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The catalogue

Products

Solutions and deliverables

Each with its deliverable and duration declared. You enter wherever the problem asks, not where the list begins.

Products are ordered by depth, not by type. No step obliges the next one: you can stop at any of them.

01
Diagnostic

One pending decision. The way in, and the only thing you can buy without knowing us.

02
Project

A concrete challenge, with the full process from start to finish.

03
Capability

Your own teams running the protocol without us in the room.

04
Recurring

Continuous access to the Machine: the observatory, the news bot and an assistant holding the organisation’s decision memory.

Products that produce analysis

They deliver a reading the organisation did not have. The promise of installing capability is not attached to them: that is not what they do.

01

Situation Brief

Focused strategic analysis, delivered in days, in the face of an urgent decision or a critical signal.

It enters on a single pending decision. It reframes the problem — separating what is evidence from what is framing — and returns a map of alternatives that were outside the field of vision. It does not resolve the decision: it changes the question the decision is made with. It is the product that opens the conversation with any organisation, and the only one that can be bought without knowing the Lab yet.

Situation that triggers it
“We have to decide and we don’t know which scenarios to look at.”
Deliverable
Reframed problem + map of alternatives
Duration
48 h – 3 weeks
Step
Diagnostic
02

Signals Observatory

Sustained watch over the perimeter of a debate that matters to the organisation — legislation, press, actors, counterparts — with a one-page memo and a dashboard delivered before the moment of decision.

Most organisations do not have an analysis problem: they have a problem arriving in time. The Observatory watches a perimeter defined by the client, not a general sweep, and before each moment of decision delivers what changed, which actor moved, which window is opening or closing, and how solid the evidence is. The form matters: a one-page memo, written, with sources and a declared level of confidence, that can be read between meetings and taken to a table; and a dashboard to follow the perimeter between one memo and the next.

Situation that triggers it
“Nobody watches the environment systematically and we always react late.”
Deliverable
One-page memo + dashboard + off-cycle alerts
Duration
Monthly subscription
Step
Continuous
Explore Atalaya

What an observatory in operation looks like: the Atalaya demo dashboard (in Spanish), with data from the Ley Lafkenche case.

03

Futures Study

An organisational, sectoral or territorial anticipation process that produces scenarios, feasibility conditions and a traceable decision.

For a concrete long-term challenge, it runs the object of analysis through multiple scenarios, turns every “not feasible” into conditions with named owners, and leaves the decision recorded — what was known, what was assumed, when it must be reviewed — so the team can reconstruct it months later. In its territorial version it answers what will happen in a territory over the next ten years: land use, regulatory risk, latent conflicts.

Situation that triggers it
“Everything interesting gets ruled out as unfeasible” · “Nobody remembers why we decided that, or when to review it.”
Deliverable
Scenarios + conditions with owners + decision record
Duration
4 – 10 weeks
Step
Project
04

Emerging Niches

Detection and validation of markets that do not exist yet — or are only now forming — in order to take a position before anyone else.

It is not benchmarking, which reads current competitors, nor market research, which reads existing demand: it reads the present for latent possibilities — weak signals, unserved gaps, disruptions arriving from outside the sector — and returns the emerging niche, the conditions for it to consolidate, the window to enter, and where the competition would come from.

Situation that triggers it
“We know our market is going to change, but not in which direction or where the competition will come from.”
Deliverable
Map of emerging niches + conditions + entry window
Duration
3 – 5 weeks, or quarterly tracking
Step
Project

Products that install capability

The second speed. These three — and only these three — carry the promise of leaving capability installed.

05

Futures Lab

A deliberative process with the client’s team that turns incompatible desires into a common, actionable position.

When every area wants something different and the organisation ends up with a consensus that convinces no one, the Lab makes the incompatible desires explicit instead of erasing them, and builds from there a position the team can hold and execute. What remains in dispute is recorded, not hidden. It is the format of the twelve-week pilot and the point where the Lab starts installing capability rather than only delivering analysis.

Situation that triggers it
“Every area wants something different and we end up with a consensus that convinces no one.”
Deliverable
Packaged common position + deliberation protocol
Duration
8 – 12 weeks
Step
Project
06

Futures Training

A programme that installs in the client’s teams the capability to anticipate, read systems and deliberate under uncertainty.

It is not an innovation course or a leadership workshop: it is the transfer of the method so the team can use it without the Lab in the room. It trains reading of complex systems, working with uncertainty, scenario thinking and strategic deliberation, and leaves a review routine installed. Each cycle returns to the same method but further along: the Lab’s hand goes down as the team’s goes up.

Situation that triggers it
“We are adopting AI, or entering a change of cycle, and we don’t know what will happen to how we work.”
Deliverable
Programme + a real case from the team + review routine
Duration
1 – 3 months
Step
Capability
07

Installed Capability

Full installation of the protocol across two or more of the client’s teams, with human–AI governance, until they operate without the Lab.

The step where the client stops buying deliverables and comes to hold the capability as their own. The Lab installs the protocols, trains the teams, sets up the review routine and defines the governance between what the human decides and what the AI assists. It is the real promise behind “we install capability”, and the only product that keeps it without metaphor.

Situation that triggers it
A client who has already been through a Study or a Lab and wants to internalise the method instead of continuing to contract it.
Deliverable
Protocols + training + human–AI governance
Duration
3 – 6 months
Step
Capability

Individual buyer

It sits outside the organisational catalogue because the signatory is a person, not an institution.

08

Trajectory Architecture

Anticipatory intelligence for one person — an executive, a director, a senior professional — on their own horizon.

The same method applied to an individual trajectory rather than an organisation: it reads the person’s sectoral environment, builds scenarios of their trajectory and maps the capabilities each one demands. Where they are today, what each possible path asks of them, and what they would have to build to take it.

Situation that triggers it
A senior professional at a turning point who needs to read their environment ten years out.
Deliverable
Trajectory scenarios + capability map
Duration
3 – 6 weeks
Step
Individual

Access to the Machine

The fourth speed: the Utopian Machine running inside the organisation, with its memory and its watch. They are prototypes and open by pilot.

09

Futures Assistant

A chatbot with the organisation’s decisions, information and context built in, to consult what was decided, build scenarios and project their effects.

What a team learns while deciding tends to leave with the people. The Assistant keeps what was decided, with what information and under which assumption, and warns when that assumption stops holding. On top of that memory you can ask what was known at the time, request alternative scenarios, or project what changes if a variable moves. It is queried from Telegram and runs on an open model, in the organisation’s own instance: its deliberations do not live on the Lab’s server or an AI company’s, and if the engagement ends, the instance and the memory stay with the organisation. The AI proposes; the team commits.

Situation that triggers it
“Every time someone leaves, we lose why we decided what we decided.”
Deliverable
Own instance + decision memory + scenarios on request
Duration
Continuous access
Step
Recurring
10

News Bot

A bot that delivers to each team member whatever appears in the perimeter they defined, without them having to go looking.

Up to five people set their own search terms — press, legislation, actors, counterparts — and receive what appears in their perimeter as soon as it appears. It does not replace the Observatory memo: it is the daily layer, the one that avoids finding out from the press. What the bot picks up feeds the memo and the Assistant’s memory.

Situation that triggers it
“Everyone finds out about their own piece on their own, and almost always late.”
Deliverable
Bot with a perimeter per person, up to five team members
Duration
Monthly subscription
Step
Recurring
In pilot

Access to the Machine

The Futures Assistant and the News Bot run on the Utopian Machine, which is a prototype. They open by pilot, with a limited number of organisations and with scope and limits in writing. We say it this way because selling them as a mature service would be promising what is still being validated.

Status Prototype · access by pilot

How to contract

What a procurement team, a board or a tender unit needs to know before they can move.

It starts with an hour, not a proposal

The diagnostic conversation is free and requires no prior quote. Scope and value are defined only afterwards, because before that neither side knows what is being bought.

Scope and deliverable in writing

Every engagement declares what is in, what is out, who executes it and on what timeline. The deliverables in this catalogue are the ones that get signed: no others are promised in the meeting.

You can stop at any step

No product obliges the next. The Brief does not commit you to a Study, and the Study does not commit you to a Lab.

Public procurement and tenders

We work with municipalities and agencies through whatever formal route applies. For tender documents and administrative requirements, write to us before the deadline: the municipal budget cycle runs from August to October.

Values depend on scope, on the number of teams and on the antennae that need installing. They are defined after the diagnostic hour, and larger engagements are structured in tranches so they fit within a running budget.

Neutrality condition

On the same regulatory or territorial matter and within the same window, we do not serve both a political party and a private or public client whose interests in that matter are in conflict. Every engagement declares its perimeter in writing. Without that perimeter, the engagement is not taken.

Frequently asked questions

What is utopialab.ai?

An anticipatory intelligence lab based in Santiago, Chile. It helps companies, public bodies and individuals read their environment, detect what is decisive and make timely decisions under uncertainty.

What is anticipatory intelligence?

Reading the environment with method in order to anticipate change and decide in time — what is also known as strategic foresight. It is not about predicting a scenario: it is about locating the signal, setting the threshold that forces a decision to be revisited, seeing the alternatives, and acting while the decision can still change the outcome.

How is this different from traditional consulting?

Every engagement states its deliverable, its duration and what is out of scope in writing before it starts, and it can be stopped at any step. We do not produce more information: we turn what already exists into timely decisions, and the capability products end with the client’s team operating without us.

Who do you work with?

With companies and public bodies whose regulatory or territorial environment changes faster than their decisions — including municipalities, through the appropriate public procurement route — and with senior professionals who need to read their own horizon.

How do we start, and what does it cost?

With a one-hour diagnostic conversation, free of charge and with no prior quote, on a decision that is already pending. Fees are set afterwards, according to scope and the number of teams, and larger engagements are structured in stages.

Do you use artificial intelligence?

Yes, as support to read more information, faster. Relevant decisions keep human deliberation and judgement: the AI proposes and the team decides. The Machine access products, which run on AI, are prototypes and open by pilot.