We build maps for markets that do not exist yet.
Lisbon 38.7223° N · 9.1393° W · Field 00 · Open
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What we do
We help technology companies make and execute high-consequence decisions in markets, products and operating models still taking shape.
From agentic systems and product strategy to market entry, partnerships and first-proof execution, we work from decision to working evidence.
Design how humans, agents and tools should actually work together.
We help companies move from scattered AI experiments to an operating architecture: workflows, agent roles, human authority, controls, integrations and the first production proof.
Design the agentic system →Enter a market before building the whole organization around it.
We map the opportunity, position the product, identify partners and distribution routes, and build the first proof before major local headcount or capital commitments.
Build the market map →Founder-led · 2 weeks · from €5,000
Don't scale the assumption. Prove it.
Before hiring the team, rebuilding the product or rolling agents across the organization, we identify the critical assumption and build the smallest real-world proof that can validate it.
Design the first proof →Strategic intelligence
Published intelligence on markets still taking shape — issued as numbered research objects, not marketing.
01
Report
Venezuela 2030
AI, Energy & Technology Reintegration
Can a reopening energy economy turn data, AI and technology transfer into durable productive capacity?
- August 2026
- V1.0
- 12 pp.
- 26 August 2026
- 15
Issue record
02
FIELD NOTE / AI AUTHORITY
NIVQRA
Human Authority for Autonomous Systems
What happens when AI systems move from producing answers to taking actions, but the control model still stops at identity and access?
- August 2026
- IOV/FN-002 · v1.0
- 4 pp.
- 28 August 2026
Issue record
- Institutional I.O.V voice. Sourced, versioned intelligence objects built to stand for years.
- Founder-authored judgement — thesis, experience and exploratory writing, at note length.
- Short, time-sensitive observations: what happened, what changed, and the I.O.V view.
02 — Who this is for
You are building in a category that has no comparables yet, and the next decision is expensive.
Bring the decision you cannot afford to get wrong →You hold a decision worth eight figures and the internal debate has stopped converging.
Bring the debate that stopped converging →You are sizing a market that no analyst covers, and you need a thesis that survives scrutiny.
Bring the market no analyst covers →- You have AI pilots everywhere, but no operating model for putting agents into production.
- You are entering a new market and need evidence before committing local headcount.
- The product works, but distribution, partnerships or ecosystem strategy does not.
- You have a strategic thesis, but need a customer, workflow, partner or pilot to prove it.
Europe is our home market.
Built in Europe, useful globally. Most valuable to US, Asian and global technology companies entering Europe — and to European companies opening a second or third European market.
03 — Dossiers · Selected engagements, with evidence
Three decisions, filed as evidence.
Not a portfolio. Each engagement is filed with the decision it turned on, the act that followed and the first proof it produced.
LEGIBLE
Ethereum adoption in DACH before the category was obvious.
Ecosystem strategy · Enterprise adoption
CONTROL PLANE
A strategic operating system for agentic payments.
Payments strategy · Product & distribution
SCALE
Turning an ecosystem into a distribution machine.
Market expansion · Developer ecosystem
04 — Method · What you buy, how long, what you keep
Four moves. Nothing sold by the hour.
A defined market, product, operating-model or distribution decision.
A position, a product or system architecture, a partner and distribution map, and the first proof.
Scope follows the decision, not a fixed package.
- ST/01
See
Read the frontier before it has categories. Weak signals, mechanisms, who is forced to move.
- ST/02
Decide
Name the decision. Where to play, what to refuse, what would have to be true.
- ST/03
Architect
Product direction, ecosystem and partnership structure that make the bet operable.
- ST/04
Prove
Build the first proof — a shipped artifact, a live pilot, a signed partner. Evidence, not opinion.
05 — Operating now · Live builds and first proofs
Four coordinates, currently live.
AI product infrastructure, cultural intelligence, authority infrastructure and a cultural platform, run in public. Operator status is maintained by building, not by advising.
06 — Proof · The verified record
Where the work is already on the record.
Organisation, role, and one verified artifact. Where no public document exists we say so rather than imply one.
ConsenSys · DACH
Ecosystem Growth / Head of Growth
Two authored publications, filed in full.
Binance / BNB Chain
Head of Growth & Developer Relations
Zero2Hero builder funnel — bootcamp to hackathon to incubator; lead POC and keynote at ETHDenver 2023.
No public document filed
Read the dossier →Schuman Financial
Strategic work · Product, partnerships & pilot architecture
Growth & distribution executive brief, published as an I.O.V dossier document.
Chainlink Labs
Advisor to the Board
Early BUILD growth model, co-architected. Programme scale is Chainlink's own public figure, not a personal attribution.
No public document filed
Bit2Me
Managing Director · Launchpad
Regulated European platform, publicly operating.
Lemonade.social
Board Member, then Co-Founder
Shipped consumer product, publicly listed.
Network and programme figures belong to the organisations that published them. Founder accounts are marked as such inside each dossier.
14
Years of operator work
05
Interventions filed
03
Laboratories we run ourselves
02
Cities · Lisbon, Berlin
Small, senior, vendor-neutral — by design.
Engagements are scoped as interventions: a defined decision, a defined act, an artifact the company keeps. The studio scales through proprietary intelligence and reusable systems rather than headcount.
John Izaguirre — founder. Senior strategy and partnerships operator: 15+ years across global technology companies, high-growth ventures and founder-led products, applied directly.
Selected clients, partners & collaborators
Move through the network.
Field Archive
The books, films and objects behind the studio's point of view.
Dossiers hold the commercial evidence. The archive holds the intellectual source material: five books, seventeen films. Drag the shelf; open any object as a field notebook.
07 — Contact · Work with the studio
What are you trying to decide?
Tell us the decision in a paragraph. It opens as a draft in your own mail app, a straight read on whether we are the right studio — and if we are not, we say so.
Strategic Intelligence Studio
Lisbon 38.7223° N · 9.1393° WLisbon 00:00 · Studio open