About Us
Too little information can be as disconcerting as too much. Patricia Wentworth (inverted)
AUGMNTED INFORMATION
StrategIQ Risk Management for a Future-First World
At AUGMNT, we don’t treat foresight as a luxury or risk as a constraint — we treat both as foundations.
We specialize in StrategIQ Risk Architecture: a future-first practice that helps organizations identify, assess, and navigate the strategic risks that threaten long-term continuity, value, and transformation and particularly those arising from what we call the information deficit.
Strategic risk is not limited to disruption or innovation. It includes every force — internal or external — that could derail your strategic direction, whether today or ten years from now. We help organizations manage these risks structurally, not just tactically.
Not Just Strategy. Not Just Risk. Both — Across Time.
Our approach draws from wealth management, legal logic, and system design. We treat each organization as a portfolio of assets (tangible and intangible), exposed to multi-horizon risks.
We use an augmented version of the 3 Horizons model — what we call 3HiS, a Future-First Continuity and Growth Maturity Model that redefines and enriches the original framework. It unites foresight, strategic risk, and asset architecture into a single system, used not only to map the future but to design and build it.
Using the 3 Horizons model, we map:
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What to defend (Horizon 1)
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What to adapt toward (Horizon 2)
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What to transform (Horizon 3)
We begin where most strategies end — with Horizon 3 in mind — to ensure the management of youe strategic risks and opportunities isn’t merely reactive, but directional, proactive, and future-aligned.
Informational Quotient (IQ)
An organization’s Informational Quotient is its capacity to generate, assemble, and apply information with the depth, scope, and timing needed to make high-integrity decisions across multiple horizons.
It is not just the volume of data you hold, but the quality, structure, and integration of that information into strategy, risk management, and transformation.
Our Integrated Approach:
IQ Frameworks (mosaIQ, logIQ, strategIQ, etc.)
Generate, assemble, and diagnose strategic information across multiple time horizons with the depth and timing needed for high-integrity decisions.
3H1S or The 3 Horizons Model Into 1 System
Map what to defend (H1), adapt toward (H2), and transform into (H3)—designing from the future backward, not the present forward.
AutonomIQ Organizational Design
Move from rigid delegation to true autonomous capability—structures that self-organize, adapt intelligently, and transform through uncertainty
We don’t predict the future. We help you build the capacity to work with multiple futures simultaneously, see what you’re missing, and operate how the future requires.
The AI Augmented World
Most Organizations Are Futures Illiterate. In an AI-Augmented World, That’s Becoming Fatal.
Your customers, competitors, and investors now operate with AI-enhanced intelligence. They imagine more futures faster, process information more thoroughly, and make decisions with augmented cognitive capability. But most organizations are still making long-term strategic decisions using pre-AI infrastructure and single-future thinking.
This isn’t just a technology gap. It’s a “literacy gap” —specifically, “Futures Literacy“: the capability to understand how we use the future in present thinking, and to use anticipation more skillfully. Without this foundational capability, organizations suffer from “strategic deficit“: making long-term decisions with short-term information (temporal asymmetry) while stakeholders operate with AI-augmented intelligence (capability asymmetry).
AUGMNT builds the cognitive capability and strategic architecture organizations need to thrive in an AI-augmented world.
Who We Help
We work with founders, executives, boards, and strategy teams who understand that:
– AI adoption isn’t AI strategy—you need cognitive infrastructure, not just tools – Resilience isn’t enough—you need antifragility (the ability to transform through stress) – Your competitors aren’t your biggest risk—obsolescence is – The present doesn’t define the possible—you need to work with multiple futures
We serve organizations navigating: AI-augmented competition, VUCA environments, multi-horizon transformation, the shift from delegation to autonomy, and fiduciary duty requiring anticipatory intelligence.
About The Founder
Hi, I am Christian Royer. I spent 40 years helping clients manage long-term risk—estate planning, wealth management, tax strategy, international trade. I was good at it. But I kept seeing brilliant people making long-term commitments based on short-term assumptions.
When the future arrived differently—which it always did—they’d be surprised. Then I discovered Futures Literacy at the Institute for the Future, and everything changed. **The problem wasn’t discipline. It was literacy.
My clients—and I—were futures illiterate, working with single-future assumptions unconsciously. I integrated Futures Literacy with years of legal/financial risk architecture, system design (TQM-SD-VSM), and strategic foresight to create something new: frameworks that treat the future as portfolio exposure and information as strategic infrastructure.
My unique synthesis: – Law degrees (University of Montreal) + former securities/insurance licenses – IFTF Futures Thinking certification – Cross-disciplinary integration of fiduciary risk, organizational cybernetics, and anticipatory intelligence Most strategists think in quarters. Most futurists don’t understand fiduciary risk. Most risk managers treat the future as a compliance checkbox. **I treat the future as portfolio exposure and build the cognitive capability organizations need to design for it strategically.**
Ready to Build Futures Literacy?
If your organization is facing complexity, navigating AI disruption, or recognizing that your current strategy isn’t built for what’s actually coming—let’s talk. We help you build the cognitive capability (Futures Literacy) and strategic architecture (StrategIQ Risk Management) to see what you’re missing, design what you need, and operate how the future requires.
Services available in English and French | Based in Montreal, QC | Serving organizations across Canada, United States, and the world.
To your future—the one you’ll build, not the one you’ll drift toward.