A think tank built from the ground up
A Warsaw-based analytical foundation, entered in the National Court Register (KRS) on 19 September 2025. I built it as a system: a funding model, a CRM with 25,500+ contacts, a website built from scratch, a report production cycle, expert meeting formats and its own digital products.
01Situation
A think tank starts out without the capital of an institutional brand, without salaried staff and without the infrastructure on which analytical work depends: a relationship base, processes and distribution channels. The task was to build an organisation that would operate as an institution from its first month, not as a one-person project.
02Actions
7 steps in the order in which the project was built.
A foundation entered in the KRS on 19 September 2025, a one-person management board and a five-member Foundation Council.
A business plan, partner packages with priced benefits, subscriptions and patronage.
A knowledge hub in Confluence, processes, role KPIs, team rituals, a backlog and a report production cycle.
A CRM with 25,500+ contacts and 9,500+ companies, segmentation, e-mail sequences and communication automation.
A website built from scratch (content architecture, Core Web Vitals, E-E-A-T, UTM) and a social media strategy based on data about platform algorithms, with employee advocacy and measurement of formats.
Closed-door meetings under the Chatham House Rule, conferences, podcasts, press releases and analytical projects.
Since February 2026, the foundation's own digital platforms, EuroChallenge Quiz and Merydian.
03Anatomy
The key elements and layers of the project in one drawing. Numbers lead to the descriptions; pointing at a description highlights its element.
04Result
Contacts in the CRM
25,500+
and 9,500+ companies
Collaborators
100+
LinkedIn followers
1,700+
Digital products since February 2026
2
EuroChallenge Quiz and Merydian
“An institution is built from infrastructure. In my case, the relationship base, processes and distribution channels came before reach; only then does every analysis reach a reader who will put it to use.”
06Details
Fundacja “New European Strategies”, ul. Tytusa Chałubińskiego 8, 00-613 Warszawa. KRS 0001195512, NIP (tax identification number) 7011278375, REGON 542769005. Statute dated 3 February 2025; entered in the National Court Register on 19 September 2025.
Principal activity: research and experimental development in the social sciences and humanities (PKD 72.20.Z), complemented by publishing, video production, consulting and congress organisation, among others.
The programme is organised into five areas, assigned to the Programme Council. Three of them grow directly out of the thematic blocks of the 4th edition of Geopolityczna Gra Mocarstw (2021).
Partnership with NES takes the form of a package with priced benefits, a subscription, or patronage of an event or a publication. I route enquiries to the foundation's addresses by topic.
07Links and channels
08FAQ
The New European Strategies Foundation is a Warsaw-based think tank (KRS 0001195512), entered in the National Court Register on 19 September 2025. Its programme covers five areas: geopolitics and defence, finance and the economy, diplomacy and international relations, transport and energy, and technology and cybersecurity.
He is the founder and President of the Board. He built its funding model, the operating system in Confluence, a CRM with 25,500+ contacts and 9,500+ companies, the website from scratch and its own digital products: EuroChallenge Quiz and Merydian.
A partnership takes the form of a package with priced benefits, a subscription, or patronage of an event or a publication. Enquiries go through the form on this page or to the foundation's addresses: partnership@neweuropeanstrategies.com (partnerships), patronage@neweuropeanstrategies.com (patronage) and media@neweuropeanstrategies.com (media).
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NES partnership
A partner package with priced benefits, a subscription, or patronage of an event or a publication. Tell me which area of cooperation you have in mind.