EnabledFuture

20/05/2026

Do you invest significant sums in consulting? If so, are you satisfied with the quality and defensibility of the deliverables?

If you are unsure, here are a few things worth scrutinising.

1. Forecasts are not facts - but they should still be meaningful.

A robust market forecast model should include:

• Accurate historic data
• The current market year
• Clearly identified demand applications
• Transparent segmentation methodology

If historic data does not align with known industry performance, production volumes, or traded volumes, treat the forecast with caution because this may distort the output of the entire model.

Segmentation quality also matters.

If the “Others” category in a market breakdown is too big (>25%) - it might obscure any value to the client if the highest growth niches are not visible.

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08/05/2026

Consulting that leans heavily into techno-economics and capital markets has to date been relatively untouched by regulatory oversight.

However financial and advisory firms are now entering a phase where real-time trust, traceability, and AI oversight systems are part of their digital transformation.

This constitutes a major culture change. For decades, much of industrial and market consulting has operated through individual human reviews, with only spreadsheet and bespoke software for data oversight.

That model cannot keep pace with changes to employee behaviour (ability to participate in sophisticated trading in real time via smartphones) or the complexity and breadth of evolving professional guidelines and regulations.

RegTech solutions are designed to derisk modern operations. Using a centralised system, plus software on every digital device - employees can be monitored, trained and prompted if they are about to stray into non-compliant territory. Successful RegTech system adoption therefore sends a powerful trust message to the consulting firm's client base.

There is also a major economic shift occurring. Traditional consulting scales linearly with people. RegTech-enabled consulting scales through systems. A consultant supported by AI-assisted document review, automated transaction monitoring, conflict mapping, and integrated reporting pipelines can oversee far larger and more complex regulatory environments than was previously possible.

Meanwhile the legal and financial consequences of poor implementation are substantial.

The FCA fined Citigroup Global Markets Limited more than £27 million after systems and controls failures contributed to a US$1.4 billion erroneous equities sale into European markets. Sigma Broking was fined over £1 million for transaction reporting failures spanning five years.

Weak controls around conflicts of interest can also evolve into market abuse.

In one UK case, the FCA fined an oil rig consultant for insider dealing after he traded shares using confidential drilling information obtained through his consulting role.

Automated restricted lists, connected-account surveillance, project-linked trading controls, and real-time escalation systems could potentially have identified or blocked those activities far earlier.

This is the deeper significance of RegTech in consulting - it is not simply about reducing compliance costs. It is about creating infrastructure capable of detecting conflicts, strengthening governance, improving auditability, and preserving market integrity in increasingly complex financial systems.

This may be a huge turn-off to traditional consultants used to operating without perceived bureaucracy, particularly - but not exclusively, independents and SMEs.

Nonetheless, RegTech is undoubtedly a competitive value proposition. The question is whether the consulting sector is ready for it, should it become mandatory.

25/04/2026

Our Mr Circleton video series is now live on our new TikTok channel. He forms a key part of our edutainment strategy for promoting circularity to a wider and more diverse audience.

Digital content is something EnabledFuture™️ relies upon - like any other business - but in particular considering our sparse resources.

EnabledFuture™️ doesn't have company vehicles, it is completely paperless and we have commited to no long haul or domestic flights.

In general, our business is conducted almost entirely via digital platforms. We don't have conference stands - which are often scrapped after a single-event - and we don't print promotional materials or any company merchandise.

These short AI-generated videos - aimed at promoting closed loop circularity - each have a carbon footprint of less than 0.5kgCO2eq - about the same as one take out latte, or a 5 km drive in a modern gasoline hybrid. They can be viewed repeatedly and are never transferred to a physical form.

The Carbon burden for our digital activities is nothing like the daily emissions from fossil burning, or overproduction of plastic - we estimate as much as half of all plastic ever made is not needed. Even more energy and CO2 emissions are then expended on turning obsolete polymer and plastic goods into fuels and energy.

We do not see this as in any way sustainable. Incineration or any process primarily aimed at extracting residual energy from a manufactured item should be a last resort - not a green or circular business strategy.

For satirical bite we refer to the practice of turning waste plastic into so-called sustainable fuels in our videos as a "contrail ambition". Humour is sometimes a great way to deliver a serious message.

So far this digital content has reached 100,000s of viewers - far more than we can ever hope to achieve by flying off to conferences or meetings.

Meanwhile, we are investigating ways to become a carbon-negative business.

We prioritise consulting projects which increase metal recovery to >99%, we offer free mentoring and support to students with sustainable career ambitions, and practice refuse, reduce, repair on a daily basis.

This week we have signed up to contribute to the protection of biodiversity and planting of new woodland in the United Kingdom through monthly donations to the UK Woodland Trust. We will also be offering them practical support and spreading the word of their invaluable biodiversity-promoting activities in our communications. See link to the Woodland Trust website in the comments below.

For now we hope you enjoy the adorable Mr Circleton and his friends with their tireless climate and circularity campaigning.
♻️🌏🌞🥤💚

23/04/2026

🌏 The planet-loving generation of 2026. Put your hands in the air because we know you care. 👐💚🫶🌏👌

22/04/2026

Trump’s “Critical Minerals Club” sounds smart… until you see what allies REALLY want. 😳

Swipe energy → Allies get CHEAPER minerals + zero retaliation from China if they stay friendly with Beijing.

National security premium? Most are choosing short-term savings over long-term security.

Japan, EU, Australia & South Korea are all hedging hard.

History shows these mineral cartels usually fail.

Real talk: companies need to map exposure NOW and invest in recycling + substitution.

What do you think — will this club actually work? Drop your take 👇

Follow for more critical minerals, geopolitics & supply chain drops 🔥

Check out EnabledFuture’s video.

20/04/2026

🔋China has built a battery empire on steroids. The upstream, midstream, downstream, circularity and innovative drive electric models to boot. It has all the biggest speed, strength, and strategic focus of the biggest cat in the jungle. 🐅 It's probably unstoppable.

🦁 With >70% of the global EV battery production capacity, China's growth doesn’t just perturb battery industry dynamics - it dictates them.

🧋When it comes to critical minerals China is in danger of a “milkshake moment”: the straw sucking noisily at air - and desperate for a refill.

It isn’t dysfunction but
success meets desire for more.

📈 Chinese momentum is unmistakable:
🔺️ CATL Q1 2026: Revenue RMB 129.13 billion (+52% YoY) and net profit RMB 20.74 billion (+48% YoY). This week it launched Shidai Resources Group, a new mining subsidiary with RMB 30 billion (~$4.4 billion) registered capital. Its pure mission: secure lithium, nickel and other CRMs to fuel energy transition projections.

🔺️ BYD scaled to ~4.6 million NEVs in 2025 (including ~2.26 million pure BEVs).

🔺️NIO surpassed 100 million cumulative battery swaps, delivering 5.28 billion kWh across its expanding network.

🇨🇳 This dominance didn’t happen overnight and the conditions can't be replicated. Trying to put the brakes on the Chinese battery industry is like hanging on to undercarriage of a Cheetah in a 0-60 mph 3-second sprint towards the tastiest looking zebra in the desert. 🦓

📜 China won early - it success traces back to A123's strategic win in the LFP battery material patent dispute with Hydro-Quebec and partners in 2013, which unlocked low-cost, safe LFP technology for entry-level EVs and mass consumer acceptance. While scaling LFP domestically, China also mastered NCM cells with Asian technology partners — but LFP gave it an unbeatable cost advantage and market access that took out a lot of zebras. 🏹

🔮Global OEMs who caught the e-mobility scale vibe early also thrived:

🔺️Tesla (Shanghai Gigafactory + long-term Chinese deals),
🔺️Toyota (hybrid sales that keep it the world’s largest car OEM),
🔺️Hyundai who just tipped 4 M car sales (now offering a competitively priced ~£25,000 BEV in the UK market).

🦳 European legacy players (VW, BMW, Mercedes-Benz) are now scrambling to invest, source, partner and scale inside China’s integrated ecosystem. But acceleration is not a skill - not when the territory has already been micro-mapped and the prey is surrounded by big cats.

What we have witnessed over Q1- 21C in the battery energy leader's club is strategic entrepreneurship at its finest. 👌

EnabledFuture™️'s take? The West will have to come up with more than hopium if it wants to achieve any meaningful damage limitation.

What does this mean for global supply chains, technology leadership, and the pace of the energy transition? Can China continue to steer around global conflicts? Will the big cat survive? 🐆

18/04/2026

We just found the tool on TikTok that turns stories into GIFs. 😳

We applied it to our official EarthDay Art and Culture entry. Our CEO devised the wording for the full AI cypher video versIon, as well as the elements concept and spent several hours getting an AI video generator to do its part!

Please feel free to use and share the GIF - just drop the hashtag along with it. 💛💚🩵💙

18/04/2026

🌌 What if the Elements finally stopped serving us?

Air. Fire. Earth. Water.
We are only their guests.
They are the Hosts — with power no human could ever match.

And right now… they’re warning us.

Watch them speak 👇

Which element's message hit you hardest? 🔥💨🌍💧

29/03/2026

Battery Recycling - Achieving Closed-Loop Circularity
Check out
Circularity Newsletter - 3rd edition


https://www.linkedin.com/posts/drmkl_batteries-batteryinvestor-batterycircularity-activity-7444042558793515008-xbWA

Closed-loop battery circularity is moving out of the pilot phase and into the hard test of ex*****on. In my latest newsletter, I look at why rechargeable battery recycling and material recovery has become one of the most important circularity themes of 2026 — not only for sustainability, but for s...

04/10/2024

IOM3 Training Academy: Meet the Trainer Dr Michelle Lynch, CEO of EnabledFuture.https://bit.ly/3XQOE4e