Break boundaries. Innovate boldly. Change with confidence. Do things differently.
Bringing deep knowledge, hands-on practical expertise and actionable insights to help leaders, teams and organisations innovate purposefully and bring about sustainable change
We’ve worked with organisations big and small
What our clients say
About the founder
Fifteen years ago, while working in research, Dr Chloe Sharp fell in love with Product and Innovation. As an academic, she immersed myself in the theory—from Lean Start-up to Product Market Fit to Design Thinking.
Applying these theories initially confused me due to the lack of practical guidance. She soon realised that the most successful innovators adapt the theory to their needs, which led her to apply robust theoretical frameworks for practical and pragmatic ways to build data-driven, user-led products and businesses. This led her to write “Make Products That Matter”.
Some of the experts we collaborate with on projects
Frances Brown
Nightingale Design Research
Innovation training and research services
Mike Christensen
Christensen Creative
Product management and workshop facilitator
How we take you from idea to reality
Understand the context through user, market, employee or stakeholder research
Audit
Workshop to identify use cases and needs
Ideate
Experiment
Plan roadmap and pilot process, AI prototype or tool with a small group
Take learnings, iterate, strategise and implement widely
Implement
Continuous Improvement
Through feedback loops, iterate and keep learning for continuous improvement
Using evaluation methods, we assess short to long-term impact
Support
Measure Impact
Coaching and training to support implementation and ongoing maintenance
What we offer
Evidence for Change: Research + Discovery
From an early idea through to later-stage innovations, we can conduct employee, stakeholder, user, or market research or workshop to understand the needs, use cases, context, and test and validate ideas.
Experimenting + Implementing: Innovation + AI Consultancy
We work with your team to implement innovation pathways, strategy and experiment culture for your business in an actionable and sustainable way. We identify use cases for implementing AI and automation in your business to create innovative ways of working.
Structuring Innovation: Product Management
We guide you through implementing realistic product management plans from idea to launch covering everything from product strategy, marketing, product-market fit, and continuous discovery to processes through training and coaching.
Evaluating Change: SROI + Social Value Evaluation
We deliver evaluations on projects and innovations in the real-world to help you understand the economic, environmental and social impact of your innovation through Social Value and Social Return on Investment frameworks and methodologies.
Sustaining Change: Coaching + Mentoring
An experienced coach and mentor, Chloe is a member of the Association of Business Mentors. She’s mentored leaders on on Help to Grow, TechUp Women and Innovate UK Women in Innovation programmes. Coaching and mentoring can be a great tool for implementing and maintaining change.
Want to collaborate with us?
Dr Chloe Sharp has won over £10m across multiple government grant competitions, bids and tenders including Design Foundations, Smart Grant, DIfD, BEIS GovTech Catalyst, NHS Leadership Academy, SEMLEP, West Midlands Combined Authority and more.
We don’t provide services to write, review or coach you on how to access grant funding (Chloe works with MPA to deliver this). We can be a delivery partner with you to provide research, evaluation and innovation consultancy services on grant projects and tenders.
With all our experience in writing grants, we teach and provide bespoke workshops on grants and bids, one way to access this is through Product in Practice.
Product in Practice: Learn about funding your innovative product development
Learn from industry experts on how to innovate. Gain skills to validate concepts, fund product development and build innovative and sustainable products customers love brought to you by Sharp Insight.
Our inaugural programme is Grant Funding Fundamentals aimed at getting you and your team ready for grants.
With an online course available so you can learn at your own pace plus online workshops led by our grant expert Dr James MacFarlane that focus on Innovate UK competitions such as Smart Grant and Design Foundations, to apply what’s in the online course to a case study.
Dr James MacFarlane
Our grants expert brings his knowledge from winning £100m in grant funding for startups, scaleups and SMEs.
“I found the tips in the Grant Funding Fundamentals online course and workshops to be incredibly practical. The guidance was immediately applicable, helping me feel far more prepared to build a grant strategy” (Ana Silva, Replica Biomaterials)
Tools for thinking differently
"Make Products That Matter" navigates the entire product lifecycle, considering everything from organisational growth, popular frameworks like lean startup, product-market fit, design thinking, and innovation.
Created in collaboration with Jordan Dalladay from Inherent Ventures, we developed free canvases to help you and your team prioritise learning goals over solutions for your roadmap.
It can be confusing to figure out how to take strategy to granular, actionable tasks. This Product Workflow template is a group of tools you can use to help you do just that on Miroverse.