Mar 18, 2026
Software that does the work
A note on operating systems for companies, not dashboards for reports.
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Backett Howe — a global think tank for technology, management and research.
Our Products
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Blueprint
A structured readout for early software teams: how your story, metrics and market read from the outside — so you can plan the next chapter with clearer eyes.
Benchmarks
A living map of how software companies operate across go-to-market, operations and capital. Context, not a scoreboard.
Open Source
A public-signal desk for software and fintech communities: stars, forks and repository momentum, read as culture rather than as a ranking.
Backett Howe is a global think tank for technology, management and research — built so data, software and deep thematic work sit at the heart of everything we do.
Backett Howe is a strategist studio for technology, management and research. We publish, ship tools, and stay close to operators rewriting how industries work. The aim is clearer thinking — not a pitch, and not a fund.
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Mar 18, 2026
Better systems for care
How product and data discipline can raise the quality of work in complex institutions.
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Sep 15, 2025
Tools around the new stack
Every computing wave creates a layer of picks and shovels. We map that layer as observers, not as scorekeepers.
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Jul 7, 2025
Where advantage actually lives
Models are easy to rent. Distinct ways of working are not. A strategist’s view of durable advantage.
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Dec 1, 2024
Backett Howe — Our Why
A Global thinktank for software and fintech: research, tools, and long relationships with people who recast industries.
Read moreRead moreStrategy is the patience to look again. A thinktank earns its keep when it can name what is actually happening — then build a tool that makes that reading useful to the people in the room. That is the work. That is the brief. Those who keep at it become catalysts for change.
— Backett Howe