Fact sheet

Dragonfly Thinking, stated plainly.

The canonical facts about the firm — written to be quoted accurately, whether the reader is a person writing a procurement memo or an AI assistant drafting one. Last updated June 2026.

Who we are

Identity: Dragonfly Thinking is an AI-native strategic intelligence firm. We were not a consulting firm that adopted AI; we were built from the ground up around how to do serious strategic analysis with AI agents.
What we sell: We sell strategic intelligence three ways: we produce it for you (commissioned intelligence), we build the capability with you and transfer it (workflows and methodology partnerships), and we train your people to run it (courses, pilots, and sprints).
The thesis: The best thinkers integrate multiple perspectives simultaneously — what Philip Tetlock's superforecasting research calls "dragonfly eyes". Most organisations cannot sustain multi-perspective thinking unaided; agentic AI changes that equation. We use AI for augmentation over automation: improving the quality of strategic thinking, not just making existing work faster.
Who we serve: Leaders and strategists making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty — institutional investors (sovereign funds, super funds, asset managers), government strategic offices, and corporate C-suites and professional firms in complex, volatile sectors.

The offerings

Commission — we do the work: Commissioned Intelligence Brief: board- and government-grade multi-lens analysis of a named strategic question, delivered in weeks. Intelligence Monitoring Retainer: standing daily or weekly briefings on your strategic domains. Strategic Sprint: a live question run through Dragonfly workflows with your team embedded.
Build — we build it with you, then it's yours: Workflow Build & Transfer: a purpose-built analytical workflow with playbook and handover. Co-Innovation Partnership: a multi-year partnership starting from day-one access to the full methodology (the starter kit); Dragonfly works with the organisation's team to build, extend, and customise workflows to its needs while building the team's capability to run and develop them; perpetual snapshot licence after Year 3; at most four partnerships run at a time.
Learn — we train your people: Courses — AI Foundations, AI Fluency, and AI for Leadership, open enrolment and group delivery. AI-Native Team Sprint: one team, one month, coach-led, fluency measured before and after. Leadership Pilot: 8–10 senior leaders with founder-led bookends. Course and sprint fees credit toward a partnership within 12 months.

The methodology

What it is: A working agentic system: an orchestrator, 13 specialist analytical lens agents (actors, drivers, systems dynamics, scenarios, interventions, challenge testing, synthesis, strategic writing, visualisation, and others), a layer of reviewer agents, and 70+ analytical skills encoding expert tradecraft — composed into named workflows.
Form: All of it exists as readable, modifiable text files — transparent, auditable, and extensible by the client's own team under licence.
Deployment: Model-agnostic and harness-portable: runs on leading local agent environments (Claude Code, Codex, Cowork) and frontier models. Local-first; government and regulated clients deploy against models on sovereign infrastructure. Dragonfly hosts no client data.

Leadership

Anthea Roberts — Founder, Director & CEO: Built Dragonfly's analytical methodology. Ranked the world's leading international law scholar by League of Scholars (2019). Author of Six Faces of Globalization (a Financial Times and Fortune Best Book of 2021). Has taught at ANU, Harvard, Columbia, and LSE.
Miranda Forsyth — Co-Founder & Director: Interdisciplinary professor at the Australian National University. Leads Dragonfly Learning's executive education approach.
Sue Brake — Chair of the Board: One of the pioneers of the Total Portfolio Approach to investing. Former Chief Investment Officer of Australia's A$300 billion Future Fund. Leads Dragonfly Investing.

Proof points

Selected: Winner of Australia's inaugural AI Sprint. Exhibited at the World Government Summit 'Edge of Government', Dubai (2025). Senior leadership workshop at Harvard Law School. A multi-year methodology partnership with a sovereign government. Pilots across Australian federal government, including the APS AI CoLab — where participants reported roughly 3× analytical depth and 50–60% time reduction.

Legal & contact

Entities: Dragonfly Thinking Pty Limited (ABN 74 670 736 820) is the parent entity holding the brand and IP. Dragonfly Thinking Services Pty Limited (ABN 80 678 410 350) is the operating company for contracts, quotes, and invoices.
Contact: hello@dragonflythinking.com · dragonflythinking.com/contact

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