Leaders, leadership teams and groups working across organizational boundaries.
A FAS Research Situational Intelligence Platform
See the situation.Change the outcome.
Situation R® is a facilitated, agent-supported platform for consequential decisions. It combines personal experience, stakeholder perspectives and synthetic-agent readings into shared situational intelligence — to test options, build a mandate and coordinate action.
Built on three decades of FAS Research methodology.
The stakes are high, perspectives are fragmented and implementation depends on others.
A shared reading, tested options and a mandate for coordinated action.
Why strategies fail
Three recurring barriers to action.
The situation is misread.
Decisive forces, relationships and perspectives remain outside the picture.
Make the field visible.
Personal experience, stakeholder perspectives, evidence and synthetic-agent readings are combined to reveal the forces, relationships and key actors shaping the outcome.
The organization cannot act.
What matters is understood, but capacity, access or allies are missing.
Connect priorities to capacity.
Strategic priorities are linked with dependencies, available capacity and the people who can make action possible.
The mandate is missing.
The people expected to act were excluded from making sense of the situation.
Build the mandate to act.
People do the reading together, building legitimacy, ownership and less friction in implementation.
How Situation R works
R / ROOM
The shared decision space in which people clarify what matters, build a shared reading and earn a mandate for action.
Human judgmentStakeholder perspectivesSynthetic-agent reading
Human judgment, stakeholder perspectives and the synthetic-agent reading remain distinguishable. Agreement builds confidence. Divergence reveals blind spots and the conditions under which a reading may be right.
What sets Situation R apart
Humans speak first. Agents enter by mandate.
Synthetic-agent readings widen the field without acquiring stakeholder authority. Human judgment remains visible, decision authority remains human and only people own commitments.
Relevant perspectives enter the room.
Absent or underrepresented perspectives enter as calibrated readings — arguments to examine, not claims of representation.
Synthesis happens live.
Patterns, tensions and emerging decisions become visible while the conversation is alive — not weeks later in a presentation.
Responses are rehearsed.
Strategies encounter plausible stakeholder reactions before commitment. What leaves the room has already faced the world.
“Better decisions are not delivered to people. They are built with the people who must make them real.”
A Situation R principle
The question comes first
The room starts with a consequential question.
Not a workshop topic. A question whose answer changes what happens next.
For exampleWhere should we focus our engagement efforts for maximum strategic impact?
- 01 / Outcome
What shapes the outcome?
- 02 / Influence
What can we actually influence?
- 03 / Leverage
Where should we focus?
- 04 / Coalition
Who must move with us?
- 05 / Action
What happens next?
Selected leverageGame changersSize = strategic weight
Three selected key levers appear in red; game changers remain grey. Size shows strategic weight, while the arc connects leverage to the outcome.
Method and evolution
Three decades of proven method. A new agentic layer under validation.
FAS Research has facilitated hundreds of consequential situations across corporate boards, transformation programs, stakeholder processes and public institutions. The agentic Situation R layer is now being deployed and validated.
Selected experience
PfizerDaiichi Sankyo
Boehringer IngelheimVolkswagen
Wien EnergieBertelsmann Stiftung
Porter Novelliand dozens more
Where Situation R creates value
Situation R creates the greatest value when the stakes are high, the path is unclear and coordinated action matters.
01Consequences are material.
02Outcomes depend on other actors.
03Knowledge and authority are distributed.
04Action will alter the field.
05A feedback horizon can be defined.
For routine or fully specified work, simpler formats are usually sufficient.
Typical settings
Executive decision roomsTransformation councilsStrategic stakeholder negotiations
Coalition-building sessionsHigh-stakes strategy off-sitesTransition and crisis rooms
Questions before entering
What leaders ask us.
Is this just another workshop?
No. Situation R is a facilitated, agent-supported Situational Intelligence Platform. It creates a shared reading, tests options and turns the result into coordinated action with clear ownership.
Does collaboration dilute leadership authority?
No. Leaders retain decision authority. The room broadens the evidence, makes dissent visible and makes the resulting action more executable.
What happens after the room?
The result becomes an actionable plan: what matters, where leverage sits, who must move and what happens next.
What happens to our data?
Session content stays within the controlled engagement environment. Client conversations are not used to train external models.
Can named people be modeled as agents?
Roles are modeled by default. Public figures are considered only where documented public positions exist and simulations are clearly identified.
How reliable are stakeholder simulations?
They are calibrated against research, interviews and observed reactions. They are evidence-based arguments about plausible behavior, never predictions.
What does an engagement look like?
A Situation R engagement begins with focused preparation, brings the people, evidence and perspectives required for action into a facilitated room, and ends with a documented shared reading, tested options and named ownership.
Situation R — a FAS Research Situational Intelligence Platform