Jafsadi.works collaborates with public interest organizations at the intersection of research, investigations, design & planning, transformative strategy & advocacy.

What we do

  • Our strategy, analysis, and policy advising uses a combination of anticipatory, participatory, spatial, systems shifting, political economy, supply chain, and 'crisis as constant' approaches.

  • We provide landscape responsive and context-specific mapping, diagnostic, coaching, assessment, and learning tools for a a spectrum of standalone programs, initiatives in various stages from pre-launch to sunset, and complex inter-agency or transnational efforts.

  • We craft and execute action and applied research through a combination of long form interviews, open source data searches, participatory and landscape mapping, and investigative approaches to produce informed, responsive, and actionable internal feedback loops, external strategies, and public research.

  • Unlike crisis management or reactive risk-mitigation, the coaching we provide takes crisis as a constant, and focuses on strategizing for organizational, political, and resource uncertainty, while introducing and committing to longer-term visions of narrative, political, or social transformation triggered by crisis contexts.

  • We focus on designing tailored structural assessments, frameworks, and databases for documentation, disclosure, or following the money or influence--that draw on hybrid data and narrative sources for specific user groups ranging from journalists, lawyers, coders, and engineers, to advocates, policy-makers, civil society groups, and socially conscious investors.

  • We analyze authoritarian, corporate, or general political strategy playbooks along with developing and deploying organizational, coalition, or network playbooks across sectors, goals, and time.

  • We design and facilitate simulations, scenario-mapping, experiential education, and complex multi-stakeholder decision-making processes for collective strategy, learning, preparedness, rapid response, and coordination, or positioning.

  • While the urgency of resource, crisis, and reporting needs creates limited conditions for imagining—let alone planning for—alternate futures, we facilitate and design a series of organizational, policy, and coalition-based simulations, exercises, and coaching efforts to support operational and strategic shifts toward futures beyond current resource, political, or social constraints.

Areas of work

  • A protest with a large crowd holding flags and signs, with a background of clouds and flying birds, some crumpled paper texture overlay.

    Civic and political strategy, fault lines & movements

  • Horizontal equity & upward accountability

  • Pixel art image of a character resembling Mario from Nintendo, made with small tiles, next to a pixel heart, on a colorful graffiti wall.

    Philanthropy, non-profit, and aid orgs in public life

  • A colorful mesh rendering of a complex data visualization or mathematical graph with hexagonal, rectangular, and polygonal shapes in shades of green, yellow, blue, and gray.

    Public interest and civic tech

  • Aerial view of a densely populated city with numerous small buildings, roads, and a few sports fields.

    Restorative economies & built environments

  • Watercolor painting of Earth with visible continents, surrounded by a purple background with white snowflake-like patterns.

    Climate and environmental health justice

  • A refugee camp with tents and temporary shelters on muddy ground, people walking through the area, and dark storm clouds overhead.

    Displacement, mobility, borders & citizenship

  • Close-up of a white metal sign with the words 'Emergency Door' in black, attached to a beige wall with visible dirt and scratches.

    Crisis, disaster & humanitarian politics

  • A complex, abstract network of black wires and connectors against a light gray background.

    Power, political economy, disclosure & following-the-money