Do you have a business opportunity you want to bring to market?
We'll help you with that.
Do you want to explore new growth opportunities through strategic innovation?
We'll help you with that too.
Let's talk about how.
+47 400 52 503, or click here to email us.
Let's bring your idea all the way to market.
Here's the honest truth about corporate innovation: it is difficult.
We understand your situation – you're already maxed out trying to improve your core business, and now you're supposed to innovate and create new growth opportunities as well.
So you go looking for help. But know this: most innovation consultants will only help you with parts of the journey from idea to market. Some do customer insight. Some do design. Others code, do marketing, or "business development", whatever that means.
Slicing and dicing your innovation work into neat packets may sound appealing, but it has one small problem: it doesn't work. The puzzle pieces seldom fit together when different people have worked on each piece in isolation. The result is predictable: your ideas never make it all the way to real customers in the marketplace.
That's why we believe in a completely different approach.
We work together with you all the way from zero to launch. From great idea to real money in the bank. From finding a customer problem, to having solved it for your customer who is happy to pay for it.
We love to get our hands dirty by working with you through the messy innovation process, all the way from start to revenue. No fancy slides that end up in the dustbin. No fluff and bullshit. No innovation theatre. Only hard work, relentless focus on the end customer, and real, measurable results.
Our hypothesis is simple: the combination of your domain expertise and our innovation methodology lets us bring new products and services to market faster than either of us could by ourselves.
If you want to talk about how, feel free to get in touch.
CEO, Grieg Star
Matthew Duke
AFF Solstrand Accelerate
Harald Engesæth
We are a team of passionate, entrepreneurial individuals who have started, scaled, sold and consulted startups in the past.
The lessons we learned through these startup experiences are the basis for what we do as innovation consultants for big corporates. Our customers choose us because we bring an entrepreneurial mindset to everything we do, and value speed over perfection in the projects we take on.
Economist on paper, systems thinker and startup nerd by trade.
Past experience: Co-founded Easybnb (exit in 2017), strategy consulting.
Idea machine, creative problem solver, our commercial spearhead.
Past experience: Commercial director in Timely, senior consultant in Knowit.
Past experience: Graphic and strategic design at Miksmaster Creative.
Past experience: Various entrepreneurial ventures, project management and EdTech.
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