On 4 March 2026, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Hypermind and beBartlet announced a partnership. beBartlet is a Spanish public-affairs and strategy consultancy. The two firms presented it at a half-hour round table in the Spain Pavilion, “The power of collective intelligence: European technology to anticipate the future”. The speakers were Émile Servan-Schreiber, Hypermind’s CEO, Adrián Jofre Bosch, partner and president of beBartlet, and Ida Selbing, a researcher at FOI, the Swedish Defence Research Agency.
Under the agreement, beBartlet will use Hypermind’s prediction markets and collective-intelligence tools in its strategic advice to companies and large organisations. Jofre Bosch wrote that this makes beBartlet the consultancy that will integrate the technology exclusively across the European market. On its own site, beBartlet calls itself the exclusive partner for Hypermind’s technology in the EU.
What a prediction market adds to consulting
In a prediction market, participants trade on or forecast the outcome of future events. Hypermind, for example, runs its markets with play money (points rather than cash), and rewards participants for accuracy. The resulting price or consensus reads as a probability: 70 means the crowd puts the event at about 70% likely. The figure moves as participants absorb new information, so it doubles as a running measure of risk.
The Spain Pavilion programme said the alliance would bring this into strategic consulting for two purposes: to separate media noise from real signals, and to anticipate regulatory, market and reputational risks. In its announcement, beBartlet gave examples of the questions it has in mind, all drawn from European politics: a motion of no confidence against Ursula von der Leyen, the passage of Catalonia’s regional budget, and who will be Spain’s next prime minister. It also framed the offer as a “Made in Europe” solution.
Why a Swedish defence researcher was on stage
Selbing’s presence linked the commercial launch to a public precedent. Jofre Bosch wrote that she attended because the Swedish government already uses the technology to anticipate scenarios and make better decisions under uncertainty. He was referring to Glimt, the platform FOI runs on Hypermind’s technology to forecast questions posed by Ukrainian analysts. Selbing is part of the FOI team behind it.
Servan-Schreiber tied the two together in his own post that afternoon:
It is the most diverse place on Earth, thus potentially the smartest, if its collective intelligence is properly consolidated.
Émile Servan-Schreiber, on Europe, LinkedIn, 4 March 2026
Diversity matters here because crowd forecasting works best when participants make different, independent errors that cancel out. For him, Europe was “the new frontier” for prediction markets and collective intelligence. He described Glimt as serving the same purpose, led by FOI and running on Hypermind’s French technology.
A French–Swedish–Spanish story
Paloma Torres Buqué, beBartlet’s director of emerging technologies, summed up the week as a French technology, applied by governments such as Sweden’s, and developed by a Spanish company for the whole European Union. She wrote that the alliance was also shared with Spain’s minister for science, innovation and universities, Diana Morant, with Mateo Valero, director of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and with Jesús Herrero Poza, director of Red.es.
Servan-Schreiber shared the partnership video on 9 March. He pointed both to Hypermind’s crowd forecasting and to The Forecasting Machine, its AI forecasting platform, and summarised the case for both in one line:
prediction without decision is wastefulness, but decision without prediction is foolishness.
Émile Servan-Schreiber, LinkedIn, 9 March 2026
Afterwards
The day after the announcement, Agenda Pública published a long interview with Servan-Schreiber, recorded at beBartlet’s Madrid office. In it, he set out the wider argument behind the deal: prediction markets versus polls, AI forecasting, and what the media missed. Our summary of the interview covers it. In a July 2026 profile, beBartlet described prediction markets as one of its advisory lines. The firm has more than fifty professionals in Barcelona, Madrid, Brussels and Lisbon.
