Privy Consul combines a multidisciplinary social science approach with market research, polling, and intelligence community best practices. Our team of dedicated professionals carry years of on-the-ground experience across a diverse range of cultures and environments. Using ethical and methodologically sound field research techniques, we provide a clear, actionable, and cost-effective understanding of community and individual attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, identities, needs, and wants.
By embedding our anthropological expertise within tactical and operational units, we integrate socio-cultural understanding directly into the tactical decision-making process — allowing organisations to more effectively promote stability, enhance operational effectiveness, and restore infrastructure, whilst preserving and sharing critical socio-cultural institutional knowledge.
Research Capabilities
Methodologically Sound. Operationally Focused.
- Effective, disciplined, and operationally focused in-country research management
- Multidisciplinary social science techniques across quantitative and qualitative methods
- Extensive face-to-face data collection using demographically matched indigenous field research teams
- Accurate baseline assessments of the human terrain in any area of operation
- Objective, population-anchored assessments of current and future plans
- Prediction and modelling of population reactions to likely courses of action
- Determination of reliable and culturally appropriate metrics to measure progress
- Impartial measurement of effectiveness of actions, operations, and programmes
- Geospatial visualisation of all collected and multilayered data
- Vetted, trained, and well-managed indigenous moderators and interviewers
- Accurate audio/visual recording with timely transcription and translation
- Expert analysis of findings delivered in actionable intelligence format
Pattern Analysis & Cultural Operational Knowledge
We bridge field operatives and staff cultural knowledge gaps by providing cultural interpretations of events occurring within their area of operations — tribal dynamics, local cultural power structures, and the socio-political forces that shape behavior on the ground. We assist teams to create a Common Operating Picture in relation to the Human Terrain, using pattern analysis to detect underlying cultural assumptions and prevent the misapplication of force.
The nature of our work requires an extraordinary understanding of the culture and people of the nations in which we operate. That includes operating in a manner that complies with the host country's legal system and demonstrates sensitivity to the local business and social infrastructure.
