Strategic foresight & scenarios
Several possible futures that leaders can test their strategy against, so they spot risks and openings early.
Yasmim Seadi
I help organisations see change before it becomes obvious. For more than a decade I have read weak signals in technology, policy and human behaviour and turned them into scenarios and product strategy, for development agencies, multilateral forums and global companies.
years translating signals into strategy
published radars, reports and essays
days from idea to a live platform reuniting children with their families
courses and certifications, from AI in government to brain-machine interfaces
Most organisations meet the future too late, as a trend report or a crisis. I help teams get there earlier, while there is still time to choose.
By the time something is a trend, the window to act is closing. I look earlier, at odd data points and small changes in behaviour or policy.
Forecasts fail when they pretend there is only one future. Scenarios let teams test their decisions against several.
Technology matters through what it changes in people's lives: who gains, who is left out, and why.
Imagination needs a method, and every insight should trace back to evidence.
Several possible futures that leaders can test their strategy against, so they spot risks and openings early.
Radars and reports that map emerging technologies by maturity and impact, from gender equality to supply chains.
Qualitative research and user discovery that reveal what people do, not only what they say.
Turning insight into products: positioning, information architecture and design systems that scale.
Map signals across technology, policy, behaviour and culture.
Cluster signals, assess maturity and impact, separate noise from change.
Build plural scenarios and question the assumptions we hold about tomorrow.
Translate futures into priorities, roadmaps and products teams can build.
every month through organic search
by GIZ staff and international cooperation partners to assess technological readiness and impact
from 2019 to 2024, adding workshops, gender and sustainability metrics and new content along the way
Achieving Equality Between Men and Women, for research on how future technologies affect gender equality.
“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”
— Leonardo da VinciI started in information architecture, moved into UX and product, and found my field in foresight, where the job is noticing what others overlook. Today I combine all three at R/GA while studying International Relations.
I speak Portuguese and English fluently, have intermediate French, and am learning Arabic.
I study the future for a living and people for fun. When I’m not reading signals or building scenarios, I’m singing, on the jiu-jitsu mat, or making a playlist for a feeling I haven’t named yet.
“They call me observant. That's not particularly true. People are so easy to read – we bleed emotions even in the way we drink our coffee. No one seems to notice though. They're all too busy drinking their own damn coffee.”
A few things that don’t fit on a CV, and shape how I see everything else.
My synaesthesia shapes how I curate: I group songs that share the same smell or the same texture. This is my latest one:
Now spinningBaunilha AmazônicaListen on Spotify ↗مشوار طويل
Music is how I think when I'm not thinking.
It's strategy under pressure, in real time, and the best training I know for staying calm in a room.
Speculative fiction does what foresight does, only darker: it tells a future as a warning so we can choose differently.
I believe that the way I perceive the world, design strategies, and anticipate the future is a direct result of all the layered experiences that shape who I am. Raised in Brasil with deep Lubnani roots, I grew up navigating cultural intersections. Living in France for eight months further expanded this global lens through daily interactions with people from all over the world—from North Africa and the Levant to across Europe and the US—deepening my empathy and sensitivity to diverse social and geopolitical landscapes.
This background breathes through my daily rituals and artistic inspirations. Artists like Saint Levant and Beyoncé are central to how I explore ancestry: listening to Saint Levant’s trilingual album Deira sparked my desire to connect through multiple languages and dialects, while Beyoncé’s visionary work—especially in The Lion King: The Gift—teaches me about discipline, detail, and bringing ancestral roots into contemporary spaces.
My approach to reality is also guided by synaesthesia, allowing me to process sounds, rhythms, and textures in a distinctly sensory way, paired with an endless curiosity that spans from curating Spotify playlists to practicing strategic focus on the Brasilian Jiu-Jitsu mat and deconstructing dystopian narratives like The Handmaid’s Tale. Ultimately, this singular blend of personal perspectives and radical curiosity forms the bedrock of my professional practice, enabling me to translate complex signals into human-centered, high-impact digital strategies.
الله يحميكي
“I don’t need much I hold it down and protect my space. I leave it to God, to lead the way and direct my energy. I’ll be making sure my lineage proud, I know that my baby gonna wear this crown. I'm gonna fight and we won’t back down.”
“Allah Yihmeeki” · Saint LevantMy work combines behavioural research, emerging technology and socio-technical change. I take signals about AI, digital governance and how people behave, and turn them into scenarios, product strategy and roadmaps.
Strategic foresight, signal mapping, scenarios, trend intelligence
Behavioural research, user discovery, qualitative synthesis
Product strategy, information architecture, data governance
UX and UI, Figma prototyping, front-end logic in HTML and CSS
Each of these roles added something to how I work.
Leading qualitative research and user discovery, and building trend intelligence frameworks that connect human behaviour to long-term product positioning.
Led product strategy and UX, raised design maturity across engineering and product, and turned complex constraints into scalable architectures.
Trend and behavioural data analysis for global enterprise clients, turned into business intelligence and predictive strategy.
Led UX and product strategy for a high-traffic fintech platform, built a design system from scratch and redesigned App Quiz, a gamified learning app.
Foresight, signal mapping and intelligence strategy for global companies, multilateral forums and development agencies.
Mapped scenarios across AI and biotechnology and turned technical shifts into strategic frameworks, alongside data-driven growth campaigns.
Owned UX/UI and responsive web architecture for IoT platforms in Figma, with front-end layout logic and technical documentation.
Designed a colour-coded visual system for document control that sped up workflows, and led digital transformation workshops.
B.A. in International Relations, in progress (2028). Specialised courses in AI Applications in Federal Government, Brain-Machine Interface: Neuroscience and AI, and Trend Analysis in the Fashion Industry, plus 26 other certifications.
English language partner for young people in Gaza (2026). Co-creator of Achamos Sua Criança (2024). Foresight research for the Paris Peace Forum (2021). Global coordination for UNESCO's Futures Literacy Summit (2020).
Technology, measured by what it does for people. A platform co-developed by Envisioning and GIZ, Germany's development agency, to analyse the impact of emerging technologies on sustainable development.
techDetector connects new technologies to the challenges of sustainable development. It used a methodology Envisioning and GIZ created together, which looked at technology in a way international rankings did not.
Around the radar, an editorial line and a publishing schedule added case studies, interviews, future scenarios and even science fiction, all written with sustainability at the centre.
From 2020 to 2024 the platform added workshops and updates on futures literacy and technology foresight. They paid particular attention to effects on sustainability and gender equality, in line with the SDGs.
2019 – 2024Launch, then five years of updates and workshops
Envisioning × GIZCo-created methodology and metrics
Thousandsof organic readers every month through strong SEO
Paris Peace ForumDistinction, October 2021
A custom methodology showing how emerging technologies depend on each other, with Technology Readiness Levels and historical data for each one.
Gender and sustainability impact metrics co-designed with GIZ and reviewed with its teams and external experts.
Technologies classified into domains, applications and methods, a structure that organised the whole website.
Sessions with stakeholders that spread the research, fed the metrics and opened new collaborations for GIZ.
Case studies, interviews and scenarios, plus launches in Berlin and online, newsletters and talks at conferences.
Who gains and who is left out when a new technology arrives?
Identify emerging technologies and classify them into domains, applications and methods, each with its readiness level and history.
Score each technology on gender and sustainability impact, using metrics co-designed with GIZ and aligned with the SDGs.
Publish case studies, interviews, scenarios and fiction that connect each technology to real-world use.
Run workshops with GIZ teams, experts and partners that refine the data and turn insight into collaboration.
The Paris Peace Forum recognised the techDetector gender assessment for showing how future technologies affect gender equality. It maps the risks and opportunities emerging technologies bring to the lives of girls and women, and helps people working in sustainable development discuss them and make better-informed decisions.
“Envisioning have consistently demonstrated remarkable flexibility, reliability, and professionalism, serving as invaluable partners who brought in creative and visionary concepts that truly make an impact.”
Technology built to bring children home. An open-source family reunification platform created during the 2024 floods in Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brasil.
In May 2024, floods displaced hundreds of thousands of people in Rio Grande do Sul, and many children reached shelters without their parents.
We co-created an open-source platform to connect unaccompanied minors with their families. It had to go live fast, while the emergency was still happening.
Because the platform handled sensitive personal data of unaccompanied minors, legal compliance came first. We worked with legal advisors, the Guardianship Council and the Public Prosecutor's Office so that every record was protected under Brasil's General Data Protection Law (LGPD), shared with care and used only for family reunification.
May 2024Built and deployed during the emergency
Rio Grande do Sul floodsSouthern Brasil
LGPDBrasil's General Data Protection Law
National pressO Globo, UOL, CBN, O Assunto, ABC+
An open-source tool to match unaccompanied children in shelters with the families searching for them.
Sensitive data of minors handled under the LGPD, shared responsibly and used only for reunification.
Close work with the Guardianship Council, the Public Prosecutor's Office and legal advisors.
An Instagram presence that helped families find information quickly and reached national media.
Move fast for the families. Move carefully for the children.
Technology radars, research platforms and programmes for international institutions, development agencies and enterprises.
A technology radar turned impact portal for Germany's development agency, with gender and sustainability metrics.
Envisioning × GIZView case →An open-source platform that reunited unaccompanied children with their families during the floods in southern Brasil.
Co-founderView case →Technologies shaping industry, mapped for EIT Manufacturing.
EnvisioningView case →Exploring urban environments through data, with AI-powered predictions on mobility and infrastructure for policymakers.
CappraView case →Research for an interactive study on how digital technology shapes social mobility.
EnvisioningView case →Planning and global coordination of a 72-hour live programme in three languages.
EnvisioningView case →A radar of data and AI trends for business strategy.
CappraView case →Essays, reports and interviews on futures literacy, data, artificial intelligence and the technologies shaping how we live.
Why imagining futures is a skill that can be learned.
Conversations about foresight and imagination.
Data and AI research published with Cappra.
Scenario essays on how frontier technologies could change everyday life, written at Aerolito.