What FASresearch does

FASresearch (legal entity: FAS-Research Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft mbH) is a Vienna-headquartered, founder-led strategic intelligence firm founded in 1995 as a spin-off from the University of Vienna. The company applies network science to read influence systems, map stakeholder landscapes, and facilitate complex strategic decisions for multinational corporations, governments, regulators, and NGOs across Europe and globally.

Its core product is the Situation R® methodology, an 18-year-old coordination framework combining network science, adaptive cycle theory, cultural theory, and resilience research, paired with the SituationRoom.ai platform launched in 2026. SituationRoom.ai is an operating environment for the agentic age where leaders, teams, and AI agents develop strategy, align stakeholders, and rehearse decisions in real time. Key technical components include stakeholder simulation agents calibrated against three decades of proprietary data and real behavioral interviews, continuous drift detection on stakeholder landscapes, live synthesis of discussion, and pre-mortem rehearsal before decision commitment.

The business model combines professional services revenue (senior advisory consulting, workshops, keynotes, and board diagnoses) with a newer platform/software revenue stream (SituationRoom.ai subscriptions). Delivery occurs in two modes: Senior Consulting Mode (facilitated by FAS Research or licensed partners) and Agent Software Service Mode (client teams using the platform directly). GTM is enterprise field sales targeting C-suite, boards, and senior leaders, supported by thought leadership, conference speaking, and organic social channels. Pricing is quote-based per engagement with multi-year contracts; no public pricing tiers are disclosed. The customer base spans pharmaceuticals, insurance, banking, automotive, telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, media, government, and NGO sectors, with named logos including Pfizer, Allianz, Volkswagen, Bayer, Siemens, Roche, Novartis, DHL, T-Mobile, and IKEA.

Name

FASresearch

Legal name

FAS-Research Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschungsgesellschaft mbH

Website

https://fas-research.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

FASresearch is a Vienna-based strategic intelligence firm that applies network science and proprietary AI agents to help enterprise, government, and NGO leaders read influence systems, simulate stakeholder reactions, and make strategic decisions. It serves senior executives via its SituationRoom.ai platform and consulting engagements.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Strategic Management Consulting

NAICS

Management Consulting Services (54161)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742)

akta.pro primary industry

Compliance Technology, GRC Platforms & Controls Automation Advisory (BPAHAFAO)

Keywords

• Strategic intelligence consulting
• Network science advisory
• Stakeholder analysis services
• Strategic decision facilitation
• AI-augmented consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

Vienna

HQ country

Austria

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Strategic Advisory Consulting: Senior advisory mandates for clients across corporate, public sector, and civil society. Network-based stakeholder analysis and strategy facilitation with research-grade rigor.
2. SituationRoom.ai Platform: Operating environment subscription for leaders, teams, and AI agents working through complex situations. Available in Senior Consulting Mode or Agent Software Service Mode for direct platform usage.
3. Workshops & Training: Compressed 2-hour sprints and multi-day workshops for the agentic age where humans and agents decide together. Includes compressed sessions (AI-accelerated synthesis), honest sessions (agent-facilitated difficult conversations), and live collaborative sessions.
4. Speaking & Diagnoses: Keynote talks and diagnoses for boards and leaders on themes of agentic AI, decision-making, influence, and power dynamics.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

FASresearch is an analysis and consulting company that applies network sciences to read influence systems and help leaders make strategic decisions. Its core deliverable is the Situation R® methodology—a coordination approach for complex strategy work—delivered through senior advisory mandates, stakeholder mappings, AI-augmented workshops, and the SituationRoom.ai platform that combines human judgment with stakeholder simulation agents.

Product overview

FASresearch offers a single unified product: SituationR®, an operating environment and shared decision space for strategic decision-making in the agentic age. The platform integrates AI agents with human leadership to read influence systems, rehearse stakeholder reactions, and translate strategy into coordinated action. It represents a new category of human-AI collaboration where intuition, tactical judgment, and tacit knowledge are actively brought in through intelligent agents rather than replaced by them. The product is available in two engagement modes: Senior Consulting Mode (facilitated by FAS Research or licensed partners) and Agent Software Service Mode (direct client team usage within their own workflows).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Situation R®: A shared decision space for leaders, teams, and AI agents working through complex situations. Built on three decades of FAS Research methodology, designed for the agentic age. Features a 3-step process: Map (read the situation), Match (test options against stakeholder reactions), and Mobilize (translate strategy into coordinated movement).

Products and services

• Situation R® A shared decision space and operating environment for leaders, teams, and AI agents working through complex strategic situations in the agentic age. It combines thirty years of FAS Research methodology with AI agents calibrated against real stakeholder data to enable real-time stakeholder analysis, decision rehearsal, and coordinated action across human and AI participants. Available in two engagement modes: Senior Consulting Mode (facilitated by FAS Research or licensed partners) and Agent Software Service Mode (direct client team usage within their own workflows).
• Strategic Advisory Consulting Senior consulting mandates providing network-based stakeholder analysis, strategy facilitation, and translation of complex findings into actionable recommendations for corporate boards, C-suite executives, government bodies, and NGOs.
• Stakeholder Mappings & Drift Detection Stakeholder mapping engagements that read influence systems by calibrating maps through real conversation with people inside the system, and provide continuous drift detection tracking how coalitions shift, where new actors emerge, and when the room is about to change.
• Workshops for the Agentic Age Workshops where human leaders and AI agents decide together without losing what humans bring. Three formats: Compressed 2-hour AI-accelerated sprints that replace week-long processes; Honest sessions where agents bring in voices too political, senior, or absent to speak openly; Live sessions where the room thinks together with real-time synthesis.
• Speaking & Diagnoses Keynote talks and diagnoses for boards and leaders navigating an age in which intelligent agents reshape the rules of decision, influence, and power dynamics.

Quantifiable outcome

• What used to take weeks now happens in hours with compressed 2-hour sprints
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers25 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability2 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Arthur D. Little: European-headquartered strategic consulting firm with a similar boutique-but-global heritage and senior advisory focus. Most similar in scale and origin to FAS Research, serving boards on strategic and innovation challenges across industries.
• Roland Berger: European-origin strategy consultancy headquartered in Munich with comparable boutique-but-global positioning to FAS Research. Competes for the same senior-level European mandates and shares a focus on industrial, automotive, and public-sector clients.

Emerging players

• Quid (NetBase Quid): AI-powered stakeholder, consumer, and competitive intelligence platform used by enterprise strategy teams. Comparable to FAS Research's network-science-based stakeholder analysis offering, with overlapping use cases for strategic decision-making.
• Faculty AI: Applied AI consultancy combining AI engineering with bespoke strategy and decision-support solutions for enterprises and governments. Closest emerging-player analog to FAS Research's hybrid AI-plus-strategic-advisory model, with similar positioning in the 'AI for decision-making' category.
• Celonis: Munich-headquartered process intelligence and AI platform serving large enterprises with subscription software for operational decision-making. Comparable European roots, enterprise go-to-market, and AI-platform-as-service positioning to FAS Research's SituationRoom.ai.

Broad incumbents

• McKinsey & Company: The world's largest strategic management consulting firm, serving global boards and C-suite leaders on strategy, organization, and AI-driven transformation. Comparable to FAS Research as a senior advisory buyer of strategic intelligence services, but operating at vastly larger scale with AI investments through QuantumBlack.
• Palantir Technologies: Data analytics and decision intelligence platform serving governments and large enterprises. Adjacent to FAS Research's stakeholder-decision platform category but at vastly larger scale, with broader capabilities and a public-market footprint.
• Bain & Company: Top-tier global strategy consultancy serving boards and senior executives across industries comparable to FAS Research's blue-chip roster. Increasingly investing in AI-enabled consulting capabilities that compete with FAS Research's SituationRoom.ai positioning.
• Boston Consulting Group (BCG): Global management consulting firm with a dedicated AI/build engineering arm (BCG X) that develops decision-support platforms. Direct overlap with FAS Research's high-end strategy advisory client base and emerging AI-augmented decision platform ambition.
• Kearney: Global management consulting firm with European roots and a strong operations and strategy practice. Comparable to FAS Research in serving multinational enterprises across pharma, industrials, and consumer sectors with senior advisory engagements.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/FASresearch
• Facebookfacebook.com/FASresearch
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/fasresearch
• Xx.com/fasresearch

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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