CTSS is a firm specializing in alternative futures. It offers clients both a set of prospects, and then provides strategies to reach these futures. The CTSS advantage rests on its principals’ generic (energy, security and strategy) and geographical strengths (i.e., specific country/regional experience with leadership networks cultivated over decades). Small and select, CTSS stands apart from big, ‘public figure’ and ‘door-opening’ firms in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Brussels, London or Washington. Nor is it a risk assessment firm. It avoids routine political, security, energy and other geo-political reporting, and doesn’t ‘do’ public relations, product/service promotion, instead it provides real foresight, deep intelligence and advice on which the client can begin to base decisions.