EARLY INNOVATION PARTNER

Engineer a 10x

App & Finance

50 %

with Future Equity

We'll invest half our revenue in your company to engineer a groundbreaking app that attracts users, converts them into paying customers, and generates 10-100x more revenue.

Early

Innovation

Partner

10x

TEN TIMES better

If your app solves a problem or creates an experience that's 10x better than anything else out there, then you can be sure of one thing: people would be genuinely upset if it suddenly disappeared. When you reach this threshold, you know your app has achieved product-market fit and is primed to scale.

Logic

LTV

Your app's user-interface should be so engaging that user retention measurably increases and customer lifetime value (LTV1) climbs to 3x CAC2 or more.

¹LTV = (Average Revenue Per Customer per Time Period) × (Gross Margin %) × (Time Retained)

Your app's functionality should create a network-effect that measurably increases distribution and lowers customer acquisition costs (CAC2) to at least 1/3 LTV1

²CAC = Total Customer Acquisition Costs ÷ Total Number of New Customers Acquired

CAC

1. Intuition

You have a clear vision for your company’s next move, but your teams are stretched thin, and resources are limited. You need a focused, efficient way to validate your intuition. The goal? Deliver more value to your customers and drive revenue growth, achieving an LTV that's 3x your CAC, so you can scale profitably to a 10-100x ROI.

2. Requirements

We plan how your idea maps to an optimal sequence of first features, so when your product is released, you’ll be able to measure how well each feature performs on its own, and how well everything works together. The outcome? You'll know which features increase LTV and which ones lower CAC. Any that don't, get cut.

3. Interface

You know a good interface when you see it; you know a great one when you feel it. And we believe what's good for the user is good for the business. So we make both a priority. We make sure your product experience is desirable (raising LTV) while at the same time as we make development more efficient (lowering fully-loaded CAC), all by creating consistent and reusable design patterns throughout the app.

4. Experience

We craft intuitive experiences that appeal to user-motivations, create user-path optionality, and guide users forward with every successful step. Once your app is live, we clear unanticipated obstacles to further lower CAC and create moments of delight that lift LTV higher.

5. Accessibility

You know the app is well-designed if it’s obvious how to use it, and it just works. We make every touchpoint easy to interact with to prevent user errors (lowering CAC) and to increase conversions (raising LTV).

6. Interactions

We design interactions between the user and the interface to increase engagement, which raises LTV. Ignoring interaction design will increase churn and limit your LTV potential.

7. Network Effects

We architect features to first have personal value and then have social value so the product becomes more valuable as the number of people using it increases. The more your viral co-efficient goes up, the more your CAC goes down.

8. Engineering

We organize and label work for the engineering team to include the business model impact, so everyone knows the expected value of each feature on LTV/CAC before a line of code is written, and hopefully long after the V1 is complete.

9. Delivery

We ship software in releases with semantic versioning which mirrors the format of the product requirements. With this pairing, you can optimize and measure LTV/CAC impact to the ideal 3:1 ratio because you know'll which product investments yield the greatest returns.

10. Scaling

Now that your V1 has shipped, ideas are pouring in from every direction. To keep momentum strong without losing focus, we craft prioritized feature roadmaps that align user needs with business goals, so you can move forward with clarity and confidence after the hand-off.

Process

Intuition leads, data guides, focus wins.

Outcome

Web, eCommerce, blockchain, and mobile apps from scratch to scale

V0.9

Under NDA

If we succeed in helping a publicly-traded eCommerce company transform a multi-million dollar app into one people can’t imagine living without, it will unlock hundreds of millions in new revenue growth.

In-Progress Q3, 2024 - Q1, 2025

Dior

Euronext:CDI.PA

To improve conversion on Dior.com, we analyzed the UI+UX of the buying experience, delivered a strategic A/B testing roadmap, and redesigned the Dior checkout experience for desktop and mobile. Our work is being incorporated into a site-wide redesign, led by Dior HQ in Paris with support from AKQA.

Delivered Q1/2024

Dior.com

CFX

Series A

To help CFX demonstrate the speed and efficiency of its novel stablecoin protocol to investors and partners, we designed a mobile wallet that transforms U.S. dollar deposits into stablecoins pegged to select fiat currencies, enabling instant on-ramps and off-ramps across multiple country corridors.

Delivered Q4/2023

Cfxlabs.com

Hagerty

NYSE:HGTY

To help Hagerty keep collectible vehicle insurance policies in force when vehicles are sold, we designed a multi-sided online auction marketplace. Now, potential buyers can bid on classic automobiles, owners and dealers can sell at market prices, and Hagerty reduces policy churn by brokering deals.

Delivered 2023

Hagerty.com

Highnote

Series Seed

We built the Highnote mobile app to give medical professionals at every level an easy way to help each other on the go. With Highnote, hospital administrators can facilitate real-time problem solving and reduce persistent staff turnover.

Launched 5/2022

Case Study

Tomorrow

Ethos

Series A

To help people prepare for risk in minutes, we built the Tomorrow app so families could make future decisions together and instantly create ready-to-sign legal docs in all 50 states.

Acquired 1/2022