Services
About Our Services
We help corporates, startups, and investors design and run pilots new technologies, typically at around TRL 4–7. Our work is organised into discrete stages; you can engage with us for a single step or for the full journey.
Initial Contact & Fit
Before anything else, we check whether we are the right people to help. This is a short conversation to understand your challenge at a high level, explain how we work, and see whether our model is a good fit. There is no fee for this stage.
Discovery & Scan
When you have a challenge but no clear view of the options, we start with a structured discovery. We clarify the problem, visit or review the relevant sites, capture constraints, and agree what “good enough for a pilot” would mean.
We then scan the landscape for realistic technologies and startups, filter based on your real-world constraints, and prepare a concise shortlist with pros and cons. The output is a clear problem statement, agreed evaluation criteria, and a small number of candidates worth a closer look.
Open Competition
If you want to cast a wider net, we can run an open competition around your challenge. We prepare the brief, materials, and rubric, promote the opportunity, and assess incoming applications against the same real-world constraints and criteria.
The result is similar to Discovery & Scan – a shortlist and recommendations – but with a more open, visible process that can attract solutions you may not already know.
Due Diligence
For shortlisted solutions, we run deeper due diligence to answer the question: is this specific solution credible and ready enough to justify a pilot?
Depending on the case, this may cover technical review, regulatory and compliance aspects, integration and operational risk, delivery capability, commercial sanity checks, and IP / freedom-to-operate considerations. The output is a clear report and recommendation to support a go / no-go / “not yet” decision on a pilot.
Pilot Design
When a solution is selected for a pilot, we help both sides agree exactly what the pilot is for and how it will be judged. We turn due-diligence findings into concrete objectives, define sites and assets, set KPIs and measurement plans, and document roles, responsibilities, timelines, and indicative budgets.
The result is a pilot design pack that your internal teams, the startup, and any investors can review, challenge, and sign off with confidence.
Pilot Facilitation
Finally, we can stay involved to help the pilot run smoothly and produce evidence that decision-makers can trust. We support set-up (including coordination with legal on contracts, NDAs, and data-sharing), light-touch coordination during execution, regular check-ins, and tracking of KPIs and issues.
At the end, we analyse the results against the original success criteria and prepare a balanced recommendation on whether to scale, refine, or stop. The aim is a defensible decision, not just a nice story.
Find Out More
If you’d like to talk about a specific project, or just sense-check an idea for a pilot, we are happy to start with an informal conversation.
