01WorkshopHow you decide
Effectual Business Design
A visual strategic map to build and shape new ventures from the resources within your control.
A hands-on workshop to design new initiatives under high uncertainty. Ground your strategy in the assets, capabilities, and relationships your organisation already controls today, and open space to co-create with stakeholders. Add practical leverage to the traditional analysis and planning you already run.
Who it is for
Founders, partners, and corporate leaders running early-stage ventures, spin-offs, or innovation projects facing technology or market uncertainty.
Outcomes
- Clear separation between what leadership actually controls today and untested market assumptions.
- Defined risk ceiling and safe investment boundary to validate the initiative without overexposing capital.
- Strategic roadmap to secure early commitments from partners and clients who help shape the product and market.
- Absolute executive alignment on agreed decisions, immediate priorities, and what the business will deliver next.
02DiagnosisHow the structure holds up
Organisational Diagnosis
A clear map of your organisation's real capability, to release the value tied up in its operations.
An X-ray to see where your structure supports growth and where execution bottlenecks form. Applying SixTree's analytical lens to the organisation's policies and practices, the diagnosis maps the trade-offs and learning cycles that determine whether the value you create turns into margin and accumulated capability. You get an integrated view of the business, so you can decide exactly where to put capital and energy.
Who it is for
Leaders, founders and portfolio managers who need to assess how mature the operation really is and set the right order of priorities before scaling up or investing in new initiatives.
Outcomes
- A clear view of the operational and institutional bottlenecks holding back the organisation's growth.
- A map of the strategic trade-offs, so you know exactly what to prioritise and what not to do for now.
- The sources of value leakage across margin, cash, processes and reliance on key people.
- Leadership aligned on the critical decisions, the order of execution and the operation's next steps.
03ProjectHow the project gets funded
Innovation Project Structuring and Fundraising
Raise funding for your innovation, from the written proposal through to submission.
When you develop innovation under high uncertainty, your organisation has to turn technical uncertainty and execution risk into a plan the market finds compelling. SixTree acts as a strategic architect, designing the financial engineering of your project by combining grants, public development funding and private capital sized to the initiative's early risk. By taking on the proposal modelling, the governance of the arrangement and the agreement of matching contributions through to submission, we lay the groundwork for you to retain your intellectual assets and build your team's internal maturity.
Who it is for
Leaders of companies, technology institutes and ecosystem orchestrators with innovation projects under high uncertainty that need blended finance to happen, whether through research and development, the adaptation and reverse engineering of technologies, or the integration of complex systems with a network of partners. Also international funders and organisations that need a project in Brazil structured to local rules.
Deliverables
- Blended finance architecture: a mix of non-repayable funds, public subsidies and private investment that absorbs technical risk and optimises the project's total cost.
- Technical and economic case: full drafting and follow-through of the technical dossier, so your institution presents a mature proposal aligned with what funding panels expect.
- Governance of arrangements and intellectual property: structuring of the partnership agreements, setting clear co-investment flows and protocols to protect the intellectual property generated.
- Post-approval management and traceability: management and accountability guidelines that simplify how funds are applied and ensure knowledge builds up permanently in your organisation.
04DiscoveryHow it gets adopted
Product Discovery Sprint
Reduces product uncertainty with research with real users, before any investment in development.
Who it is for
Initiatives with a defined hypothesis and market, but a product that falls short of what users need.
What you receive
- Research with real users
- Product architecture and user flows
- High-fidelity, developer-ready prototype
05BrandHow it gets adopted
Brand & Identity
Identity and materials that support fundraising, so the company looks like what it already is before the conversation that matters.
Who it is for
Organisations heading into a funding round, a strategic partnership or a decisive presentation.
What you receive
- Visual identity
- Brand system
- Institutional materials
06MVPHow it gets adopted
MVP Build
Turns what has been validated into a working prototype, to test with users and show to investors.
Who it is for
Initiatives with a validated hypothesis that need something navigable to test with users or show investors.
What you receive
- Working, navigable prototype
- Minimum scope to validate
- Preparation for development
07BriefingHow Brazil works
Brazil Innovation Landscape
A qualitative read of Brazil's innovation system before your organisation commits to operating here.
Who it is for
Funds, institutions or companies planning to operate in Brazil.
What you receive
- The regulatory environment for your sector
- How ecosystem actors behave and decide
- Risks that surprise outsiders
