
Research and Grant Funding Specialists
We help mission-driven SMEs build businesses that matter.
We find out what matters most.
We support you in making a difference.
We run research and experiments to understand your market customers.
We test your impact using social value and SROI.
Don’t have funds for insights? Add our research services to your grant, and we’ll co-write it.
Want to go solo? You can access grant support from training to coaching to review.
Our Services
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Whether it’s user, market or evaluation research. You don’t need to worry about doing experiments, interviews, surveys, ethnography and focus groups. We do the research for you. Add our market validation and testing work packages to your grant application to take a user-led approach.
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We don’t write grants. But we do grant coaching and reviews, to improve your grant application. We may help write your grant if you include our research services into your grant application.
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Dr Chloe Sharp is a qualified and experienced coach, supporting leaders and up and coming researchers and product managers.
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We offer online courses and workshops on research, product market fit and grant funding.
Featured Book
Featured Book
You want to make products that matter. Products that strike a chord with your target audience. To do that, you will need to connect with customers and users to get their feedback. Sounds easy enough, but figuring out the right research methods for product development can be complex. That's where this book comes in.
"Make Products That Matter" helps you navigate the entire product lifecycle, considering everything from organisational growth, popular frameworks like lean startup, product-market fit, design thinking, and innovation.
It's a practical guide explaining which research methods work best at different product lifecycle stages. Additionally, it provides insights on how to maintain and apply these insights effectively.
- Get the tools you need to build innovative products and toolkits
- Learn how to keep insights and research at the forefront of product development
- Your go-to reference, guiding you from ideation to post-launch.
Available Courses
Are you feeling confused by UK government grant funding? This course gives a comprehensive overview from grant strategy, to winning a grant and everything in between at your own pace. Prices are exclusive of VAT.
You'll go through a fictional case study and marking criteria to understand how to prepare your application. You'll have access to the online course, plus five hours of live lessons with a grants expert. We'll send you the joining information with the Zoom call details. The dates of the live cohorts are TBD Prices are exclusive of VAT.
You'll go through a fictional case study and marking criteria to understand how to prepare your application. You'll have access to the online course, plus five hours of live lessons with a grants expert. We'll send you the joining information with the Zoom call details. The dates of the live cohorts are TBD. The 1:1 hour of coaching will be at a time that works for you. Prices are exclusive of VAT.
Meet the Team
Sharp Insight is led by Dr Chloe Sharp and Simon Sharp. We work with a number of associates and strategic partners. Learn more about them in the Team section.
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FounderChloe is an experienced leader in research, product and grant writing. She has a passion for innovation and loves working with organisations with ideas that will make a positive impact.
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DirectorWith a background at Mercedes-Benz, he brings enterprise-scale experience in managing multi-million pound projects, implementing digital-first, user-led solutions, with a love for making processes efficient.
We work with organisations driven to help people and the planet.
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