You don’t need our help when everyone understands your recommendations.

You need it when organized opponents, special interests, and stakeholders with hidden motives pressure policymakers to ignore your advice and the negative impacts it entails.

You need it when your contributions are headed for the shelf because the public wants to “kick the can down the road”.

Your expertise tells you the problem won’t get smaller. The options won’t be better. Instead, the problem will be harder to address. The available solutions are more limited… The consequences are more dire.

You know things will get worse and your expertise will have gone to waste.

That’s when you need our help.