A global policy debate had no single map.
The Public and Government Affairs team at an energy company needed to understand a plastics-policy landscape spanning regulation, waste, recycling and emerging scientific debate. Its research, stakeholder records and issue monitoring were fragmented.
The team lacked a shared view of the people and institutions shaping the debate, their positions and the relationships between them. That made it difficult to prioritise research, events and engagement.
More than 700 relevant actors were connected.
TSC used Genie to identify more than 700 policymakers, researchers, think tanks, companies and advocacy organisations relevant to plastics policy. Their profiles were linked to issue signals and organised by their stated positions.
Influence maps then showed relationships and intermediaries across the network. The maps gave the team a basis for understanding how a position travelled through the ecosystem without treating every visible actor as equally influential.
Events and monitoring kept the map useful.
Event intelligence connected attendees, affiliations, issue positions and earlier engagement. It supported preparation for major plastics negotiations and also found wider policy forums where plastics appeared as a secondary agenda item.
The team could use stakeholder presence and issue relevance to decide which events deserved deeper preparation. The monitoring also found plastics relevance in less obvious forums, including the World Health Assembly and a US travel-industry summit.
News, academic, government and social signals were linked back to the stakeholders and issues in the record. This allowed the team to follow changes in discussion around microplastics, nanoplastics and recycling without separating the narrative from the people driving it.
The influence graph connected stakeholders, positions, relationships, events and external signals. It supported repeated policy analysis, event prioritisation and engagement planning.
