Make decisions that endure in any future scenario

Futures Platform brings together expert-curated market insights, emerging signals, and longer-term future trends in one connected workspace. Instead of scattered reports and disconnected tools, your team works in one structured environment built for future-fit decision-making.

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Go from data to insights to decisions faster, in one continuous flow

Explore

Access an expert-curated library of millions of market insights, emerging signals, and long-range trends — continuously updated so your team always works with fresh, verified intelligence.

Analyse

Use purpose-built AI to connect dots across our expert-curated library and your own internal data. Summarise, compare, cluster and contextualise insights in minutes instead of days.

Collaborate

Map trends, collect team input, and visualise possible futures with tools designed for future-focused strategic conversations.

Decide

Turn your work into clear, decision-ready outputs that leadership can act on, without switching platforms or losing context.

How Futures Platform helps you make future-ready decisions

See emerging change through a wide, expert-curated lens

Start your horizon scanning with a strong foundation that’s already built for you: millions of verified, expert-curated and continuously updated market insights, early signals and future trend analyses spanning social, political, technological, economic and environmental change.

Every insight you explore has already been filtered for rigour, relevance, and long-term significance, so your time goes into sensemaking, not sourcing.

Connect the dots faster with AI designed for future-focused analysis

Synthesise insights across our curated content and your own data with AI Futurist, Futures Platform’s purpose-built AI.

AI Futurist is built for future-focused analysis, not generic text generation. It works strictly within Futures Platform’s expert-curated library and established foresight methodologies, helping you contextualise your own data, surface patterns, and uncover strategic implications that are easy to miss in day-to-day analysis.

Bring people together in one shared space to think about what comes next

Strategy work rarely happens alone. Futures Platform gives teams a shared space to think through possibilities together. Visualise future scenarios, collect insights, assess implications, and align decisions around a common view of the future.

Why Futures Platform?

Trust in every insight

In an age where information is abundant but reliability isn’t, Futures Platform gives you a foundation you don’t need to second-guess. Every signal, trend, and dataset is carefully curated by experienced foresight and market intelligence experts — not scraped from the web, not generated by generic AI.

Clarity amidst the noise

Change signals come from all directions and often interact in ways that aren’t immediately obvious. Futures Platform guides you with a structured, methodology-driven approach to make sense of this complexity, so you see the connections, trajectories and implications — not just the noise.

One workspace instead of a dozen disconnected tools

Most teams lose time stitching together spreadsheets, PDFs, and reports — and even more time trying to make sense of how they relate. Futures Platform brings everything into one shared workspace, so context isn’t lost and progress doesn’t disappear when people change roles or projects shift.

From horizon scanning to decision-ready insights

Signals are only useful if they lead to action. Futures Platform guides you all the way from horizon scanning to synthesis and decision-making, helping your team turn emerging change into strategies that hold up over time.

Built for how your team works

Different teams look at the future through different lenses. Whether you focus on strategy, market intelligence, or public policy, Futures Platform adapts to your workflows.

Foresight teams

Create clarity around emerging change and align stakeholders around a shared future vision.

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Public sector foresight teams

Strengthen long-term policy decisions with evidence-based insights and multiple future scenarios.

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Market intelligence teams

Unify reports, data, and trends in one AI-powered workspace.

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What foresight, strategy and market intelligence teams achieve with Futures Platform

“In today’s connected and fast-paced world, there is a lot to track as a Foresight team – and we do. Futures Platform’s combination of artificial and human intelligence helps us to overlook as little as possible.”

Thomas Boermans, Head of Foresight at E.ON

“Futures Platform provides comprehensive and valuable information for us in looking at the uncertain future business environment.”

Yoshikazu Kondo, Senior Futurist at Mitsui & Co. Strategic Studies Institute

”The biggest benefit of using Futures Platform has been allowing the decision-makers to see the ideas that they haven't thought of yet.”

Joe Kearney, Insight Specialist at New Zealand Transport Agency

Explore real-life case studies from our clients

  • Identifying new product innovations with Givaudan

    As a global leader in taste and wellbeing experiences for the food and beverage industry, Givaudan works with Futures Platform to stay ahead of the fast-moving consumer preferences and identify innovative product concepts for the future.

  • Exploring emerging supply chain trends with Brambles

    As a key player within the FMCG supply chain, Brambles uses Futures Platform to stay ahead of emerging trends in the global supply chain sector, and to explore the potential impacts these trends might have on their business through future scenarios.

  • Future-oriented strategy work in the public healthcare system

    As the Finnish healthcare sector underwent a transformative reform, 2M-IT, a publicly-owned company supporting the IT systems of 100,000 social and healthcare professionals, needed to anticipate and adapt to the changes ahead. Futures Platform supported 2M-IT in navigating the transformation.

  • Shaping future growth initiatives with IESE Business School

    IESE Business School, ranked as the number 1 in executive education globally by Financial Times, is an experienced player in providing leadership education for global companies. Futures Platform played a key role in executing IESE’s ‘Leading the Future’ program for logistics firm Leschaco.

  • Exploring the future of mobility with New Zealand's Ministry of Transportt

    Te Manatū Waka Ministry of Transport uses Futures Platform to understand what the future of the transport industry may look like in the next 10 to 50 years, and to discover insights that guide policymaking, strategy and decision-making in generational investments.

  • Co-shaping the future of city living in Bangkok with FutureTales Lab

    How to build a sustainable Bangkok where residents can live, work, learn and play in healthy environments? FutureTales Lab, a futurology centre in Thailand, uses Futures Platform to explore alternative future scenarios and collaborate with a wide network of stakeholders.

  • city of Parkano in Finland uses foresight for new strategy implementation

    Building future scenarios to guide city planning with the City of Parkano

    Foresight helps the city of Parkano remain resilient in a changing world.

  • Setting up a foresight function in a governmental department

    When Dr. Yousif Rashid Matar Al Zaabi decided to set up a foresight function for his government department, he wanted to invite external stakeholders also to take part. Futures Platform was instrumental in coordinateing this large-scale effort.

  • Building a collaborative foresight process with the Finnish Tax Administration

    As the Tax Administration of Finland embarked on establishing a framework for monitoring signals of change in its operating environment, the large size of the organisation and its diverse groups of stakeholders presented challenges to communication.

  • Building a strategic foresight system for the insurance company LocalTapiola

    LocalTapiola’s s leadership and strategic planning department concluded that it was time to start building a foresight system to support strategic decision-making.

  • Fostering futures thinking skills in classrooms with the City of Espoo

    Espoo, the second largest city of Finland, uses Futures Platform widely for their education development. For example, high school students saw the platform as an important tool for developing foresight and developing their knowledge around areas covered by compulsory subjects.

Latest insights from our team

FORESIGHT & MARKET REPORT

The Future of Mobility

Bringing together quantitative market data with qualitative analyses of emerging trends and wild-card scenarios, this report offers both a clear view of where markets are heading today and a structured lens on future uncertainties.

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Future-focused leadership in times of uncertainty

Which leaders thrive when uncertainty becomes the only constant? Futures Platform CEO Ville Vanhala sits down with Deborah Hayek, corporate foresight and innovation expert, to discuss how resilience can be built into leadership and strategy.

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Take the next step towards a future-ready intelligence workflow today

Futures Platform helps you move from one-off projects to an ongoing foresight practice that feeds directly into strategy and decision-making.

  • Access an ever-growing, expert-curated library of millions of market insights and future trends

  • Save time with AI-assisted scanning and synthesis

  • Bring teams together in one collaborative workspace

  • Share clear, decision-ready outputs across your organisation

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