Foresight
How Foresight works

A stakeholder map you can look at is worth a little. One you can ask questions of is worth everything.

Foresight imports your existing stakeholder map once, turns it into a living data model, and uses that single source of truth to power brand, engagement and measurement, all pointed at the one outcome that matters: getting more people active.

How it works

Import once. The map becomes a model.

Most places already hold a stakeholder map in a tool like Kumu. It is a drawing: useful to look at, impossible to compute on. Foresight takes that same export and does two things with it.

Layer one

A lossless graph

Every node and connection is preserved, deduplicated and cleaned. This is a neutral interchange layer. Your data comes in from Kumu and can go back out to anything. It lives in your platform now, not a subscription.

Layer two

A working model

The graph is projected into stakeholders, relationships, wards and cohorts, with influence, interest and capacity derived from the network structure. Every module in Foresight reads from this one model and writes its changes back to it.

Why it is better than the current option

Kumu draws the map. Foresight runs the place.

Dimension
Kumu (today)
Foresight
What it is
A drawing you pay monthly to look at.
A queryable data model every tool reads from and writes back to.
Influence / priority
Rated by hand by an analyst, or left blank.
Derived automatically from network centrality.
Engagement tracking
Lives in a separate CRM or spreadsheet.
Each node carries a status that changes as you engage.
Measurement
A different tool again, disconnected from the map.
KPIs are deltas on the same graph, over time.
Data ownership
Locked in a subscription. Stop paying, lose the view.
Yours. Imported once, exportable to any format.
Cost
Kumu + CRM + measurement tool + analyst time.
One workspace. One subscription. No analyst rating.
How you leverage the data

One import, six steps, one outcome.

The import is the foundation. Everything else is what you build on top. Each step reads the graph and writes a change back to it, so the work compounds instead of scattering across tools.

1

Import

Any Kumu export becomes a clean, deduplicated graph inside Foresight. For Barking & Dagenham that is 94 organisations and 1,355 connections, who reaches whom, in which ward, for which cohort.

2

Insight

The system computes what the map cannot show you on its own: cohort coverage gaps, cold wards, the brokers whose single relationship unlocks the most reach, and a prioritised outreach queue of high-influence organisations with no engagement on record.

3

Brand awareness

The graph tells you whose voice actually carries. Route campaigns through high-reach community brokers, not only council channels, and aim the message at the cohorts the coverage analysis shows are under-served.

4

Engagement

The graph is a CRM with a built-in priority order. Every meeting or returned survey flips a node from no engagement, to prior, to engaged. Engagement stops being activity you report and becomes a change you can see.

5

Measurement

Because every node holds a cohort, a ward, a status and a derived influence, your KPIs are network metrics: coverage rising, cold wards warming, statuses climbing, new relationships forming. Read the graph at two points in time and the movement is the proof.

6

Reduced inactivity

Join ward coverage to the ward inactivity rate and the theory of change becomes literal: this cold ward, activated through that broker, reaching that cohort, moved this number. Measurement then re-prioritises the graph, and the loop closes.

What the data already shows

Insight, computed from the live Barking & Dagenham map.

None of this was typed in by hand. It is calculated from the structure of the imported graph, the kind of insight you would otherwise pay an analyst weeks to assemble.

Cohort coverage is skewed

Organisations reaching each priority cohort. The imbalance is the inactivity problem stated as a fact: the easy cohort is over-served, the hardest to reach are not.

Children & young people61
Disabled / long-term conditions29
Ethnically diverse communities23
Working-age adults22
Women & girls20
Older adults19
Economically inactive / unemployed13
Low-income households7
Migrant communities6

The brokers

Ranked by betweenness centrality. The organisations bridging the most paths across the network. Lose one and the place fragments. Your highest-leverage partners.

BD Collectivebetweenness 100 · the structural hub
Barking Sport for Changebetweenness 85
Essex FAbetweenness 80
Future Molds Communitiesbetweenness 70
Elevate Together CICbetweenness 47

Cold wards & the outreach queue

Alibon, Whalebone and Gascoigne are the thinnest-covered wards, so that is where to put activity. And 44 of 94 organisations have no engagement on record, some of them high-reach. That intersection is an automatically-prioritised call sheet.

Why it is a platform, not a tool

Centralised, cheaper, and it works for any place.

One workspace replaces four. Kumu for the map, a CRM for engagement, a spreadsheet for measurement and an analyst to rate influence by hand. Foresight does all four from the same graph.

The data is yours. Imported once, owned outright, exportable to any format. No more renting a view of your own place.

It travels.The importer reads any Active Partnership's export, not just Barking & Dagenham. Map one place, and the same engine serves the next, and the next.

See your place as a model, not a drawing.

Figures on this page are computed from the live Barking & Dagenham import (94 organisations, 1,355 connections). A practice from Movement Systems, built by Goodthing · Privacy & data