Our Services

Why choose us?

Know what we will deliver and how much you will spend.
Control costs through item based, a la carte pricing.
Implement using our Soft skills wedded to deep technical expertise

What we offer

For Innovators

Help understanding how to manufacture and scale, how to prepare for partnerships, business structure, milestones, and general starting up

For Accelerators

Educational programs to help start-ups get through scale-up, market insights and business to business advising, events and solutions

Analyses of materials technologies, value propositions and risks. Risk assessment for the “Valley of Death” through Pilot development and scaled-up manufacturing, readiness for market entry analyses and checkpoints.

For Manufacturers

Guidance and training on sustainability objectives that is always centered on how your processes actually work, your supply chains, sourcing and manufacturability. Clear advice on how to configure existing underutilized resources for the innovator market.

We can help you

Articulate your unique value proposition and vision,

Align your products with your market goals and growth objectives,

Streamline and troubleshoot your processes, and create mindshare in the technical marketplace.

As people who have worked in a variety of Industrial settings, we are familiar with the unique challenges facing manufacturing companies and companies in the innovation sector. Our approach to consulting offers several valuable features for small and high growth businesses. We have our own experience with consultants. Our own experiences with consultants have inspired us to re-engineer the consultation process, and to remove the uncertainty and frustration from working with consultants. Our up front task breakdowns, deliverables and itemized price quotes provide the clarity clients need.

1. Know what we will deliver and how much you will spend.

We provide task and deliverables based pricing options as an alternative to typical hourly consultant fees. Any project starts with a straightforward no-nonsense itemized list of specific tasks and deliverables that will achieve the client’s goals. Clear breakdowns are provided for each task. These breakdowns include itemized estimated completion times, am itemized price quote, and a description of how the deliverable provides value and advances the client’s goals.

2. Control costs through item based, a la carte pricing.

Control exactly how much of a project you want us to deliver, with clear defined project steps and stopping points, and clear pre-agreed reporting formats for deliverables. You pick and choose the items you most need to outsource, and engage your internal team on your terms

3. Implement using our Soft skills wedded to deep technical expertise

Our team embodies a range of management and marketing experiences and insights. We understand the human factors involved in adopting new processes and technologies, presenting new and valuable ideas to people of different backgrounds, and communicating technical content to a wide audience. We can help you Communicate across different levels of technical expertise and backgrounds, and we will create the content you need. We are great at executive summaries of difficult concepts! We can help you explain the hard stuff to your stakeholders!We have broad technical, management, and entrepreneurial experience within our group. Specialties include: Start-up companies, Pre-launch and product launch strategies, Technology and manufacturing risk assessment, Polymers and plastics, Polymer materials science, Polymer Processing, Compounding, Soft materials, Coatings, Surface modifications, Biopolymers, Product and Process Engineering, Analytical and QA/QC protocol design and method development, Equipment and manufacturing line commission, Navigating the regulatory environment, Sustainability and lifecycle management, Improving product sustainability

Services for Innovators

Help understanding how to manufacture and scale, how to prepare for partnerships, business structure, milestones, and general starting up

Additional Services include …

For Inventors

1. Competitive Assessment

a. Freedom to operate

b. Market competitors

c. Advantages of your technology

d. Potential areas for partnering

i. Research and recommend configurations that make the tech more meaningful to partners

e. Manufacturability analysis

f. Advise on gotomarket strategy

i. Stand-alone business (start-up),

ii. spinout,

iii. integration with partner or

iv. Licensing

For Start-up teams

1. Strategy

a. Articulate what the company founders want from the start-up

b. Define the start-up companies stage

c. Suggest the types of investors to approach – stage and category

d. Risk analysis and due diligence planning.

i. How can the founders persuade the investors that risks are low/easily retired to get to the next stage

ii. Specific risk retirement goals that are addressed by investment

iii. Linking risk retirement and other goals to increased company value

2. Pitching

a. Review pitches and slide decks to focus on important factors for VC and other investors

b. Review Business plans

i. Executive summaries are very important and determine whether the investor looks at the rest of the plan

c. Review investor types and priorities

i. Advise on best matches (angel, VC, partner?)

ii. Work styles matrix to identify and fine tune pitches to different investor workplace “personalities” (styles)

3. Due Diligence coaching

a. Identify and drill down on the risks that will come up in due diligence

b. Help formulate plans to address those risksc. Background research to support Founder’s risk assessment and risk retirement strategies

Services for Accelerators

Educational programs to help start-ups get through scale-up, market insights and business to business advising, events and solutions, Materials and advice. Additional Services include …

Strategies to build awareness

1. Identify what makes the accelerator really interesting to target industries

a. Verify and research with industry experts

2. Work with you to identify and articulate your advantages and your attention grabbing solution for the types of customers who are a good fit and of interest

a. Good fits for your companies

b. Good fits to leverage accelerator services – for additional revenue and for reputation.

3. Identify the accelerator strengths and capabilities that help their companies close deals with Industrial partners

4. Identify and articulate areas of leverage between the accelerator, it’s companies, and the industry – services that build trust and reputation

5. Develop data and analysis to answer: Where should you focus your awareness campaign? Location? Types of activities? Company roles or types of technical experts?

6. Develop data and analysis to answer: What activities need to lead? Networking? Event hosting? PR and/or marketing (and what type)?

7. Content development, including technical content and industry specific targeted content

a. Your marketing team won’t be trying to learn your tech on the fly and your Scientific and technical teams will not be frustrated nor distracted by PR and marketing pulls for content.

b. Content will reflect the different levels of technical sophistication and styles of the target audience.

8. Provide operational support for US outreach activities

9. Actively network and interact with organizations as your proxy10. Frame out services as menus of “products” and typical schedules and terms

Services for Investors

Additional services include…