First impressions: How a global innovation leader put FIBRES Foresight Agents to work

We’re just about to launch something big: Foresight Agents, a powerful new AI feature in FIBRES designed to make trend scanning and radar building dramatically faster and easier.

Before the official release, we invited a small group of early adopters to try it out with their real-world cases.

This is one of the first live tests: a foresight radar built by a global innovation leader at a major ingredients company. Their goal was to turn a complex, high-stakes scanning need into a structured radar, and to see whether AI could help shoulder the load.

The result? Strategic clarity, time saved, and a radar ready for decision-making without the typical manual effort.

Starting with clarity and purpose

Before building the radar, the innovation lead took time to clarify what they wanted to achieve. The setup experience of Foresight Agents is designed to prompt this kind of reflection, guiding users to define the radar’s purpose, its strategic objectives, and the specific scanning lens to apply.

That upfront clarity makes all the difference, resulting in context-specific foresight deliverables instead of repeating generic top-level trend analysis.

“The agent instructions were easy and intuitive. We were encouraged to take our time defining the radar goals and it really paid off. The final output reflected our scope with crystal clarity.”

Rather than rushing into scanning, the focus stayed on strategy first ensuring that what the agent would deliver was useful, relevant, and actionable.

A collaborative and flexible setup process

The planning phase invited input from both sides. The Foresight Agents suggested research keywords and trends based on the radar topic and context, and the user fine-tuned them to reflect their actual needs. This created a collaborative back-and-forth that ensured the scanning would cover the right ground.

“The research scoping process was flexible. I edited the AI’s suggestions quite a bit but it was a really helpful starting point.”

Instead of requiring the user to start from scratch, the Foresight Agents act like smart co-pilots offering relevant inputs while keeping the user in control.

Letting the agents do the heavy lifting

Once the radar scope and scanning terms were finalized, the Foresight Agents got to work. From that point on, the innovation lead could step back and focus on other tasks.

“After I had designed and defined the radar and foresight research scope, the agents worked in the background. I didn’t need to monitor anything.”

In less than an hour, the Foresight Agents had found and scanned around 2,000 articles on relevant and related topics, generated 51 distinct trend descriptions, built a structured radar, and produced a concise summary ready for strategic use. No manual copy-pasting, filtering, or sorting needed.

Clear results, ready for action

The final output wasn’t just fast but also structured, traceable, and easy to interpret. Trends were organized by themes and time horizons on a trend radar visualization, and each entry was linked to original sources as well as with each other where connections could be detected, creating also an interactive trend network visualization.

“The number of trends felt just right. Some radar areas had fewer items, which made sense given the available data. The structure made it easy to interpret.”

Interestingly, there was one area where the agent seemed more conservative: “In this case, nothing landed in the furthest time horizon. I think the AI was being cautious about the longer-term future but that’s a space where human insight naturally steps in.”

This reinforced the idea that AI can do the groundwork, but long-term foresight still benefits from human interpretation. As with all AI-assisted deliverables, human validation and sensemaking is key.

A strong starting point for strategy

The overall experience delivered exactly what the innovation lead needed: a head start. The agent helped frame the landscape, highlight key trends, and create a foundation to build on.

“The agent asked all the right questions up front. It handled the heavy lifting of collecting, filtering, and summarizing, and left me with a clear radar I could build on. The handoff from AI to human insight was seamless.”

When the radar was shared with R&D leadership, the reaction was clear: they were impressed by both the depth and clarity of the output. What would previously have taken days or even weeks to complete with all the other responsibilities the innovation leader has now only took less than two days from inception to a validated trend radar. 

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Looking ahead

FIBRES Foresight Agents are designed to make foresight work not just faster, but smarter. They offer a way for teams to scale their efforts, focus their attention, and spend less time on manual research and more on shaping the future.

“A truly functional tool for foresight’s heavy lifting. It frees up your time for what really matters.”

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