Navigate Complex Business Challenges With Human Loops Situational Intelligence
Strategic insight and scenario design for leaders facing uncertainty, transformation, and high-stakes decisions.
When The Usual Playbooks Stop Working
Your team is brilliant. Your strategy looks solid on paper. But something's not clicking. Maybe it's the product launch that's stalling despite perfect market research. The merger integration that's creating more friction than synergy. The digital transformation that's meeting mysterious resistance at every turn.
You're dealing with complex human systems—and human systems don't follow the neat logic of spreadsheets and org charts.
Here's what most strategic consulting misses: Every business challenge is fundamentally a human challenge. Markets are made of people with habits, fears, and stories. Teams are networks of relationships, past experiences, and unspoken assumptions. Customers make decisions based on emotion, identity, and meaning—not just features and price.
Strategic Intelligence That Accounts For Human Reality
Human Loops is a breakthrough framework that reveals the hidden patterns beneath your most complex business challenges. It's not another consulting methodology—it's a complete structural understanding of how humans create meaning, make decisions, and either resist or embrace change.
When you apply Human Loops to your business situation, you finally see:
Why your perfectly logical strategy isn't working
Where the real resistance and opportunities lie
How to design approaches that work with human nature, not against it
What sustainable transformation actually looks like
Three Levels Of Strategic Engagement
Narrative Snapshot
Fast clarity on urgent situations
When you need to think differently about a specific problem, fast.
"There's been a sudden regulatory shift. What are our immediate narrative risks and opportunities?" "A competitor just launched something unexpected. How does this change our market position?" "We're seeing resistance to a new policy. What's really going on beneath the surface?"
What you get:
2-week turnaround
10-page strategic analysis
10-slide executive summary
1 leadership briefing call
Clear next steps and options
Narrative Rethink
Strategic alignment for complex challenges
When your C-suite needs to align around multi-layered, systemic challenges.
Perfect for leadership teams facing major decisions, market shifts, or organizational tensions that traditional analysis can't untangle.
What you get:
3-month engagement
5-10 stakeholder interviews
25-page strategic framework
25-slide leadership deck
Monthly team strategy calls
1 on-site strategic session
Scenario planning and option mapping
Narrative Transformation
Company-wide cultural and strategic shifts
When you need to rewire how your entire organization thinks and acts.
For leaders ready to implement fundamental changes that stick—whether that's digital transformation, merger integration, or complete strategic repositioning.
What you get:
6-month transformation process
10+ stakeholder interviews across all levels
50-page transformation blueprint
50-slide implementation roadmap
10 strategic coaching calls
6 cross-functional team workshops
Real-time support during implementation
Why This Works When Other Approaches Don't
Traditional consulting analyzes what people should do based on logic and best practices.
Human Loops consulting reveals what people actually do based on their stories, relationships, and structural reality—then designs strategies that work with these patterns.
The difference? Your strategies actually get implemented. Your teams actually align. Your customers actually respond. Your transformations actually stick.
This Is For Your Team If:
You're facing challenges that seem logical but aren't working
You need strategies that account for human complexity, not just business logic
You're dealing with resistance, misalignment, or implementation problems
You want sustainable change, not just short-term fixes
You're ready to see your challenges through a completely different lens
This Probably Isn't For Your Team If:
You want traditional analysis and standard recommendations
You're not ready to question your current assumptions
You prefer simple answers to complex human realities
You're looking for quick fixes without deeper understanding
Possible Thoughts
"Finally, someone who understood why our digital transformation kept stalling. It wasn't a technology problem—it was a human systems problem. The Human Loops analysis revealed patterns we'd been blind to for months."
"We'd tried three different consulting firms on our market positioning. Matt's approach was completely different—he showed us the hidden narratives our customers were actually responding to, not just the features we thought mattered."
"The scenario planning wasn't just about market trends. It was about how our people, our culture, and our customers would actually respond to different futures. Game-changing insight."
Ready to See Your Challenge Clearly?
Start with a Narrative Snapshot to experience the power of Human Loops analysis on one of your specific business situations.
Let’s start talking: m@matthew.es
Featured Applications
For Founders: Make better strategic bets, reframe persistent challenges, avoid burnout loops that derail growth.
For Team Leaders: Resolve hidden tensions, align people around shared purpose, navigate complex team dynamics.
For Investors: Evaluate opportunities beyond the pitch deck by understanding team dynamics, leadership behaviours and deeper risk narratives.
For Strategists: Map possible futures, clarify options, build scenario plans that account for human reality.
For Organizations: Craft transformation strategies that resonate with real emotional and structural patterns across your company.