Geolytics is more than a service—it is a platform that connects data-driven analysis with real-world expertise. It brings together our in-house geopolitical knowledge, a trusted partner network, and seasoned industry voices to give clients a 360° view of global strategic risk.
We collaborate with leading consultancies around the globe to broaden our geopolitical lens and offer tailored expertise across regions and political systems.
Minerva Technology Futures is a Washington, D.C.–based geopolitical consultancy with a strong U.S. focus, specializing in AI and emerging technologies. Serving clients from tech startups to global manufacturers, Minerva provides targeted, forward-looking advice on the intersection of technology, politics, and regulation to help navigate strategic competition and risks.
Chase Advisors, headquartered in New Delhi, India, with offices across major cities and a growing presence in Malaysia, is a dynamic, innovation-led, and tech-powered public policy consultancy serving the APAC region. Founded in 2011, it combines local expertise with global reach as part of the We. Communications network. Chase helps clients across sectors navigate complex policies, mitigate risks, and engage strategically with stakeholders in fast-evolving markets.
In a world where technology, trade, and geopolitics are increasingly entangled, off-the-shelf answers fall short. Our services equip companies with bespoke strategies—combining data-driven analysis, geopolitical insight, and functional expertise. From anticipating regulatory shocks to rethinking supply chains and global footprints, we help businesses stay ahead of disruption and build resilient operations.
Managing geotech statecraft
Helping clients understand and manage the divergence of technology spheres. The split of the technology stack requires tailored corporate answers across functions: investment decisions, R&D priorities, supply chain design and production footprints. We help to design bespoke solutions by combining technology expertise, geopolitical analysis and strategic experience.
Trade & investment barriers forecasting
Providing forward-looking analysis of the unfolding toolkit of geoeconomic barriers, disrupting the flow of products and parts, data and technology. Our forecasting helps clients to anticipate the effects of tariffs, sanctions, export and import controls, technology barriers. We provide highly tailored quantitative modelling of company-specific impacts of trade and regulatory scenarios.
Geopolitical supply chain risk
Delivering tier-n supply chain transparency and product-specific impact assessments. We map forecasting of geopolitical measures onto the individual parts in your supply chain at MPN level. Combining geopolitical risk foresight with tier-n precision provides our clients with powerful knowledge to fine-tune supply chains. It enables geopolitical risk mitigation at the individual part level.
GeoRisk radar
Offering continuous monitoring of geopolitical policy shift and resulting risks to our clients. Managing risks in geopolitically volatile times requires companies to react fast and nimble. We provide fast information and instant expert judgement, increasing our clients’ reaction time and response effectiveness. Our digital delivery formats allow seamless integration into your internal processes or chatbots via API.
Global footprint strategies
Supporting clients in adjusting their global footprint to reflect geopolitical risks while seizing new growth opportunities. We provide strategic advice and analytical data to design diversification strategies especially in India and Southeast Asia. Coherent and coordinated regional approaches to production, supply, R&D and technology are key to geopolitical resilience.
Geopolitical government affairs strategies
Advising on corporate structures and processes to understand and manage geopolitical risks. This includes internal information flows, roles and responsibilities across world regions, tools and measures to create strategically coherent responses and back them up with well-informed executive decision-making.
Ansgar Baums is Senior Advisor at Sinolytics and co-author of the forthcoming book “Tech Cold War. The Geopolitics of Technology” (Lynne Rienner Publishers).
Michaela Abels is a Senior Advisor at Sinolytics with over 30 years of automotive industry experience and in-depth China expertise.
Björn Conrad, CEO and co-founder of Sinolytics, has almost two decades of China experience.
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Sinolytics is the leading strategy consultancy on China. We offer European and U.S. companies in-depth analysis, customized strategies, and recommendations for well-founded decisions. We bring together market and policy expertise to help clients navigate complexity with clarity. With Geolytics, Sinolytics expands this approach globally while remaining dedicated to its characteristic China focus.
We specialize in the intersection of politics and business. Our diverse team offers deep China expertise, geopolitical insight, and tailored, actionable strategies—independent, precise, and grounded in real-world dynamics.
China is our core, but we also cover Southeast Asia and global geopolitical developments—especially those affecting international business, like U.S.-China-EU relations and supply chain risks.
We advise multinational companies across industries, as well as investors, associations, and public institutions navigating complex China-related challenges.
Absolutely. Every topic we cover — from digital governance to geopolitics — has a dedicated expert at Sinolytics. Just head to our expert overview or get in touch directly for a personal conversation.
Our work spans strategic analysis, policy monitorings, regulatory assessments, geopolitical scenario planning, competitor research, and hands-on support to adapt strategy and operations.
Our team is based in Berlin and Beijing, and also closely connected to key political hubs like Washington (D.C.), Brussels, New Delhi, and beyond—ensuring clients stay informed and prepared.
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