Financial services
Banks, fintechs and businesses across payments, lending and financial infrastructure navigating shifts in customer behaviour, technology or regulation.
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Special Projects has worked extensively across financial services, private markets and investments, artificial intelligence, industrial technology and deep tech, media, culture and sport, urban development and brain health. Our assignments have taken us into the underlying economics, business models, technologies and stakeholder dynamics of these fields.
Experience has compounded through engagement within each industry, while lessons learned in one have often brought useful perspectives to others, particularly where industry thinking risks becoming circular or insular.
Financial services
Private markets and investments
Artificial intelligence
Industrial technology
Media, culture and sports
Urban development
Brain health
Private markets and investments
Investment firms across private equity, venture, growth, private credit and infrastructure, and the founders and leadership teams of the companies they back—when a fundraise, a transaction, a succession or a period of scrutiny depends on how they are understood.
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AI-native companies, technology businesses and organisations navigating how artificial intelligence is reshaping products, markets, competition and organisational models.
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Deep-tech companies and industrial groups across advanced materials, manufacturing, automation, energy, mobility and space, where technological advantage must translate into commercial adoption, financing and institutional confidence.
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Rights holders, media businesses, talent-led ventures and sports organisations operating where culture, capital and technology increasingly overlap.
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Developers, architects, investors and other organisations shaping cities and places—where a multi-decade project meets four-year politics, quarterly capital, daily opinion and tenants who constantly change their minds.
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Organisations and initiatives treating the brain as a strategic asset as well as a medical one: neurotechnology, mental health and prevention, workplace cognition, research and policy. In each case, ideas and evidence have to travel from clinic, laboratory and everyday life to boards, capital and the public.
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