Live · Situation Room

Cost frame gaining against benefit frame · 70% likely to overtake in 30 days

Demonstration scenario

The environment moves.Your strategy should too.

Campaign intelligence + strategic communications

We read what is happening around your campaign, issue or reputation, then build the strategy to move it: who needs to shift, what the evidence says, and what you do if the situation changes.

35+MP + Senator meetings in two days
8coalition partners, one ask
25wards modelled live
6ways to start
01 / 03
Worked withThe Enchanté NetworkPride at Work CanadaBlack Queer CanadaILGA-NACIIBD
The premise

A campaign is not a pile of content. It is an intervention in a changing environment. So before we decide what to say, we name what has to move: a vote, an approval, a shift in opinion. Then we read who holds influence, which narratives compete, and what could make the plan obsolete. Only then do we write a word.

Built on the Decision Line, our method for consequential communications.See how →
Films

Make your next move impossible to ignore.

Every engagement runs on three moves. The film shows them in thirty seconds.

  1. 01

    Insight

    Find the signal.
  2. 02

    Creative

    Shape the story.
  3. 03

    Influence

    Move the conversation.
Film · 30sMake Some Noise
What we work on

Four kinds of situation.

One way of working: read the environment before you decide what to say.

01Campaigns + advocacy

One ask.
Every door.

Campaigns built around the movement required, not the content to be produced. Coalitions, legislative days, public pressure and the creative that carries them.

35+MP and Senator meetings for an eight-organization coalition in two days
Advocates walking into a parliament buildingHill Days · 2025
02Crisis + issues

Know the first 24 hours before they start.

Scenarios, triggers and decision protocols, rehearsed before the situation is real, and a steady hand on the line when it is.

24 hthe window our baseline crisis plan is built to cover
A communications lead on the phone late at night
03Reputation + public affairs

Be ready for the room you walk into.

Executive positioning, testimony, speechwriting and stakeholder strategy for leaders whose words carry institutional weight.

Senate committee testimony · speechwriting · coalition letters to ministers
A press briefing seen from the back of the room
04Intelligence + foresight

See it coming. Decide earlier.

Horizon scanning, scenarios and live dashboards that turn noise into a shared operating picture and a clear next decision.

2live dashboards this election season, with more in build
Analysts marking up maps and charts
Artefact91 Situation Room

Know what is happening.
Know what might happen.

For complex campaigns we run a live operating picture: signals, scenario odds and stakeholder movement on one wall, with a decision attached to each.

Live · Signal map0 signals
Media monitorCH 02
NOWOpposition op-ed syndicated in three regional outlets
Narrative share · 14 daysCost vs benefit
52%Cost frame share of coverage
IncomingAuto-tagged
Next 30 daysLikelihood
Cost frame overtakes benefit frame70%
Opposition coalition formalises55%
Vote delayed a second time35%

Demonstration scenario · municipal transit levy · not client data

LIVE WIRE00:00:00
Ways in

Not every situation needs a full campaign.

Start small, test the strategy, or bring us in end to end.

01Sprint

Campaign Intelligence Sprint

Understand the environment before you commit significant resources.

Intelligence brief + strategic options
02Stress test

Campaign Simulation

Stress-test the strategy before the environment does.

Vulnerabilities, contingencies, revised architecture
03Rehearsal

Crisis Futures Lab

Rehearse the difficult decisions before they become real.

Scenarios, triggers, decision protocols
04Scan

Issues + Reputation Scan

Find the issues moving toward you.

Issues landscape + watchpoints
05Ongoing

Situation Room

Intelligence that stays with the situation.

Monitoring, scenario tracking, decision support
06End to end

Campaign Command

From intelligence through activation, in one engagement.

Research, strategy, creative, digital + adaptation
The Artefact91 system

From decision to movement.

01

Define

What needs to change?

02

Read

What is happening?

03

Anticipate

What could change?

04

Choose

Where can intervention matter?

05

Move

Build the intervention.

06

Adapt ↻

Hold, intensify, change or stop.

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FAQ

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BEFORE YOU BRING US THE SITUATION

Abstract contour map with two highlighted watchpoints

What kinds of situations do you work on?

Do we need a finished brief?

How do you handle a live situation?

What does an engagement look like?

Where do you work?

How do you handle confidentiality?

How are engagements priced?

What kinds of situations do you work on?

Do we need a finished brief?

How do you handle a live situation?

What does an engagement look like?

Where do you work?

How do you handle confidentiality?

How are engagements priced?

What kinds of situations do you work on?

Do we need a finished brief?

How do you handle a live situation?

What does an engagement look like?

Where do you work?

How do you handle confidentiality?

How are engagements priced?

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Bring us the situation

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WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO MOVE?

Romain Williams, CEO of Artefact91

Romain Williams

CEO, Artefact91

You do not need a finished brief. Tell us what is happening, what needs to change, what decision you are approaching and what you are worried might happen. We can start there.

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Bring us the situation

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WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO MOVE?

Romain Williams, CEO of Artefact91

Romain Williams

CEO, Artefact91

You do not need a finished brief. Tell us what is happening, what needs to change, what decision you are approaching and what you are worried might happen. We can start there.

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Bring us the situation

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WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO MOVE?

Romain Williams, CEO of Artefact91

Romain Williams

CEO, Artefact91

You do not need a finished brief. Tell us what is happening, what needs to change, what decision you are approaching and what you are worried might happen. We can start there.