Cold-email sales brief — Stratalis Consulting

Target: George Hemingway — Managing Partner & founder · Prepared for Bridge outreach · 2026-07-07

Every non-obvious claim carries a source link. Quotes are verbatim. Do not cite items flagged “unverified.”

TL;DR — how to play this one

George Hemingway is a substance-and-thought-leadership buyer — ideas and rigor over surface polish — self-described “Professional Contrarian, Advisor, Innovation Leader, and Keynote Speaker” (X bio), ex-A.T. Kearney, MBA Columbia / BS NYU Stern, holds US & EU patents, marketed as “one of mining’s leading futurists.”

He runs an ~18-person NY boutique mid-rebrand (legacy stratalisgroup.com → new stratalis-consulting.squarespace.com, © 2025) that just stood up a new “Intelligence & Decision-Making” practice (competitive intel, strategic wargaming, techno-economic modeling; India/APAC team).

The wedge: a tiny senior-heavy team shipping high-stakes, claim-dense deliverables (intelligence briefings, techno-economic models, foresight reports) with no analyst army to check that every figure and claim holds up before it reaches the client — exactly Bridge’s job. Bridge reads the analysis, verifies every claim against independent sources, flags what’s unsupported, and hands back a client-ready, source-traced memo. Lead with verifiable, defensible output — the pitch is that every claim is checked and cited, not how the deliverable looks.

1 · Decision-maker — George Hemingway

Role Managing Partner; Head of Technology & Innovation Practice (The Org · LinkedIn)

Background Ex-A.T. Kearney + AIG Management Consulting; former CEO, Central European Franchise Group. MBA Columbia; BS NYU Stern; US & EU patents. Advisory board U. of Toronto; NASA Cross-Industry Innovation Summit speaker; CIM Innovation & Technology Society exec committee; Aspermont columnist.

Clients (safe) Vale — esp. Vale Base Metals (skills programs; Base Metals Innovation Consortia, “one of the largest open-innovation consortia in the industry”), Anglo American, BHP.

How he thinks & talks — verbatim (the gold for personalization)

“Trust is the new competitive advantage.” — his signature keynote line (Canadian Mining Journal)

“Find your why… Why do I work in mining? And why does what I do matter?” · “Trust is built by sharing our deeper personal purposes.”

“Futurecasting… a powerful tool to help organizations discover opportunity by crafting possible visions of the future.” — scenario metaphors: The Living Mine, The Rock Factory, The Symbiotic Structure, The Fluid Firm (series)

“In these transformational times, if anything is certain, it is that nothing is certain at all.” (CEO’s Agenda)

Cares about: foresight/scenario thinking as competitive advantage; trust & purpose in mining; the talent “grey tsunami”; innovation execution; being an original, contrarian thinker — not a commodity consultant.

Recent public activity (dated)

~Jun 2025 — LinkedIn: presented with Alex Hossack of Vale at CIM 2025 on geotechnical capabilities / building “a winning team” (post)
2025 — re-published the Futurecasting series on LinkedIn (“The Fluid Firm,” “The Power of Foresight,” “6 Tips for Futurecasting Success”)
Nov 2024 / Mar 2025 — Northern Miner podcast + YouTube: “Navigating Cultural Shifts and Innovation within the Mining Industry” (video)

Email tone: punchy, contrarian, idea-first, named frameworks. Engage with an idea (foresight, trust, the analyst-scarcity problem), be a little bold, keep it short and mining-literate. He’ll bristle at a generic “AI for consultants” pitch, or anything about making the output look nicer — engage a real idea instead.

2 · Personalization hooks (open with one of the top 3)

#	Hook	Why it works
1	The new “Intelligence & Decision-Making” practice (competitive intel, wargaming, techno-economic modeling; India/APAC team). src	Freshest signal; a new intelligence practice = more high-stakes claims a lean team has to stand behind.
2	“The CEO’s Agenda: The Trust Advantage” + the “Priorities Pyramid” (w/ Mining Journal, Mar 15 2021). src	Shows you read his marquee IP; a claim-dense flagship report whose every stat Bridge can verify; lets you nod to “trust.”
3	The six-part “Futurecasting the…” series (name “the Living Mine”), re-shared 2025. src	His signature work; naming a specific scenario proves real homework + speaks his language.
4	“Trust is the new competitive advantage” / “Find your why” keynote themes. src	His most-repeated lines; a light callback builds instant rapport.
5	CIM 2025 talk with Alex Hossack (Vale) on geotechnical capabilities. src	Recent, specific, verifiable; ties to his talent-crisis passion.
6	The 2025 rebrand (legacy WordPress → new Squarespace site).	A “leveling-up” moment — soft hook (“saw you’re sharpening the Stratalis story…”).
7	His “Professional Contrarian” self-label. src	Lets you match his voice and be a little bold, which he respects.

Do NOT use as a hook: a “CIM CONNECT 2026 ‘Rethinking Deep Mining’ session.” The official 2026 program shows no such Hemingway/Stratalis session — it’s unverified and citing it risks an embarrassing miss. Use the verified CIM 2025 / Vale (Alex Hossack) talk instead. (program)

3 · Fit thesis — they ship claim-dense work that has to be defensible

Bridge reads the analysis, verifies each claim against independent sources, flags the unsupported ones, and returns a client-ready, cited memo. Everything Stratalis ships is exactly the kind of claim-heavy output that has to hold up:

“The CEO’s Agenda” report — a 6-month study of “dozens of CEOs and hundreds of executives,” 3 themes, the “Priorities Pyramid.” Every stat and assertion in it goes to a CEO — the definition of output that must be verifiable.
Techno-Economic Modeling — “quantify the value and risk of… capital investment decisions.” Numbers that justify capital spend = claims that must be defensible.
Strategic Wargaming — scenario exercises that “expose blind spots.” Readouts rest on assumptions Bridge can check against the record.
Competitive & Market Intelligence — “translate complexity into usable insight… for investment decisions.” An intelligence practice lives or dies on the provenance of each claim.
Futurecasting series, technology roadmaps, ITAs (w/ Stantec) — all fact-laden client deliverables.

Fit line for the email: Every one of these — the CEO’s Agenda, a wargame readout, a techno-economic business case — rests on dozens of claims and figures that land on a client’s CEO. Bridge checks each against independent sources and flags what’s unsupported, so the output is defensible. That’s your own “trust” thesis, operationalized.

4 · Pain points & trigger events Bridge maps to

Senior-heavy, analyst-light team — org is almost all Partners/Directors + a couple APAC associates. → partners personally vouch for every figure, with no junior analyst to check the claims. Bridge gives each partner a tireless fact-checker — assurance without headcount.
New Intelligence practice = a step-change in claims they must stand behind, processes still immature. Bridge verifies each claim against sources; source-tracing is exactly what an intelligence practice needs to ship defensible, cited output.
Global/India delivery across time zones — hand-offs & inconsistent rigor. Bridge = one consistent verification + human-review layer regardless of who drafted the analysis.
Mid-rebrand (2025) — actively re-leveling brand & output standard. Natural moment to standardize deliverable quality.
⭐ Trust is his stated worldview — pitch Bridge’s source-tracing + human review as “verifiable output,” not “fast output.” Best value-prop framing for this buyer.

5 · Recommended email angles (draft openers — the deliverable)

ANGLE A · LEAD WITH THIS

A fact-checker for a senior-only team. Stratalis is all chiefs, no analysts; Bridge is the analyst that verifies your analysis — checks every claim against sources and flags what’s unsupported before it reaches the client. Assurance without hiring.

draft opener“George — Stratalis is one of the few boutiques where the partner doing the thinking is also the one who has to be sure every figure holds up before it lands on a client’s board. We built Bridge to be that check: drop in your analysis and it verifies each claim against independent sources, flags what isn’t supported, and gives you back a client-ready, cited memo — you still review and sign off. With the new Intelligence & Decision-Making practice, I’d guess the volume of claims you have to stand behind just went up.”

ANGLE B · strong #2 (best for HIM)

Verifiable output for an intelligence practice / a trust guy. You preach “trust is the new competitive advantage” and just launched an intelligence practice — Bridge’s claim-level verification + source-tracing makes every claim in the output as defensible as the analysis behind it.

draft opener“George — you’ve made the case for years that trust is the new competitive advantage, and now you’ve stood up an Intelligence & Decision-Making practice where the provenance of every claim matters. That’s exactly why I’m reaching out: Bridge verifies every claim in your analysis against independent sources and hands back a client-ready, cited memo — so what reaches the client is as defensible as the wargame or model behind it.”

ANGLE C · most on-voice, softer on pain

Bulletproof your flagship IP. The CEO’s Agenda / Futurecasting are your best marketing — and they’re only as strong as the claims in them. Bridge verifies every stat and assertion against sources so your flagship reports are unimpeachable.

draft opener“George — the Futurecasting series (‘the Living Mine’ stuck with me) and the CEO’s Agenda are the kind of IP that makes Stratalis’s name, which is exactly why every number in them has to be bulletproof. Bridge is built for that: it reads a report like the CEO’s Agenda, checks each claim against independent sources, and flags anything that can’t be backed — so your best thinking goes out unimpeachable, without a research team to chase every citation.”

Best play: open on A’s pain, make B’s verifiability the second paragraph. C is lowest-risk / most flattering if you’d rather open on his ideas.

6 · What to avoid / risks

Don’t frame it as a design/formatting tool or lead with how the output looks. Bridge’s value is that every claim is checked and cited — the substance, not the polish. He’s substance/contrarian — lead with verifiability and defensibility.
Frame in industrial/mining language, not generic “strategy”: “wargame readout,” “techno-economic business case,” “Futurecasting vision,” “intelligence briefing.”
He’s likely AI-curious / could think about building it himself (tech-practice leader, patents, “futurist”). Position Bridge as the already-built, source-tracing + human-review product that saves him from building internal tooling. Don’t condescend on AI; assume he’s informed. (No public post of his specifically about genAI surfaced — don’t claim to have seen one.)
Don’t over-claim clients. Vale / Anglo / BHP are safe. BASF, US Air Force, NASA/Pentagon advising — UNVERIFIED, do not state as fact (only a NASA summit speaking slot is confirmed).
Don’t cite the “CIM 2026 deep-mining session” — unverified.

7 · Contact & reachability

Email george.hemingway@stratalisgroup.com — the exact address on Stratalis’s own site (byline on the CEO’s Agenda / CMIC pages); format = first.last@stratalisgroup.com. General: info@stratalisgroup.com · phone +1 (646) 450-5451. (Mid-rebrand — a @stratalis-consulting.com address may emerge later; the @stratalisgroup.com one is what they publish today.)

LinkedIn /in/georgehemingway1 — active (2025 posts). A DM/connect referencing the same idea is a good parallel channel.

X @GeorgeStratalis — lower frequency than LinkedIn.

Sequence personalized email → LinkedIn connect on the same hook. He engages with ideas, so a smart hook has a real shot.

8 · Appendix — facts & sources

Company. Stratalis Consulting / The Stratalis Group — “A Global Strategy and Innovation Consultancy”; strategy, innovation, foresight (“Futurecasting”), industrial/mining focus. HQ New York, NY. Rebrand 2025: legacy stratalisgroup.com → stratalis-consulting.squarespace.com. Three practices: Strategy & Uncertainty Management · Technology & Innovation · Intelligence & Decision-Making (services).

Team (public via The Org): Hemingway (MP); Kate McLaughlin (Advisory Dir., Innovation–Industrials); Kaenan Hertz (Partner, Innovation & Financial Svcs); Laurent Thomas (Advisory Partner, Strategy); Rahul Bhatnagar & Tanya Sachdeva (Intelligence, APAC/India); Rick Joyce (Advisory Partner); Jeanne Hainz Levin (GC); Luciano Oliveira (Sr. Principal, Phoenix). Headcount ~18–21 (aggregator estimates; low confidence).

Financials — private; estimates only, wide spread: RocketReach ~$2M · LeadIQ ~$15M. Treat as rough estimates, not facts. No funding (unfunded LLC).

Verification notes. Could NOT verify: the CIM 2026 “deep mining” session; BASF & US Air Force as clients; NASA/Pentagon advising (only NASA summit speaking confirmed); exact headcount/revenue. Name-conflation ruled out: “Stratus Capital” (real estate), “stratalis.net” (German HR), and an unrelated “American Intelligence & Power / Monarch Compute” AI-datacenter story (Fidelis/Nscale — no George Hemingway). Do not associate these with the target.

Sources: The Org · LinkedIn · new site / services · legacy site · CEO’s Agenda · Canadian Mining Journal · LinkedIn (CIM 2025) · X.