideas to emerge.

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wiKiStrat’S predictive SucceSSeS 2014

Predicted Russian invasion of Crimea, four months in advance

Predicted protests within specific suburbs of a capital city, three weeks in advance

Predicted changing economic conditions, including major shifts in FDI and significant alterations in exchange rates, one month in advance

Predicted foreign investments into the energy sector, one month in advance