Great question! For starters, the annual cost of a full-time entry-level foresight specialist now exceeds $70,000, plus benefits. Salaries for senior-level foresight professionals are often well over $100,000.

Also, most organizations undertake foresight initiatives only a few times a year, so you may not always have enough work to keep your foresight employees busy at all times. In this scenario, you're stuck paying for time you aren't able to utilize.

With the monthly plan, you can pause and resume your subscription as often as you need to ensure you're only paying your foresight specialists when you have work available for them.

Likewise, if your organization has an internal foresight department, our service can serve as temporary staffing to complement one-off larger projects or leaves of absence. 

Organizations subscribing to a Research plan can assign new tasks to their assigned researcher once a week, depending on the complexity of the assigned task.

Organizations subscribing to a Business or Enterprise plan can assign a new task once per month based on the task menu outlined in the pricing options above. 

On average, most Research plan requests are completed in a week. More complex Business and Enterprise plan requests can take longer.

Since its founding, Quantumrun Foresight has operated and thrived through the efforts of its fully remote and internationally distributed team. This organizational structure not only allows us to pass on cost savings to our clients but also allows us to tackle diverse foresight consulting projects with the benefit of a wide range of perspectives. View our team list here.

Quantumrun is also associated with a diverse network of speakers and trainers who can provide foresight keynotes, webinars, and workshops across a range of languages, regions, and industry specializations. View our speaker list here.

We understand you may not have enough foresight work to assign monthly. Perhaps you only have one or two foresight requests at the moment. That's where pausing your subscription comes in handy.

Research subscription plans are based on a seven-day period. Let's say you sign up and use the service for three weeks (21 days) and then decide to pause your subscription. This means that the billing cycle will be paused, and you'll have one additional week of service remaining to be used anytime in the future.

Business and Enterprise subscription plans operate by selecting one project per month. However, your team can purchase a quarterly or annual service package. In this case, should your team decide to pause your subscription after two months, then the billing cycle will be paused, and you can use the remaining months in your subscription anytime in the future.