Field Notes
Dated, numbered analysis of how deep-tech research becomes companies. The practice publishes its working here: the evidence behind the tools, the patterns behind the deals. Next up: an 11-part playbook on the deep-tech pitch, one edition per link in the chain.
No. 03 · July 2026 · Open consultationThe workflow is the evidence.
Before anyone assesses AI tools for research commercialisation, somebody has to map the workflow the tools are supposed to serve. The practice's seven-stage map, published for correction by the people who live it.
Read the edition, then mark the map wrong No. 02 · 2026Each block earns the next.
The deep-tech pitch as a causal chain: eleven links from problem to the dynamic question, where each block earns the audience's permission for the one that follows. The essay behind the forthcoming playbook series.
Originally published on LinkedIn No. 01 · 202610 things UK deep-tech spinout founders must unlearn.
The infographic that started the series: the habits the system teaches founders that the market then charges them to forget.
Originally published on LinkedIn