Slingshot
Stories
Why we exist

Our world is driven by stories.

  • Company
    stories
  • Investment
    stories
  • Legal
    stories
  • Policy
    stories
  • Supply chain
    stories
  • Community
    stories

Interconnected. Complicated. Constantly changing.

Slingshot navigates the complexity — connecting the stakeholders, relationships, events, and forces that shape the story.

We turn complexity into clarity.

Investigate. Evaluate. Build.

With the help of our Hero Story Engine, we map, evaluate, and build the stories in teams, transactions, and ecosystems — particularly those critical to society.

Your Team StoryCompanies, Funds, Programs, Institutions, Collaborative Ventures.
Your Transaction StoryInvestments, Legal Disputes, Regulatory Actions, Policies, Projects, and Procurements.
Your Ecosystem StoryNational Functions, Industries, Markets, Supply Chains, Communities.
Critical Scope

Critical Stories & Heroes.

“Teamwork is a Resilience Imperative”

We are particularly experienced with the stories of teams, transactions, ecosystems, and communities that demand the complex integration of policy, investment, business, law, and community efforts to deliver critical societal functions.

  • Water
  • Energy
  • Defense
  • Healthcare
  • Telecom­munication
  • Infra­structure
  • Transportation
    & Logistics
  • Minerals
    & Materials
A resilient community: transmission lines, a battery and container yard, solar roofs, wind turbines, and homes connected by a single grid

Understand your team & community’s critical value

Take an Assessment
Is Your Team Heroic? Is Your Community Heroic?
Team Transaction Ecosystem Critical
Who we serve

Purpose Driven — Underdogs — Game Changers

  • Policy
    Makers
  • Investors
  • Companies
  • Institutions
  • Law Firms
  • Publishers
  • Communities
  • And More

Take the next
Big Swing.

Change the Game. Rewrite the Story. Ask us to map or value the story of your team, transaction, or community — or subscribe to the Slingshot Newsletter for strategic insights.

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Critical Team or Community Valuation

Understand your team & community’s critical value.

We map and evaluate critical stakeholders, companies, investors, projects, investment deals, laws, policies, litigation, public programs — and more — to develop collaborative strategies to build resilient and secure communities, infrastructure, industrial bases, supply chains, and companies.

Value Heroic Team Value Heroic Community
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Story Mapping & Building

  • Company Stories
  • Investment Stories
  • Legal Stories
  • Supply Chain Stories
  • Community Stories
  • & more
We Value Relationships, Teams & Stories

Stories have tremendous social and economic value — they can unify a team, reveal risks, impact competitors, explain markets, drive investment strategies, solidify relationships, inform and entertain consumers, motivate policy makers, and clarify legal disputes — sometimes, all at once.

Map Evaluate Act

With the help of our Hero Story Engine, we investigate and evaluate the stakeholders, relationships, purposes and flow in the stories of teams, transactions, and ecosystems — particularly those in critical societal functions, like defense, energy, healthcare, infrastructure, transportation, emergency management, and more. Then work with you to develop heroic strategies to mitigate risk, build resilience, refresh, optimize, and accelerate your stories.

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Where we look

Teams

Companies, Funds, NGOs, Institutions, Government, Boards, and Impact Teams of all Varieties.

Transactions

Investments, Legal Disputes, Reg/Leg Process, Development Project, and more.

Ecosystems

Markets, supply chains, capital stacks, communities…

How it works
1

Map

Tell your story.

Map the stakeholders, relationships, and flows of your story and how they connect with your purpose, alignment, assets, and goals.

2

Evaluate

Find your HEROs.

We evaluate your story with traditional and innovative models to find High-Equity Risks and Opportunities (HEROs) and deepen your understanding of the entities, stakeholders, relationships and network capital on your team, in a transaction, or within your ecosystem.

3

Heroic Action

Optimize your purpose.

Build, refresh, and accelerate the story with strategies that mitigate risk, deepen resilience, and drive growth for market growth, funding, policy, resilience, investment, or team building goals.

Strategic Story Building

Once the map is drawn and the HEROs are found, the work turns to the build — actionable strategies that move the story forward.

A connected team of stakeholders mapped across the world, with the HERO mascot standing watch
  • 01

    Turnaround, Team Building & Alignment

  • 02

    Market Growth, Funding, Investment & Economic Development

  • 03

    Government Relations, Partnerships, Comms & Collaboration

  • 04

    Legal, Dispute Resolution, Regulatory & Risk Mitigation

S SLINGSHOT

Strategies & Insights

Slingshots are the name we give to our game-changing stories, insights, strategies, and ideas — often collaborative, leveraging our diverse network of relationship capital and always tackling challenging multi-dimensional, multi-stakeholder problems.

Where a Slingshot lands
  • Strategic Intelligence
  • Analytic Models & Platforms
  • Economic Development Projects
  • Policy and Process Improvement
  • Collaborative Investments & Partnerships
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Slingshot

The Lab of Big Swings

These are active projects which we are building and designing to either launch ourselves, or launch in partnership.

TEAM
Platform/Tool

The Equity Acceleration Machine

A relationship-capital tool and community that turns the relationships you have forged into assets you can value, measure, improve, grow, invest, combine, and leverage for the purposeful goals you care about.

Platform/Tool

Slingshot Story Builder

A platform that helps accelerate, organize, and improve your understanding of the stakeholders, relationships, and flow in the story of a team, transaction, or ecosystem. It easily converts hyperlinked pages, documents, spreadsheets, and more into a Story Map. Future features of the platform will facilitate Story investment (Investory), and experience-based assignments for Story Builders to collaboratively research and analyze a story.

Strategic Intelligence

Critical “Private Credit” Stability

An analytical model driven database that prioritizes risk in private companies related to their debt stack. Also includes a list of companies delivering “Critical” products & services.

Strategic Intelligence

Maritime & Logistics

A strategic playbook that outlines opportunities for businesses to mitigate the costs of supply chain friction in maritime ports and multi-modal transportation.

Strategic Intelligence

Critical Healthcare

A database of the companies delivering critical healthcare products and services throughout the world.

Strategic Intelligence

Government Investment in Clean Water Tech

Federal go-to-market strategy for clean-water technology — the infrastructure funding wave, PFAS as the dominant driver, and non-dilutive R&D as validation capital.

Strategic Intelligence

Opportunity Businesses

A database of all potentially qualifying opportunity zone businesses.

Strategic Intelligence

Foreign Investment

A database of publicly available foreign investment in US land and critical assets.

A working method and scaffold — not legal, financial, or insurance advice. Insurance descriptions are general and paraphrased; coverage terms vary by policy and carrier.

Our Story

About Us

Who

Creative thinkers and doers.

Our team is filled with creative thinkers and doers — leaders, lawyers, investigators, software developers, entrepreneurs, analysts, data scientists, policy hands, investors, and even a professional blackjack player. We investigate, evaluate, leverage, create, and invest in quality information, relationships, teams, and communities, drawing on diverse experiences, deep networks, and relationship capital to strengthen our clients, portfolio, and projects.

What

Our asset class is quality information, relationships, teams, & stories.

We are a strategic advisory company focused on improving the quality of relationships, teams, and stories worldwide. What is a strategic advisory? It’s a name, but we do not like to limit our activity. However, everything we do is driven by our focus on understanding and improving the quality of relationships, teams, and their stories.

Why Slingshot?

We like taking Big Swings.

After all, it isn’t nearly as much fun when you’re supposed to win.

Game-changing solutions

Building what doesn’t exist yet, for problems worth solving.

Big challenges

The messy, high-stakes questions others route around.

Underdogs with hustle

Accelerating teams whose upside is bigger than their balance sheet.

Undervalued strategies

Clear impact, but hard to measure, unknown, or simply ignored.