Inferential Focus

Inferential Focus

Inferential Focus, Inc. is a New York City based consultancy offering corporate, institutional investor, private equity, and government clients business intelligence and change-detection services using a process known as Inference Reading. Charles Hess is the President and one of the co-founders of the firm. The firm could be considered a think tank, and in the 1980s was frequently referred to as "The CEO's CIA", a reference to the firm's role in gathering intelligence for corporate and investor decision-makers.

The firm's intelligence gathering techniques rely heavily on research into the two hemisphere's of the brain conducted by Nobel Prize winner Roger Sperry. The firm's application of its intelligence into the decision-making processes of its clients utilizes the decision-making model of Nobel Prize winner Herbert A. Simon.