Geopolitical volatility, mapped to your business dependencies.
Highlands Intelligence helps leaders at small to mid-sized organizations map how geopolitical volatility affects suppliers, customers, and logistics—and act early using clear indicators and decision options.
You don’t need more headlines. You need a structured view of what could change your decision landscape, how fast it could hit, and what you can do at different trigger levels.
Offer structure
The work is intentionally practical: translate world events into business mechanisms, define plausible pathways, identify observable indicators, and provide options leadership can act on.
Geopolitical Exposure Review
A time-boxed engagement to map dependencies and exposures, rank what matters, and produce trigger/action playbooks you can use immediately.
Monitoring Retainer
A maintained watch against the exposure register and indicator set created during the review—narrow, decision-useful, and tied to what matters for your business.
Selective support (complementary, not core)
Offered only when it reinforces the exposure mission and does not distort delivery capacity.
How Highlands works
The goal is decision advantage—not clairvoyance. We separate known facts from analytic judgment, make confidence explicit, and keep the watch intentionally narrow.
Boundaries
Highlands is advisory. We use lawful open-source collection and standard business due diligence practices.
What we do not provide
We do not provide security analysis, protective services, or legal/compliance review. We do not promise perfect prediction or guarantees.
Decision-focused analysis
We analyze how global events affect your suppliers, customers, and logistics, map upstream and downstream exposure, and develop decision options to mitigate risk before costs escalate.
FAQ
Short answers. If it’s a fit, we’ll clarify specifics on the intro call.
What do you need from us to start?
A limited set of structured inputs: top suppliers/critical inputs (and locations if known), top customers and revenue concentrations, key logistics routes/nodes, regulatory touchpoints at a high level, and your strategic constraints (“non-negotiables”).
Do you monitor “everything happening in the world”?
No. Monitoring is intentionally narrow—tied to your exposure register and indicators. The goal is to reduce noise while preserving early warning.
Do you provide compliance or legal advice?
No. We provide advisory analysis and will recommend legal counsel or specialized providers when issues exceed our boundary.
Do you provide security, protective services, or incident response?
No. Highlands is not a protective services provider. We focus on exposure mapping, early warning, and structured contingency planning.
What does success look like after the Exposure Review?
A dependency map, ranked exposure register, plausible pathways, observable indicators with thresholds, and practical decision options by trigger level—plus an initial watch plan for retainer mode.
Book an intro call
Use the booking link for a 25-minute fit call. If it’s a match, we’ll outline next steps for an Exposure Review.
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