What we do

We help decision-makers to shape sustainable futures, through applied strategic foresights informed by nature and fungi. We have three main products:

 

Consultancy

Spore-tel

Foresight, inspired by Fungi. For decision-makers with the power to shape sustainable futures, we help anticipate change, navigate uncertainty and develop strategies rooted in the wisdom of nature and fungi. Designed to help companies win in a way that helps them, people and the planet.

 

  • Scenario planning / Brand positioning / Innovation strategy / Purpose & Sustainability strategy / Organisational structure / Getting teams unstuck

  • Decision-makers with the agency to shape better futures. Brave brands. Progressive business. Sustainability leaders. Collaborative agencies.

    HOW IT WORKS?

    • Mega: Spore-tel Applied Strategic Foresights Playbook + 4x 2hr workshop/consultation over 6-8 weeks 

    • Mini: One-off consultation with pre-work / provocations

  • Spore-tel is a set of insight spaces inspired by the intelligence of nature and fungi. They’re fun, mind-expanding and designed to shake the status quo. They empower you to make change in your corner of the world.

    Head over to our blog, Spore Drops, to immerse yourself in spore-tel.

  • Book a call with founder, Jess, to talk about solving your challenge with fungi + foresights. Or, to learn more about how fungi and nature can impact your strategy.

    Click to book an intro call

Market Mapping

Spore-print

Mapping the mushroom market. For visionary start-ups and big players wanting to leverage the ‘shroom-boom’, while doing no harm. We do scenario planning to anticipate the growing opportunity - in food, drinks, wellness and materials. Designed to help ventures win in a way that helps them and mushroom culture.

 

  • Future-proofing a new venture or product (avoiding ‘boom to bust’) / White space opportunity / Category landscape mapping / Distinct brand or product positioning

  • Mushroom and psychedelics businesses. B-Corp. NGOs, RLOs and SMEs. Visionary founders. Agencies, big corps and for-good brands wanting to understand mushroom industry or culture.

    HOW IT WORKS

    • Mega: Spore-print Market Playbook + 4x 2hr workshop/consultation over 6-8 weeks 

    • Mini: One-off consultation with pre-work / provocations

  • We believe in growing the mushroom industries ethically. So, we’ve designed a sliding scale payment structure for Spore-print mapping (sorry corps, but we want the small players to win too!)

    • £££ corporate / £ for startups / Free for NGOs and RLOs

    • ££ Collective pricing model for multiple business buy-in (only available to mushroom and psychedelics start-ups & SMEs)

  • Book a call with founder, Jess, to talk about the mushroom industry, market opportunities, our pricing model, or just to geek out about mushrooms!

    Click to book an intro call

EXPERIENCES

Field Trips

Immersive fungi + foresight experiences. We take you into the living, breathing world of mushrooms, the people driving the culture and how fungi are impacting our futures.

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Typical briefs that Sporesight can help you with:

“My agency needs a radical foresight expert”

“I want to future-proof my brand in a sustainable way”

“I want to launch a mushroom venture, with ethics baked in”

“I want to launch a new functional mushroom product”

“My B-corp needs a decentralised organisational structure”

“My team/CEO need to buy into foresights”

How we work

Spore-co

A global collective of brilliant minds.

Sporesight is a diverse collective of foresight experts, mycologists, strategists, thinkers, tinkerers, innovators, founders and mycophiles at the forefront of myco-culture and foresight thinking. Based on the challenge, we hand pick the best people to solve problems, the fungal way.

Spore-tel

Foresights, inspired by fungi.

We blend strategic expertise with an adventurer’s mindset. We work with the intelligence of nature + mushrooms: translating their biology, their culture and their organisational structure into strategic frameworks for regenerative futures.

  • Within a carousel of images, this is a close-up photograph of orange mushrooms growing on a log. The photograph is taken from the underside of the mushrooms, showing gills in straight lines growing from the central stems of each mushroom.
  • Within a carousel of images, this is a grainy close-up of the underside of a white mushroom, showing net-like pores.
  • Within a carousel of images, this image is a landscape photograph of a rural countryside hill in Uganda, dotted with small cottages, agricultural plots and trees. The hill is green and lush. Above is clear blue sky with a central white cloud.
  • Within a carousel of images, this is a grainy, red-hued close up of turkey tail mushrooms on a plain background.

Spores of wisdom

  • - Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission

    “We must also ensure that decisions taken today do not harm future generations and that there is increased solidarity between people of different ages.”

  • - Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

    “This present moment used to be the unimaginable future.”