Flynn Cote
Brokerage House Inc.

Toronto · Canada · since 2010

Dedicated to vibrant stakeholder ecosystems.

Brokering impact and risk between stakeholders

Impact Investing · Philanthropy · International Aid · Sustainable Development · Sustainable Finance

The main point

Positive impact mitigates risk. Mitigating risk raises positive impact.

Every project, company and investment sits inside an ecosystem of stakeholders: the people it employs, the community around it, the environment it depends on, the regulators that permit it and the investors that fund it. Flynn Cote Brokerage House finds ways for a client to have a positive impact within that ecosystem.

Positive impact mitigates risk, and mitigating risk raises positive impact. That is a virtuous cycle, and the firm’s one service is to find it in a client’s ecosystem and put it to work: mapping the stakeholders, measuring the impact and the risk between them, making the record verifiable and keeping it current. Investor relations, stakeholder relations, management consulting and sustainable finance are the four faces of that work.

How an engagement runs

Sustainability

Environmental, social and governance factors are the pillars that support sustainable companies and responsible investments. Together they provide a deeper analysis of risks and impacts to protect and create value for all stakeholders.

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What we do

Flynn Cote Brokerage House makes the impact and the risk between the parties to a project measurable and verifiable. Investors, companies, communities, governments and donors can then act on each other’s claims with trust.

  • Measure

    The firm builds the frameworks and gathers the data that show impact and risk as they happen: open and private datasets, satellite observation, dialogue with the people affected, and the record of what was promised against what was delivered.

  • Assess

    Machine learning reads across that data to find the risks that need mitigating and the opportunities for positive impact, before either becomes a news event.

  • Verify

    The result is reporting that holds up with an investor, a regulator, a community or a donor, kept in a record that cannot be quietly changed.

It is one service: the ecosystem of people around a project, worked as one living system. Investor relations, stakeholder relations, management consulting and sustainable finance are its four faces. The tools make the evidence: data, artificial intelligence (A.I.), blockchain and the WhiteBox framework that joins them.

Responsible Investment · Environmental, Social and Governance · Impact Investing · Sustainable Finance

Technology Partners

  • IBM

  • IBM

    Technology partner to the firm and to the WhiteBox Platform.

  • Sipher Whitebox

    Sipher Whitebox combines distributed ledger technology with machine learning into modular building blocks for institutions and enterprise.

  • TensorFlow · Google AI

    The machine-learning tools behind the WhiteBox research.

  • Druid OS

    The operating system the WhiteBox became in 2021: a WhiteBox around every farm and forest, the middle layer between nature and markets. druid.green

  • Awendil

    The company being incorporated in Canada to build and operate Druid OS, carrying the firm’s work forward. awendil.com

Framework

  • Impact

    FCBH Inc. works with clients to identify opportunities for positive impact and risks to mitigate.

  • Risk

    Increasing positive impact reduces certain risks significantly. Mitigating certain risks supports positive impact.

  • Partnership

    By improving positive impact and reducing risks between stakeholders, trust is built, and value is both protected and created.

FCBH Inc. (Flynn Cote Brokerage House Inc.) builds trust and partnership between stakeholders. Its tools find the risks to mitigate and the opportunities for positive impact.

Since 2010

The work and what it became.

  1. 2010Flynn CoteImpact and risk between stakeholders
  2. 2016WhiteBoxThe R&D platform
  3. 2021Druid OSThe middle layer between nature and markets, by creating WhiteBoxes around farms and forests
  4. 2026AwendilThe company that builds and runs it