Consultancies sell frameworks without founder access. Accelerators have founder access without standing at your table. We define the problem precisely enough to be searched against, then go and find the companies — and tell you which three would survive your procurement process.
An innovation or transformation mandate usually comes with a budget, a deadline and a reporting line. It almost never comes with a reliable mechanism for finding early-stage companies, verifying they are real, and getting them past procurement. So the mandate defaults to the vendors already on the panel — which is how a transformation programme ends up buying the same thing it already has.
Existing suppliers are asked to quote for something outside their competence, because they are the ones already approved. The pilot underdelivers and the mandate loses credibility.
Twenty startups pitch for eight minutes each. Nobody has read your operating constraints, and nothing that follows survives contact with your security, legal or procurement teams.
We spend the first two weeks defining the problem in writing with your team. Everything after that is judged against that definition, including us.
Fixed fee, quoted before commencement, outcome-independent. Capped at twelve engagements a year so that each one is run by the people who sold it.
We take no fee from any company we surface, in any engagement, ever. Any equity or economic interest we hold in a company is disclosed in writing before it is recommended. The fee is fixed regardless of whether a pilot proceeds, succeeds or is abandoned. You receive first-look rights on every company surfaced in your engagement.
We keep engagements deliberately few and cap the practice at twelve a year. If you don't recognise yourself above, we will say so in the first conversation rather than take the fee.
The more you give us here, the more useful the conversation is. Every submission is read by a partner — not a form queue — and answered within two working days.