Futures impact
Work with us. We help to shape your futures by taking strategic foresight through to regenerative design practice… starting with what needs to rot first.
WHAT NEEDS TO ROT FIRST?
Our Spore-Print is the strategy nobody tried: start with what dies. This is the first decomposition strategy ever built inside a living organisation. It is a ground-breaking approach to regenerative transition built on a single premise: that regeneration starts with rot.
What if the most radical thing you did this year was let something rot?
In 2026, Sporesight is opening space for two organisations to test what happens when fungi-inspired thinking meets a live initiative.
The Spore-Print is a decomposition strategy: a living, adaptive process helping sustainability, innovation and foresight leaders break down what's blocking their initiatives, and recompose the parts into something regenerative.
The goal is that your organisation and core team acquire Sporesight: the capacity to navigate uncertainty, practice regenerative futures thinking, and apply it to real initiatives.
Decomposition allows us to reframe the ‘collapse’ narrative
The systems we inherited are breaking down. We can choose to meet this context with fear, or work together in the intentional dismantle of extractive things. Rather than asking what do we create next, let’s ask what needs to rot first? And what can we grow from the parts we're prepared to let go?
Who is this for?
Regenerative-curious leaders
You were drawn to this role because you believed change was possible from the inside. And it is. But the inside is harder than it looked.
In 2026, the sustainability or innovation leader is no longer just grappling with the brief, but the role itself feels increasingly fragile.
As organisations confront market volatility, geopolitical shocks and intensifying cost pressures, leaders like you are being asked to prove your value in tougher, more politicised rooms.
We were once here, and we hear you.
This is precisely the moment for a decomposition intervention.
Decomposition intervention
Spore-Print is a deliberate dismantling of what exists, asking: what value can we unlock in the breakdown? And what, when released, becomes the nutrient base for something regenerative to grow?
In nature, nothing regenerates without rot. The same is true for strategies, systems and the assumptions holding them in place.
You are already asking better questions than the room, and looking for a thinking partner who brings something it has never encountered.
You don't need to have the answers. You do need to be willing to let something rot.
DECOMPOSE TO RECOMPOSE
How it runs
The engagement runs in three core moves, with optional extensions before and after.
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Week 1 — An experiential anchor
An immersive full-day experience for your core team and senior stakeholders with budgetary authority. We’re hosting a similar day FUTURE DAYS 2026 in Copenhagen. Click here for details.Held in an accessible natural setting near your office, together we will learn from fungi to let go, rot a little, and practice the ancient art of decomposition: how to unlock new forms of value by breaking things down.
You’ll ease away quietly radicalised with inspired possibility. We hope to leave you with a new conceptual lens, a mindset shift from growth to decomposition, and a spark for applying decomposition strategy in your work.
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Weeks 2-8: A reframe
Intentional dismantling of your initiative, product, or strategy (or entire organisation!). We dismantle / break down into constituent parts. We then ask four questions together:
What are we letting go of?
What remains — same value, same format?
What rots — new value, new format?
What is waste, and can it be repurposed to free up resources?
Sporesight maps the system using fungal intelligence frameworks and works closely with your team throughout.
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Weeks 9–12 and beyond — Sporesight in Residence (optional)
This is where the engagement becomes fractional. Sporesight takes a limited weekly or monthly presence inside your organisation — embedded, not visiting — to keep the mycelial rot-and-regeneration process genuinely alive within the initiative.
The residency is adaptive by design. We show up to what's needed, or simply hold the regenerative thread when organisational gravity pulls things back to old patterns. This phase formally ends when someone inside your team has absorbed the approach and can carry it forward independently.
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BEFORE: CONTEXTUAL SENSING
Before we decompose anything, we need to know what's shifting in the landscape around you. This pre-engagement foresight sprint maps your sector, category or region using multi-pathway futures thinking, showing how the landscape is moving and what that means for the thing you're about to dismantle.
AFTER: REGENERATIVE DESIGN
The step after rot is regenerative growth. Once decomposition is complete, we can move into active regenerative design, putting new principles into practice in the rebuilt initiative.
These optionals are where Sporesight's global collective of multi-disciplinary partners comes in. Scoped and priced as extended engagements.
How to apply
There are two slots open to start in Q4 2026. We are looking for the right partners, not the most partners. We’ll be opening a registration of interest in June 2026. Sign up to Sporesight’s writing if you’d like to stay informed!
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Where this lives in your budget
We've designed this to sit within an existing budget line: sustainability, innovation, or a live initiative already in the pipeline. For organisations with a higher threshold for transformation, we're happy to support the case for new budget approval. The partnership is priced to make the first yes easy. This is a low-entry investment in exchange for genuine co-creation and a case study that belongs to both of us.
Who we’ve worked with in the past…
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Live initiative examples
A circular economy or closed-loop product programme mid-redesign.
A futures or foresight function trying to embed long-term thinking inside a short-term business.
A new product, service or business model launch that needs to be regenerative from the start, not retrofitted.
An innovation programme that's lost its edge and is producing incrementalism instead of transformation.
How we work
Collective
SPORE-CO: A global collective of brilliant minds.
Sporesight is a diverse collective of foresight experts, mycologists, strategists, thinkers, tinkerers, innovators, founders and mycophiles at the forefront of myco-culture and foresight thinking. Based on the challenge, we hand pick the best people to solve problems, the fungal way.
Intelligence
SPORE-TEL: Nature’s fungal intelligence
We blend strategic expertise with an adventurer’s mindset. We’ve developed a set of principles to design regenerative futures, inspired by nature’s intelligence. They invite us to think more like fungi, inspiring imagination and action. They pose radical new ways to design ecosystem-centric systems and innovation.
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2021-present
100+ interviews and counting
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Happy clients.
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Jess is a superstar - the work she did for us at The Absolut Group was stella and I would highly recommend her.
Jason Tagg, The Absolut Group
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Jess is an exceptional professional whose contributions to our project were remarkably significant.Her ability to extract insights, engage with experts, conduct thorough analysis, and present the results was truly outstanding. She always offers a unique perspective, yet she is equally adept at listening and incorporating client feedback to refine her work.
Patricio Colliers Pérez, The Coca Cola Company
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Most naturally gifted, multi-skilled people live their lives being associated with terms like ‘jack of all trades and masters of none’. And then there’s a tiny contingent of people who’re actually masters of a wide variety of fundamental skills, in a way you just can’t emulate. Jess is one of those people. If you’re looking for a rare combination of raw yet sophisticated insight, you’ll never go wrong with Jess or the colleagues she manages.
Dali Tembo, The Culture Foundry Co.
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Working with Jess was an absolute pleasure. Despite the complexity of covering multiple topics in a short timeframe, Jess managed the discussion with great depth and clarity. She skillfully adapted the flow and interaction to suit each group, ensuring smooth, engaging sessions. What stood out most was her ability to offer insightful reflections grounded in broad expertise. Jess is a highly skilled moderator and a true insight partner.
Convenience food brand
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Jess is the very best - skills + passion in abundance. Couldn't recommend her highly enough.
Matt Baker, BAMM Global
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Jess is a great person to work with, she is always energized and ready to go. I admire her professionalism and her commitment to any project she embarks on. She is very creative and always with a hands-on approach. I have enjoyed working with her in multiple research projects we have done in Africa. She is an expert in consumer research and consumer market insights. She stands out with her expertise in merging the company strategy with the local market insights and consumer behavior.
Gilbert Sakr, Red Bull
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Jess has a knack for story telling. She is well versed in the categories she works in and adds tremendous expertise to the brand teams as a result. It was good working together to give strategic input to our brands at a local as well as an international level.
Kuhle Belu, Pernod Ricard
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What stands out is Jess’s profound passion and curiosity about people and culture, particularly on the African continent. She digs deep to find out what makes people tick and continually questions assumptions to uncover real truths about people.
Honore Gasa, The Storyteller’s Workshop
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Jess is the best. I worked with her for nearly a decade but I knew she was the best within a few short weeks. If you're looking for the highest level insight, real leadership and cultural nous - Jess Jorgensen is exactly who you should be speaking to.
Paul White
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