Quantumrun foresight is an emerging discipline that emphasizes the value of understanding future trends to enhance decision-making in the present. By anticipating change, organizations can better prepare for uncertain and rapidly evolving market conditions. With the support of skilled analysts and consultants, businesses can gain deeper insights to shape more informed mid- to long-term strategies.
Since 2010, Quantumrun Foresight has been dedicated to helping corporations and governments anticipate and adapt to future disruptive changes. As a trend intelligence and foresight consulting agency, Quantumrun combines expert consulting with innovative software platforms (outlined below!) to support strategy, innovation, and R&D teams. Their work has played a key role in shaping forward-thinking products, services, legislation, and business models that stay ahead of market disruption.
Why Clients Invest in Foresight and Trend Intelligence Services
Product Development: Leverage insights from future trends to inspire the creation of innovative products, services, policies, and business models your organization can start developing today.
Cross-Industry Market Intelligence: Gain valuable market insights into emerging trends from sectors beyond your team’s core expertise—trends that could directly or indirectly impact your operations.
Scenario Building: Explore long-term business scenarios—five, ten, or even twenty years into the future—and identify actionable strategies to ensure resilience and success in those environments.
Strategic Planning & Policy Development: Discover forward-looking solutions to today’s complex challenges and use them to craft innovative strategies, policies, and action plans.
Technology & Startup Scouting: Identify the emerging technologies, startups, and partners necessary to realize future business ideas or to support strategic expansion into new markets.
Funding Prioritization: Use foresight scenarios to guide research focus, allocate science and technology budgets effectively, and plan major public investments with lasting impact (e.g., infrastructure).
Early Warning Systems: Develop systems to detect and respond to early signs of market disruption, helping your organization stay agile and prepared.
Introducing the Quantumrun Foresight Platform
During the global COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, the Quantumrun team launched the Quantumrun trend platform in response to a clear and urgent need: the world’s widespread lack of preparedness for disruptive events and trends. Motivated by this gap, Quantumrun set out to automate and democratize its foresight expertise—transforming its consulting services into an accessible, affordable trend intelligence software solution.
The mission: Empower individuals and organizations of all sizes to better navigate and thrive in rapidly evolving market landscapes.
The Quantumrun Foresight Platform offers clients access to customized daily trend research, powerful collaboration tools to centralize and manage insights, and instant analysis features that translate trend data into actionable business strategies.
1. Identifying Emerging Trends
Human-AI Trend Spotting
- AI-Driven Research: Quantumrun Foresight AI-powered news aggregator scours millions of sources to surface relevant technology scouting, industry tracking, competitor alerts, and regulation updates—streamlining your team’s daily trend research.
- Expert Analysis: Receive daily trend reports authored by foresight professionals. Plus, seamlessly import or manually add your team’s internal research to enrich the platform’s insights.
Key Benefits
- Curate insights from millions of global sources.
- Accelerate industry trend tracking with AI assistance.
- Combine automated feeds with human-curated analysis for the richest perspective.
2. Organizing Trend Research
Centralized Knowledge Hub
- Consolidate all your trend signals into a single, cloud-based repository.
- Empower collaboration among team members, external partners, and clients.
- Effortlessly search, categorize, import, export, email, and share trend data.
Core Capabilities
- Bookmark & List Creation: Save platform content into customizable Lists, then convert those Lists into visual graphs.
- Manual & Bulk Uploads: Add individual web links, notes, and documents via simple forms—or have Quantumrun upload your entire trend database to establish one source of truth.
- Flexible Collaboration: Grant permissions, tag content by sector/industry/topic/location, and ensure everyone stays aligned on the latest insights.
3. Visualizing Research to Generate New Ideas
Automated Strategic Planning & Ideation
- Strategy Roadmaps: Quantumrun Foresight generates quadrant graphs (e.g., SWOT, VUCA, Strategy Planner) to prioritize when to invest, focus, or act on future opportunities and challenges.
- 3D Trend Mapping: Use an interactive 3D grid to uncover hidden relationships between trends—fueling brainstorming sessions for innovative products, services, legislation, and business models.
- Scenario Automation: Quantumrun Foresight automatically segments your trend research by time horizon (5, 10, 20+ years), likelihood, market impact, and tags—simplifying long-view scenario planning.
Outcome
- Rapidly convert raw trend data into actionable business insights.
- Scale product ideation and market segmentation with minimal manual effort.
- Streamline decision-making across strategy, innovation, and R&D teams.
Subscription Plans
Quantumrun Foresight offers tiered plans to suit individuals, small teams, and large enterprises—each backed by a money-back guarantee or free trial.
Futurist
Price: $15/user/month (or one-time payment of $60)
Guarantee: 60-day money-back
Ideal For: Individuals seeking to stay informed of emerging trends and adapt proactively
Included Features
- 66% discount on an annual subscription
- Daily trend reports
- Full access to our industry news database
- Access to curated trend Lists
- Weekly email alerts featuring top trends
- Creation of up to 10 project visualizations
- Account setup assistance and ticket/email support
- Access to Quantumrun webinars
- Premium subscription to Quantumrun newsletters
Pro
Price: $60/user/month (or one-time payment of $600)
Guarantee: 60-day money-back
Ideal For: Small teams integrating foresight research into everyday workflows
All Futurist Features, Plus:
- Unlimited project visualizations
- One customized AI-curated news feed
- Team collaboration tools and data export
- Additional account setup support
- One hour of virtual Q&A/training per quarter
- Hosting and maintenance included
Business
Price: $499/month (or one-time payment of $5,088)
Guarantee: 60-day money-back
Ideal For: Mid-sized teams seeking deeper automation and collaboration
All Pro Features, Plus:
- Up to 25 user accounts
- Ten customized AI-curated news feeds
- Advanced roles & permissions for team management
- Enhanced collaboration functionality
- Ongoing virtual Q&A and training sessions
- Dedicated Account Manager
- Data import enabled (for existing research)
- Single Sign-On (SSO) support
- 15% discount on annual subscriptions
Enterprise
Price: $1,399/month, billed annually (includes 60-day free trial)
Ideal For: Large teams or multi-department initiatives requiring fully customized foresight services
All Business Features, Plus:
- Unlimited user accounts and AI-curated news feeds
- A dedicated foresight researcher one day per week
- Unlimited virtual Q&A and training
- Phone support and RSS integration with external sites
- Full API access and permission to republish Quantumrun content
- Facilitated data import services
- 20% discount on two-year subscriptions
Who Uses Quantumrun Foresight?
Strategy, research, marketing, and product teams around the globe rely on Quantumrun Foresight to reduce research time and costs—enabling them to build future-ready businesses and policy solutions.
Key Advantages
- Customized Trend Intelligence: Tailored insights that keep you ahead of market disruptions.
- Automated Strategy Planning: Streamline mid- to long-term roadmap development.
- Scalable Product Ideation: Generate and refine innovative ideas with 3D trend mapping.
- Automated Market Segmentation: Quickly identify and target emerging market opportunities.
Together, these capabilities make the Quantumrun Foresight Platform a versatile, flexible solution for forward-thinking organizations.
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FAQ’s
1. What makes Quantumrun Foresight different from traditional trend research tools?
Quantumrun Foresight combines human expert analysis with AI-powered trend aggregation to deliver real-time, curated insights. Unlike static research reports, the platform enables ongoing, collaborative trend tracking, scenario building, and automated visualizations to support agile decision-making.
2. Can I upload my team’s existing trend research into the platform?
Yes. The platform allows manual additions through simple forms and also supports bulk uploads of internal research databases. This creates a centralized knowledge hub and ensures that your historical insights are integrated with new data for a comprehensive research experience.
3. How does the platform help with strategy and product development?
Quantumrun Foresight lets users convert curated trend Lists into interactive visualizations such as quadrant graphs and 3D grids. These tools help identify opportunity gaps, prioritize investments, plan scenarios, and generate new ideas for future products, services, and business models.
4. What support and training options are available for new users?
All plans include user setup support and access to webinars. Higher-tier plans (Pro, Business, and Enterprise) offer additional support including virtual Q&A sessions, dedicated account managers, and custom training sessions to help your team maximize the platform’s potential.
5. Can we customize the trend feeds and reports to our industry or focus area?
Absolutely. Starting with the Pro plan, users can create customized AI-curated news feeds tailored to specific industries, technologies, or strategic interests. Enterprise users receive unlimited custom feeds and even a dedicated foresight researcher for personalized support.