Expert-led strategic intelligence, enabled by AI.
Dragonfly Thinking combines world-leading domain expertise with structured AI methodology to help organisations see complex problems through multiple lenses simultaneously. Inspired by dragonflies, we call this compound vision.
A short introduction to Dragonfly Thinking
The problem
Complex problems cross boundaries. Most analysis doesn't.
Governments have policy teams, legal advisers, economists, and security analysts. Companies have strategy, risk, regulatory, and technology functions. Each section sees its part clearly. But none see the whole.
The forces that blindside risk, strategy and policy teams aren't within any single lens — they're in the interactions between them. The second-order effects, the feedback loops, the cascading risks that no single team is tracking.
Strategies often look robust until conditions shift in one domain and have unintended effects in another. We need a way to see complex problems more clearly and holistically.
Our approach
The best thinkers see through multiple lenses. We built the AI methodology to do it at scale.
Philip Tetlock's research tracked 28,000 predictions and found one consistent pattern: forecasters who integrated diverse perspectives outperformed single-framework experts by 3×. He called it seeing through “dragonfly eyes.”
Most organisations can't sustain that kind of thinking. AI changes that — but only with the right methodology. Most AI tools are like a well-stocked kitchen without a recipe: powerful but, without expert structure, most people produce mediocre results.
We've written the recipes. Anthea Roberts (geopolitics, economics, strategy, law) and Sue Brake (institutional investment, total portfolio approaches, governance) built a structured methodology — 15+ agents and 80+ analytical skills that map actors, trace drivers, run scenarios, and challenge blind spots — because they saw what AI could do for the problems they'd spent careers on.
The methodology handles the analytical complexity. The experts provide the strategic judgement. You provide the question and make the final decisions.
World Government Summit 2025, Dubai
“Integrating Dragonfly into our project team enabled us to gain a deeper understanding of systemic risks and vulnerabilities, and to identify creative strategies to strengthen national resilience.”
John Blackburn AO
Former Deputy Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force
“AI tools without frameworks are just chatbots creating slop.”
How you work with us
One methodology.
Four ways in.
01
Commission intelligence
Bring a strategic question. Get governance-ready intelligence in days — interactive briefings, systems maps, scenarios, committee papers. Every reasoning step visible. Every source traceable. Available as a standalone deliverable or as an embedded sprint where your team works alongside ours.
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Learn the method
Courses built by the people who run live analysis, not trainers teaching from slides. From understanding how AI works to directing it on real strategic problems, you leave having built durable AI skills for complex analysis.
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Build internal capability
Your team learns to run the analysis themselves. We transfer the methodology and the AI fluency to use it. Model-agnostic, no vendor lock-in. You end up more capable, not more dependent.
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Access the platform
80+ analytical skills, 15+ specialist agents, interactive outputs structured for boards and committees. Cloud platform or sovereign desktop deployment for organisations that require data sovereignty.
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What changes for you:
You see the whole problem
The methodology maps actors, drivers, feedback loops, and scenarios across domains — surfacing the interactions and blind spots that single-lens analysis misses. You see what no individual team can see alone.
Your strategy tested across multiple futures
Not optimised for one scenario. We stress-test whether strategies and portfolios hold when conditions shift — and identify the signposts that tell you which future is arriving.
Your organisation builds the capability
Whether you commission intelligence, learn the method, or licence the methodology — the trajectory is toward your team doing this themselves. More capable, not more dependent.
“We started using it to explain our thinking to others. That's when it clicked — we were using AI to align the team, not just analyse the problem.”
AI CoLab pilot participant
Australian Public Service AI CoLab
Dragonfly in conversation
Anthea Roberts in conversation with Howard Gardner at Harvard’s Askwith Forum
Coverage
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Showcased as one of top innovation projects in Dubai
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Sue Brake joins AI firm Dragonfly Thinking as Chair
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