PreEmpt.Life Methods — The Four-Step Matrix
103 methods placed by what they are used for: understanding the situation (top row) or acting on it (bottom row). † coming soon — not yet live.
Evidence and Present Signals
Possibility and People
Understand
Sense
What is happening now
- Abell analysis
- Artificial intelligence
- Automation of Futures (automated horizon scanning)
- Behavioral insights
- Benchmarking
- Biology-, chemistry-, and physics-inspired detection logic†
- Blindspot detection (Unseen)
- Consumer analytics
- Customized data acquisition systems
- Driver analysis
- Driver mapping
- Ethnographics
- Expert elicitation
- Hindsight and Foresight charts†
- Horizon scanning
- Interviewing
- Literature and evidence reviews
- Market modeling
- Neuro-symbolic reasoning
- Seven questions
- Signal Field and Futures Cone visualization
- Signal life-cycle tracking
- Slow-trend calendar check†
- Systems mapping (conceptual modeling)
- Threat analysis
- Tipping point analysis
- Trend forecasting
- Trends analysis
- User research — qualitative
- User research — quantitative
- Web analytics
Explore
What could happen
- Backcasting
- Breakout thinking
- Card-drawing scenario process
- Causal Layered Analysis
- Complexity — describing and explaining
- Crowd-based scenarios
- Deductive scenarios
- Disruptive innovation
- Experiential futures / design
- Extended morphological analysis
- Forward-consistency chaining (possibility chains)
- Future personas
- Futures wheels
- Innovation foresight
- Nature-based Intelligence
- Quantitative scenarios
- Quantum Foresight
- Scenario development, planning, and archetypes
- Simulation and systems modeling (numeric)
- Speculative design
- Speculative fiction and storytelling
- Three Horizons
- Three-Body Problem uncertainty sticks
- Timelining
- Uncertainty characterization
- Visioning
- Wind tunnelling
Sense
What is happening now
- Abell analysis
- Artificial intelligence
- Automation of Futures (automated horizon scanning)
- Behavioral insights
- Benchmarking
- Biology-, chemistry-, and physics-inspired detection logic†
- Blindspot detection (Unseen)
- Consumer analytics
- Customized data acquisition systems
- Driver analysis
- Driver mapping
- Ethnographics
- Expert elicitation
- Hindsight and Foresight charts†
- Horizon scanning
- Interviewing
- Literature and evidence reviews
- Market modeling
- Neuro-symbolic reasoning
- Seven questions
- Signal Field and Futures Cone visualization
- Signal life-cycle tracking
- Slow-trend calendar check†
- Systems mapping (conceptual modeling)
- Threat analysis
- Tipping point analysis
- Trend forecasting
- Trends analysis
- User research — qualitative
- User research — quantitative
- Web analytics
Explore
What could happen
- Backcasting
- Breakout thinking
- Card-drawing scenario process
- Causal Layered Analysis
- Complexity — describing and explaining
- Crowd-based scenarios
- Deductive scenarios
- Disruptive innovation
- Experiential futures / design
- Extended morphological analysis
- Forward-consistency chaining (possibility chains)
- Future personas
- Futures wheels
- Innovation foresight
- Nature-based Intelligence
- Quantitative scenarios
- Quantum Foresight
- Scenario development, planning, and archetypes
- Simulation and systems modeling (numeric)
- Speculative design
- Speculative fiction and storytelling
- Three Horizons
- Three-Body Problem uncertainty sticks
- Timelining
- Uncertainty characterization
- Visioning
- Wind tunnelling
Act
Decide
What to do about it
- Business model design
- Change management
- Customer journey mapping†
- Integrated Laboratory
- Leading, coincident, and lagging indicator tiering
- Operational research
- Policy and strategy design
- Policy and strategy stress-testing
- Portfolio analysis
- Prototyping
- Risk assessment and management
- Roadmapping
- Stakeholder analysis
- Strategic Option Grid
- Strategic Orbits matrix
- Strategy
- SWOT analysis
- Value proposition design
Engage and Govern
People and trust
- Appreciative inquiry and Futures Literacy
- Bias checks (parallel)
- Common Ground
- Communications
- Constitutional Governance Audit
- Cultural calibration
- Data visualization and dashboards
- Delphi
- Eight-agent review panel
- Expert Panel management
- Expert-quote grounding
- Explainable AI 2.0 disclosure
- Facilitation
- Future Lives Index
- Gamification†
- Have Your Say
- Issues paper development
- Judgment Index
- Marketing
- Participatory futures
- Project management
- Public engagement and dialogue
- Surveys and Tools reflection
- Temporal Delphi
- Track Record†
- Videos
- Workshops
Decide
What to do about it
- Business model design
- Change management
- Customer journey mapping†
- Integrated Laboratory
- Leading, coincident, and lagging indicator tiering
- Operational research
- Policy and strategy design
- Policy and strategy stress-testing
- Portfolio analysis
- Prototyping
- Risk assessment and management
- Roadmapping
- Stakeholder analysis
- Strategic Option Grid
- Strategic Orbits matrix
- Strategy
- SWOT analysis
- Value proposition design
Engage and Govern
People and trust
- Appreciative inquiry and Futures Literacy
- Bias checks (parallel)
- Common Ground
- Communications
- Constitutional Governance Audit
- Cultural calibration
- Data visualization and dashboards
- Delphi
- Eight-agent review panel
- Expert Panel management
- Expert-quote grounding
- Explainable AI 2.0 disclosure
- Facilitation
- Future Lives Index
- Gamification†
- Have Your Say
- Issues paper development
- Judgment Index
- Marketing
- Participatory futures
- Project management
- Public engagement and dialogue
- Surveys and Tools reflection
- Temporal Delphi
- Track Record†
- Videos
- Workshops
Our system integrates over 1,200 methods. Only the commonly used methods are listed here.