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Launchpad Business Accelerator
Turn a real business challenge into a tested product, a clearer business model and a plan for growth. Learn with a cohort through live workshops, project work and individual mentoring.
Next intake7 December 2026
Overview
Launchpad Business Accelerator / Build with your team
Move the idea. Move the business.
Bring a business challenge into focus with your team. Explore business design, test a product proposition and develop a practical plan for growth through the accelerator program.
- Business design
- Applied project work
- Mentoring
Explore the Business Design Accelerator as a program example.
Who it is for
Founders, innovation leaders and cross-functional teams developing a venture, product or service. Bring a real challenge and work on it throughout the program.
How you will learn
Live workshops
Work with the cohort in facilitated sessions on design thinking, business design and team development.
Project work
Apply the methods to your own challenge, supported by learning resources and weekly activities.
Individual mentoring
Biweekly practical sessions with a design coach to develop your business and product.
Your program journey
Five phases across sixteen weeks, from designing your beginning to share and sustain, each week a live session on the live board.
Phase 1 / Community Building · week 1Designing your beginning
Meet the cohort and the method: design as a human and audience centred approach to innovation. Declare the intention you will carry through the program. It opens your record.
Phase 2 / Value Proposition Development · weeks 2 to 6Know your audience, shape your value proposition
Understand your audience, set the value proposition strategy, adjust the proposition and team, build the minimum viable ecosystem and run build, measure and learn cycles.
Phase 3 / Growth and Marketing · weeks 7 to 11Build the business model
Work on the business model and profitability, the revenue engine, market size, the go to market strategy, scale and growth.
Phase 4 / Finance and Investment · weeks 12 to 15Prepare and deploy
Review metrics and ethics, prepare to deploy and set the prelaunch strategy, then share and sustain.
Phase 5 / Community Building · week 16Program wrap up
Close the program with the cohort and plan the next steps. Your sealed weeks close into your certificate and your Genesis Block.
The cycle, end to end
Every week runs one full cycle. Sixteen sealed weeks build the record your certificate and your Genesis Block stand on.
- 01 DeclareEach week opens with a Point of Intention: what you will build and why, stated before the work begins.
- 02 WorkA live session on the live board, then project work on your own challenge.
- 03 RespondEach week closes with a Point of Response: what was delivered, set beside what was declared.
- 04 SealThe week is measured and sealed as a Proof of Transformation in your data provenance, signed by your own key.
- 05 Genesis BlockComplete the program and the certificate is struck as a Sealed Artifact. Every certified Human Agency receives a Genesis Block and joins the cycle to cycle member network with the right to publish.
What you will work towards
- An audience-informed product proposition
- A tested prototype or minimum viable product
- A business model and go-to-market plan
- A pitch and practical next-step roadmap
Program pillars
- Managing innovation risks
- Innovation proficiency
- Future-proofing strategies
- Delivering and enhancing value