Local leadership
Every initiative is led by someone close to the problem, who owns its direction and its outcomes.
See the initiatives →01
We build innovation businesses with people who know their market.
You bring the industry insight and the relationships. We bring the method, the shared technology and the commercial support to prove the idea and build the business around it.
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Simple solutions.
16 initiatives so far, each with its own name and sector, none of them starting from scratch.
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We build Simple solutions
Scalable and sustainable impact
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that solve Practical problems
Informed by industry intelligence
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by using a Digital mindset
Disruptive by design
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to empower People and organisations
Dedicated to digital democracy
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in partnership with Local leadership
Enabling everyday entrepreneurs
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It has never been easier to build ideas that don’t work.
spec to shipsignal to scale
AI has made software cheap and fast to build. Building the right thing, for the right customer, with a credible route to growth, is as hard as it ever was. So we prove before we build, and investment grows with the evidence.
The Solution Foundry04
Three things, working as one.
The Solution Foundry
Signal to scale.
Discovery and evidence come before code, and defined gateways decide what earns the next round of time and money.
Explore the Solution Foundry →The Hub
The capability of a large organisation, without having to build one.
Shared components, AI agents, senior experience and corporate support, used by every initiative.
Explore the Hub →The HUBIQ wheel: the initiatives around the outside, the Hub's four areas (scope, resource, language and leadership) inside them, 5Di (discovery, design, development, delivery and deployment) inside those, and HUBIQ at the centre.
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From signal to scale, in three waves.
Wave 01, Market discovery
Find the demand and test the opportunity before anything is built.
- Demand
- Ideation and evaluation
- Strategic
- Design and validation
Wave 02, Initiative development
Build, test and refine a proof, then make it ready to hand over.
- Proof
- Build, test and refine
- Readiness
- Produce and hand over
Wave 03, Operations delivery
Roll out, run and grow the product and the business behind it.
- Product
- Roll out, run and maintain
- Growth
- Users and platform
Gateways between each wave, where founders and funders decide together whether to continue, adapt, accelerate or stop.
See the full pathway →06
Sixteen initiatives so far. Five in flight.
Each one has its own name, market and leadership, and draws on the same shared Hub.
Four more are looking for leaders.See all initiatives →
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What we bring that a single start-up can’t.
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Evidence before investment.
Time, capital and people are committed as confidence grows, never all at once.
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Build what differentiates. Reuse what doesn’t.
Data, integration, AI and interface foundations are built once in the Hub, so new work goes where it creates value.
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Experience close to the problem.
Local leaders bring the market. Third Act practitioners bring senior challenge and the lessons already learned.
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Big-company support, fractional.
Finance, legal, commercial and investor access, shared and in the right proportion at the right time.
The shared kit we build from
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UI components
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capabilities
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initiatives
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Who we work with.
Industry experts and local leaders
You know a market and the problems in it, and want to run something rather than advise on it.
Organisations with a problem worth solving
Turn an operational problem into a product, with a partner who carries the method and the delivery capability.
Investors
Back the Hub or a single initiative, through common evidence and reporting at every gateway.
Technology and delivery partners
We integrate, orchestrate and govern rather than build everything ourselves, so the right partner matters.
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Built by people who have done this before.
Colin Earp
Founder
Spent a career turning services into businesses, mostly in places where the technology was the easy part. Started HUBIQ to do it repeatedly rather than one at a time.
Gideon Bullock
Core
Twenty years of design leadership across regulated and consumer markets. Responsible for how an initiative feels to the person using it, and for the experience architecture that makes it hold.
St.John Bent
Core
Runs the operating side of the portfolio: how initiatives are stood up, staffed and governed, and how an initiative gets from a gate decision to something people can actually work in.
Supported by an advisory board and specialists from energy policy, construction, facilities management and more, alongside our AI members.Meet the community →
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People bring the power. Purpose means it matters. Profit makes it last.
We build simple solutions that solve practical problems, using a digital mindset, to empower people and organisations, in partnership with local leadership.
What we stand for11
Our thinking.
The ideas behind HUBIQ.
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People are our business. Collaboration is our culture.
HUBIQ is a community before it is a company. If you want to lead, advise, back or build, there is a way in.
Lead an initiative
You know a market and the problems in it, and you want to run something rather than advise on it. Several initiatives are waiting on exactly this. You do not need a technical background: that is what the hub is for.
Join the advisory network
Senior sector and initiative people, lending experience across the lifecycle. Deep enough to be useful, light enough to fit around whatever else you do.
Back the portfolio
Invest in the hub, or in a single initiative within it. Commercial success and positive impact are treated as the same job, not competing ones.
Build alongside us
Technology, delivery and market partners. We integrate, orchestrate and govern rather than build everything ourselves, so the right partner matters.