Two families of support, one shared know-how.

Mapping critical dependencies — suppliers, technologies, raw materials — to reduce your vulnerabilities and strengthen your strategic autonomy.

We analyse your value chain through an integrated approach that accounts for competition, public policy and market expectations. The aim is twofold: identify breaking points before they occur, and build the industrial alternatives that will make you less dependent.

What we deliver

• Mapping of critical dependencies
• Supply disruption scenario analysis
• Vulnerability reduction roadmap

Tailored analysis to inform executive decisions: investment, public policy, industrial reform, strategic repositioning. Foresight is used here to build scenarios that can be acted on.

Whether the question is an investment, a public policy, an industrial reform or a strategic repositioning, we bring together the best experts to deliver clear, actionable diagnoses aligned with sovereignty and innovation stakes.

What we deliver

• Five- and ten-year scenarios
• Decision papers for executive committees
• War games and scenario workshops

Support for high-stakes projects, alongside management teams, funders and operators: strategy, logical frameworks, work plans, monitoring and evaluation, reviews and adjustments.

We work alongside management teams and funders to ensure coherence between initial objectives, resources committed and results achieved. Our approach combines critical analysis, custom reporting tools and contextual intelligence so you can hold the course, adjust quickly and secure your results.

What we deliver

• Logical frameworks and work plans
• Monitoring and evaluation system and dashboards
• Project reviews and early warnings
• Evaluation and accountability

From identifying high-potential projects through to their financial structuring, integrating regulatory, ESG and sovereignty constraints.

We support technology SMEs, investment funds, law firms and public institutions in developing dual-use solutions and structuring strategic financing, drawing on French and European public instruments.

What we deliver

• Project identification and qualification
• Financial engineering and public instruments
• ESG strategy applied to defence

A supply crisis is not played out on paper. Whaydon designs and runs simulation exercises — serious games — that put participants in front of a plausible disruption: a critical component running short, a production ramp-up to hold, financing that falls through. Each participant plays a role, whether state, prime contractor, SME, bank or fund, and has to decide under pressure of time and incomplete information.

These exercises are built into executive education programmes designed with higher-education institutions and institutional partners. They are intended for the leadership teams of the defence industrial and technological base, for public administrations and for investors.

What we offer

• Tailored simulation sessions in a short format, from half a day to a full day
• Executive education programmes on industrial sovereignty and defence financing
• Working groups that extend the exercises and turn them into operational recommendations
• Partnership arrangements for organisations wishing to support or co-design these programmes

Stress-testing dependencies before they turn into crises.

Expression of interest — Autumn 2026