Strategic partnerships CIC sits within a major research university (NYU) and focuses on policy, security, development, and humanitarian issues, presenting opportunities to offer advanced policy analytics, cross-institutional collaboration tools, and grant management support to strengthen research coalitions.

Funding leverage With annual revenue in the mid-range for think tanks and active grant-based funding, there is potential to propose enterprise-grade grant workflow automation, compliance solutions, and donor management to streamline funding applications and reporting.

Tech modernization Current tech stack includes productivity, collaboration, and workflow tools (Google Workspace, Jenkins, Ansible, Marketo) suggesting upsell opportunities in security hardening, automated CI/CD for research portals, and targeted marketing automation enhancements.

Crisis and risk focus CIC’s mission to prevent crises and advance peace and inclusion aligns with offerings in crisis monitoring dashboards, data visualization, and scenario modeling platforms that can support policy decision-making and humanitarian response planning.

Talent and culture An 11-50 employee think tank implies lean operations with potential needs in professional services, training, and knowledge management solutions to amplify research impact, collaboration, and internal onboarding.