A venture studio and consultancy. We build and run our own products, Glentio and Event Pass Reader, and help founders take theirs from first idea to working business.
Start from wherever you are. Each engagement is scoped to named deliverables and ends in a decision. We quote per project rather than publishing a price list.
You cannot stop thinking about it, and you have no reliable way to tell whether it deserves your savings and the next two years.
Ends with a decision you can act on, not a deck.
You understand the problem better than anyone. What you cannot do is build the thing that solves it, or judge whether a developer's quote is reasonable.
Ends with a working product and real customers using it.
People arrive, fewer sign up than you expected, and it is not obvious which of twenty possible fixes is the one that matters.
Ends each month with changes shipped and measured.
These are not case studies from client work. They are our own products, and they are the clearest evidence of how we work.
Event discovery & ticketing
A global platform where people discover memorable events and organisers create, promote, manage, and sell tickets.
Event check-in & attendance
A universal event check-in solution: import attendee and ticket data from any platform, scan QR codes, manage entry, and monitor attendance in one place.
The studio
Most founders can find someone to advise them, and someone else to build for them. The gap is between the two: advice that never has to survive contact with a real product, and building that never questions whether the thing is worth making.
We closed that gap for ourselves by doing both. Glentio and Event Pass Reader are ours. We carry the same risks, make the same trade-offs, and live with the same decisions we would ask a founder to make.
More about the studioRichard Cuaresma
Founder
Finance professional with over a decade in B2B roles, working directly with partners and managing a $1.4 billion portfolio.
Any stage, including “it is still just an idea”. If it is early, the Idea Validation Sprint is built for exactly that. If you already have something live, start with the Advisory.
No. Most founders we work with are not. We explain technical decisions in plain language and you keep the final say on all of them.
Yes. That is the entire purpose of the Idea Validation Sprint. It can end with a recommendation not to build, and sometimes does. That is a good outcome: it is far cheaper to learn it then.
Yes. The Venture Launch Programme covers strategy, design, development and launch. If you already have a development team, we can work alongside them instead of replacing them.
A validation sprint runs 1–2 weeks. A launch programme runs 6–10 weeks depending on scope. Advisory is monthly or per project.
We quote per engagement rather than publishing a price list, because scope varies widely. Tell us what you are trying to do and you will get a written proposal with fixed deliverables before any commitment.
Yes. That is what the Product & Growth Advisory is for: audit, conversion, pricing and a roadmap for what to change first.
Tell us what you are working on. You will get a considered reply from the people who would actually do the work, not a sales sequence.
Thank you. Your enquiry is in.
We read every enquiry ourselves. Expect a considered reply, not an automated one. If it is easier to talk it through, say so in your reply and we will arrange a call.
