What we do

We help clients investigate issues and clearly present their ideas to their audiences to influence decision-making and facilitate real-world change. We focus on areas where complex systems intersect with the lives and wellbeing of people and the environment, and offer a broad range of services including:

  • strategic advising, working with leaders and their teams to help hone or test their thinking and developing strategic approaches

  • research and writing for reports, operational policies and strategies that help decision-makers understand key issues and take action

  • editing and triage for high-stakes documents, revising or overhauling drafts to ensure the important work resonates with readers

  • narrative strategy, helping organisations develop strategic ways to think and talk about heir work, mission and impact

Our work varies from client to client and can include research and analysis, workshop facilitation, policy development, and communications. We also bring skills in coordinating multi-stakeholder teams and navigating large-scale complex projects.

We do great work, and people love to work with us.

Creative and research projects

In addition to our work with clients and partners, we produce our own creative projects and research initiatives that explore technology, culture, and the material world. In 2022 we edited a book on digital technology, maintenance, and ethics. In 2025 we started a research project about once-ubiquitous technologies. We contribute essays to a broad range of outlets on topics from responsible AI to plywood to Silicon Valley fashion.

More about the creative side of the house can be found here.

Areas of expertise and focus

Over the past decade, we have built significant knowledge in a set of interconnected domains spanning digital technology, infrastructure, and climate change. In each of these areas we have learned from our clients, peers, and the available body of research and knowledge. We bring this accumulated expertise to bear on any new project. Across all our work, we strive to ensure decisions are made to increase equity, protect Indigenous rights and community self-determination, and support positive environmental outcomes.

We also love to embark on projects in areas that are new to us, as long as they are aligned with our values. We are curious and quick to get up to speed, and our ability to work effectively in multi-stakeholder teams and complex operating environments is just as important as our domain expertise.

Digital technology systems and data

We are living in an era of fast-moving technological advancement and equally fast-moving rhetoric, where complex information and AI systems are driving the way public institutions and private companies deliver services, make recommendations to customers, and target interventions. Many of these processes are opaque and invisible to the communities they affect. We believe that digital systems can be designed and built in a way that meets people’s diverse needs and uses resources responsibly, but this requires political will, deliberate choices and participatory processes. We have worked extensively with governments, industry leaders, and nonprofits to examine the ways that digital processes affect people’s lives, help people working with technology to explain their work, and write policies and strategies to support better outcomes.

Archives, information, and digital preservation

So much of our current economic and social world — from big tech to community clinics — relies on information and data, and with it the conceptual and practical groundwork laid by librarians, archivists, preservationists, and other knowledge stewards. In the GLAM sector and beyond, the challenges of how to protect and store masses of digital and physical material are becoming more and more complex, and an evolving technological context raises questions about who can access, use, and profit from public knowledge and community assets. Antistatic has a long history of working with groups in the information space during pivotal and transformational moments. As educated outsiders, we have the domain knowledge and facilitation expertise to support organizations as they design strategy to supports innovation, protect rights, and serve users.

Physical, digital and community infrastructure

We rely on the built environment, including buildings and physical infrastructure networks, to support our daily lives and wellbeing. How things are built, whether they are maintained and cared for, and whose needs are considered in their design all matter when it comes to ensuring people have equal access to infrastructure and services. Governments and industry groups are tasked with ensuring everyone is served by vital infrastructure now and for generations to come, but the problems are complex and resources are often spread thin. Antistatic works with industry, civil society, and governmental groups to help think through the challenges of building and maintaining an equitable built world, and collaborates with people and groups to develop robust community infrastructure so they can survive and flourish even when big systems fail them. 

Climate change adaptation and environmental protection

From climate change to declining biodiversity to communities dealing with ongoing environmental harms, we are facing a series of interlinking ecological crises that require urgent action. The decisions that public and private entities make — including about digital technology, information storage and use, and the built environment — have significant impacts on whether these complex crises will be addressed or exacerbated. Supporting positive environmental outcomes is a critical lens that Antistatic brings to its work across a range of domains. We work with environmental experts and policymakers alike to help them shape and share their work in a way that resonates with different audiences, execute multi-stakeholder inquiries into climate issues and strategies for mitigation, and support communication and narrative strategy that helps move the needle.