Practices

Eleven disciplines, owned end-to-end.

Each practice owns its methods, its public data partners, its deliverables, and the platform that productionizes the work. Engagements pick a practice or combine across them.

Trade and tariff

Trade and tariff analytics

Bilateral trade flows, tariff pass-through, scenario modeling.

Bespoke trade-flow analysis across 238 countries and 5,022 HS6 product lines, 30 years of BACI panel data, gravity models, and product-space diagnostics. Built for manufacturers, trade associations, PE portfolios, and policy teams who need ...

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Policy impact

Policy impact modeling

Causal inference, counterfactual simulation, digital twins.

Rigorous evaluation and forward simulation of policy interventions. DiD, RDD, synthetic control, double ML, causal forest. Counterfactual simulation of policy bundles using a five-layer digital-twin methodology covering institutional graph,...

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AI and compute

AI and compute economics

Productivity, capex returns, compute cost curves, industrial policy upside.

AI infrastructure is the largest private-sector investment cycle since the buildout of the electrical grid. This practice produces the upside math: who captures the productivity gains, what the ROI looks like across chip generations, which ...

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Economics tooling

AI for economics tooling

Embedded research infrastructure, dashboards, white-label SaaS.

The thought-machine architecture generalizes. Give an in-house economics team the same stack that runs the consultancy's own platforms: async data collectors across 30 plus sources, a causal-inference toolkit, narrative engines, and embedda...

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Macro risk

Macro-financial risk

Risk-layer modeling, CCAR-style stress testing, cross-channel propagation.

Six-layer macro-financial risk framework with 134 modules covering banking, systemic, macro, cross-border, and integration risks. CCAR-style stress testing, CoVaR and SRISK methodology, FCI and credit-cycle indicators, and named-scenario lo...

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Energy

Energy and transition economics

Renewable buildout, capacity markets, AI grid load, transition finance.

Four-engine framework covering renewable capacity, electricity generation mix, GHG emissions, and climate finance. Built for utilities, IPPs, hyperscalers with grid exposure, and policy teams sizing the realistic energy buildout against AI ...

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Food and ag

Food and agricultural economics

Production, markets, food security, climate-ag, fiscal pass-through.

Four-engine food and agriculture framework covering farm production, commodity markets, consumption and food security, and policy and fiscal pass-through. Built for multilateral institutions, trade associations, commodity traders, and gover...

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Health

Health economics

Health system financing, disease burden, outcomes, cross-country diagnostics.

Four-engine health economics framework covering disease burden, health systems, financing, and outcomes. Built for multilateral institutions, health ministries, global health funders, and policy researchers needing replicable cross-country ...

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Labor

Labor and human capital

Long-run labor markets, education, persistence diagnostics, panel modeling.

Long-run labor and human capital analytics drawing on the Hercules and Sisyphus WDI warehouses (78 curated indicators across 195 countries, 1960 to 2025). Built for multilateral institutions, central banks, think tanks, and policy teams nee...

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Electoral

Electoral and political intelligence

Multi-agent electoral analytics, constituency-level intelligence, scenario simulation.

AI-augmented electoral intelligence platform with constituency-level agent design, geospatial diagnostics, and field intelligence integration. Originally built for the Bangladesh 2026 election context (Strategos), generalizable to any const...

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Digital twin

Government digital-twin modeling

Five-layer institutional simulation, counterfactual policy bundles, propagation analysis.

Five-layer government digital-twin methodology covering 263 entities across institutional graph, policy domains, legal frameworks, committees, and peer-country comparisons. Built for ministries, central banks, and multilateral country teams...

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