Your AI innovation partner

Where good ideas come to life.

Your people's best ideas, brought to life and seen by the whole organisation.

9 in 10 innovation and AI programmes stall. Not because the tech failed. Because the right problems rarely get solved, shaped, or backed.

So we built Oli.

Oaklin has been wild about ideas for over a decade. Running innovation for our clients, we kept seeing the same pattern: brilliant thinking, trapped in pockets, with progress stalling after workshops.

We brought together the things Oaklin does best. How we run innovation, get to the real problem, and turn ideas into outcomes.

An Oaklin consultant running an innovation workshop at a whiteboard covered in post-it notes

01 · Define

Problem Definition

Structure any challenge through guided conversation. Surface the real problem beneath the surface complaint.

02 · Shape

Prototype Lab

Five structured stages from a challenge to a solution concept, guided by Oaklin's Design Thinking.

03 · Build

Prototype Generation

From concept to a clickable, stakeholder-ready prototype. No developers. No waiting.

04 · Progress

Innovation Pipeline

From idea to pilot. Every gate visible. Leadership knows where to back, where to pause.

05 · Share

Ideas Marketplace

Every idea visible. Colleagues vote, comment, back the strongest. Nothing gets buried.

Fuel growth

Build a stronger innovation pipeline.

Growth depends on a continuous pipeline of high-quality opportunities. Oli keeps yours full, with ideas drawn from every corner of your business, already shaped, already tested, already clickable by the time they reach a decision.

More opportunities in.

The front of your pipeline opens to everyone, not just the workshop list. Ten times more people contributing means your next big idea can come from anywhere. And it does.

Higher quality at the gate.

Every idea enters through Oli's problem definition and Design Thinking stages. What reaches reviewers is a validated problem with a working prototype attached, not a vague suggestion in a form.

Faster through every stage.

Decisions get made on something people can click, not a deck someone has to decode. Ideas that took a quarter to assess move in days.

Confidence at the point of decision.

Leadership sees the whole picture: the support an idea has earned, the evidence behind it, where everything sits. Back the best with evidence, not instinct.

More than a platform

Your innovation engine. Designed, run, and handed over.

Some organisations are ready to run. Others are earlier in the journey. That's where Oaklin comes in. Our consultants wrap a managed innovation service around Oli: we design your programme, run it with you, and build the engine inside your organisation until it runs itself.

01

Design the programme.

We shape the strategy with you: the challenges worth running, the gates ideas move through, the governance that keeps leadership confident without slowing anyone down.

02

Run it together.

Oaklin consultants launch your challenges, facilitate the sessions, coach teams through their first prototypes, and keep the pipeline moving while your organisation finds its rhythm.

03

Build it into your people.

We train your champions, embed the methodology, and hand over the keys. The goal was never dependence on us. It's an innovation capability your organisation owns.

Wild about ideas. Serious about outcomes.

10x

More of your people contributing ideas, not just the few in the workshop.

1 sitting

From rough thought to working prototype. What took a quarter now takes an afternoon.

100%

Of ideas visible across the organisation. Nothing stuck, nothing lost.