Saper Vedere was founded in 2017 by Nicolas Vanderbiest. A company under Belgian law based in Paris and Brussels, the firm was built on one conviction: to deliver concrete results for its clients, the tools and working methods of the sector have to be reinvented. Nine years on, it still shows in our recruitment, in our in-house tools and in how the firm is organised.
2017. Nicolas Vanderbiest, a specialist in digital crises and social media, founds Saper Vedere in Brussels: a research and consulting firm in public affairs and influence communications, a company under Belgian law. The firm helps its clients understand and anticipate political, institutional and societal dynamics in France, within the European institutions and internationally.
2018. Erwan de Rancourt, a former aide to Michel Barnier, joins the firm, of which he is now chairman. Under his leadership, Saper Vedere opens its Paris offices, steps up its investment in research and development and structures its Influence, Public Affairs and Design & Creation practices.
The founding conviction shows first in recruitment. From its creation in 2017, the teams have included people dedicated to designing new technologies to rethink influence communications. Every year since, the firm has kept investing in innovation by hiring new experts, exploring new tools and refining its methodologies.
Our in-house tools come from this. Follaw for legislative and institutional monitoring, Connexia for analysing opinion dynamics and stakeholder ecosystems. Technology is in our DNA: we invest constantly in R&D to create our own analysis tools and turn raw data into a concrete action plan.
The result is a digital DNA at the intersection of academic research and the business world. Nicolas Vanderbiest, managing director, specialised in the study of crises and information on social media.
The firm was built on one conviction: to deliver concrete results for our clients, we must reinvent the tools and working methods of our sector. From our creation in 2017, our teams have included people dedicated to designing new technologies to rethink influence communications.
Our approach rests not on intuition but on theoretical and scientific thinking. Before acting, we take the time to study our clients' needs and sector-specific features in detail. This analysis dictates our technology choices: our solutions always adapt to you, not the other way round.
Thinking up innovation is one step; making it tangible and operational for our clients is another. That is why, from the outset, the firm has been built around an operations department, responsible for understanding, design, organisation and then delivery.
We address emerging issues, for which everything remains to be built. These issues let us see well in advance what organisations will go through, and make available to other clients what we have learned from previous ones.
At Saper Vedere, our mission is to develop innovative solutions that help business leaders decode a society in deep transformation.
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