We're a New Zealand owned advisory firm working on some of the country’s most important challenges and opportunities. Specialising in economics, strategy, and transformational public policy, we help create lasting impact across our economy and communities.
Kei te āwhina mātau ki te whakapai ake i a Aotearoa.
Perspectives
September 21, 2026
2026
Used well, AI can be a powerful tool that water companies can harness to deliver on the intent of the water reforms and provide our communities with safe, reliable, affordable water services. Jarred Griffiths examines the opportunities.
Perspectives
2026
September 18, 2026
The first separate water bills have arrived, with attention shifting from how new water companies are structured to what they’re charging. Mike Chatterley looks at three pricing questions that will shape the success (or not) of the reforms.
Perspectives
2026
September 15, 2026
Nine months from now, a next set of water companies will begin operating. Jessie Larsen explains why the biggest challenge for boards, incoming executives, and establishment teams is ensuring you're focussed on what matters most for Day 1.
We specialise in strategy that works. Our team has deep experience in designing and implementing strategies – for organisations, for sectors, and for communities. We translate your high-level aspirations into practical strategies that produce tangible, measurable results.
Strategies fail when organisations aren’t set up to land them - we help organisations improve their performance by ensuring strategies and operating models are in sync. Our deep expertise in diagnosing organisational issues and solving them using proven design and implementation frameworks will help you make lasting change that delivers results.
Changes in legislation or policy can deliver profound value – or unintended consequences. Bringing our expertise in rigorous, independent policy research, analysis, and advice, we help change the unknown to the known. We guide organisations through complex policy processes – from regulatory design through to major reform programmes.
Data and measurement are essential to good business decisions and outcomes. We design effective evaluation frameworks, generate data-driven insights, measure the effectiveness of programmes, and help organisations understand impacts to make evidence-based decisions.
We develop compelling business cases and successful Budget bids for a wide range of organisations. We draw insights from data to measure financial and social returns, and create investment frameworks that demonstrate value across financial, social, cultural, and environmental dimensions.
We are industry leaders in economic and financial analysis, modelling, and advice, bringing expertise in cost-benefit analysis, value for money assessments, and business case development. We advise clients on investment decisions to help them unlock growth opportunities, including major infrastructure, social services and regional development.
Enduring relationships founded on trust are the essence of our business. We help our clients connect with diverse communities and stakeholders so they can all realise growth opportunities. We partner with iwi, hapū, and Māori, and we support organisations to be effective and inclusive Treaty partners.
AI delivers the most value when it's woven into how your organisation thinks and works. We bring hands-on experience in AI-led organisational transformations, helping clients to embed and integrate AI tools in ways that are evidence-based and built around their people and context.
We're a values-driven organisation - they guide us every day.
Our work is usually hard, urgent or both. We thrive on challenge.
We ask the questions that lead to real insight and change.
We always remember that we're all people, each with our own story.
We team up with our clients, and we value the diverse experiences and inputs that different individuals bring to the work.
We're deadly serious about the quality of our work, but we also bring a sense of fun to our work.
