About
“We can locate almost anyone for anyone anywhere, and we are ideologically promiscuous. We love everybody; we hate everybody. I get my feelings confused.”
- Louis, French informer, from the movie Munich, 2005
sift | every thing
This site explores business, foresight, intelligence, metaphors, and, at times, the life of its author – Jeremy Heigh. It belongs to Sift.
Jeremy Heigh
I am the father of two, the husband of one, and I play with information. I make my living as an economist, investor, writer, and collector.
I get paid to find information, sort it, apply it, and synthesize it. I’ve always loved this. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Our Company
Sift is a privately held, Alberta-based company providing intelligence and analytical foresight to decision-makers. It invests heavily in technologies that enable real-time, always-on information to a handful of clients.
Its strategic interests are in integrated resource management (specifically forestry, water, agriculture) as it relates to genomics, industrial chemistry, energy, and biodiversity.
Our background is environmental economics. The interest here is in the complexity of the issues (rather than the salvation of the planet – though that is a handy outcome). We see broad strategic opportunities in lessons learnt from ecosystem dynamics, biomimicry, and integrated resource management.
We’ve been in this business for more than ten years. We love what we do.
Sift’s clients run from the Fortune 10 to tiny SMEs. They include multi-national corporations, governments, grass-root associations, and single-employee shops. Every new client is deliberately chosen to complement the stable of investors, entrepreneurs and technologies we already work with.
Our clients include:
Due Diligence, Market Intelligence, and Foresight
Competitive Analysis and Strategic Design
Conoco-Phillips
CareerJoy
Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
Canadian Soybean Exporters Association
Economic Assessment and Business Planning
University of Alberta
SUM Inc.
Mustard 21 and Saskatchewan Mustard Development Commission
Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development
Ontario Horticultural Coalition