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The legal permit is not the social permit. Decision simulations for people who invest over thirty years inside a framework that changes every four.

Who this is for

For power and water utilities, oil and gas, mining, and agrifood. Three distinct benches sharing one logic: a finite resource, an affected community, a regulator with a view, and an investment horizon that does not fit inside a political cycle.

The decisions that go wrong

Six conversations you have already had

Each one is a simulation with an economic model behind it, not a discussion case.

Decarbonising costs now and pays back in twenty years.

Retiring thermal capacity, auctioning renewables and holding the tariff, all at once. The cost is immediate, the benefit is deferred, and the regulator changes halfway through.

We have the permit and we cannot get onto the site.

Social licence to operate: a community does not sign a contract, and the blockade costs more than any engagement programme that was not run in time.

The tariff is political and the asset is physical.

Water and sanitation in operational crisis: technical losses, deferred investment and a tariff nobody wants to raise. Every year of delay multiplies the bill.

The commodity price decided our strategy for us.

Coffee, palm and agro-industry: exposure to a price you do not control, where the only real lever is where you sit in the value chain.

We certified for sustainability and the market did not pay for it.

Certified sustainability: the premium exists in some channels and not others, and the cost of certifying falls due in full before you know which one you are in.

The drought was not in the plan.

A physical shock against signed commercial commitments: who you serve, who you fail, and which relationship does not come back afterwards.

And if your case is not on the list

What we build

On the Universal Simulation Framework we customise brand, asset, regulatory framework and indicators in a 1-to-2-week cycle, and we also write a simulation from scratch on your own case. In this sector the regulatory frame is half the exercise, so the reframe is included.

Who buys this

Four buyers, four different reasons

Power and water utilities

Teams deciding investment, tariff and asset retirement with a regulator in the room and an asset life longer than any strategic plan.

Mining and community relations

Operations and corporate affairs: where the social permit is earned years before you need it, or not at all.

Oil, gas and regulated industries

People operating under a framework that changes with the government, and who have to commit for a decade anyway.

Agrifood and commodities

Cooperatives, exporters and processors exposed to a price they do not control and a climate they control even less.

Honest about the fit

Three limits we would rather state before a demo than after one:

  • We are not an engineering simulator. No load flow, no reservoir modelling, no mine planning, no network hydraulics. We model the management and stakeholder decision that sits above that layer.
  • We are not a carbon or sustainability-reporting tool. We do not produce your emissions inventory or your CSRD statement; we model the trade-off behind the number, not the number.
  • The water and mining blocks are heavily set in LATAM, and the agrifood one revolves around Colombian coffee, palm and agro-industry. That is a real advantage there; in Europe or North America, add the 1-to-2-week reframe cycle.

Frequently asked questions

Is this an engineering simulator?

No. We do not do load flow on your grid, reservoir modelling or mine planning: that is engineering software and we do not compete there. We model the management decision above it — where you invest, who you negotiate with, which asset you retire and when — with economic and social consequences over several rounds.

Does it cover mining and social licence?

Yes, and it is one of the most distinctive blocks: community relations, social licence to operate, responsibility in extractive mining, and the conflict that appears when the legal permit exists and the social one does not.

What about water, sanitation and agrifood?

Yes. Water and sanitation as a utility in operational crisis, the economics of water, and a real agrifood block: coffee, palm, agro-industry and agritech. The catalogue groups these with energy and mining under one heading, but they are three distinct benches and they sell separately.

Can it be used for carbon reporting or CSRD?

No. We are not a carbon-accounting or sustainability-reporting tool and we do not produce your organisation's inventory. We model the trade-off — what you give up to decarbonise, and over what horizon — not the disclosure.

Can you adapt it to our asset and our country?

Yes. On the Universal Simulation Framework we adapt brand, asset, regulatory framework and indicators in a 1-to-2-week cycle, and we write a simulation from scratch on your case.

Tell us which decision keeps jamming

One short call: you tell us the asset, the profile of the participants and how much time you have. We tell you what exists today, what would have to be built, and what we will not be able to do.

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Last reviewed: 2026-09

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