Mining and Energy

Project, external affairs and new energy teams use our stakeholder graph to navigate political and community risk.
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The
above-
ground
challenge
Extractives firms operate in politically sensitive, high-stakes environments - and the greatest threats to delivery and growth play out above ground. Delays, permitting disruptions, and stakeholder backlash cost mining and energy firms billions in overrun, write-down, and lost momentum each year. Political friction, social license and information overload complicate strategic and new energy planning. The common failure point: lack of structured visibility and management of the stakeholders and signals shaping business outcomes.
What's at stake
2⁄3 of enterprise value is driven by stakeholder engagement practices rather than the economic value of resources in the ground
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80% of cost-and-schedule challenges are linked to non-technical community and social license factors
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Mining permitting cycles now take on average 17.8 years vs. 6 years in the 90s
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And the unrecognised cost: Up to 35-50% of project lead and executive time is routinely diverted to conflict management
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We work with operators and contractors
to provide
Stakeholder and issue intelligence built for and with teams just like yours
Identify and preempt asset-level friction
Monitor and engage external stakeholders
Track public ESG signals across your issue landscape
Scout and de-risk new energy and expansion opportunities
Identify and preempt asset-level friction
  • Track signals that point to emerging local risks, permitting delays, or stakeholder conflict - before they escalate.
  • Surface contractor and EPC exposure across jurisdictions through integrated signal and stakeholder mapping.
  • Manage relationships and engagements with a built-in and (optionally) AI-augmented Stakeholder Relationship Management (SRM) toolkit.
  • Retain institutional memory across projects and regions - even as teams change.
Monitor and engage your stakeholder ecosystem
  • Maintain structured visibility over regulators, political actors, NGOs and community groups - across projects, jurisdictions and time.
  • Track emerging influence, sentiment and narrative shifts tied to your key issues and operating regions.
  • Coordinate outreach, log interactions and brief leadership with confidence using built-in Stakeholder Relationship Management (SRM) toolkit.
  • Stay ahead of stakeholder churn and prevent blind spots in fast-moving environments.
Track public ESG signals across your issue landscape
  • Monitor environmental, social, and governance issues as they evolve across jurisdictions, campaigns and stakeholder networks.
  • Surface early signals from competitors, civil society, media, and political actors on themes like decarbonisation, community rights, and sector scrutiny.
  • Leverage a fleet of ML models trained to classify signals in line with your sensing, risk or ESG material issue taxonomy.
  • Report continuously rather than relying on one-off studies.
Scout and de-risk new energy and expansion opportunities
  • Map the political, regulatory, and stakeholder terrain in new jurisdictions before committing capital, partnerships, or reputation.
  • Maintain situational awareness in low-footprint jurisdictions.
  • Detect sentiment shifts, activist alignment, and narrative pressure that may compromise project viability or partner credibility.
  • Support market entry, JV structuring, and investment planning with real-time visibility on local actors and issue hotspots.
  • Equip your strategy and transition teams to act with foresight.
We also partner with industry bodies and NGOs to drive domain insight
Client Success Stories
Managing mine closure community impact and conflict risk
91
Sites monitored globally
The closures team was responsible for managing the decommissioning of end-of-life assets. This entailed a multi-year journey to ensure positive outcomes for local communities, employees, and investors, while also maintaining ESG compliance.

The team was previously reliant on in-country knowledge, ad hoc RSS feeds and Excel trackers. They needed a more systematic way of monitoring key influencers and managing engagement.

TSC rolled out a dedicated workspace over 3 regions. The workspaces monitors 91 closure sites for co-related policy developments focussing on ~100 regulators impacting the closure cost. Early signal detection, trend analysis and proactive policy engagement enabled the team to manage closure cost and risk, better.
An SRM system for contractor risk and engagement
$61 billion
Asset value safeguarded
A major operator's projects and commercial team was responsible for relationship management, engagement, and media tracking of various contractors working on their offshore assets. This crucial to ensuring contractors' health and activities posed no risk to assets and timelines.

The teams would follow multiple news sources across different websites, use disconnected Excel sheets to capture engagements, and spend days preparing for executive engagements.

TSC rolled out a dedicated system for contractor intelligence, acting as a single source of truth across 60+ contractors. It acts as a meetings repository, consolidates global coverage into a single feed, offers weekly targeted updates on contractor activity and health, and enables rapid briefing.
Prospecting and market intelligence support in new energy BD
1700+
Opportunities engaged
An active new energy BD team needed a private and secure way to capture strategic engagements and report on them to management.Previously, the team used Excel to capture meetings, but the lists quickly became outdated. There was also no easy way of seeing if cross-regional teams had touched the same prospects.

TSC rolled out a private and secure SRM system for knowledge sharing strategic meetings across regions by centralising all engagement in a single view. Automatic meeting notifications are sent to the email inboxes of team members, so everyone is always in the loop. The system is also used to drive continuous situational awareness and identify opportunities across markets and stakeholders via regular, customisable media briefs, and platform usage.

Frequently asked questions

Can we customise the issues or stakeholder sets we want to track?
Each workspace is unique. It is configured with company context around the issues, actors, and geographies that matter to your team, and the problem you are trying to solve. From permitting regimes to labour risk, the system reflects your actual operating environment.
Is this built for our sector?
TSC maintains a tight sector focus. We know that the asset-intensive, global industries we support require expertise and cohesive focus. Our team is drawn from the industries that we serve. Our AI tools are set up to leverage domain focus and learn as your use case evolves.
Who uses this day-to-day?
Business unit leads use Genie to monitor stakeholder-driven operational risks and track engagement. External, institutional and corporate affairs teams use it to track engagement and monitor stakeholder ecosystems. Strategy leads use it to rapidly build market context and drive always-on situational awareness. Sustainability teams use it to monitor risk themes and ESG exposure. Most customers start with one functional / geographical use case and expand.
How does this scale across our regions or assets?
Each workspace within your ‘organisation’ in Genie is set up to support a mission. We have years of experience helping distributed teams manage complex portfolios, share intelligence and retain context. That’s why we don’t charge by seat - these problems require collaboration.
How do you source your data?
TSC draws from structured public data, open-source media, NGO and regulatory feeds, and issue-specific sources - all filtered through custom models to surface the news most relevant to your problem. We also support custom APIs.
Can this integrate with our internal systems or workflows?
Yes - from email alerting to export formats to structured integrations (e.g. BI), we support practical integration without bloat. We are constantly developing
We have used media monitoring and reputation tools before. What does Genie do differently?
TSC’s media monitoring stack is focused on issues and stakeholders: piercing through the noise to identify them, and link them to one another. We are the gold standard in this space - solving problems for external affairs, sustainability and commercial teams that brand or reputation watch tools just don’t.
How does this compare to the services our consultants and lobbyists provide?
Managing external relations requires a combined-arms approach. Consultants and lobbyists are valuable - but often tactical, episodic, or resource-heavy. Genie provides persistent, issue-aligned visibility across jurisdictions and stakeholders. Many clients reduce spend on low-value advisory work, and are empowered to leverage advisory partners for what they’re really paying them for - strategy, engagements, lobbying and door opening. Our ‘human-in-the-loop’ CS teams also work with consultants looking to equip their teams with better, faster context.

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