From zero to a full trend radar in record speed

Nov 5, 2024

Are you struggling to produce foresight deliverables with tight deadlines? Or are you dreaming of exploring several topics with trend radars, but lack the time to do it all?

What if I told you that you can have the first draft of your next trend radar complete with trends and links to sources in hours rather than days or weeks.

With our custom service, you can streamline your trend analysis, save time, and produce deliverables that resonate with your stakeholders. Learn how our new 3rd generation AI-powered service can kick-start your trend analysis process in no time.

Key takeaways

  • Speed and efficiency: The new 3rd generation AI capabilities allow foresight professionals to produce a fully fleshed-out trend radar in hours rather than days or weeks, dramatically enhancing productivity and allowing for more explorative approaches.
  • Custom AI data sets: Users can generate tailored, interconnected trend data sets on specific topics, allowing for more relevant and focused foresight projects right from the start.
  • Enhanced collaboration: With the ability to present a draft of a fully populated trend radar in initial stakeholder meetings, teams can engage in more productive discussions and decision-making and steer foresight work towards the most valuable outcomes.

 

Announcing the strongest AI tool yet for building foresight deliverables

When large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence was first taking the world by storm we were envisioning a future of AI-assisted foresight work. We saw that a new generation of foresight tools could help you quickly draft trend descriptions on any topic you wish (AI-assisted writing) and help you find relevant and up-to-date sources and inputs for that topic as well (AI-assisted trend scouting).

This vision was all about augmenting the capabilities of every foresight practitioner with these emerging technologies. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve not only met that goal but exceeded it.

With our 3rd generation AI data set service, our customers can get from the initial spark, an idea or a need, to a fully fleshed out Trend radar and an interconnected Trend network based on automatically scouted and linked Signals (sources related to the phenomena and stored in your FIBRES findings database) and ready to be delivered in record speed.

FIBRES gen 3 custom data set radar

This opens totally new possibilities, e.g., explorative Trend radar building, where the human efforts can be focused on contextualizing, interpreting, enriching, and other highly value adding activities.

How did we get here

Since we launched our 1st gen AI-powered trend data sets, we've been listening to your feedback and continuously improving the service. These pre-built data sets managed by our team were an overnight hit, but it was soon evident that our users wanted to get their hands on the tools and start building AI-assisted trend data sets and trend radars themselves.

With the release of our 2nd generation AI capabilities, we enhanced our capability to draft complete descriptions for phenomena and made it available to all of our users as built-in feature of FIBRES. We also updated our image generation features making the deliverables visually more more appealing than ever.

Now, just over a year since we first launched our AI data sets, we are thrilled to start offering the 3rd generation of our AI-powered data set generation service to all our customers.

FIBRES gen 3 custom data set preview

This exciting update is a significant leap forward, building on the progress of our 1st and 2nd generation AI capabilities. It brings several highly requested features to life and is designed to help you stay ahead in your foresight work.

What’s new in FIBRES’ 3rd gen AI data sets

With this update, you can now generate highly detailed, interconnected trend data sets on any topic of your choice—with sources included—as an outstanding starting point for your foresight project or to kick-start continuous foresight on a new topic or niche. The new capabilities include:

  • Collecting hundreds of relevant sources directly into your findings database as Signals, replicating manual research and scouting processes.
  • Writing tens of comprehensive Trend descriptions based on the original source Signals, serving as an excellent foundation for your foresight work and making it easy to validate and expand on the research and analysis.
  • Populating a full Trend radar and building interconnections for a Trend network to visualize and convey top level foresight, making it easier than ever to deliver the overview of your foresight and show the connections of different phenomena.

Do you have a specific research topic in mind that you’d like to explore with a 3rd gen custom trend data set? We would love to help you get your next research off the ground, so simply book a meeting with us to learn more about this exciting new capability.

FIBRES gen 3 custom data set links

These new features not only save you time but also provide a more comprehensive, interconnected view of trends that can guide your strategic decisions. With our 3rd generation AI service, you can kick-start in-depth research with ease, and focus on validating and refining the insights that matter most to your organization.

You can save your energy for enriching, sense-making, and connecting the trend narratives to your organization’s environment and reality. This offers a novel way to get from zero to highly detailed deliverables in record time, helping you bring valuable insights to where they are needed faster than ever before.

Unlocking new, uniquely powerful ways of working with foresight

With traditional approaches, you would usually first scope out a foresight project based on your stakeholders’ needs and requirements, collect data and scout for trends, and start building your trend analysis and trend radar. Or perhaps you would buy a generic set of data from a trend database or analysis supplier as the starting point to get the ball rolling.

What is unique about the FIBRES’ custom trend data sets is that they are fully tailored to your specific needs and goals. They are not generic, one-size-fits-all. Thus, you instantly get many steps closer to deliverables that cover your unique context.

We leverage the semantic understanding of AIs coupled with our pool of up-to-date source Signals to scope and focus the preliminary analysis to your desired context. With our custom trend data sets you are creating your own futures intelligence from day one.

FIBRES collaborative foresight work

By starting with a custom trend data set you can produce the first draft of your trend radar right away without spending hours of work in data collection and analysis. It is now feasible to complete the first iteration of the radar and trend analysis even before the first stakeholder meeting.

Just imagine having a draft of your trend radar complete with trends and source signals as the starting point for discussions with your peers, domain experts, top management, or other stakeholders. It could make everything much more tangible and help you get further with the discussions from the get-go.

I have a gut feeling that this is more powerful and transformative than any of us realize today.

Don’t miss the opportunity to leapfrog your foresight capabilities—book your demo today and see the difference firsthand.

Available today as a service

We’re now introduced this powerful new capability as a service. As a FIBRES customer, you can request custom AI-generated trend data sets on any research topic you’re interested in. Early feedback from customers who have used this service has been overwhelmingly positive.

As I am writing this, we are collecting customer insights for building this service into a full fledged feature for the FIBRES foresight software. The option to generate these data sets directly within the platform will follow.

If you're not a FIBRES customer yet, we will gladly arrange a FIBRES demo or you can request a free trial to experience the best purpose-built foresight platform and tools as well as our AI-powered capabilities first-hand!

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Dani Pärnänen Meet Dani Pärnänen, the Chief Product Officer at FIBRES. With a background in software engineering and a talent for UX, Dani crafts cool tools for corporate futurists and trend scouts. He's all about asking the right questions to understand needs and deliver user-friendly solutions, ensuring FIBRES' customers always have the best experience.

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