Paths toward acceptance, for projects that impact communities.
We ease the relationship between our clients and their stakeholders, with our own tools for finding opinion groups and mapping cause and effect.
Community diagnosis, social initiatives, liaison
Opinion groups and the path to acceptance
Cause and effect, prioritised
Who we are
Professional consultants with a scientific background in mathematics and the social sciences, working together since 2005.
Over the years we have built our own consulting tools for a range of clients. We work alongside your team from planning and diagnosis through to implementation, and treat your project’s challenges as our own.
Work aligned with Equator Principles · IFC Performance Standards · Social impact assessment (EVIS) · SENER (Mexico’s Ministry of Energy) · Environmental and social management systems (SGAS)
Social proofing
Fostering collaboration between communities and industry, so projects are designed with the people they affect and earn social acceptance.
Analysis of existing air-quality sensors around schools, part of a social and environmental impact assessment for a major industrial company in the region, 2025
Social initiatives
Diagnosis of a community’s strengths and needs, then design, implementation and follow-through of social initiatives.
Community relationship
Close, constant communication with stakeholders, through local community liaisons who understand both the project and the place.
Management tools
Software for grievance mechanisms, stakeholder mapping and follow-up reporting.
Schools and existing air-quality sensors in San Pedro Garza García, Nuevo León, mapped for a social and environmental impact assessment, 2025. Blue-grey: schools. Green: sensors. Orange and red: main roads.
Consensus workshop · GUIDE
Immersive workshops that build solutions every stakeholder can accept, by finding the opinion groups that matter and mapping a path toward acceptance.
GUIDE platform used in Chanel Parfums & Beauté’s procurement transformation
Opinion groups
Our software, GUIDE, finds the topics on which two or more close-knit groups hold conflicting opinions. An idea may have 90% acceptance in a group and still fail if the remaining 10% is organised and strongly opposed.
Path to acceptance
Once the dissenting groups and their characteristics are known, we organise and facilitate conversations on exactly those topics.
Root chaining workshop
Problem-solving workshops that study the factors behind a problem and how they relate, then prioritise them to find routes to action.
Root chaining collaborative tool used in Chanel Parfums & Beauté’s procurement transformation
Brainstorming
Starting from a trigger question, stakeholders with diverse profiles (operations, administration, legal and others) identify every factor that bears on the problem.
Root chaining
Our technology links those factors by cause and effect into a directed graph, used to understand the processes at work, lay out solution approaches and find the factors with the most impact.
How we engage
Diagnosis
We map the project’s communities and stakeholders and the issues that divide them.
Workshop
GUIDE and Root chaining sessions find the opinion groups and the causes that matter, and agree a path forward.
Follow-up
Liaisons, grievance management and reporting keep the agreement working as the project proceeds.
“The GUIDE platform and especially the Root chaining collaborative tool has enabled us to move from a large number of diverse stakeholders to an engaging and relevant supply chain. Combining this platform and the facilitators’ expertise was critical to the success of this transformative project.”
Julien Garry, Procurement VP, Chanel Parfums & Beauté
Planning a project that affects a community?
Tell us about the project, its stakeholders and its timeline. We will tell you how we would approach it.