Enterprise platform clients benefit from the services of a dedicated virtual foresight researcher from the Quantumrun Foresight team.
This individual will be assigned to your team for one full 8-hour day per week to execute any requested foresight research and report writing task.
Approved research assignments
Quantumrun’s foresight researchers are different from our foresight consultants in that they do not provide workshop facilitation or advanced foresight consultation. However, our foresight researchers can free up time for your team by assisting you with the following tasks:
Signal/horizon scanning: Human curators can sometimes identify signals that the Quantumrun platform AI feeds might miss. Also, certain websites have paywalls or limit the ability of outside news aggregator platforms to copy their content library’s article preview data (e.g., titles, intro sentences, links, etc.). In these cases, human curators can access these websites and manually copy over relevant, fair-use preview details. These signals can be published to the platform or delivered in an alternative medium.
Signal scoring: Our foresight researchers can score a collection of Signal links from one or more of your team’s lists to help make your company’s Project visualizations more complete.
Technology briefs: Sector executives—any high-profile leader overseeing a portfolio or an industry adapting to a high degree of change and disruption—may benefit from regular briefings detailing future trends. Quantumrun researchers can lead the production of these summary reports or briefings and customize them to leadership needs.
Trend reporting: Our foresight researchers can draft articles and short reports that summarize topics about a range of emerging trends. This content can then be branded and republished to internal and external stakeholders.
General research: Assign our foresight researchers a specific topic to review, and they will collect and summarize research on that topic in a format of your choosing.
List curation: Our foresight researchers can curate platform lists about selected topics on your team’s behalf that you can then convert into project graphs/visualizations.
Newsletter drafting: Our foresight researchers can draft a branded newsletter about trends in a specific or broad selection of industries.
Collaboration policies
There are a few policy considerations when utilizing this Enterprise service:
Communication with the foresight researcher will be conducted by email.
The researcher’s work is not suitable for overly time-sensitive work due to timezone differences and the limited time allotted per week.
The type of work that can be assigned is flexible, but consideration should be given to what can reasonably be completed in a single day. For larger assignments, budget time for multi-week projects.
Work can be distributed over multiple days, but no shorter than two-hour blocks.
Rollovers are not permitted. If you don’t utilize a researcher’s assigned time with your company for a given week, that time cannot be added to the following week. (Exceptions will be permitted if your assigned researcher misses a week due to illness or holidays.)
Additional services
If there is a need for additional research (or consulting) services beyond the outlined specifications above, then additional researchers or research time can be allotted to your team’s account for an hourly rate. Please contact your account representative for details.
For clients that subscribe to Business or Pro plans, accessing this service can be facilitated through a standard hourly rate. Please contact your account representative for details.
