Insights

Notes from the research desk

One market note is published below: what agentic workflows change about the way businesses in this region are run. Three method, property and diligence notes follow.

Published

Market note

Agentic workflows and the business landscape

What changes when work is carried out by a system rather than a queue of people, and which parts of a business model that actually touches.

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Forthcoming

Method

When a secondary data study is the wrong instrument

Secondary research is cheaper and faster, and it is still wrong for some questions. This note covers the four cases where primary work is the only defensible answer, and what to do instead.

Property

Reading absorption data without over-reading it

Project absorption figures are quoted constantly and interpreted rarely. A practical guide to the distortions that make a strong-looking number a weak signal.

Diligence

What a diligence brief should ask before the first call

The questions that determine whether research is worth commissioning at all. Written for the investment committee, not the analyst.

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Hingst Method · Evidence over noise — every engagement follows three named steps. Read the methodology →