Strategic Early Warning System

Sense the shift. Seize the advantage.

IRIS detects the weak signals reshaping your market and brings them into one place, where your team organises them around your strategy, sees which scenario is unfolding, and decides what to do next. IRIS surfaces the signals, your people make the call.

Built by , the strategy and innovation consultancy that turns uncertainty into advantage. IRIS is that practice, in a platform.

Sensing is the easy part.
Sensemaking is the advantage.

Plenty of tools can surface trends and fill a radar. But a radar full of signals doesn't make a decision. The advantage isn't in seeing more; it's in knowing which signals demand action, what they mean for your strategy, and what to do next.

Strategy has a word for this: the organisations that win don't just sense change, they seize it. IRIS gives your team the signals, the structure and the scenarios to do exactly that, from the first weak signal to the move.

The IRIS workflow

From weak signal to confident decision.

Stop planning in fixed three-year cycles. Make strategy a continuous process, so you act on change as it emerges, not at the next strategy review.

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Feed IRIS your context

Upload your strategic documents and define which sources IRIS scans, including foreign-language ones.

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Sense regularly

IRIS periodically scans your sources and maps every signal onto one Trend Radar, ordered by what matters to you.

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Map your position

Plot the signals onto a scenario graph to see where you stand today and which direction the landscape is shifting.

Strategic report
Domain report
Analysis report
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Decide and act

IRIS delivers a clear report with concrete, prioritised recommendations for your management team.

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The human layer

Guided by people, not just powered by AI.

IRIS is not a standalone tool, but the result of our years of expertise. Alongside the platform, a dedicated TomorrowLab team is ready to embed a lean and efficient strategy and innovation process in your organisation, through two iterative guidance tracks:

Strategy
Foundation

IRIS Set-up

Configuration of the platform, sources and indicators tailored to your context.

▶ Indicators & sources
Monitoring

Capturing signals

Regular scan of relevant sources. Results updated automatically through IRIS.

▶ Signal analysis
Steering group

Steerco review

Strategic discussion: which signals call for action or adjustment?

▶ Strategic action & theme
Innovation
Sprint

Ideation

Team workshops to generate ideas around the strategic theme.

▶ Innovation idea
Development

Idea development

Idea owners develop their concept into a fully pitch-ready proposal.

▶ Ready for pitch
Validation

Pitch session

Idea owners pitch to the steering group. Decision on investment and kick-off.

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Built for the people who shape what's next

Strategy. Innovation. One platform.

CEOs & strategists

Strategy & leadership

IRIS surfaces the signals reshaping your market. Your team turns them into a defensible strategic direction and moves before competitors do, with choices grounded in evidence, not gut feeling.

Innovation & R&D leaders

Innovation & R&D

IRIS surfaces the weak signals others miss. Your team turns them into new ideas and concrete innovation trajectories, building a repeatable pipeline for what's next.

Why teams choose IRIS

Time savings.

IRIS helps your team scan and categorise, so they can fully focus on the real strategic work.

Structured approach.

Strategy and innovation through a repeatable, clear process.

Well-founded decisions.

Strategic choices based on signals, not gut feeling.

Centralised strategic data.

All signals, sources and strategic insights brought together in one place.

Internal collaboration.

One shared platform makes strategic collaboration significantly more efficient for your team.

Ease of use.

An intuitive platform that follows your work rhythm. Read an interesting article? Simply send it into the IRIS WhatsApp chat. Read your reports or listen to them as a podcast.

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Ready to see the future clearly?

We'll show you IRIS working on real signals from your market, so you can judge it on what matters to you.