Services

We bring Caerus’ strategic design process and fluency in complex systems to the defense and intelligence communities. Building on our flagship work in remote sensing and computational counterinsurgency, we apply techniques from the social and data sciences to find meaning in complexity.

Our Process

Frame

Frame challenges from a system perspective. Develop research and design programs for revealing and shaping the logic of complex systems.

Sense

Apply local and remote sensing, social and field research, quantitative analysis and qualitative assessment to generate practical inputs for modeling.

Model

Build spatial, visual, qualitative and quantitative models of complex system dynamics, including constituents, flows, structures, patterns, drivers, behaviors and enablers.

Design

Design social and technical programs, services and infrastructure interventions to amplify positive effects in the system.

Act

Implement the interventions developed through the modeling and design process.

Learn

Gather feedback to refine system models, improve design strategies and increase the effectiveness of interventions.

Design Process for Social and Data Science

Social Science

Focusing on quantitative techniques, we model the underlying data generating process—sensors, humans, or extant datastores. We bring subject matter expertise in conflict dynamics, illicit networks, and regional politics of the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

Examples

Research design
Model specification
Domain knowledge
Data and metric identification

Data Science

We seek out, incubate and apply advanced analytics and data science techniques. These range from newly designed data visualizations to novel spatial analytics. We tailor analytics to client data streams and questions, creating unique translations between data, analysts, and decision-makers.

Examples

Analytics
Model specification
Design processes for data visualization
Data validation