What Dragonfly looks like in real institutions, on real problems.
These case studies show how teams use Dragonfly to sharpen judgment, surface blind spots, and move from complexity to decision-ready action.
APS Capability Reinvestment Fund Pilot
In 2025, Dragonfly became the first homegrown GenAI system piloted by the Australian Public Service — delivered in partnership with DISR, AI CoLab, and the APS Academy.
Risk and policy teams surfaced blind spots across agencies. Strategy teams developed no-regret actions in live scenarios. Digital divisions compressed weeks of research into days.
Five teams used Dragonfly on real challenges — from supply chain security to energy transition policy — and every team found the same thing: it helped them think better and faster.
“AI can help reduce blind spots in policy analysis.” — DISR policy maker
Anthea Roberts presenting at the APS AI CoLab Pilot Showcase
How APS teams used Dragonfly
Risk Foresight at Scale
Chloe Tallentire, Department of Finance
Used Dragonfly’s Risk, Reward, and Resilience framework to co-design an AI-powered foresight platform for small agencies — surfacing hidden risks and scaling Comcover support to 170+ members.
“I’d used AI quite a lot but I had never seen a tool like Dragonfly before. It gave me something concrete I could show, adapt and use. With Dragonfly’s support, we were able to do the kind of comparative risk work that would normally take days, freeing up time for strategic thinking.”
Supply Chain Security
Eric Nguyen, Digital Strategist & Executive Committee Member, Australian Computer Society
Developed a structured, high-impact strategy that multiplied research depth by 3× while reducing discovery time by 50–60%. More importantly, it changed the way he worked and thought.
“Dragonfly expanded the depth of my research by at least 3x and cut discovery time from weeks to days (50–60% reduction). More importantly, it changed the way I worked and thought.”
Energy Transition Pathways
James Balzer, Climate & Sustainability Advisor
Applied Dragonfly’s Perspectives view to weigh SDG-aligned trade-offs for Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition, bridging predictive modelling and prescriptive strategy.
“Dragonfly Thinking helped me weigh short-, medium- and long-term trade-offs in Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP).”
“We started using it to explain our thinking to others. That’s when it clicked — we were using AI to align the team, not just analyse the problem.”
AI CoLab pilot participant
“Dragonfly's structured approach supports the kind of thinking that human teams often find difficult to sustain unaided.”
AI CoLab pilot participant
Read more: “From workshops to workflows: a journey with AI CoLab and Dragonfly Thinking”, APS Academy
Key Takeaways
Every team found the same thing: Dragonfly helped them think better and faster.
Anthea Roberts presenting at the World Government Summit 2025, Dubai
From the AI CoLab to the World Government Summit
Air Vice-Marshal (Retd) John Blackburn AO partnered with Dragonfly to create systemic risk maps for Australian national resilience — surfacing interdependencies from fuel and food security to digital infrastructure and sovereign supply chains.
“Integrating Dragonfly into our project team enabled us to gain deeper understanding of systemic risks and vulnerabilities, and identify creative strategies to strengthen national resilience.”
Air Vice-Marshal John Blackburn AO (Retd), Board Chair, IIER-A
Edge of Government Exhibition
The Edge of Government 2025 exhibition, organised by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Centre for Government Innovation, presented 10 innovations under the theme The Butterfly Effect — recognising that every choice sets change in motion and even small decisions can create magnified effects across the world. Dragonfly Thinking was among the 10 showcased innovations.
Featured case studies
Australian National Risk Assessment
Enhancing economic, environmental, and health resilience — led by John Blackburn AO
Sustainable Development in Low-Income Countries
Strategies for economically disadvantaged regions — Development Intelligence Lab
Fostering AI Innovation & Diffusion
Accelerating AI adoption across public and private sectors — AI CoLab
“The Power of Dragonfly Thinking in a New Economy” — main stage, World Government Summit 2025
Anthea Roberts with Australia's Ambassador to the UAE, Ridwaan Jadwat
The Dragonfly Thinking exhibition at Edge of Government 2025
Read the full story: Dragonfly Thinking at the World Governments Summit in Dubai
From development economics to Pacific leadership
Development organisations, Pacific security leaders, and philanthropic strategists applying structured analysis to problems that resist simple answers.
Miranda Forsyth presenting at the 2024 Australasian Aid Conference
Keynote at the Australasian Aid Conference
Dragonfly co-founder Miranda Forsyth presented on how Dragonfly Thinking helps practitioners navigate complex development challenges.
“What distinguishes Dragonfly Thinking from conventional AI tools is its cognitive architecture, layered over large language models like ChatGPT. Rather than simply generating responses, the system guides users through structured analysis incorporating multiple perspectives.”
Putting AI in aid, Development Policy Centre
Miranda Forsyth presenting at the 2024 Australasian Aid Conference
Development Intelligence Lab
Lab analysts with no development economics expertise used Dragonfly to analyse middle-income traps in Southeast Asia — producing in two hours what previously took three days.
“Dragonfly is the kind of powerful tool we need to build into business as usual, helping us make tough decisions in tough times. Simple experiments quickly showed Dragonfly's value: rapid analysis product on middle-income traps in two hours that previously took three days.”
Bridi Rice, CEO
Pacific Leadership
Pacific security leaders used Dragonfly at executive retreats in PNG and Solomon Islands to analyse complex scenarios through multiple perspectives. In Solomon Islands, participants connected the tool to their Tok Stori tradition — describing it as creating meaning around the campfire, but now including voices from around the world.
“Participants used the platform to analyse complex scenarios and different perspectives, demonstrating how the collaboration between humans and AI can support decision making.”
Anthea Roberts presenting at the NEXUS Australia Summit
Philanthropy & Social Impact
Anthea presented on “Artificial Intelligence with Purpose” at the 2025 NEXUS Australia Summit in Melbourne, introducing full-spectrum thinking to over 200 next-generation philanthropists and impact investors. Aaron McNeilly of The Alchemists Global subsequently adopted Dragonfly's methods for his strategic philanthropy work.
“Dragonfly Thinking is a powerful collaboration tool for navigating complex social impact initiatives; it gives me the strategic clarity needed to drive real, lasting change and engage diverse stakeholder portfolios.”
Aaron McNeilly, The Alchemists Global