Value doesn't protect itself. It needs design and governance.

Innovation creates value.
Our business is keeping
that value with you.

Fixed-scope products and ongoing support, for those who innovate and those who fund innovation.

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What we do and who it is for

You know where you want to go. We help you get there.

With SixTree, you don't need one team for product and another for governance: a single partnership covers both. In practice, we help your organisation build competitive advantage, internal capabilities and strategic partnerships to support your innovations.

For those who make innovation happen.

Funders, backers and coordinators

Funds, development agencies, accelerators, science and technology parks, programmes and networks that need to assess, monitor and report on the organisations they support, before and after committing resources, including those preparing to operate in Brazil.

Your pathStructuring and Governance of Programmes and Partnerships

Innovation projects

Initiatives with a technical goal and a deadline that need to become fundable projects: clear to funders and sound enough internally to reach the next stage.

Your pathInnovation Project Structuring and Fundraising

Growing businesses

Businesses that have already validated what they do and need strategy, governance and partnerships to grow without losing the value they created.

Your pathInnovation Strategy and Governance

The team's background

20+

Years

Of combined experience in governance, innovation and product design.

Markets

Brazil, the United States, the United Kingdom, continental Europe and Southern Africa.

Disciplines

Combined in a single partnership.

Solutions

The right format for where you are now.

Fixed scope

Products

Defined result, defined timeline.

You know what you will receive and when, before you start.

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How you decideEffectual Business DesignDecide under uncertainty, starting from what you already control. How the structure holds upOrganisational DiagnosisKnow what is holding growth back and what to prioritise. How the project gets fundedInnovation Project Structuring and FundraisingYour proposal written, submitted and followed through.

How it gets adopted

Product, brand and experience so that your innovation is adopted by the market and clear to funders.

Product Discovery SprintReduce uncertainty before investing in development. Brand & IdentityLook like what you already are, before the conversation that matters. MVP BuildFrom what has been validated to a working prototype, to test with users and show to investors.

How Brazil worksBrazil Innovation LandscapeUnderstand how Brazil works before you commit to operating here.

Ongoing support

Advisory

By your side for as long as the challenge lasts.

For the challenge that does not fit a fixed scope: every decision followed closely, cycle by cycle.

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StrategyInnovation Strategy and GovernanceInvest in the next cycle without losing control of what you created. ProgrammesStructuring and Governance of Programmes and PartnershipsFunds reach the ground, with auditable accountability. DesignProduct ExperienceAn experience that matches your product's growth.

Systems

Labs

Systems designed for real pain points.

Discover solutions SixTree has already tested in real operations.

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Diagnostic Brief Beta

Think of your organisation’s last important sale. What made the customer choose it, and not another option?

It was cheaper for them, in price or in what it costs to use. What we deliver works better, more precisely, or fails less. We built or adjusted the solution for their case. It was easier or more pleasant to use than the rest.

Find out where the value of your innovation is exposed while there is still time to act.

Take the Diagnostic Brief.It is free.

Find out where the value of your innovation is exposed while there is still time to act.

You receive a reading that shows what needs attention first. The questions are about what has already happened in your operation.

Take the Diagnostic Brief. It is free.

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Our mission

To organise knowledge about innovation so that it becomes legible, trustworthy and fundable.

Integrated Architecture for Innovations

It is how we bring together the two axes that hold up an innovation: product architecture, which determines whether and how it is adopted, and governance, which determines whether the value it generates stays with the innovator.

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Our shared values

These are the commitments we make in every engagement. They are the criteria we use to accept a project, and the standard we expect to be held to.

Same side of the table

Co-creation is how we work: we sit on the same side of the table and build every solution together with you. That is why we make every decision as if the organisation were our own, asking what needs to be done now to protect it, strengthen it and prepare it for its next stage.
High standards on both sides

We know that a good outcome depends on the commitment of both those who commission the work and those who deliver it. That is why we work with analytical depth, clarity in decision-making and discipline in execution, and we expect the same level of rigour and accountability from you.
Structural independence

We recognise that preparing a client and assessing a business, project or programme on behalf of third parties are roles with inevitable conflicts of interest. That is why we assess conflicts of interest before taking on each engagement and maintain full transparency, diligence and alignment with those who hire us.
Rigour and repertoire

We work with rigour, anchored in science, evidence and best practice. And with repertoire, to interpret, connect and translate that knowledge into applicable solutions. That is how we turn international benchmarks into decisions that are relevant to each context.

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Team

Meet the people who work with you.

SixTree was born from two ways of looking at innovation coming together: governance and design. Our way of working comes from where the two meet.

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Two perspectives.One integrated architecture.

Emerson Zotti

CEO & Founder · Governance & Innovation

Strategy consultant and researcher specialised in Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development. I help businesses and organisations in transition to sustainability close the distance between conceiving ideas and putting them into practice: designing the strategy, governance and institutional conditions for the value created by innovation to stay with those who innovated. Thirteen years of international experience across Brazil, the United Kingdom, Southeast Africa and the United States, moving between applied research and the practice of management and leadership.

MSc in Sustainable Development from SPRU, University of Sussex, as a Chevening Scholar, and an MBA in Agribusiness from FGV. Along the way, I managed an agribusiness operation in the Cerrado, led field research on livelihoods and entrepreneurship for the LSE and UNHCR in Mozambique, and facilitated a multi-sector development programme across 54 municipalities in southern Brazil.

Amanda Galeano

Associate · Design & Experience

Over a decade designing digital products that combine clarity, usability and purpose. With a postgraduate qualification in User Experience and Beyond from PUCRS and degrees in Graphic Design (UNINGÁ) and Advertising & Marketing (UDC), she built her career across agencies, early-stage products and SaaS platforms serving clients in the United States, Europe and Brazil.

As a Product Designer at Cheesecake Labs for over four years, she leads end-to-end processes: from product discovery and definition to final delivery, with design systems ready for engineering handoff. At SixTree, she translates organisations’ positioning into product, brand and experience: the visible assets that sustain fundraising, retention and the perception of maturity that distinguishes an operation ready to scale.