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Intelligence and communication that take you to your next business objective

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Statem.net · 2026
Welcome

It is my honour to invite you to the new advisory service where communication and evidence meet to make facts meaningful in the real world.

Statem is introducing a new offer for businesses in energy, industry, and finance.

We are starting with a small number of founding clients, who get to shape the product with us, work directly with the founder, and contribute to building better energy and industrial communication.

I am delighted to invite you to consider this offer and join our founding clients.

Tatiana Khanberg
Founding Director·Statem

Two parts that fit

01Layer one

The intelligence

Foresight and decision briefs that critically analyse situations and show what is moving in policy, markets, geopolitics, and stakeholder environments, and what it means for the business.

All our analytical products give you an independent systemic vision that reaches beyond the obvious, reading the narrative, behaviour, social, economic, political, and cross-sectoral forces influencing your commercial and technical worlds.

02Layer two

The applied communication and delivery

Positioning review and verification, messaging strategy, content development, outreach, and event support that connect to commercial and reputational objectives.

All our applied communication products are built on in-house depth, analytical capability, and a trusted global network of sector experts. It’s strategic communication with depth that starts and ends with your business objective.

The products

The full offer

01. Situational intelligence brief — in detail

In detail
The challenge

Markets in heavily regulated, politicised, high-stakes sectors move unexpectedly with the economy, policy, prices, and geopolitics. Your team is well informed, but with so many moving pieces it has to choose what it can track closely. This means blind spots always exist and can derail plans, business development work, or prevent you from seeing opportunities where none seemed to exist before.

What it delivers

A foresight brief on a defined topic, scoped in advance with you, built by experienced analysts trained to challenge assumptions and look for the non-obvious. It clarifies complex geopolitical and economic developments connected to your business, uncovers risks and opportunities where you were not looking, and gives you a head start for planning. It also works as new-market entry intelligence and background for meetings and relationship building on the ground.

What you get

Supplementary intelligence that finds, unpacks, and reports on what your team cannot track closely, so you see risks before they derail your plans and opportunities while they are still open.

We can also work with your existing data subscriptions and internal inputs, adding the interpretive layer a subscription doesn’t give you: what the developments mean for your business, your decisions, and your message.

What this could look like for you

Connecting the dots. Analysis and visibility where you need to get a sharper picture.

From global forces to specific impacts on your market
  • How shifts in policy, fundamentals, and geopolitics reach the markets, segments, and jurisdictions you operate in, and what changes for your plan. Risks, opportunities, actors, and narrative.
From regulatory change to your bottom line
  • What a change in the rules does to your operation and costs, to your customers’ costs, your competitor costs, and to demand for what you sell.
  • What you can do to change that outcome, and what it would take.
From the options list to where you can win
  • What market entry requires. Where the companies you benchmark against sit, what your advantage is, and which gaps are still open. Where you can differentiate strategically.
From a barrage of energy developments to a clear assessment of matters to you
  • Where net zero actually stands, where policy is heading, and which countries are changing course. What that means for demand, for supply, and for load from AI and data centres.
From surface level headlines to the dynamics behind them
  • What electrification policy does to the actual cost of energy, which drivers of electricity prices go undiscussed, and whether the technologies are delivering what they promise.
From market sentiment to a position you can defend
  • The operating, policy and stakeholder facts behind a sector view, for a decision you have to justify to a board, an investment committee, or your own investors.

02. Communication diagnostic — in detail

In detail
The challenge

Communication assets that look and sound right to a peer audience don’t always convert buyer attention or reach the stakeholder groups your business depends on. This means that there is value leaking from work you are already spending time and budget on.

What it delivers

A short diagnostic report on your current communication strategy and tool stack: what works, what doesn’t, and quick-win improvement options.

What you get

An independent sector-savvy communication expert review of your current tool stack and approach.

Answering: are your communications assets doing what you intended? Are your position and messages clear, and do they connect to your business objectives? Is your content and outreach strategy getting you closer to your target? Is it unambiguous who your messages are serving?

We start from your defined business objectives, your audience segments, and the 1–3 priority metrics you are tracking this year.

What this could look like for you

Getting more out of what you already do

Audiences: who your communication is actually serving
  • The groups you are trying to reach: customers, investors, regulators, host governments, partners, recruits. Whether what you publish speaks to them and gets their attention.
Positioning: whether the message survives contact with a buyer
  • What your current communication says about you, whether that is what you intended, and the points where it blurs.
Consistency: whether every channel tells the same story
  • Whether the website, the investor materials, the trade press and the conference presentations agree, and whether the right thing leads in each.
  • Whether they work for international audiences, in their language.
Channels: where the time and budget go where it converts
  • What you are funding, what it returns, and the changes that lift return without new spend.

03. Messaging strategy — in detail

In detail
The challenge

Communicating a distinct brand and reputation is difficult, especially for highly technical companies in material industries and commoditised markets. The traditional route, relationships and track record, is a catch-22 for newer providers and new-market entrants: to win the work you need the record, and to build the record you need the work. That slows scaling, investment recovery, and profit growth.

What it delivers

A framework document that outlines your messaging strategy, connects it to your business objective, and provides a clear, simple blueprint to build messages and deliver content that your audience can understand and act on. This step does not build the content yet; it tells you what content to build, what it should answer, and why. This is a step that feeds naturally into the messaging content building system.

What you get

Clarity on who you need to address and what they need to know about the company to feel confident as investors, customers, regulators, or partners.

A reusable blueprint to develop consistent messaging that unifies the brand, builds reputation, and earns trust reliably everywhere you go.

Hero positioning confirmed with a prioritised list of the target audiences and their needs that your communications should serve; alignment of your offer positioning and key message areas.

What this could look like for you

The blueprint before the build, and update, or an expansion

Audience analysis: who you talk to and what they need to hear
  • Who your communication has to serve and in what order: customers by group, investors, regulators, policymakers, partners. What each one needs from you, set against what you are offering.
Offer alignment: from an activity list to something they want to buy
  • What you solve for each group, including newer activities you have not yet defined or prioritised the way an offer needs to be.
Evidence: what each group needs to see before it commits
  • What an investor, a customer, a regulator or a partner has to know to be confident, and what you therefore need to build.
Positioning verified against the market
  • A positioning statement specific enough to act on, tested against how the market reads you rather than how you hope it does.
From one-off content to a plan
  • The structure of what needs to be built, mapped section by section, with resource needs and a schedule, so the next piece does not start from scratch.

04. Content building system — in detail

In detail
The challenge

Energy and industrial businesses are experts at solving complex technical problems and running the world’s life-critical systems. Communicating that expertise is a different kind of problem. It requires creative, empathetic writing that translates their technical solutions into information the audience values. A professional content system delivers this translation, so content written by engineers for peers becomes content that buyers, investors, and policymakers stop to read. It cannot be replaced with volume over quality, because putting out more of what does not convert is not changing outcomes.

What it delivers

Original, consistent, content written with intent and backed by evidence to drive your business forward. Your brand’s content library in your own clear voice that delivers your key messages and evidence to the intended desks. Communication that reinforces your place in target markets, builds trust, and gives you a consistent presence that moves you to your business target.

What you get

A strategic content pipeline that follows your strategy. We take your key message, audience needs, and targets, and audit what you already have: material inventory, case studies in any form, technical documentation that can be mined, experts who can be interviewed, budget for additional research. From that base we build the content. Mix, volume, and cadence are set together, against your objectives and resources.

What it is not: generic volume for a single channel. Many tactical offers sell post volume that creates a sense of distribution, usually channel specific like LinkedIn. But without a deliberate strategy behind the content, distribution is inefficient and usually ineffective.

We build the strategy first, then the content your audience requires, which then feeds the channels that reach the people who matter for your business.

What this could look like for you

Turning expertise into proof that serves you for the long term and converts to business

Thought leadership that earns the attention of the right audience
  • The content that has to exist for the people you want to reach to find you and to stop and listen in the market you are targeting.
Technical work turned into something buyers read
  • Regulatory learnings, market insight, technical insight and case studies: a first-of-its-kind piece of work, what it took, and what it opens next.
  • How-tos written for one priority group at a time.
Proof points and references
  • Case studies with measurable results and customer references that the next buyer recognises as their own situation.
The case for your business to government and the public
  • Material that explains what your operation contributes, in terms a policymaker, a journalist or a community can use, prepared before you need it.
Investor and capital market material
  • Answers to the questions you know are coming, the value behind the numbers, and updates that hold attention between reporting dates.
On demand as you grow or change
  • Website, messaging, presentation and marketing copy when the work outruns the team.

05. Reach and presence strategy — in detail

In detail
The challenge

Communication and outreach channels keep multiplying (conferences, associations, stakeholder roundtables, news outlets, social media, search, AI), but your budget doesn’t. It is difficult to know where to invest your budget, your time, and your executives’ time, especially when growing internationally. Misallocated presence is expensive not just in sunk cost, but in being in the events, media, or rooms where your buyers are not, instead of the ones where they are.

What it delivers

Three tiers, from an outlook of options to a full plan with regular reviews, scoped to your needs.
Base option: an annual outlook your team can execute from.
Premium option: the outlook becomes a plan tailored with you for highest value, with a priority calendar of where to show up and publish, the stakeholder groups to consider, and a recommended approach per activity, so the plan adapts when new opportunities appear.
VIP option: bi-monthly check-ins to review and update as new information arises.

What you get

An annual outreach opportunities brief: the events, media opportunities, stakeholders, and digital channels that fit your positioning, evaluated for effectiveness, which can then turn into a diversified, prioritised plan with budget and time allocation across the year.

What this could look like for you

Choosing to be in the rooms that pay

Events
  • An assessed calendar of the events that matter in your target markets, from the global platforms to the regional and technical forums, ranked by who is actually in the room and how well each one fits you.
Media
  • Trade and financial media where your operating experience earns coverage with the groups you are targeting.

    Only in Premium or VIP tiers
Stakeholders
  • A map for your priority markets: the regulators, investors, customers and institutions to build relationships with, in what order, and through which channels.

    Only in Premium or VIP tiers

06. Pro event support pack — in detail

In detail
The challenge

A major conference is one of the most expensive line items on the outreach budget: fees, travel, executive time, plus stand and materials if exhibiting. Most of that value is decided well in advance; by the time the event opens, the prepared teams are ready to go. With dozens of competing priorities, allocating resources for this doesn’t always go as planned, and the risk is a last-minute scramble leaving value on the table.

What it delivers

An event action pack: event objectives tied to your business targets, a prioritised meeting and contact list with the reason and the message for each, preparation for your speaking slot or stand, a pre-event outreach sequence to book meetings before the floor opens, and a post-event follow-up plan that turns conversations into pipeline.

What you get

A focused strategy for one specific event, built around your role there, whether speaking, exhibiting, or attending. We define what the event needs to produce for you, identify who will be in the room and who you need to get in front of, and prepare your team to get there. Works standalone for an event already on your calendar, or as the execution arm of reach and presence (05).

What this could look like for you

Arriving at the big event with a plan to leave with value

From the scramble to a defined objective
  • What the event has to produce for you, tied to a business target and agreed before the floor opens, not after.
From attendance to a booked meeting list
  • Who will be in the room, who you need to be in front of, the reason and message for each, with meetings booked in advance.
From conversations to pipeline
  • A follow-up plan that turns what was said on site into next steps, and a record of what you should leave with.

01 is the intelligence layer. 02 to 06 are the applied communication and delivery layer.

Founding clients

The benefits of working with Statem as a founding client

As a boutique specialist practice, we prioritise the quality of our service and make sure that all clients receive due attention. This is why, with this new offer, we are onboarding only a small number of founding clients across energy, industry, and finance. When the limited seats are claimed, onboarding for 2026 stops.

Limited seats 2026 intake
The access

Founder access

You work directly with the founder. As the practice grows, that access becomes the exception; for founding clients it stays available.

The terms

Founding rate

You benefit from a premium product and attentive service at an introductory founding rate.

The product

Shape what we build

Your feedback directly steers how these services develop, and founding clients get first access to what we build next.

Process

How it works

1

Limited introductory offer

We onboard a small number of clients across energy, industry, and finance, so every client gets our full attention and a real say in how the product develops.

2

A focused conversation

We start with a virtual session where you share your feedback and priorities, and we answer your questions. Together we determine the right combination of work, who needs to be involved when, any critical timeline pressures, and the operational details needed to plan the work.

3

Delivery plan

Statem comes back with a delivery plan for you to approve, followed by a deposit, and the work starts.
Your time is your most precious asset; we treat it with care and move fast, so you can too.

Why Statem

Our approach, expertise, and dedication to supporting the sectors that run the engines of the world.

Who we are

Statem is a strategic advisory and communication intelligence firm specialising in energy and industrial value chains.

We work at the point where four things that usually sit in separate departments meet: narrative, operational reality, policy, and markets. The fifth element we always consider in connecting all four is people, because behaviours don’t always follow econometric models, but always impact the outcome. This way we can help our clients see through information bubbles and avoid pitfalls of group biases, the blind spots we all have. We know how to apply analytical depth in human environments, where levels of technical expertise differ and, more importantly, so do motivations.

Statem is a founder-led growing boutique practice with a global network of trusted specialists and partners.

Having spent 15 years in the tough seats of policymaking, advocacy, strategic communications, and analysis, I learned to look at the world through different lenses. I saw a pattern of broken information flow and communication failure that kept reinforcing the same distrust, missed opportunities, regulatory drag, and hostile narratives that stifle progress for business and society. Statem exists to help fix this problem by balancing depth with clarity, and honesty with empathy.

Tatiana Khanberg Founding Director
Where four things meet
Narrative Operational reality Policy Markets
Credentials

Sector knowledge, analysis, policy, and communications in one house.

Selected work

A sample of what this has looked like in practice

Select examples of reach, presence, and events work

Gastech 2025

Gastech — outreach

Financial Times

Financial Times — exclusive coverage for client

Bloomberg’s top gas voice

X — top media voice posting client’s key message

G20 Energy Working Session

G20 — dedicated paper and presentation

Fatih Birol interview

WGC — content production and campaigns delivery

LNG2023, Vancouver

LNG2023 — communications direction, content, media, messaging

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Upstream front page coverage

Upstream — front page coverage of release and event presence

Energy Intelligence Forum

Energy Intelligence Forum — special event, report, presentation, campaign

Bloomberg

Bloomberg — coverage

EGYPES

EGYPES — report, panel, presentation, campaign

MSGBC, Senegal

MSGBC — Senegal Minister

IGU press briefing

Press briefing — report, release, campaign, planning

COP25 side event

COP25 — side event, report and presentation

Working group session

G20 — special report and presentation

IEA presentation

IEA — report and presentation

LNG19, Shanghai

LNG2019 — content, key messages, media, report, campaign

Select examples of research, production, and content work

Presentation design and panel session

OIES Annual Gas Day Executive Presentation — research, content, design

SpaceX’s bet on gas

SpaceX’s bet on gas — pre-IPO strategic insights for clients

The cost of distrust

The cost of distrust — EU Methane Regulation deadlock assessment

World LNG Report video summary

IGU World LNG Report summary — 26K YouTube views

Transitions toward Clean and Reliable Power Systems

Transitions toward Clean and Reliable Power Systems — full report production for IGU

Global Energy + Industrial Situation Room

Global Energy + Industrial Situation Room — weekly newsletter

View more
EU Electrification Action Plan

EU Electrification Action Plan — risk analysis for stakeholders

The Natural Gas Industry Methane Emissions Challenge

The Natural Gas Industry Methane Emissions Challenge — full report production for IGU

The invisible supply chains

The invisible supply chains — research brief on Hormuz commodities impact

2024 World LNG Report

IGU World LNG Report — annual flagship series research and editorial direction, publishing

Global Gas Report 2023

IGU Global Gas Report — annual flagship series research and editorial direction, publishing, incl. first edition

Smarter and Stronger

Smarter and Stronger — Mowat Energy research publication, lead author

Next step

Working together: next step

A short call to walk through the offer, hear which parts would be most and least useful for you, and see where to start.

Tatiana Khanberg
Founding Director, Statem
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