Strategic Advantage in Complex Environments
About us
In today’s interconnected landscape, where geopolitical competition, climate volatility, disinformation, and supply chain vulnerabilities collide, strategic insight is essential to stay ahead. Organisations across diverse sectors face heightened complexities, requiring proactive navigation to safeguard supply chains, strengthen regional partnerships, and protect their critical assets.
Cogence is a strategic intelligence and risk advisory firm helping organisations operate confidently in complex, challenging environments. We support decision-makers with clarity and foresight — enabling smarter strategy, stronger stakeholder engagement, and the transformation of risk into opportunity.
What we do
Intelligence, Risk, and Stakeholder Engagement
Our core offerings fuse human insight and digital capabilities to deliver tailored solutions across three key domains. Every output is grounded in the local context, language, and culture.
Who we work with
We advise multinational organisations and international partners seeking discreet, high-quality intelligence and advisory support in sensitive and complex environments.
Sectors we serve include:
Investors and Family Offices
Insurance
Energy & Climate
Critical Infrastructure & Technology
Transport & Maritime Logistics
Legal Services & Compliance
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Intelligence
Actionable insight for confident decision-making.
We deliver bespoke intelligence solutions that illuminate political, economic, social, and reputational dynamics across operating environments. Whether you’re entering a new market, assessing a partnership, or monitoring evolving risks, our intelligence helps you cut through noise, understand local context, and anticipate change.
Risk Advisory
Helping organisations assess exposure and build resilience.
We support clients in identifying, understanding, and mitigating complex and interrelated risks — from ESG and community concerns to security threats and regulatory shifts. Our assessments integrate global frameworks with deep local insight, enabling clients to build sustainable strategies and reduce uncertainty.
Communications & Engagement
Decoding narratives to support effective engagement.
Our narrative intelligence identifies and interprets emerging stories, perceptions and sentiments online that will shape your business’ operating context. Our approach combines cutting-edge social listening technology, AI-driven analytics, and deep regional and linguistic expertise, enabling you to uncover the underlying perceptions shaping public opinion, detect coordinated narratives and misinformation campaigns, anticipate shifts in sentiment that impact your strategic interests, and create nuanced mapping of human geography and national/local stakeholders.