The Alchemy of Innovation

New Founders-Forward Program:

Preparing Brands for the Next Stage

The Founders-Forward Program is the blueprint every founder needs to ensure their brand is operationally, commercially, and ethically ready for retail, distribution and global expansion.

What You’ll Unlock for Your Brand:

  • Confident, aligned leadership with a high-performing team and processes built to drive scalable growth.

  • A buyer-ready product lineup designed to make an impact, scale fast, and fuel long-term success.

  • A clear scaling strategy with prioritized milestones, commercial readiness, and pitch planning to win over buyers and partners.

  • An integrated retail and brand marketing plan blending ATL, BTL, offline touchpoints, and influencer/PR initiatives to boost engagement.

  • Scalable operations and supply chain systems that cut inefficiencies and support multi-market expansion.

  • Robust financial models and funding strategies to enable smart decisions and global growth.

    • Focus on preparing leaders for scaling challenges.

    • Ensure the team can make confident, aligned decisions for growth.

    • Assess if you have the right people in the right roles, identify gaps, and plan for scaling staff efficiently.

    • Set up processes and culture to maintain accountability, high performance, and cohesion as the company grows.

    • Ensure your product lineup is buyer-ready, scalable and commercially viable.

    • Advise on SKU optimisation, pricing strategy and packaging considerations to maximise market impact.

    • Identify gaps in the product range and plan for multi-year innovation strategy.

    • Guide product development decisions to align with market demand and long-term growth objectives.

    • Support development of a clear scaling strategy with timelines, milestones, and launch considerations.

    • Guide founders in mapping critical milestones and dependencies for scaling and market entry.

    • Advise on prioritising initiatives and resources to support successful buyer and partner engagement.

    • Guide planning for range reviews, ensuring SKUs, packaging, pricing, and merchandising are commercially aligned.

    • Provide recommendations for commercial presentation decks and pitch materials.

    • Offer strategic planning for launch, activation, and distribution timing.

    • Design and guide comprehensive ATL and BTL marketing campaigns.

    • Advise on expanding customer engagement beyond digital through in-store displays, packaging experiences, activations, events, strategic partnerships, and offline marketing.

    • Strategically plan influencer, PR, and partnership initiatives.

    • Ensure marketing strategy supports retail and distribution readiness.

    • Analyse current operations and supply chain to identify gaps, inefficiencies and growth opportunities.

    • Advise on scalable operational processes to support multi-market expansion and increased demand.

    • Guide resource allocation planning to optimise fulfilment, logistics and internal workflows.

    • Provide recommendations to ensure operational readiness aligns with multi-channel and international growth objectives.

    • Guide founders in building robust financial models to forecast revenue, margins and growth.

    • Advise on assessing the commercial viability of product lines, new initiatives and international market expansions.

    • Provide strategic guidance on budgeting for expansion, marketing, operational scaling and global growth initiatives.

    • Support founders in identifying and accessing financial resources, including grants, loans and other startup funding opportunities.

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