• Cambridge, MA 02142
  • info@diakronos.com
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20 years in
MATE research
and application

Who We Are

Our journey began with two ambitious grad students inspired by a former Chief Scientist of the Air Force. Witnessing flawed decision-making processes for critical choices, they set out to revolutionize decision-making with grounded, proven methods. This mission led to the creation of Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (MATE). Fast-forward through 46 graduate students, 20 years, and 120 publications, and Diakronos Solutions Inc. was born. Our goal is to bring this advanced decision technology to the masses. We're proud to celebrate our 4th year of empowering better decisions through our innovative software and consulting tools.

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Dr. Adam Ross
Founder, Diakronos Solutions Inc.

Our technology is based on over 20 years of our award-winning research at MIT that leverages digital engineering, tradespace analytics, and human-in-the-loop computing.

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Tradespace Exploration Methods

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Designing for Dynamic Uncertainty

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Resilient Systems

Uncertainty and change will impact your organization.

Through our proven methods and proprietary technology, we enable you to transform risks into opportunities.

Clients

Team Members

Meet our experts

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Dr. Adam Ross

Founder & President
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Dr. Matthew Fitzgerald

MATE Research & applications
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Mike Schaffner

MATE research & applications

Team With Us

 

Extraordinary growth requires extraordinary partners, and we are fortunate to have worked with many thus far! If you are a high-caliber organization looking to turbo-charge your decision-making skills and help change the world, we want to connect with you. Our technology is designed to identify mutually exciting opportunities in cooperative environments.

In short: we love working with others!

Early Adopters (Software)

We have regularly recurring opportunities to participate in beta testing new versions of our flagship software, EpochShift, as well as internal research and upcoming projects. We can also offer discounts on software licenses in exchange for feedback about user experiences and in-development features. Depending on the arrangement, we can even take requests for specific features that streamline your workflow with specific toolsets.

Investors

We are a pre Series A company and open to inquiries from qualified outside investors. Please contact us to learn more about investment opportunities.

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Our Software: EpochShift

Our flagship software EpochShift is designed from top to bottom around proven research in Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration and Epoch Era Analysis.

  • Quickly find the solutions most valuable to you and to other stakeholders

  • Conduct more rigorous trade studies in less time than ever.

  • See deep connections and experience new levels of confidence in exploring and understanding complex design spaces.

  • Use a common language to communicate analysis questions and results across domains, unlocking true collaboration in your teams.

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For more information: www.epochshift.app

Fast, Easy Data Import

Advanced Visual Analysis

Simple Value Modeling

Strategic Decision-Making

Easy Insight Tracking

Growing Capabilities

Website API Design

If you want to integrate the absolute best decision-making technology into your e-
commerce, consumer research/recommendation, or political and government website, you want a ValueSite API.

Due to the unique challenges of each source and type of data, each instance of our API is custom-tuned to leverage our proprietary ValueSite technology for the specific dataset and user experience desired. We are able to fit a wide variety of use cases, including mobile-first interfaces, third-party sources for automated value model creation, and Transparent Recommendation technology to maximize user delight and confidence.

Contact us today for a customized quote. Setup costs vary by application. Monthly charges are in accordance with use.

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Our Services

Diakronos offers a wide range of services, ranging from one-day virtual classes to custom-tailored consulting agreements.

Our history with businesses big and small is one of providing rapid insight, actionable results, and game-changing perspective. Workshops can be as small or as large as you need, right-sized for your team and your goals. Need to teach your team a new general approach to problem-solving? Or tackling a particularly wicked challenge in product design? We’ve already interactively taught teams just like yours in both informal and formal settings. Our on-site, remote, and hybrid consulting arrangements allow us to get intimately familiar with the problem at hand while also smartly protecting your organization’s data.

Think of us like rocket boosters that you can bolt on to your team; but in this case, rocket boosters that can listen and adapt with you.

One-Day In-Person or Virtual Class on MATE

This introductory class will expose participants to the core concepts in value-driven tradespace exploration embodied in MATE, including examples and coverage of best practices.

Limited to 20 seats Book now

Multi-Day In-Person or Virtual Course on MATE

This course will teach participants the core concepts of MATE as well as detailed and practical step-by-step processes for defining, generating, and exploring tradespace data for use in MATE studies. Course includes examples and covers best practices.

Limited to 20 seats Book now

Guided MATE Workshop

Our MATE experts will lead your team in a one or multi-day workshop through defining a MATE study applied to your problem. By the end of the workshop your team will be set up for success to perform their own MATE study.

Limited to 20 seats Inquire

Embedded MATE Support

Our MATE experts will become part of your team for one to three months, guiding your MATE study and sharing targeted best practices for the most effective use of your team’s time. Includes three months of EpochShift for Teams to turbocharge your team’s MATE productivity.

Team size limited to 20 Inquire

Custom Consulting Agreements

If you need help with your toughest challenges, we also offer fully customized consulting agreements. We’ll help think through your hard problems and offer what you need: guidance, training, identifying and capturing complexities, flashy graphics – all the way down to working directly with you on your analysis.

No team size limit Inquire

Proven Methods

Value Added

Our methods have been applied to countless numbers of application areas across government and commercial space, for both research and commercial purposes.

Such as:

  • R&D Portfolio Management

  • Oil and Gas Capital Investment

  • Change Strategy Assessment

  • Maritime System-of-Systems (SoS) Design

  • Ground Vehicle Design

  • Naval Ship Design

  • Space Satellite Design

  • Federated Satellite System Design

  • VTOL Industry Strategy Assessment

  • Purchasing Decisions

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Opportunities to Expand your Thinking

Dive In

Check out The Tradespace – our Medium publication dedicated to spreading the word about tradespace exploration and providing free education about all your favorite MATE methods! We offer tutorials, example applications, breaking news, and all kinds of stimulating ideas. Whether you are a newcomer to decision analysis or a tradespace veteran, you’ll be sure to read something that sparks your neurons with newfound decision-making energy.

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Research

All of our products, services, and software are rooted in decades of award-winning MIT research in Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration, Epoch Era Analysis, Changeability and Options, the -ilities, Systems Engineering, Systems-of-Systems Engineering, and Lifecycle Analysis. If you’ve read all of The Tradespace and are hungry for more, read the original research that motivated the creation of Diakronos and from which we derive our purpose and products.

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xPro Course

If you are interested in a formal educational offering, consider taking the Quantitative Methods in Systems Engineering course at xPro (an online MIT course). This class includes a unit on tradespace exploration and the Multi-Attribute Tradespace Exploration (MATE) framework, and it will help you get comfortable organizing and quantifying your problems with systems thinking. Developed in part by Diakronos staff, it's a perennial favorite for tradespace practitioners!

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Train

If you are interested in applying MATE to your own complex decision spaces, check out our hands-on MATE training! We offer many configurations of workshops and consulting services to provide what works best for you in your organization. Remote or in-person, short- or long-term, you're sure to come away with more clarity and confidence in your decisions than ever before. Inquire today to see about our latest offerings and availability.

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Technical White Papers

Aritificial Intelligence with MATE and Set-Based Design

MATE and Set-Based Design share many features and have complementary goals. AI methods can more efficiently process the large amounts of data generated by these approaches to rapidly and reliably identify the value-driving components in complex design decisions.

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Ready to make more trusted, truthful decisions?

Inquire today for our offerings & availability

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