An engine that watches the world.
Hachi watches the world across eight signal domains — science, technology, financial markets, news, labor, venture capital, culture, and environment — and synthesises what it sees into trend predictions across four time horizons: six months, two years, five years, and twenty.
It has been running since last year, has generated over 1,800 predictions, and checks them honestly against reality as time passes — including the ones it gets wrong.
It is not a generic AI tool. It doesn't answer from general knowledge. When it surfaces a trend, there are real signals behind it — things that actually happened, data that actually moved. That distinction matters.
Where this came from.
Hachi grew out of IDEA.L, an earlier platform that tried to connect people's skills to emerging trends — to help them see what they could build given where the world was going. That instinct, connecting world signals to human potential, is still at the core of what Hachi does, just pointed at businesses rather than individuals. Hachi is Japanese for eight. Eight brains. Eight lenses on the world.
Matilha Collective.
Matilha Collective is a small innovation consultancy based in Porto, Portugal. Matilha means pack in Portuguese — the idea of moving together, strength in collaboration.
We're a small team, and honest about that. Small doesn't mean limited. It means focused, personal, and genuinely invested in every client we work with. Nobody on our end is going to forget your name between calls.
We work with small and medium enterprises — the companies that are too often priced out of the kind of strategic intelligence that larger firms take for granted. The belief behind Matilha is simple: good intelligence shouldn't require a Bloomberg Terminal budget or a McKinsey retainer. A family business in Porto deserves to know what's coming in their industry just as much as a multinational does.
How the work actually looks.
Matilha uses Hachi as its intelligence backbone. When we sit down with a client, the starting point is always what the signals actually say — not what conventional wisdom assumes, not what last year's industry report repeated.
The work changes shape depending on what a company needs. Sometimes it's understanding where their industry is heading over the next two years. Sometimes it's finding the opportunity inside a trend before their competitors notice it. Sometimes it's just having someone in the room who's been watching the signals for months and can translate them into a decision the team can make on Monday.
We don't believe in long reports that sit on shelves. The goal is always something a client can act on this quarter.
Honest about being wrong.
Hachi makes predictions and checks them against reality. The whole archive is public — not just the ones we got right, but the ones we got wrong and the ones still pending. That transparency is intentional. It's how we think trust gets built.
See the prediction archive →If you're running a business and want to understand what's actually moving in your sector — not what last year's trade report said, but what the signals say right now — we'd love to talk.
No pitch deck. No commitment. Just a conversation.