Digital Innovation & AI

Your breakthrough ideas are hiding in plain sight

Find them, prototype them in days, and prove them before you drop serious money on a hunch

Find your breakthroughs

60-min with hands-on innovation experts

Trusted by teams shaping the future of their industries.

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For the digital leaders rebuilding the plane while flying it

You have to protect the core business and invent the future. It’s the hardest balancing act in business.

It gets easier when you uncover and prove the value of new digital experiences.

Common ways innovation dies before it starts, or after it ships

Technology first

Chasing AI hype, copying competitor moves or jumping on the latest trends bandwagon.

Relentless overthinking

Drowning in ideas without knowing how to pick a winner or finding the courage to place a bet.

Opinion over evidence

Building what stakeholders want, validating with the wrong audience or relying on gut feeling.

And you just know the pain doesn't stop there

Stop debating. Stop guessing. Start proving

People first

Real human behaviour and business needs lead to new ideas, not just better versions of old ones.

Learn by building fast

Prototypes tell the truth that slide decks can't. Validate, reduce risk and bet on the winner.

Cut your losses

Kill bad ideas quickly. Double down on what the evidence supports, not what opinions or politics support.

And it leads to where the real magic is.

Led innovation programmes inside Google for 10 yrs

Rick Farrell

CEO & Founder

Ran research that shaped products used by millions

Paul Hill

Director of Insight & Innovation

Backed by a senior team across every discipline that actually matters.

Stories of impact

The breakthroughs, built on cold, hard, proof.

UK Power Networks James Daniel
Connected Places Catapult Ana Nunez Lopez
Northern Gas Networks Steve Dacre
Mandarin Oriental Laura Goldwyn

Minimise the cost of being brave with Actionable Innovation.

A disciplined hunt for value — the structure to explore the unknown without the usual cost of getting it wrong.

1

Find

Interrogating reality to find real root causes and opportunities, not just the surface symptoms.

2

Prototype

Building, designing and iterating together, grounded in solutions you can actually deliver.

3

Prove

Delivering tangible proof of new value, measured by real-world impact, not outputs.

De-risk your next move

60-min • Hands-on experts • Zero pitch slapping

Small ways to break the deadlock. Yes, even yours.

External perspective

1-hour (remote)

Bring us the thing everyone in your organisation disagrees about. We'll tell you what we'd do, whether that involves us or not.

First move

1-day (in person)

One day won't solve everything, but it'll tell you exactly where to start. 'Too many ideas' become one clear plan with the evidence to back it.

We're shaping the future of digital innovation, join us.

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Curious & creative minds always welcome

We're always keen to meet people who share our values and ambitions — here are some of the roles we're recruiting for.

There are no roles available right now.

We back Ocean First initiatives and coastal communities, with purpose.

Oceans generate over half of Earth's oxygen and help stabilise our climate. Healthy seas protect the future we all innovate for.