Terms of use
Last updated: 1 September 20261. Acceptance of terms
By using this website, subscribing to our publications, or reading materials produced by Station Concepts™ ('the firm', 'we', 'us', 'our'), you agree to these terms of use and to the policies incorporated into them: the privacy policy, the global conduct statement, the intellectual property and trade mark notice, and the artificial intelligence policy. If you do not agree to these terms, you may not use this site.
2. Informational purpose only
All content, strategic frameworks, data models, and research reports, including Supervisions™, Superscans™, Futurodex™, and Technika™, are published for general informational, educational, and analytical purposes.
No professional advice. Publishing research on this site does not constitute consulting, financial, legal, tax, or investment advice.
No fiduciary duty. Reading this site or our materials does not create a client, advisory, or fiduciary relationship between you and Station Concepts. Consulting engagements are governed by a separate signed client agreement.
3. Intellectual property and permitted use
All original text, visual design, code, strategic models, and trade marks on this site belong to Station Concepts.
Personal and non-commercial use. You may quote and reference our public research for non-commercial purposes, with full attribution, under the permission set out in our intellectual property and trade mark notice. Republishing a work in full or in substantial part, and any commercial use, requires a written licence from us.
Automated extraction and AI training. Automated scraping, data extraction, and the ingestion of site materials into large language models (LLMs) or other artificial intelligence tools are prohibited under our intellectual property and trade mark notice.
4. User conduct and site security
When using our digital channels, you agree not to:attempt to gain unauthorised access to our web infrastructure, servers, or connected databases; introduce malicious code, viruses, crawlers, or automated scraping scripts; or misrepresent your identity or affiliation when submitting enquiries or contact forms. We may suspend or withdraw your access to this site, without notice, if we reasonably believe you have breached this section.
5. Disclaimer of warranties
This website and all published research are provided on an 'as is' and 'as available' basis, without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. Station Concepts disclaims all implied warranties of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose. We work to a high analytical standard, and we do not guarantee that our content will be free of error or that access to the website will be uninterrupted.
6. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Station Concepts and its principals, independent contractors, and representatives are not liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from:your access to, use of, or inability to access this website or its publications; decisions made, actions taken, or losses incurred in reliance on information published in Supervisions™, Superscans™, Futurodex™, and Technika™, or other material on this site; or technical failure, security breach, or interruption of service. Our total liability to you in connection with this website and its publications, however arising, will not exceed 100 US dollars. Nothing in these terms excludes or limits our liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for any other liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited. If you are a consumer, these terms do not affect your statutory rights.
7. Third-party links
Our website may link to external websites, tools, or resources. These links are provided as a convenience. Station Concepts has no control over third-party platforms and takes no responsibility for their content, accuracy, or privacy practices.
8. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms to reflect operational, legal, or regulatory change. Updated versions are posted to this page with a new effective date. Continuing to use the site after a change means that you accept the revised terms.
9. General
Severability. If any provision of these terms is found unenforceable, that provision is severed and the remaining provisions continue in full force.
No waiver. If we do not enforce a provision of these terms on one occasion, we do not waive our right to enforce it later.
Entire agreement. These terms, together with the policies they incorporate, are the entire agreement between you and Station Concepts in relation to this website. They do not affect the terms of any separate signed client agreement, which take precedence in the event of conflict.
Assignment. You may not assign your rights under these terms. We may assign ours to a successor entity on notice posted to this page, and these terms continue to apply to and for the benefit of that entity.
Your statutory rights. If you are a consumer, nothing in these terms deprives you of the protection of the mandatory law of your country of residence.
10. Contact
For questions about these terms: now@stationconcepts.com. We acknowledge enquiries within 2 business days.
Privacy policy
Last updated: 1 September 20261. Who we are
Station Concepts™ ('the firm', 'we', 'us', 'our') is the controller of the personal data described in this policy. We are a foresight studio working with clients and readers internationally.
Contact details for data protection purposes:
Name: Kendra Jones
Postal address: PO Box 823, Marfa, Texas, United States, 79843
This policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, subscribe to our research publications, or engage our consulting services.
2. Information we collect
We collect personal information that you give us, together with technical data generated when you visit our digital channels.
Data you provide. Name, business email address, job title, company name, phone number, and any messages or files submitted through our contact or scheduling forms.
Data collected automatically. Browser data, IP address, device specification, operating system, referring URLs, and pages viewed during your visit.
3. Why we process your data, and on what legal basis
We process personal data for six purposes, and each one rests on a legal basis under the GDPR and the UK GDPR.
Sending you our research publications. We use your name and email address, on the basis of your consent, Article 6(1)(a).
Answering enquiries and preparing proposals. We use your name, email address, company, and the content of your message, in order to take steps prior to a contract, Article 6(1)(b).
Delivering consulting engagements. We use your contact details and the material relating to your project, for the performance of a contract, Article 6(1)(b).
Keeping the website secure and working. We use your IP address and your device and browser data, on the basis of our legitimate interests, Article 6(1)(f).
Understanding how our publications are read. We use analytics data, on the basis of your consent, Article 6(1)(a).
Meeting tax, accounting, and legal obligations. We use engagement and payment records, on the basis of a legal obligation, Article 6(1)(c).
Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing carried out before you withdrew.
Where we rely on legitimate interests, our interest is in operating a secure website and running a professional practice. We have assessed that this interest does not override your rights, and you may object at any time.
4. Third-party service providers
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information, and we do not disclose it to third parties for cross-context behavioural advertising. To run our digital services, distribute research, and maintain web infrastructure, we share the minimum data necessary with the following categories of provider:
infrastructure and hosting, including cloud servers, content delivery networks, and file storage;
analytics and performance measurement, used to understand website traffic and engagement;
communications, including email delivery platforms, scheduling widgets, and client relationship software; and
security and compliance, including web application firewalls, anti-spam filters, and threat monitoring.
All providers process data on our behalf under contractual confidentiality obligations. A current list of named providers is available on request.
5. Cookies and tracking
Our website uses essential cookies required for navigation and basic function. These do not need your consent.
We also use performance and analytics cookies to understand how visitors read our publications. In the European Union and the United Kingdom, these are set only after you give consent through our cookie banner. You can change or withdraw your cookie choices at any time through the banner or through your browser settings.
6. How long we keep your data
We keep each category of data for a set period.
Subscriber name and email address. We keep these until you unsubscribe, and for 12 months after that.
Enquiries that do not lead to an engagement. We keep these for 24 months from your last contact with us.
Client engagement records and correspondence. We keep these for 7 years from the close of the engagement, to meet tax and accounting obligations.
Website security and server logs. We keep these for 12 months.
Analytics data. We keep this for 14 months.
Where a legal, tax, or accounting obligation requires a longer period, we keep the record for that period and no longer.
7. Artificial intelligence and your data
Where client communications and submitted documents are processed with the assistance of AI tools, we use enterprise environments configured for zero retention and opted out of model training. No personal data, client material, or proprietary information is entered into a public AI tool, or into any system that uses inputs to train models. Our artificial intelligence policy sets out the full position.
8. International transfers
Station Concepts operates from the United States and works with a distributed network, so your data may be processed outside your country of residence.
Where personal data is transferred out of the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we rely on the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses, and on the UK International Data Transfer Addendum where the transfer originates in the United Kingdom.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you hold rights to:
access the personal data we hold about you;
have inaccurate data corrected;
have your data erased;
restrict how we process your data;
object to processing based on legitimate interests, including direct marketing;
receive your data in a portable format; and
withdraw consent for promotional communications or non-essential processing.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority. In the United Kingdom this is the Information Commissioner's Office. In the European Union it is the supervisory authority in the country where you live or work. In Canada it is the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
10. Children
Our website and publications are directed at professional readers. We do not knowingly collect personal data from anyone under 16. If you believe a child has given us personal data, contact us.
11. Data breaches
If a personal data breach occurs that presents a risk to your rights, we notify the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware of it, and we notify you directly where the law requires.
12. Changes to this policy
We update this policy when our practices or the law change. Updated versions are posted to this page with a new effective date.
13. Contact
For questions about this policy, your rights, or our data protection practices: now@stationconcepts.com.
We acknowledge enquiries within 2 business days. Where a request concerns your data protection rights, we respond substantively within the period required by law, which is one month under the GDPR and the UK GDPR.
Digital accessibility statement
Last updated: 1 September 20261. Our commitment
Station Concepts™ builds for readers of all abilities. We improve the reading experience across our digital channels as we go, and we apply recognised international accessibility standards so that our research, tools, and services are usable by everyone.
2. Conformance status
This website is partially conformant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at level AA. Partially conformant means that some parts of the content do not fully meet the standard. These guidelines set out how to make web content accessible to a wide range of readers, including those using screen readers, keyboard navigation, or screen magnification. Last reviewed: 1 September 2026
3. Design practices
We build accessibility into our web design and content updates by: designing with high-contrast text and responsive layouts that hold up across screen sizes and zoom levels; maintaining logical heading structures, clear semantic markers, and alt text for key visual elements; and keeping the main reading paths, forms, and navigation menus operable by keyboard.
4. Known limitations
We are aware of the following limitations, and we are working on them: embedded third-party services, including scheduling calendars and video players, do not always meet level AA and some older research documents published as PDFs are not fully tagged for screen readers. If you meet a barrier we have not listed here, please tell us.
5. Third-party content and external platforms
Our website occasionally links to external resources or embeds third-party services such as scheduling calendars, video players, or payment processors. We select platforms that take accessibility seriously, and we do not control their technical implementation.
6. Contact
For questions about accessibility of our digital channels, or you need any of our material in an alternative format: now@stationconcepts.com. We acknowledge enquiries within 2 business days.
Confidentiality statement
Last updated: 1 September 20261. When confidentiality begins
Confidentiality at Station Concepts™ begins at first contact rather than at signature. Everything disclosed to us in an enquiry, a discovery call, a proposal process, or a conversation that never becomes an engagement is held on the same terms as work we are paid for. This applies whether or not a non-disclosure agreement is in place, and it continues if the engagement does not go ahead.
2. Where the work happens
We do not conduct client work or take client calls in co-working spaces, shared offices, cafés, airport lounges, hotel lobbies, or any other environment where a conversation can be overheard or a screen can be read over a shoulder. Client work is done in a private working environment, on our own equipment.
3. Client identity
We do not disclose the identity of a client or a prospective client. This holds for mutual connections, for the person who made the introduction, and for anyone who appears to know already. A shared contact is not consent, and confirming what somebody has correctly guessed is still a disclosure. We do not comment on whether a named organisation is, was, or may become a client, and we do not answer the question by declining to answer it selectively.
4. Publication and marketing
No client engagement appears in our marketing, our research publications, our newsletter, or our public speaking unless the client has explicitly agreed in writing to a specific description and has seen that description before it is published. Where permission is given, it covers what was agreed and nothing further. It does not extend to reuse in a different context, and a client may withdraw it, at which point the material comes down. Where permission is not given, the engagement is not referenced in any form, including anonymised or composite form. A case study that a knowledgeable reader in the sector can identify is a disclosure. This section governs client work. Projects carried out independently, including prior employment, board service, public commissions, published writing, and invited talks, are our own professional record, and we publish them at our discretion, subject to any confidentiality obligation owed from that work.
5. Independent contractors and specialist advisers
Where an engagement involves an independent contractor or a specialist adviser, that person signs a written confidentiality agreement on terms no less strict than this statement before any client material reaches them. We tell the client before a subcontractor is brought onto their engagement.
6. How the material is held
Client material is held on our own equipment and access-controlled. It is not stored on shared or client-facing platforms without the client's agreement. Where AI tools assist with client material, we use enterprise environments configured for zero retention and opted out of model training. Our artificial intelligence policy sets out the full position, and no client material is entered into a public AI tool. At the close of an engagement, we return or destroy client material on request, and we confirm in writing when we have done so.
7. Conflicts of interest
Foresight work brings us into the same sector more than once. We may disclose a potential conflict before an engagement begins.
8. How long these obligations last
These obligations do not expire. They continue after an engagement closes, after a proposal is declined, and after a working relationship ends. There is no point at which a former client's information becomes available to us for other purposes.
9. The limits of this commitment
Legal compulsion. We disclose confidential information where the law requires it, which means a valid court order, subpoena, or regulatory demand. Where we are permitted to notify you before we comply, we do, and we disclose only what is required.
Serious harm. We may disclose where disclosure is necessary to prevent a serious risk to the safety of a person. Certain information is not confidential in the first place: information that is already public through no act of ours, information we held before you disclosed it, and information we developed independently.
10. Relationship to signed agreements
This statement is a public commitment and describes our standing practice. It is not a contract, and it does not replace a non-disclosure agreement. Where a signed engagement agreement or non-disclosure agreement applies, that document governs the engagement, and where it sets a stricter standard than this statement, the stricter standard applies.
11. Contact
For questions about this statement, or to raise a concern about how information has been handled: now@stationconcepts.com. We acknowledge enquiries within 2 business days.
Intellectual property and trade mark notice
Last updated: 1 September 20261. Trade marks and proprietary assets
The business names, logos, service marks, and research methodologies shown on this website are the common law trade marks and intellectual property of Station Concepts™. Our marks and protected frameworks include: Station Concepts™, Supervisions™, Superscans™, Futurodex™, Technika™, CLEAR Protocol™. All original content, report structures, publications, strategic models, site code, and visual assets associated with these marks are the intellectual property of Station Concepts. Unregistered trade mark rights, denoted by ™, are claimed on the basis of use in commerce from the date of first commercial use.
2. Permitted use and attribution
All rights in the public research, reports, and strategic frameworks authored by Station Concepts are reserved. Within that reservation, we grant a limited permission to readers, independent researchers, and non-commercial organisations.
What you may do. You may quote passages from our public research, and you may reference, discuss, and build on our published work, for non-commercial purposes.
Attribution. Credit Station Concepts as the author, name the mark used, for example 'Source: Futurodex™ by Station Concepts', and link to the source document.
What requires a licence. Republishing a work in full or in substantial part, translating it, incorporating it into a paid product, course, advisory service, or monetised media, or putting it to any other direct or indirect commercial use, requires a written commercial licence from us.
Scope of this permission. This permission is granted to human readers. It does not extend to automated agents, and it grants no rights in text and data mining or artificial intelligence model training, which are governed by section 3.
3. Reservation of rights against text and data mining
Station Concepts reserves its rights in the use of its website, publications, data outputs, and reports for text and data mining, automated scraping, and machine learning or AI model training.
Reservation of rights. Under Article 4(3) of Directive (EU) 2019/790 on copyright in the digital single market, and equivalent international text and data mining frameworks, Station Concepts expressly reserves its rights in all content made available on this website.
Prohibited ingestion. No automated agent, bot, crawler, or software pipeline may index, ingest, extract, or process any part of our work, including Supervisions, Superscans, Futurodex, and Technika, for the purpose of developing, training, evaluating, or fine-tuning large language models, generative AI tools, neural networks, or commercial algorithms.
Machine-readable opt-out. Alongside this notice, Station Concepts enforces text and data mining opt-outs through machine-readable methods, including robots.txt and ai.txt. Bypassing these controls is a breach of these terms.
4. Third-party trade marks
Company names, product names, logos, and technology standards referenced in our publications belong to their owners. We name them for identification, commentary, and analysis. Naming them does not imply affiliation, sponsorship, or endorsement.
5. Commercial licensing and enquiries
For commercial licensing, enterprise redistribution, or permission to use Station Concepts trade marks or research beyond the scope of section 2: now@stationconcepts.com. We acknowledge enquiries within 2 business days.
Global conduct statement
Last updated: 1 September 20261. Operational commitment
Station Concepts™ is a remote-first consulting firm working across borders. We hold to integrity, transparency, and ethical conduct, and we do not tolerate forced labour, child labour, human trafficking, or unethical practice in our operations or our service network. Our operations follow internationally recognised human rights and labour standards.
2. Service and supply chain model
We are a knowledge-based professional services firm, and our operations carry low inherent supply chain risk. Our supply chain rests on three things: independent contractors, advisers, and subject-matter experts; enterprise software platforms, cloud infrastructure, and digital tools; and local hospitality, co-working, and travel providers.
3. Fair labour standards
Every engagement, whether with a team member or an international subcontractor, follows ethical labour practice.
Voluntary engagement. All work is performed voluntarily under clear, transparent, and mutually agreed contractual terms.
Equitable compensation. Compensation meets or exceeds local market rates for skilled professional labour.
Inclusion and safety. We maintain a safe, flexible, and inclusive working environment, free from harassment, coercion, and unlawful discrimination.
4. Subcontractors and vendors
We choose our technology vendors and independent subcontractors with care. Partners supplying services or digital infrastructure to Station Concepts are expected to hold to equivalent ethical standards. We reserve the right to end any relationship with a vendor or contractor found in violation of basic human rights or labour ethics.
5. Anti-corruption and professional integrity
Station Concepts prohibits bribery, kickbacks, and corrupt practice of any kind. Wherever our services are delivered, and wherever our people are located, we conduct client work and business transactions with objectivity, independence, and professional governance.
6. Regulatory transparency
Station Concepts is an unincorporated professional services firm operating below international statutory reporting thresholds. This statement is a voluntary commitment to transparency, ethical business practice, and responsible governance.
7. Contact
To raise a concern under this statement: now@stationconcepts.com. We acknowledge enquiries within 2 business days.
Artificial intelligence policy
Last updated: 1 September 20261. Why this policy exists
Strategic foresight runs on source material. A horizon scan reads across hundreds of documents, sometimes in two languages, to find the weak signals that matter, and a scenario is only as inhabitable as the scanning beneath it. Generative AI compresses parts of that pipeline. It also makes it cheap to produce analysis that sounds credible. The forces pushing research toward automation are the same forces that make it hard for a reader to tell grounded work from fluent work, and a reader deciding whether to act on a scenario deserves to know which one they are holding. That is a problem of disclosure rather than a problem of anyone's bad faith. This policy sets out what we use AI for in Station Concepts™ research, what we never use it for, and how AI involvement is disclosed on published work. It applies to everything published under our marks, including Supervisions™, Superscans™, Futurodex™, and Technika™, and to every client engagement.
2. CLEAR Protocol
All research and advisory work produced by Station Concepts follows our CLEAR Protocol™:
Cognitive leadership. We hold authority and ownership over every analytical output, strategic framework, and client deliverable. AI tools are assistive. They do not decide what a signal means, which scenarios are plausible, or what a client should do.
Log and traceability. AI-assisted research inputs, data aggregation paths, and tool use are recorded, so the method behind any finding can be traced after the fact.
Ethical analysis. All data processing follows client confidentiality standards. No non-public information, proprietary code, or personal data is entered into an unencrypted or public model.
Anchored verification. Algorithmic outputs, data models, and literature summaries are cross-referenced against primary sources and verified benchmarks, which reduces the risk of fabricated citations and unexamined bias.
Responsible review. Every AI-assisted insight is assessed by a person for context, nuance, and analytical integrity before sign-off.
3. Where AI sits in the research pipeline
We sort AI use into three tiers, on the basis of how much a mistake would cost and how far the output travels.
Permitted. Low-risk work where an error is visible and reversible, and where the output is an input to our thinking rather than a finding: sorting, clustering, and tagging source material gathered by hand; translating publicly available documents for a first read, with the original consulted before anything is quoted; checking grammar, clarity, and consistency in drafts we have written; formatting notes, restructuring outlines, and refining code for scanning and visualisation tools; and generating alternative phrasings and counter-arguments to test our own reasoning.
Permitted with verification. Work where AI output could plausibly be wrong in ways that are hard to see, and where a person checks it against primary sources before it goes anywhere: summarising large public datasets and preliminary literature; assisting with scenario modelling and the mechanical parts of cross-impact analysis; drafting first-pass structures for scanning frameworks; and proposing search directions and adjacent domains during horizon scanning. Nothing in this tier reaches a client or a publication without primary-source verification by us.
Not permitted. Client data in public models. Confidential client briefs, non-public data, proprietary assets, and personal information are never entered into a public AI tool, or into any model that uses inputs for training.
Automated deliverables. Unedited machine-generated text, strategic plans, or research reports are never published or delivered as original human analysis.
Unverified citations. Machine-generated citations, bibliographies, and data points are never relied on without primary-source verification.
Delegated judgement. Interpretation, strategic synthesis, and recommendations to a client are ours. They are not outsourced to an automated system.
Facilitation. Workshop design, facilitation, and coaching are relational work.
4. Disclosure on published work
Where AI assisted in producing a Station Concepts publication, the publication carries a disclosure note stating what the tool did and what remained the author's. A typical note reads:
AI disclosure. Source material for this scan was gathered by hand and clustered with the assistance of [tool]. Translation of English-language sources is machine-assisted and checked against the originals with the help of a human translator. Signal selection, interpretation, and every claim in the analysis are the author's. Sources were verified against the primary documents listed in the appendix. Publications produced without AI assistance carry no note.
5. Documentation
For every AI-assisted piece of work, we record: the purpose the tool was put to; the name and version of the tool; the input given to it, whether a prompt, a dataset, or a set of files; the sources used to verify the output; and a plain-language note on any weakness identified in the output, including inaccuracy, inconsistency, and apparent bias. This record is available to a client on request for any engagement they have commissioned.
6. Client data protection
Zero-training environment. Where enterprise AI tools are used to process client data, Station Concepts uses zero-retention enterprise environments or private interfaces configured to opt out of model training.
No unsanctioned mining. Client proprietary data, operational metrics, and strategy documents are not used to train third-party or commercial large language models.
Client override. A client may restrict or prohibit AI use on their engagement for legal, ethical, contractual, or reputational reasons. Where a client sets a stricter rule, that rule takes precedence over this policy for that engagement.
7. Trust signal
The CLEAR Protocol mark appears on Station Concepts publications and research pages to signal that the work was produced under this policy. Where the mark appears, the disclosure note in section 4 appears with it.
8. Contact
Artificial intelligence changes quickly. Updated versions are posted to this page with a new effective date, and the version in force at the time a publication is released is the version that governs it.For questions about this policy: now@stationconcepts.com. We acknowledge enquiries within 2 business days.