A market-access dispute depended on more than the formal case.
US countervailing duties had restricted access to an important market. The issue reached across congressional committees, federal agencies, industry groups, farm organisations, competitors and the incoming administration. Each participant brought a different mandate, position and set of relationships.
The Global Affairs team needed to know who could influence the issue, how they were connected and what they had said before. It also needed to distinguish supportive, hostile and mixed positions as the political environment changed. A stakeholder list could show names. It could not explain the network or retain its history.
TSC connected positions, relationships and influence around the issue.
Genie ingested public positions and signals from stakeholders and relevant institutions. It connected each item to the stakeholder profile and issue history behind it. The coverage included current members of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees, relevant federal agencies, industry groups, farm organisations, lobbyists, competitors and administration figures.
The client and TSC team set the stakeholder universe, priority questions and stance criteria together. TSC mapped the relationships and influence around those questions. Human review focused on the classifications and connections that mattered most. By April 2026, the team had delivered 11 maps covering congressional committees, federal agencies, the political transition, lobbying and competitor relationships.
The client reviewed the maps in detail. Its feedback changed how influence and stance were shown. It then requested further maps around countervailing duties and other priority policy questions. The team set a monthly update cycle and added a dedicated newsletter so the network could remain connected to current developments.
The intelligence base remained useful as the political cycle changed.
What remained was a maintained US policy network. Historic positions, current roles, institutional influence and commercial links remained connected as people moved and new interventions appeared. The political-transition map also became a repository for future engagement planning.
Global Affairs could use the same intelligence base for stakeholder preparation, issue monitoring and new mapping questions. TSC's analysts continued to maintain and interpret it as the political environment changed. The client extended the work with further mapping requests.
