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Updated Calculations to Create and Capture Value
In a two-track economy, value goes to organisations that can see what matters now and create the conditions to realise it.
Aug 27
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Sophie Krantz
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The Burden of Knowing Better
How institutional certainty obscures solutions within reach.
Aug 12
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Sophie Krantz
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June 2026
Are the world's biggest problems the world's biggest commercial opportunities?
Five organisations operating beyond money and mandate, finding the market in the mission.
Jun 28
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Sophie Krantz
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10:22
Golden Age or Depressed Decade? Breaking down the World Bank Global Economic Prospects
How leaders are deciding to spend their next ten years
Jun 12
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Sophie Krantz
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Finding the Way: Organisations building market positions where money and mandates failed
Relatively uncontested gaps that remain open in 2026.
Jun 4
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Sophie Krantz
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I’m Sophie Krantz. I help leaders find and validate market positions in changing global conditions.
When conditions change, leaders face the same question: what is worth building or backing - and what needs to be true for it to work?
Jun 1
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Sophie Krantz
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May 2026
Do the maths: Is there a market position from solving this hard problem?
A back‑of‑the‑envelope way to price the cost of leaving it unsolved
May 28
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Sophie Krantz
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Latent, Not Lost
How existing assets become market positions
May 22
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Sophie Krantz
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Q1 Soft Power Brief: Hard Problems Become Market Positions
Five organisations profiled in depth: Hala Systems, M-KOPA, One Acre Fund, Living Goods, and Tostan
May 4
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Sophie Krantz
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Beyond a Money or Mandate Starting Point
Calculate whether to deploy your capital, time, and talent - or walk away.
May 1
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Sophie Krantz
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April 2026
The Barrier Keeping You Out May Already Be Gone
How to tell whether a chokepoint belongs to the problem - or to the institution that last tried
Apr 23
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Sophie Krantz
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The Crossover Point: The Economics of Solving Global Problems
The number that makes a hard problem a market position.
Apr 21
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Sophie Krantz
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