Don't waste runway building a product customers won’t buy
Get guidance, support and training on doing the hard part of being a founder: talking to your customers and getting evidence of actual demand.
Real market signals, not on stories based on hope.
What we do
We’re not a traditional research consultancy.
We work hands-on with founders, combining product strategy, commercial experience, and lessons learned from hundreds who’ve been exactly where you are now.
What you take away reshapes how you build, test, and grow your company.
Programmes
12-week programmes to get through the “valley of death”
Get the data you need, partnered with professional coaching, workshops and group training, focused on the critical early stages of your business journey. Guiding you step by step along the way. Spanning market validation, GTM/distribution strategy and running successful pilots.
From £6,000*
Consultancy + Fractional
We do the validation for you.
From interviews to strategic recommendations completed by our expert team.
We’ll tell you what customers want from your product, helping you secure funding and improving its success in the market. We offer fractional leadership and light-touch grant services.
From £8,500*
Masterclasses + Courses
Courses on customer discovery, market validation, and grant funding, leveraging AI to maximise efficiency.
Learn validation methods in intensive 0.5 to 2-day sessions. From interviewing customers without selling to AI-powered research, prototype testing, and writing successful grant applications.
From £225*
*Prices excluding VAT
We’ve helped 100s of organisations validate products and markets
Our Validation Programmes
Cohort dates to be announced soon. Join our waitlist and to get early access.
Market Validation + Grants Programme
12 weeks | £6,000+VAT | 6 places per cohort
Mentors may tell you to stop building and speak to people, but speaking to customers is difficult. What to ask, how to synthesise data, how to stay objective and what they will pay.
We'll take you on the journey of discovery interviews, validating assumptions with real market data and building a portfolio of evidence for product development, grant applications, investor pitches, and marketing messaging.
GTM/Distribution Validation Programme
12 weeks | £8,000+VAT | 6 places per cohort
Our programme targets questions investors really care about: How will customers find you? How will you reach them? Why will they come back?
We focus on where to find customers and how to build evidence of demand like Letters of Intent, pilot agreements and waiting lists. We'll validate pricing strategies, work out distribution channels, and establish unit economics for CAC and LTV for your financial modelling.
Pilot to Paid Programme
12 weeks | £10,000+VAT | 4 places per cohort
Sitting between an accelerator and a consultancy, we'll show you how to make your pilot a success rather than run it for you. You’ll learn how to properly measure success in your pilot and use it to move beyond the pilot phase.
We'll define what makes a company a good fit, establish willingness to pay and how your product aligns with operations and procurement processes. You'll learn how to use insights beyond the pilot phase to inform commercialisation and iterations.
Hands-on training to improve commercialisation
Two-Day Masterclasses
Learn to test distribution channels before scaling the wrong approach.
Map potential acquisition channels, design controlled experiments to validate which ones work, and calculate real unit economics from tested data rather than assumptions.
Leave with channel prioritisation frameworks, partner validation methods, and execution plans for scaling customer acquisition with confidence.
£650+VAT
Write bids that win.
We have raised over £10M in grant funding. Draws on our knowledge and learn how to craft compelling Innovate UK applications while ensuring your data meets their high standards.
Learn the art of technical bid writing and leave being able to turn primary and secondary research into high-scoring narratives.
Includes free access to our “Grant Funding Fundamentals” course worth £275+VAT.
£650+VAT
One-Day Masterclasses
Get honest feedback from customers and don't build the wrong thing.
Most founders pitch their idea too early instead of listening.
This workshop teaches you the "Mom Test" approach: asking questions about past behaviour, not hypothetical enthusiasm. You'll learn to interview potential customers without falling into the trap of selling to them.
You'll leave with scripts and confidence to uncover real pain points, not just polite "likes."
£350+VAT
Stop building full products to test simple questions.
Most founders waste weeks building features they could have tested with a landing page in an afternoon.
This workshop teaches you to match prototype fidelity to the question you're answering. Learn smoke tests that measure genuine demand before writing code, wireframes for testing workflows, and "Wizard of Oz" techniques where you manually deliver what will eventually be automated.
You'll leave knowing how to build low-fidelity prototypes quickly and which validation questions they can actually answer.
£350+VAT
Half-Day Masterclasses
Founders used to spend hours analysing interview transcripts. AI does it in minutes.
Learn how to use AI for transcription, thematic analysis, and rapid prototyping while maintaining research rigour and spotting when AI gets it wrong.
This half-day session teaches you which validation tasks AI genuinely speeds up and which need human judgment. You'll work with your own interview transcripts, learn prompt engineering for analysis, and understand how to maintain quality while working faster.
Leave with prompts, workflows, and tools that save you hours without sacrificing accuracy.
£200+VAT
88% of pilots never become revenue. Stop testing for free.
Most seed-stage founders waste months running pilots with prospects who love the solution but won't pay for it.
This half-day session teaches you to design pilots with clear commercial pathways, score your active pilots for conversion likelihood, and know when to decline opportunities that drain resources.
You'll leave with a pilot conversion framework, templates for pilot agreements with commercial terms built in, and a 90-day action plan for your current pipeline.
£200+VAT
Online Courses
Grant Funding Fundamentals
We've secured over £10M in grant funding. This course shows you how.
Learn to prepare strategically for grant opportunities, write compelling applications, and use grant funding as a planned part of your growth strategy
Grant Funding Fundamentals Course - £225+VAT
We offer an expert Coaching + Review package alongside this course to help increase your chance of success.
Grant Support: Coaching + Review from £1,750 +VAT
Design Thinking for Deep Tech
Deep tech validation is different. Your product is novel science, not an iteration of something existing.
This course teaches you how to bridge the lab-to-market gap when traditional startup advice doesn't apply. You'll learn design thinking methods adapted for technical breakthroughs and how to build business models for products that create new markets.
£249+VAT
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