Turning Startup Ambition Into Market Success
We’ve supported hundreds of startups to turn ideas into commercial success. Recent projects include helping a medical device company raise over £3.2 million in investment, enabling a disruptive nursery brand to scale beyond one million units, and supporting a disruptive technology company to supply global brands.
Proven Startup Impact
Success Stories
Creating Clarity, Reducing Risk
Starting a company is a leap into the unknown. Founders make high stakes decisions with limited time, budget and information. Our role is to bring clarity, reduce risk, and transform ambition into tangible, market ready products. By combining strategic thinking, structured design, technical insight and commercial realism, we give founders the confidence to move forward, secure buy-in and scale.
From Strategy to Market
Taking a product to market demands focus and discipline. We help founders avoid common pitfalls by shaping clear, pragmatic strategies aligned to budget, time and resource constraints. We apply a strategic plan to each project carefully navigating through each key milestone to success.
Scaling With Confidence
We help startups scale by turning early stage concepts into robust, manufacture ready and sustainable products. By reducing technical risk, accelerating key milestones, navigating regulatory hurdles and building resilient supply chain pathways, we provide clarity for founders, confidence for investors and a practical route from prototype to market ready scale without burning time, cash or momentum.
Rockit - design which enabled a startup to scale and manufacture 1 million units.
Read the full case study here
A Holistic View of Growth
Successful startups are built on more than a good idea. We take a joined-up approach considering intellectual property, commercial viability, routes to market, user behaviour, manufacturability, regulation and compliance, so that early decisions support long-term growth.
University Spin-Outs
We work closely with university spin-outs to turn world class research, technology and intellectual property into commercially viable businesses. Bridging the gap between academic innovation and market demand, we provide leadership, mentoring and practical delivery to help spin-outs navigate the valley of death and progress from early research to investable, market ready propositions.
Read our guide about translating ideas from Universities into successful products.
Acetone Analyser - academic concept to commercially viable product.
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Funding & Investment
We can support you throughout your growth journey with strong links across public funding, private investment and corporate finance networks. By staying close to the latest funding opportunities, we help you identify the most appropriate routes to capital and shape robust funding and investment strategies that support confident decision making and long term return.
A Strategic Partner
We act as a strategic partner working alongside you to navigate complexity and deliver measurable commercial returns.
10 Insights for
Innovation Success
We’ve created a short video series exploring the essentials of successful innovation. It covers the ten things every team needs to understand when taking a product to market — from knowing when to challenge or even kill an idea, to managing risk, budget and technology readiness.
Drawing on our experience across innovation projects, the series shares practical insights to help you avoid common pitfalls, make better decisions and accelerate your journey to market, with a strong focus on people, design, commercial awareness and adaptability.
We offer a range of highly focused services to rapidly accelerate your product ideas, be it developing concepts to a photo-real visual, a prototype you can take forward for testing or a strategic workshop session to align teams behind the product vision.
Kick Start Your innovation journey
Innovation Workshop
Our innovation workshops bring key stakeholders together to build shared understanding, alignment and momentum. Using proven design-thinking methods, we create clarity around challenges and opportunities, align teams to a clear direction, and generate buy-in around a confident, actionable product vision.
From £4,500+VAT
Design Sprint
Our Design Sprint helps you rapidly understand your idea’s potential before significant investment. Through a short, structured programme, we align stakeholders, validate user needs, and test concepts early — reducing risk, avoiding costly rework, shortening timelines, and creating a clearer path to market.
From £1,000+VAT
30 Day Prototype
Our Proof of Concept service turns validated ideas into something tangible, fast! Building on the Design Sprint, we develop a physical representation of your product vision that you can test, demonstrate and share with users to enable early feedback and validate assumptions before committing to full development.
From £5,000+VAT