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Exponential Insights

Interactive presentations exploring the exponential trends shaping our future. Dive deep into the forces transforming industries, economies, and society.

Featured Series · NZ Energy Transition

Aotearoa's Energy Transition

Two linked documents making the strategic and policy case for NZ's energy future.

Part 1 · Vision

Energy Prosperity: A 2030 Vision

Why the $8,739 household energy bill can fall by a third to two-thirds by 2030 — on technology that already exists. 33 pages.

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Part 2 · Policy

Electricity Policy Kick-start

The near-term legislative and regulatory levers that unlock NZ's energy transition. Six moves, one parliamentary term.

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Featured Playbook

The AI Takeoff Playbook

A detailed phase-by-phase playbook for leaders navigating AI transformation, with a 5-question diagnostic to identify your starting moves.

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Insight · 01

AI Diffusion: Lessons From The Frontier

What can we learn from the organisations leading the AI charge? This presentation distils key lessons from frontier AI adopters to help your organisation navigate the AI diffusion curve.

Key takeaways

Frontier AI adopters move faster because they treat AI as a strategic capability, not a tool experiment.
Successful diffusion combines a clear executive mandate, dedicated technical talent, and continuous knowledge capture.
The gap between organisations that scale AI and those that stall is widening — and it compounds quarter over quarter.

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Insight · 02

The Four Battles

NZ's energy transition isn't one battle. It's four — running from how we generate electricity, through how we use it for motion and heat, to what we do with the molecules that remain.

Key takeaways

Every nation faces four simultaneous battles in the energy transition: electron supply; useful work; useful heat; molecule supply.
It is now commercially and technically better to supply electrons using solar and wind generation; policies that encourage massive investment in generation supports the other areas.
NZ can now replace the 10.5 million fossil fuel machines that produce useful work and useful heat as they reach end of life for about the same price as a new fossil fuel machine. The operating cost savings make the business case easy.

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Insight · 03

Time For Optimism - Cheap Abundant Energy Is Coming

Exploring the transformative potential of emerging energy technologies and their exponential impact on global economies and societies.

Key takeaways

Solar, batteries, and small modular reactors are riding cost-decline curves that mirror Moore's Law.
Cheap, abundant, clean energy is the substrate for the next wave of compute, manufacturing, and economic expansion.
Leaders who plan around energy abundance — rather than scarcity — will unlock entirely new business models.

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Insight · 04

Grow or Die - Updated

An updated perspective on organizational growth imperatives in the exponential age, examining why adaptation and exponential thinking are critical for survival.

Key takeaways

AI capability curves are bending faster than any prior technology cycle — including ARC-AGI benchmarks recently solved by frontier models.
Linear thinking, annual planning cycles, and committee governance are mismatched to exponential change.
Organisations that don't actively pursue 10x growth will be displaced by ones that do.

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