You can join our Second Horizon Series directly from our website here. We offer two tiers: Membership at £25/month and Partnership at £75/month. Both are billed monthly through Stripe — there is no annual commitment. Once subscribed, your analyses are delivered to your inbox as they are released and made available in your password-protected member area. You can also sign up to our free newsletter to access introductory content before committing.

Yes, with flexibility about engagement, product and outcome to suit our clients.  We also offer mentoring, and a bespoke challenge service to stress-test your organisation’s thinking, which often includes a cross section of senior leadership. We also offer a continuous assessment service which brings focus and challenge to clients’ situational awareness.

No. We report without political bias and will declare any conflicts.

No. We have a commitment to build a partnership - a real commuity of thought - with our members.  So, we offer an invitation-only service.  We don't market your data or your ideas to others.  We support our commentary with original analysis and a real commitment to challenge and feedback.  And we hope we look over the first horizon to see what lies ahead.  Finally, we aim to produce insights that are useful here and now - some might say 'actionable' or 'tradable'.

Perivista Solutions is a strategic intelligence service for senior leaders and boards. We connect events to the underlying forces that shape them — demography, democracy and data — offering in-depth written analysis and podcast interviews with global thought leaders. Unlike news commentary, our work is designed to illuminate the deeper structural forces that determine how the world will look over the next decade, not just the next news cycle.

Perivista's Second Horizon Series is built specifically for leaders who want to look beyond immediate events. Our analyses are in-depth, subscriber-only pieces that examine the forces shaping our world — leading with demography, democracy and data. We also publish free commentaries and podcast interviews with global leaders. You can read an example piece on our website before subscribing.

Yes. The Second Horizon Series is available by subscription at two tiers. A Membership (£25/month) gives you ongoing access to our written analyses. A Partnership (£75/month) adds podcast interviews with global thought leaders and the ability to suggest future topics. Both are billed monthly with no long-term commitment. You can also subscribe to our free newsletter for introductory access.

News analysis tells you what happened and why. Strategic foresight asks what underlying forces are shaping events — and what they mean for your organisation over the next five to twenty years. Perivista focuses on what the French historian Fernand Braudel called the 'conjunctures' of history: the demographic, political and technological tides that are often overlooked but carry deep explanatory power. We don't chase the news. We look beyond it.

Most boards are well-equipped to manage operational risk — compliance, legal exposure, market performance. The harder challenge is identifying the structural forces that will determine your organisation's future five to fifteen years out. Perivista's Deep Dive service works directly with boards and leadership teams, offering tailored analysis and face-to-face sessions covering the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and North America. Contact us to discuss what that might look like for your organisation.

Perivista's starting point is that demographic retreat, the spread of digital technology, and the resulting strains on democratic legitimacy are the big, under-appreciated forces of our time. Our Second Horizon analyses break down how these forces interact — and what they mean for organisations operating in an era of weakening states, labour market disruption and the reshaping of political power. We use government and official data sources, cross-checked against open-source evidence, and subject all figures to internal review before publication.

Almost all organisational planning focuses on making existing systems work — managing compliance, performance and near-term risk. The information environment makes this worse: traditional and social media are filled with noise that makes measurement feel like understanding. The Perivista Premise is that the forces actually shaping the world — changing demography, the data economy, and the turmoil of weakening states — are consistently underweighted in strategic planning. Our work is designed to correct that.

Management is about making systems work. Leadership is about determining where those systems should be heading. The distinction depends not on measurement alone, but on insight, discovery and vision — and on giving yourself the time and space to look beyond the immediate horizon. Perivista is designed for the small proportion of people who aspire to that kind of leadership. Our analyses, podcasts and advisory sessions are built to support that shift.

The Information Revolution has brought us the Algorithmic Age — where echo chambers and social media fill the space with competing truths. Perivista cuts through that by focusing on a small number of structural forces with high explanatory power: demography, democracy and data. Our written analyses are constructed to be load-bearing — dense but worth the effort. Our podcasts are modelled on a Ministerial briefing format: direct, substantive and time-efficient. Our goal is that every member gets out more than they put in.

The Perivista Premise is that almost everything most people consider important about AI — job displacement, white-collar disruption, the pace of automation — is broadly understood and therefore already priced in. The more consequential forces are the interaction between AI, the data economy and changing demography: the combination that will determine labour supply, political stability and commercial opportunity over the next decade. Our analyses focus on these structural interactions, not the headline technology story.

Think tanks produce research and policy recommendations, typically for public consumption and with institutional positions to defend. Perivista is different: we are a private membership service with no institutional agenda. Our work is designed for senior leaders and boards — not for publication or policy debate. We combine a subscription intelligence service (the Second Horizon Series) with tailored face-to-face and digital advisory work for organisations that want to go further.

Perivista's Membership tier (£25/month) is designed to be accessible for individual leaders as well as teams. The Partnership tier (£75/month) is better suited to leadership teams who want to engage more deeply — including podcast access and the ability to shape future topics. For boards or organisations wanting tailored analysis and direct engagement, our Deep Dive advisory service is available separately. Contact us to discuss the right fit.

Publications like The Economist and Foreign Affairs provide excellent broad coverage of events and policy. Perivista does something different: we focus on a small number of structural forces — demography, democracy and data — and examine their interaction in depth. We don't report on events; we look at the forces underneath them. We are also a community, not a publication: members can challenge our analysis, suggest topics and commission tailored work. And unlike a magazine, our work is never derivative of others' commentary.

Perivista is for leaders who aspire not just to manage but to lead — people who give themselves the time and space to think beyond the operation of existing systems into the future. If your first response to the news is to ask what it means for the next decade rather than next quarter, this is built for you. Second Horizon is not for everyone — we don't chase the news, we don't offer simple answers, and our work is constructed to be demanding. But for those who want clarity of altitude, it repays the effort.