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Organizations as living systems
We ground all work in behavioral science, institutional design, and systems thinking. Organizations thrive when they can sense, adapt, learn, and heal. We design for that capacity.
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Decision hygiene, bias
Donella Meadows
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Leverage, feedback loops
Elinor Ostrom
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Adarsha Bhattarai
Founder, Strategy & Systems Architect
Purpose Lab exists because strategy and systems thinking are inseparable. We help founders and leaders navigate complexity not through one-off consulting, but by building the coherence, clarity, and decision architecture needed to perform when it matters most.
The World Is Rewiring Around Energy
Artificial intelligence is rewriting every layer of the UK oil, gas, and renewables value chain: from North Sea exploration to offshore wind and hydrogen. The second energy revolution is already here.
Drawing on McKinsey, the IEA, the World Bank, UNEP, and the UK North Sea Transition Authority.
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Nepal Has the Cheapest Renewable Energy for AI on Earth
Nepal has 3,400 MW of installed hydropower and 10,000 MW actively in development. Its mid-Himalayan altitude delivers free-air cooling that no other major market can match. Bhutan has already proven the model.
Drawing on the IEA, McKinsey, ADB, IRENA, Nepal Electricity Authority, and Arkham Intelligence on-chain data.
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Iceland Runs on Heat From the Earth. Now It Runs the World's Data.
Iceland generates 100% of its electricity from renewable sources at $0.043/kWh for industrial users. Average ambient temperature is 5 degrees Celsius. Its data centres achieve PUE 1.03. This is what sovereign energy policy looks like when it compounds over decades.
Drawing on the IEA, Uptime Institute, Statistics Iceland, and primary research into Verne Global, atNorth, and Advania operations.
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East Africa Has More Untapped Hydropower Than Europe Has Total Capacity.
Ethiopia's GERD reached 5,150 MW in 2024. The DRC's Inga site holds 44,000 MW of potential. Industrial electricity in Ethiopia costs $0.02 to $0.03/kWh. The value multiplier from grid export to AI compute is 10 to 20 times. The question is who captures it.
Drawing on IRENA, the African Development Bank, World Bank, and IEA Africa Energy Outlook 2024.
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Saudi Arabia Is Not Transitioning Away From Energy. It Is Transitioning to a Different Kind of Energy Dominance.
Saudi Arabia produces 9.6 million barrels of oil per day. It is simultaneously building 130 GW of renewables by 2030, the world's largest green hydrogen facility, and NEOM: a $500 billion city designed from inception as digital-native infrastructure.
Drawing on IRENA, the World Bank, NEOM Development Authority, Saudi Ministry of Energy, and Public Investment Fund reporting.
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Governance, Geopolitics & Public Systems
Understanding power, institutions, and change. We bring together practitioners, researchers, and decision-makers to navigate the complex systems shaping our world.
Pawan Adhikari
Pawan Adhikari is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Innovation and Foreign Policy (CESIF), a Kathmandu-based think tank. Holding an MA in Conflict, Peace and Development Studies and a BA in Economics, his research spans Nepal's domestic politics, China's foreign policy, international relations, and global conflicts. A regular opinion writer for The Kathmandu Post and Republica, Pawan brings an analytically sharp, policy-oriented lens to some of Nepal's most pressing political and geopolitical questions. He is an emerging voice in Nepal's foreign policy discourse, committed to research that bridges scholarship and practice.
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Rigorous analysis of governance systems, geopolitical dynamics, and institutional design.
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Monthly salons bringing together policy leaders, founders, and systems thinkers.
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Commissioned research for organizations, donors, and policy institutions.
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The Power-to-Compute Pivot
Turning Hydropower into Digital Capital
Key Insights
- •Hydropower infrastructure can be reimagined as compute capacity for AI/ML workloads
- •Strategic energy-to-compute transformation unlocks new revenue streams for water-rich nations
- •Case studies from Alpine and Scandinavian models applied to emerging markets
Digital Sovereignty in Small States
A Structural Framework for Nepal
Key Insights
- •Small nations can achieve digital sovereignty without competing on compute scale
- •Strategic positioning in regional digital infrastructure creates disproportionate value
- •Policy frameworks that attract ethical AI development and data governance leadership
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