Disruption crossing every route to market: one bright line cutting across a highway intersection at night

INSTRATE

Is your company turning disruption into advantage?

The Strategic Fitness Advantage Engine measures how well your company turns disruption into advantage, against the world's leading enterprises. Get your position and strategic priorities, online the same day.

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Scored on the INSTRATE Strategic Fitness Index
Benchmarked across 11 sectors
Built by a four-time CEO
Author of Survival of the Strategic Fittest

YOUR SITUATION

Disruption is already in your market. Someone will turn it into advantage.

AI, a new competitor, a new business model or a change inside your own company can reset your market faster than your strategy adapts. Some companies fall behind. Others see the shift early, commit and take the lead.

Concrete steps rising toward a lit landing: the climb from disruption to advantage

IT SHOWS UP IN THREE PLACES

GROWTH

Would you know if you were losing your position?

Growth slows and margins shrink before the numbers show why. Customers move to new offers and new business models. The longer a stall runs, the harder it is to reverse.

VALUE

What will create your next wave of enterprise value?

Investors price your future on the growth they expect. When disruption resets your market, they reprice it fast. Value goes to the companies that build the next growth curve first.

SPEED

How fast do you decide what to fund and what to stop?

Your market moves in weeks. Your decisions move in quarters. Capital and people still follow last year's plan, and little gets stopped. By the time the company commits, a faster competitor has moved.

Each answer starts in the same place: the company's true position, on independent evidence.

Companies facing the same disruption end up far apart. How they lead makes the difference.

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THE ADVANTAGE ENGINE

Know your true position. Get the structural advantage to retake the lead and build your next growth curve.

The Strategic Fitness Advantage Engine shows your company's true strategic position, from the inside and from the market's view. Then it gives your leadership team the strategy to turn disruption into advantage, and growth into enterprise value.

Your true strategic position. Your view, checked against what the market actually sees.
How you compare. Against the world's leading companies and your own industry.
Your Next Strategy. What to do first, what to fund and what to stop, to lead the next growth curve.

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Where would your company land? Take the free two-minute Position Check

HOW IT WORKS

Four steps. You leave with a strategy to turn disruption into advantage.

01
Diagnostic.
Tell us how you see your company. Twenty questions, about fifteen minutes.
02
Market Research.
While you answer, the platform builds the market's view of your company from filings, results and independent coverage. Every finding carries its source.
03
Position.
See your position against the INSTRATE Global 200 and your industry, and where your view and the market's view differ.
04
Next Strategy.
Your Next Strategy Brief: three priorities in sequence, where to act first and what to stop. Ready to take to your board.

Delivered online, ready to print and share.

A ring of connected points around one center: the founding circle of companies leading on the Strategic Fitness standard

FOUNDING MEMBER · THE STRATEGIC FITTEST

Be among the first companies to lead on the standard.

The Strategic Fitness Advantage Engine is new. The method behind it is tested: set out in Survival of the Strategic Fittest and applied to the world's leading enterprises in the INSTRATE Global 200. Founding members get it first, at half price, with Lars personally involved in their results.

The full Advantage Engine: Diagnostic, Market Research, Position and Next Strategy Brief.
Lars reviews your results with you: a 60-minute walkthrough of your Brief with your leadership team.
A voice in what comes next: founding members shape the platform through direct feedback to Lars.
Your founding price, kept: run the Advantage Engine again within 12 months at $1,975.
12 months as a founding member of The Strategic Fittest: updated INSTRATE Global 200 benchmark data and a place in the founding circle.

$3,950

$1,975· Founding member price

Open until December 31, 2026.

You only pay if we deliver.

If it doesn't help, you don't pay.

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ABOUT

Built by a four-time CEO and venture builder.

Lars Nordenlund, Founder & CEO of INSTRATE, led companies through the internet, cloud and AI eras. He is a four-time CEO, a former strategy leader at PwC and Microsoft, and has founded and led AI and computer vision ventures. He set out the method in Survival of the Strategic Fittest and tested it on the INSTRATE Global 200, a benchmark of the world's leading enterprises.

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