To all Exocog staff and consultants:

We're posting these summaries of our projects' monthly reports on our Intranet as a way of increasing the visibility of our work and optimizing communication and synergy among projects. It should also instill a sense of trust in you -- this is, by definition, proprietary information. Appropriate discussion of the information within the Exocog family is to be encouraged; any other distribution to or access by unauthorized persons is grounds for termination, as is the case with all Exocog proprietary information.

Thank you,
Peter

Business Advisories

We are on target for the vast majority of our subject areas. Projections of oil and solar availability have been satisfactory, especially in comparison to traditional forecasts (which, after all, is our main way of measuring success). Technology continues to be unpredictable; however, we take some pleasure in having been able to warn our clients away from telecom stocks, as we had previously with most of their Internet investments. Predictions of the demand for such raw materials as iron, copper, silicon, and gold continue to be exceptionally strong, surprising even ourselves. We have begun to explore whether there could be some revised version of a Gaia hypothesis that might explain the strong performance of our precognitives in this area, possibly relating the connections of the materials to their physical presence in the earth. This has led to a new collaboration with researchers at the Institute for Precognitive Studies, which will bring us some much-needed skills and experiences.

World Events Bulletins

As you know, most of the information on our work has to be placed under special restrictions, due to its sensitive nature and the demands of our beta clients in this area. However, we can report that our envisionments of weather and economic patterns has improved considerably since we adopted the double-observer technique we discussed last month in this space. Using two precognitives on a problem, instead of just one, increased our detection of major weather events to 94%, with comparable increases in local precision. One of our beta clients, acting on a specific envisionment about Pacific storms, was able to redirect a freighter around an otherwise undetected typhoon, saving at least $40,000 in equipment damage, delayed deliveries, and follow-up air freight of replacement merchandise. This month, we will be refining the double-observer technique, hoping to improve the joint envisionment of time and location.

Custom Envisionments

Our client load continues to exceed our capacity; our project backlog remains at about eleven days. This increased demand has meant that we are now able to charge clients a "project design fee" before the project begins, which provides us with an unexpected source of revenue and also self-selects out the low-dollar/low-profit clients we've been trying to get away from. The main problem we currently face is getting client expectations in line with what kinds of envisionment are realistic, but a new line of pre-project documentation is getting our story out in a more effective manner. Our new client extranet should be online the last week in June, which should further help matters.

Interpretation Training

We began five new training relationships with clients this month. The three-week training protocol continues to be effective, with most prospective interpreters able to grasp the techniques and apply them to our training problem set at accepted levels of accuracy. However, the isolation tank sessions are not well-tolerated by a number of clients, and we have begin to look for alternative ways of developing interpretation focus without the dissociation reported by the clients. Meanwhile, our experience with running these training programs continues to grow, and we have been able to handle our standard client load despite two of our trainers being on vacation this month. We should be ready to scale our efforts up to meet the expected demand coming after the 19th.