"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

– Alan C Kay

Endeavour.Partners enables business leaders to create a future that is more prosperous

by harnessing advances in AI and other digital technologies and deep tech

to reinvent their businesses, to create new value, and to build new businesses

through, in particular, breakthrough innovation 

and by ensuring that innovation is responsible and ethical, mitigating risk and maximising the net benefits

Endeavour.Partners also works as experts with leading firms and agencies to help deliver good outcomes for people and the planet

in critical areas such as commercial disputes, intellectual property, public interest, and ant-trust and competition law

by leveraging its deep and broad specialist expertise  the in AI, and in other digital technologies, from space to semiconductors

and its decades of relevant experience and pioneering work in these domains

Clients

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What we do

Bespoke​

All our work is tailored to our clients’ particular needs, their specific situation, and the broader context in these dynamic times

Anticipate, decide, deliver

We enable them  to anticipate the future, to make well-informed and timely decisions, and to rapidly deliver real-world results

Demand, tech, ecosystems

We identify and assess demand opportunities, project and evaluate enabling technologies,  innovation initiatives and new ventures, map platforms and business ecosystems and their evolution, and make the crucial connections amongst these

Reinvention

We help our clients reinvent their businesses, which is critical to realize the full potential of AI — particularly LLMs and GPTs — and other advanced tech

Responsible and ethical

We help them to anticipate and mitigate risks involved in harnessing AI and other advanced tech, and maximize the net benefits

Explore breakthrough innovation

We help companies turn emerging technology into breakthrough innovation. From AI and cloud to robotics, 3D printing, blockchain, and beyond, we identify what truly matters and how to use them to create lasting competitive advantage.

How do we do this?

Our global connections, in particular MIT and London Business School, keep us close to the frontiers of innovation. We translate this knowledge into practical guidance, assessing which technologies have real potential and how to combine them to unlock new value. 

Explore breakthrough innovation

We help companies turn emerging technology into breakthrough innovation. From AI and cloud to robotics, 3D printing, blockchain, and beyond, we identify what truly matters and how to use them to create lasting competitive advantage.

How do we do this?

Our global connections, in particular MIT and London Business School, keep us close to the frontiers of innovation. We translate this knowledge into practical guidance, assessing which technologies have real potential and how to combine them to unlock new value. 

Recent work

Strategy

Our research gave a power management technology company the confidence to direct its business away from fossil fuels toward renewable forms of energy.

Expert

We worked with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Canadian Competition Bureau to assess antitrust issues in technology-related markets.

Strategy

We worked with the robotics division of a global oil and gas company to evaluate whether a significant capital investment would enable the company to expand its market and minimize environmental harm.

Expert

We frequently use our expertise to assist leading tech companies against patent trolls.

Strategy

Leaders in the telecommunications industry continue to rely on our strategic research to map future infrastructure and capital investment.

Expert

We enabled a successful payment technology company to fend off a patent challenge that threatened its business model.

Strategy

We helped a venture capital team assess new technology related to satellites.

Expert

We provided an expert assessment of an original device manufacturer's efforts and capabilities that lead to a court ruling in their favor against accusations of causing a product's market failure.

Results

Our clients choose us, and continue to work with us on multiple projects over many years because of our demonstrated ability to deliver the highest quality results, even under very tight timescales, while being easy to work with; most of our work comes through referrals and word-of-mouth

Approach

We bring a broader systems perspective to bear and make connections that others miss; this enables us to develop more robust projections for how complex systems will evolve, to identify inflection points earlier, to find opportunities, to anticipate risks, and where warranted to challenge conventional wisdom

Team

We work closely and collaboratively with our clients in small, senior teams that are fast, friendly, and flexible; we respond quickly, communicate clearly, and adapt readily to our clients’ evolving needs.

Rigor

We build on decades of work at top tier universities, in particular teaching on these topics for two decades at both Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and London Business School (LBS)

How we create value

At Endeavour.Partners, we connect the dots others miss. By combining a deep understanding of technology, innovation, market demand, and business ecosystems, we deliver sharper insights and more reliable forecasts.

Our approach reveals the dynamics at play before they become obvious so you can anticipate change, act with confidence, and design strategies that are genuinely future-ready.

People

Our senior team brings decades of experience across AI, robotics, mobile, consumer electronics, networking, software, semiconductors, space and other digital and advanced tech

All of the members of our wider team have relevant experience in these domains, with education from leading universities such as Boston University, Dartmouth, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Oxford University, Tufts University, UC Berkeley and the University of Melbourne

We complement this with a broad and diverse global network spanning top tier tech companies, leading firms in other sectors, academia, government, and startups, giving our clients access to perspectives and relationships few others can offer

Michael Davies

Founder and Chairman

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Kanti Chakrabarti

Principal

Our location

Our primary location is in Kendall Square in Cambridge, MA, at the heart of “the most innovative square mile on the planet”, and we also have a presence in London, UK,and people on the West Coast and in Europe

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