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Research, industry intelligence and advisory for people working in economic development, trade and investment.
Lead report · 33 pages
C$13B
300 jobs
The Capture Gap
Jobs alone can no longer explain the public value at stake.
The work
Reports and analysis for the decisions hidden behind the announcement: who captures value, who carries risk and what a capable institution does next.
Research report · 01
AI is weakening the old link between productive capability, employment and shared prosperity. The report asks a harder question than how many jobs a project creates: what durable value will the place retain?
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A practical division of labour between institutional knowledge, machine capability and human judgment — built around the question, the evidence and who owns the consequence.
Public finance
The shock can travel at global speed. Domestic capability takes much longer to build. Which risks belong on the public balance sheet, and which do not?
Research
Economic statecraft, capital, AI and the working methods of the profession.
All researchCapital
The high estimate of annual US incentive spending. At least 75% of recipient firms would probably have made the same decision without support.
Structural shifts
Strategic sectors' share of greenfield FDI, 2020 → 2025. One of ten shifts remaking the profession.
Capital
US$5.4T
Projected family-office AUM by 2030, growing faster than any other pool of capital.
AI & work
AI moves the premium from producing material to judging it.
Geopolitics
Economics, Security, and Geopolitics. Three forces, now one operating environment.
AI & work
National AI ambition, turned into firm-level export work.
Career
The real AI risk in this profession is a slow-moving employer.
The Doyen Brief
Friday, September 11, 2026
The 270-person group brings site selection, permitting, design, engineering, and project delivery under one roof as European data-center clients demand cross-border capacity.
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Confidential work for institutions and companies on investment, trade, industrial policy and agency capability.
Start with a specific decision: assess an investment proposition, examine the value a project will retain, or improve how a team handles its work.
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The Brief tracks the agencies, advisory firms, people, tools and operating practices shaping the profession.
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