Research desk
Pattern recognition and systems interpretation for strategic action.
Three domains, read from primary sources: how capital finds direction, what technology commits its builders to, and how institutions grow into demands they did not design for.
Three desks
Capital
What institutions said they would fund, and what they actually funded. Read from mandates, strategic plans, and portfolio disclosures. Plus interactive reference tools: a periodic table of exit and liquidation strategies, and a filterable directory of 78 regenerative finance approaches.
For anyone raising from, allocating alongside, or competing with these institutions.
Technology
AI read against ethics, consciousness, and governance. What the frameworks commit to, and what they leave open.
For anyone underwriting AI companies or putting AI inside their own decision stack.
Society
How people and institutions grow into the demands their roles make of them. Adult development, generational cycles, institutional capacity.
For anyone timing a cycle, building a team, or working out why a committee cannot see what you see.
Who writes this
Sushant Shrestha builds the measurement systems behind capital decisions. He is managing partner of Humanitas Smart Planet Systems, where he designed the KPI architecture and reporting infrastructure a portfolio of 20 companies reports against, and is guest faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies.
His research background is in method design. Mixed methods work, transdisciplinary frameworks, and building analytical protocols that hold up when the source material is long, inconsistent, and written to be skimmed.
More of his work is at sushantshrestha.com.
Method
Research method design
Mixed methods research
Transdisciplinary frameworks
Primary source corpus construction
Structured close reading
Impact measurement and KPI framework design
Data schema design and validation
Portfolio analytics
Background
Guest faculty, California Institute of Integral Studies
Humanitas Smart Planet Systems
Oxford Saïd Business School
15 years finance and advisory
IRIS+, GIIRS, Project Frame, CRANE, UN SDGs