Enabling foresight. Informing better decisions.

Shaping Tomorrow is a UK-headquartered strategic foresight and horizon scanning organisation founded in 2002. Operating globally across more than 30 countries, we enable organisations to anticipate change, navigate uncertainty, and make more resilient, future-ready decisions.

At a time of accelerating technological, societal, geopolitical and environmental disruption, Shaping Tomorrow provides a systematic, evidence-based way to understand what is changing, why it matters, and what to do next.

What We Do

Shaping Tomorrow helps leaders, policymakers and strategists move from reactive planning to proactive, informed decision-making. We do this by combining continuous horizon scanning, advanced foresight methods, noted AI capability, and human expertise into one integrated framework.

Our work supports:

• Strategy and long-term planning

• Policy development and early warning

• Innovation and transformation

• Risk identification and mitigation

• Organisational resilience and preparedness

Our Foresight Framework

Everything we do is grounded in a practical, end-to-end foresight framework that takes organisations from early signals of change through to strategic action.

1. Scoping

We work with clients to define their areas of interest and strategic questions. Our platform continuously scans over 160,000 high-quality global sources to detect weak signals, emerging trends and forward-looking forecasts relevant to those priorities.

2. Environmental Scanning & Analysis

Detected signals are explored and analysed across multiple perspectives, including technology, society, economics, politics, regulation, risk, investment and academia. Patterns, key drivers and critical uncertainties are identified, classified and prioritised using established foresight and systems-thinking tools.

3. Future Scenarios Development

Using the evidence base, we support the rapid creation of plausible, probable and preferable future scenarios. These scenarios help organisations explore different trajectories over short, medium and long-term horizons, and to stress-test assumptions, strategies and plans.

4. Strategy Alignment & Action

Foresight is only valuable when it informs action. Shaping Tomorrow enables organisations to translate insight into options, initiatives and strategic choices. This includes identifying opportunities, mitigating risks, prioritising investments and assessing readiness for change.

The framework is supported by structured, source-referenced reporting to ensure transparency, credibility and usability.

AI-Enabled, Human-Led

At the core of Shaping Tomorrow is Athena, our proprietary AI-powered foresight engine. Athena automates the scanning, extraction and synthesis of vast volumes of information, dramatically reducing the time and cost traditionally associated with foresight and futures research.

However, foresight is not automated prediction. Human insight remains essential. Our expert analysts, facilitators and partners work alongside clients to interpret findings, challenge assumptions and support decision-making in context.

This human-AI collaboration delivers both speed and depth: broad coverage of emerging change combined with informed judgement and practical relevance.

Who We Work With

Shaping Tomorrow works across public, private and not-for-profit sectors worldwide. Our clients typically include:

• Government departments and public agencies

• International organisations and policy bodies

• Corporations across energy, technology, manufacturing, transport, utilities and financial services

• Defence, security and risk organisations

• Strategy, innovation and consulting teams

We primarily support those responsible for strategy, planning, foresight, innovation, transformation, risk and policy development.

Why Shaping Tomorrow

Clients choose Shaping Tomorrow to:

• Detect emerging change earlier than traditional research allows

• Base decisions on continuously updated, evidence-rich intelligence

• Explore multiple futures rather than rely on single forecasts

• Move from insight to action with confidence

• Embed foresight capability within their organisation

With more than 20,000 members and partners globally, and a track record of continuous platform innovation, Shaping Tomorrow has become a trusted partner for organisations seeking to shape better tomorrows - today.

Our Values

Our values guide how we work and what clients can expect from us:

• Pioneering - pushing boundaries in foresight practice and technology

• Customer-first - designing everything around real decision needs

• Streamlined - delivering clarity, speed and ease of use

• Making a difference - focusing on meaningful, positive impact

• Passionate - taking pride in quality, rigour and outcomes