Heroic — Strategies & Stories

Our world is driven by stories.

Interconnected. Complicated. Constantly changing.

  • Company
    stories
  • Economic
    stories
  • Legal
    stories
  • Policy
    stories
  • Investment
    stories
  • Supply chain
    stories
  • Community
    stories
  • And
    more

Heroic Simplifies.

Core Focus

We Value Relationships, Teams & Stories

With the help of our strategic intelligence platform, the Hero Story Engine, we Map and Evaluate the complex web of stakeholders, relationships, and stories in teams, transactions, and ecosystems to Build straightforward, innovative, and Actionable Strategies to navigate risk and seize opportunity.

PrivateCredit MarketsCriticalCommunitiesCriticalManufacturing & InfraM&A DealsInvestors, Boards& DirectorsDefenseIndustrial BaseCriticalHealthcareSupply ChainHigh-StakesLitigationGovProcurementPolicy, Regulation, &LegislationSmallBusinessEcon DevProjectsPublic Investment,Partnerships, &IncentivesTrade & TransportOps
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Who we serve
  • Purposeful Game Changers
  • Policy Makers
  • Investors
  • Companies
  • Institutions
  • Law Firms
  • Communities
  • And More
Critical Scope

We Understand Critical Value.

We are particularly experienced with the stories of teams, transactions, ecosystems, and communities that demand the complex integration of policy, investment, business, law, and community efforts to deliver critical societal functions. Our team of experts and heroic models can assess the risks and opportunities for your company or community related to policies and markets.

Team Transaction Ecosystem Critical
  • Water
  • Energy
  • Defense
  • Healthcare
  • Telecom­munication
  • Infra­structure
  • Transportation
    & Logistics
  • Minerals
    & Materials

Our Story Engine

Understand Risk. Seize Opportunity.

is our secret weapon — a human‑driven collaborative intelligence platform that combines deep practitioner experience with curated data, artificial intelligence tools, and innovative analytical weapons to illuminate High-Equity Risks & Opportunities (HEROs) found in the stories of teams, transactions, and ecosystems.

A connected network of stakeholders, with the HERO mascot standing watch
Under the Hood

We are not selling expensive technology that offers to “Boil the Ocean.” Instead, our Hero Story Engine is curated by a diverse team of experienced human practitioners that ask the right questions to develop innovative analytical tools and strategic intelligence to solve specific challenging problems.

H (Eco)System Markets, Industries, Supply Chains, Communities Transaction Deals, Disputes, Projects, Programs, Events Team Companies, Funds, Institutions, Orgs
Team Transaction (Eco)System
Stakeholders & Teams
Entities, Roles, Owner, Leaders, Influencers, Investors, Regulators, Companies, Key Employees, Government, and more.
Relationships & Transactions
Investment, legal, operational, political, professional, social, philanthropic, lending, geopolitical, and collaborative.
Collaborative Investment & Relationships
Capital stacks, associations, advocacy groups, co-investors, public-private partnerships, cooperatives, joint ventures, portfolios, group purchasing, supply chains, boards, and public incentive programs.
Contextual
Assets, resources, financial health, products, services, operations, supply chains, information flow, funding, and internal & external communications, including social media.

Our Weapons: Your Advantage

Below are some of the tools Hero brings to your fight. Our team is always in the Lab developing new models, analytic tools, relationship-driven strategies, projects, and platforms. Not sure which weapon fits? Tell us about your team, transaction, or community and we will point you to the right one. We also forge custom weapons specific to the strengths and goals of your team.Contact us

Valuation suite

Heroic Valuations

We use traditional due diligence and valuation methods, as well as our innovative models that help answer questions like: Is a potential partner more of a Hero or a Villain? Does my Community have the resilience to sustain and grow? How can I best leverage my team’s relationship capital to accelerate our goals? What Public Investment programs and incentives might be a good match for where my team or community is going?

Screener · BetaNote: Sources are publicly available, but screening can be supplemented with surveys and human investigation services.

Heroic Companies

Multi-Layer Valuation

Our Heroic Valuation uses traditional & innovative models and analytic tools to understand a company, its transactions, and ecosystem to identify risk, trusted partners, value to critical supply chains and services for the nation, and strategic relationship opportunities to accelerate company stories.

Heroic Communities

Critical Community Valuation

Heroic Communities are Critical. Our Critical Community Valuation identifies collaborative strategies to resolve risky challenges, build resilience, and help communities grow.

Capital suite

Heroic Capital

Heroic Capital is all about two key components. First, the power of collaborative relationship capital that we leverage for purposeful ends. Second, financial capital — the funding and incentives from governments and private-sector partners that accelerate truly heroic activities important to society and community in areas like defense, energy, economic development, education, healthcare, and more.

TEAM

Collaborative Relationship Capital

Networking for Good

Measure the power of your relationship capital and network asset value relative to your funding, investment, policy, business development, team building, or internal company goals.

Application · By request

Heroic Capital

Catalytic Collaboration

Fill out a basic form describing your team and goals, and get an idea of the most promising sources of public and collaborative investment capital and incentives.

Building the Story

One Story. Multiple Value Streams.

The Process
1

Map the Story

How does it all really work?

We map the stakeholders, relationships, assets, and circumstances in a particular story of interest to better understand how it all connects or should connect, and the alignment with the purpose and goals of your team, the transaction, the process, or system.

2

Evaluate

Find the HEROs

What are the risks and opportunities in the story? We evaluate the story with our Story Engine, traditional models, and innovative models to find the High-Equity Risks and Opportunities (HEROs) and deepen your understanding of the strategic relationships and actions to mitigate risks, build resilience, and seize opportunities.

3

Strategic Story Building

Heroic Actions

Optimize your purpose with strategic relationships and actions that help you build, refresh, or accelerate your story:

01

Turnaround, Team Building & Alignment

02

Market Growth, Funding, Investment & Economic Development

03

Government Relations, Partnerships, Comms & Collaboration

04

Legal, Dispute Resolution, Regulatory & Risk Mitigation

Heroic Strategies & Stories

Types of Stories

Your Team

  • Company
  • Organization
  • Community
01 · Map > Evaluate > Build

Team Storybooks

  • Build a strategic storybook to understand your team, resources, allocation, and alignment relative to your primary purpose(s).
  • Leverage relationship capital and strategic solutions that help turnaround your company, reduce costs, develop partnerships, break into markets, raise funds, strengthen your team, and more.
Heroic Company?
02 · Map > Evaluate > Build

Critical Community Value

A Community is really a team of teams. Perform a comprehensive mapping of the important teams and stakeholders in your community, the status of critical functions, and strategies to build resilience and grow your community.

Heroic Community?

Their Team

  • Stakeholders
  • Policy
  • Investment
  • Legal
  • Supply Chain
  • Community
  • Market & Industrial
03 · Map > Evaluate

Build A Stakeholder Dossier

Investigate and evaluate risks and opportunities for stakeholders you care about in a transaction or ecosystem, including suppliers, investors, capital stacks, future leaders, new markets, government processes and events, and more.

04 · Map > Evaluate > Build

Map Your Transaction

Investigate the key stakeholders and relationships in legal disputes, investment deals, economic development projects, regulatory process, policy issues, and other key transactional events.

05 · Map > Evaluate > Build

Know Your Ecosystem

Map the story of functions, industries, supply chains, communities to understand the key stakeholders, relationships, and competitive pathways to grow or measures to mitigate risk and build resilience.

Critical Team or Community Valuation

Understand your team & community’s critical value.

We map and evaluate critical stakeholders, companies, investors, projects, investment deals, laws, policies, litigation, public programs — and more — to develop collaborative strategies to build resilient and secure communities, infrastructure, industrial bases, supply chains, and companies.

Value Heroic Team Value Heroic Community
Hero  ·  Critical Scope

Lab of Big Swings

Slingshot Stories and Strategies are developed in our Lab, designed to change games and tackle uniquely challenging multi-dimensional problems, implemented with collaborative partners, and catalyzed with the powerful leverage of aggregated relationship capital.

These are active projects which we are building and designing to launch ourselves or with heroic partners.

TEAM
Platform/Tool

The Equity Acceleration Machine

A relationship-capital tool and community that turns the relationships you have forged into assets you can value, measure, improve, grow, invest, combine, and leverage for the purposeful goals you care about.

Platform/Tool

Slingshot Story Builder

A platform that allows one or more users to import multiple data sources into a story framework that is constantly updated. Collaborative Story-building to enhance understanding of the stakeholders, relationships, and flow of the most complex stories.

Strategic Intelligence

Trade & Maritime Processes

A strategic playbook that outlines opportunities for businesses to mitigate the costs of supply chain friction in maritime ports and multi-modal transportation.

Market Strategy

Government Investment in Clean Water

Federal go-to-market strategy for clean-water technology — the infrastructure funding wave, PFAS as the dominant driver, and non-dilutive R&D as validation capital.

Strategic Intelligence

Private Credit

A model-driven map and database that prioritizes risk in private companies related to their debt stack. Also includes a list of companies delivering “Critical” products & services.

Strategic Intelligence

Critical Databases

  • Critical Healthcare
  • Foreign Investment
  • Opportunity Businesses
Our Story

Take the Next Big Swing.

Call us a strategic advisory, a relationship investment bank, a platform, an investigations company. What we are for sure, is a team of creative thinkers and doers with experience as leaders, lawyers, investigators, software developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, intelligence analysts, policy hands, investors, former military, and more.

We choose to work with and for “Heroic” teams, leaders, and communities that want to change the game, have hustle, look for value where others do not, and tackle big challenges. Let’s Talk!

Map Your Team Be a Slingshot Partner Forge a Heroic Weapon

Game-changing solutions

Building what doesn’t exist yet, for problems worth solving.

Big challenges

The messy, high-stakes questions others route around.

Underdogs with hustle

Accelerating teams whose upside is bigger than their balance sheet.

Undervalued strategies

Clear impact, but hard to measure, unknown, or simply ignored.