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 3H 3.0, 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.
At AUGMNT, IQ is operationalized through our proprietary frameworks — MOSAIQ (assembling), SIGMA (generating and managing), and LOGIQ (diagnosing gaps and breakdowns) — to ensure that every strategic move is based on the right information, in the right form, at the right moment.
Our Instruments
To operationalize this, we’ve developed a proprietary set of tools:
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SIGMA – Strategic Information Generation and Management Augmentation across all horizons
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MOSAIQ – A dynamic framework for assembling, organizing, and delivering actionable insight
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LOGIQ – A critical lens to expose logical breakdowns and informational blind spots across time
Together, these instruments form the backbone of your StrategIQ Playbook — a living system of risk-informed strategy and adaptive continuity.
Who We Help
Our services are aimed at any private or public organizations of all types. Our services also provide first-class tools for management teams, board members, managers, teams responsible for strategy, risk management, and those involved in innovation, sales, and marketing.
ABOUT THE INSTIGATOR
I am Chris (Christian) Royer, the founder + chief tinkerer of AUGMNT, based in Montreal, QC, Canada. I hold law degrees from the University of Montreal and have previously held securities and life insurance licenses in Canada. I have lived and worked between Quebec and the United States (1993-2018) and conducted business in the MENA, regions.
I have been engaged in the practice of law, real estate, financial and tax planning, brokerage of traditional and alternative financial products, and international trade. My interests lie in optimization, continuous improvement, risk management, and the model of possibilities or alternatives, as opposed to the great risk of a fixed way of doing things toward a fixed one future.
Augmented Education
Futures Thinking Specialization/Certification – Institute For The Future (IFTF) | Social Entrepreneurship – Copenhagen Business School | Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies – Case Western University | New Models of Business in Society – University of Virginia, Darden School of Business | Age of Sustainability, An Introduction – Columbia University (with Jeffrey Sachs) | Circular Economy, An Introduction – TU Delft and Macarthur Foundation | Entrepreneurship: Financing and Profitability – Wharton Business School | Greening the Economies: Sustainable cities – Lund University | Financing and Investing in Infrastructure – Bocconi University | Impact Investing – Essec Paris | Fundamentals of Global Energy Business – University of Colorado | Financial Markets – Yale University | Introduction to Fintech – University of Hong-Kong.