About NavigateX

Disruption economics, made operational.

NavigateX exists to turn the science of technological disruption into the decisions, models, and strategic outputs senior leaders can act on.

We do that through Janus by NavigateX, our Positional Intelligence Platform, a strategic GPS for technology disruption, delivered through expert-led Audits.

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01 What we believe

A once-in-a-civilization reordering is underway.

We exist to make that reordering legible and actionable for the people who run institutions.

Disruption is mathematical, not narrative

Technology adopts on S-curves. Cost curves bend. Convergences trigger phase changes.

Sectors do not move in isolation

Energy disruption changes the cost of food. Cheaper food changes the case for land. Cheaper labor changes the politics of industry.

Translation is the bottleneck

The science of disruption is well understood by a small community. The decisions are being made by a much larger one, often using frameworks that pre-date the science.

02 What we do

We build and operate Janus. We deliver it through Audits.

Every organization starts with Activation, running in days; an Audit adds the modeling when the decision needs it.

Four Audits exist today

Portfolio Audit

Your portfolio, whatever form it takes: investments, assets, infrastructure, capabilities, or product lines, stress-tested against disruption arriving from every sector.

Request a Portfolio Audit

Energy Audit

For asset owners, utilities, governments, and data center operators. Build the cheapest possible energy system for your location, modeled against the technology curves of the day you actually buy.

Explore Energy

Workforce Audit

For any organization with employees. Where your workforce stands against the automation crossover, physical and knowledge work on their different curves.

Explore Workforce

Food System Audit

For producers, regulators, sovereign funds, and indigenous groups. Strategy for the precision fermentation, cellular agriculture, and vertical farming transition.

Explore Food System

03 NavigateX and RethinkX

The commercial spin-out of RethinkX.

NavigateX and RethinkX are sister organizations in an arms-length partnership. Both exist to accelerate humanity's transition through technological disruption. We do that work in two very different ways.

RethinkX

The research

RethinkX is an independent, US-based 501(c)(3) non-profit research organization. It analyzes and predicts the speed and scale of technology disruption, and publishes its core research free and open to all.

NavigateX

The operating layer

NavigateX is a private company. Our job is to operationalize the thinking: take research-grade frameworks and turn them into the decisions, models, and strategic outputs that clients can act on. We carry our own IP, our own platform (Janus), our own commercial trajectory, and our own product direction.

How the two organizations relate

Several members of the NavigateX team have contributed to RethinkX research over the years. Four of the six authors of the 2025 Seba Technology Disruption Framework are members of the NavigateX team. Our founder, Richard Gill, is a previous CEO of RethinkX. The two organizations stay in close intellectual contact: we attribute RethinkX's primary research cleanly, and support the ongoing RethinkX non-profit mission. The partnership gives NavigateX provenance, and gives RethinkX an operational route to impact.

From the archive

Read the original RethinkX press release announcing the spin-out, from Tony Seba, James Arbib, Richard Gill, and Adam Dorr (9 May 2025). Read the RethinkX press release →

04 How we work

Four operating principles.

Strategic level, plain language

Our clients are senior decision-makers: CEOs, CIOs, sovereign-fund executives, ministers, board chairs, founders.

Global, with a developing-economy lean

We operate globally and work with organizations of every size. We pay particular attention to non-western, developing, and small economies.

Transfer of capability, not extraction of fees

The point of an Audit is not to make the client dependent on us. The point is to install the framework, hand over the running system, and free the team to use it.

Built for humans and for agents

Janus has two surfaces on one engine. The Navigator is where strategy teams and analysts work. The Gateway exposes the same engine to your own AI tools through a standards-based endpoint, live today.

05 The team

A small group, by design.

NavigateX is a team of entrepreneurs, investors, scientists, software engineers, and strategists. We are backed by an Advisory Board of researchers and senior practitioners whose expertise informs the platform and the engagements.