Venture Creation
Build a venture ↗Turn an opportunity into a viable business.
↗Strategy · Venture · Product · Operations South Africa & North America / Working globally
We build
what comes next.
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We help ambitious organisations and founders turn opportunities into ventures, products and operating systems built to work in the real world.
Strategy / Venture / Product / Operations / AI / Programs / Story
The journey 01
From possibility
to market.
01Discover→
02Define→
03Validate→
04Build→
05Operationalise→
06Launch→
07Scale
Why we exist 02
Ideas rarely fail because people lack ideas.
Strategy makes the deck.Research produces the report.Product writes the requirements.Developers build.Marketing receives it near the end.Creative is asked to make it look good.
Somewhere between all of them, the opportunity gets lost.
We work differently.
We bring business, product, technology and storytelling together from day one. The same team that uncovers the opportunity helps shape the proposition, build the experience and take it to market.
What we build 03
One team.
Four ways.
Clients are not buying reports. They are buying movement: a decision, an evidence base, a prototype, a product, a venture, a story or a launch.
Product & AI
Build a product ↗Turn strategy into something people can use.
↗Brand & Story
Build a story ↗Make the proposition clear, compelling and easy to understand.
↗Transformation
Transform the business ↗Turn an existing organisation into what comes next.
↗Selected work 04
Things we've
helped make real.
Ventures, products and systems built around real problems.
PALM
AURA✳
AURA✳
SCHOOL
-OS◒
-OS◒
Ways to work together 05
Start where
you are.
You do not need a finished brief. Bring us the question, opportunity or challenge.
2–3 weeks · Proceed / Pivot / Park
You have an opportunity. We determine whether it deserves to become a business.
Explore an opportunity ↗The founders 06
Different strengths.
One operating system.
Nextform brings venture creation and product thinking together with strategy, operations and programme execution. We work across the distance between an ambitious idea and the systems required to make it real.
How we think 07
Evidence before assumption.
We research, prototype and test rather than falling in love with ideas.
Story is part of the product.
People cannot choose, adopt or champion something they do not understand.
Make something real.
Every engagement should move beyond recommendations towards an artefact, experiment, prototype, product, campaign or decision.
Insights 08
Notes from
the work.
Read all insights ↗The useful future is not the loudest one.
What changing technology means for the work worth doing.
Read note ↗A prototype is a question you can put in someone’s hands.
Notes from the things we are trying, testing and making.
Read note ↗Movement is the deliverable.
Lessons from research, building, launching and learning.
Read note ↗Make the next move 09
Something should exist
that doesn't yet.
Let's figure out what it is and build it.
Start a project ↗Bring us the messy version.
hello@nextform.studio
hello@nextform.studio