Consulting projects delivered since 2020
Deep tech startups vetted every year
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Emerging technology strategy, built for P&L impact.
Not every breakthrough is worth your budget. Hello Tomorrow Consulting helps innovation, R&D, and strategy teams pick the technologies worth pursuing, vet the startups behind them, and run pilots that turn into business results.
From semiconductors to energy and chemicals, the companies we’ve worked with
Four steps from emerging technology bet to business impact
Decide where to play
Facing a board-level question on where to invest, with more options than budget? Get an independent, technically credible view, and a decision in weeks, tied to your P&L.
Innovation Bet Sprint​
Within just a few weeks, we turn a long list of emerging technologies into a ranked shortlist of bets, scored against your market dynamics, technology maturity and R&D priorities. You'll get a decision memo giving you a clear go / no-go and next steps for every bet on the list.​
Innovation Investment & Strategy Roadmap​
We help you decide where to focus your innovation investments over the next three years, with build, buy or partner recommendations for the technologies that matter most to your business. Informed by the competitive landscape, we develop an actionable roadmap with KPIs linked to business outcomes. An initial 6-12-week engagement is followed by quarterly reviews to keep your roadmap current.​
Access the right technologies
Our technology scouting brings you the few startups and lab projects worth your time, including early-stage and academic ones you wouldn’t find alone, vetted by our team and introduced to you personally.
Scouting & Technical Due Diligence​
We take you from a broad technology landscape to a clear decision in two phases. First, we identify and vet startups, research teams or SMEs that match your needs, with a clear rationale for each recommendation. We then assess the strongest candidate’s technology, business viability and ability to scale, providing a go/no-go recommendation and an assessment of readiness for a pilot.​
Deal Flow Retainer
Receive a curated selection of vetted startups every month, matched to your investment or partnership criteria. Quarterly reviews keep the search aligned with your priorities, with priority access to high-quality startups identified through the Hello Tomorrow Challenge and Summit.​
Execute & Deploy
Our venture clienting and pilot support turns the right startups into pilots that make it into the business, with a clear path through your organisation, and results your teams can show internally.
Startup to Pilot
We turn your startup shortlist into live pilots. First, we build a pilot roadmap with your business unit sponsor, agreeing on scope, KPIs and the business case, while addressing procurement, legal and IP requirements. We then guide 1 to 3 startups through pilot delivery, with weekly progress reviews and a clear recommendation on whether to scale or stop.​
Venture clienting programme
We help you build the processes and tools to work with startups as a customer, including playbooks, procurement templates, a business unit onboarding kit and KPIs. Drawing on experience across industries, we test and refine the approach through a live pilot cycle, then equip your team to run it independently.​
Scale for lasting impact
Turn successful pilots into deployment at scale, with the ROI evidence your leadership needs to fund it, and strategic partnerships built to last.
Scale-Up Roadmap & ROI Tracking
We help you scale proven pilot solutions across business units and markets, with a clear rollout plan and a business case for leadership approval. We support procurement, risk management, integration and deployment across sites. Working with your finance team, we establish KPI baselines and agree how returns will be measured and attributed. A portfolio dashboard and quarterly impact reports give leadership a clear view of progress and business value.​
Science and strategy, in one team.
Deep tech is complex, and our team of scientists, engineers, and business experts knows it first-hand. Finding startups is the easy part. Knowing which technologies will work in your business takes that depth, early access, and the ability to execute.
Not a startup database
AI can generate a list of startups in minutes, but it’s built from the same public data your competitors use. It can’t tell you whether a technology works outside the lab, whether it can scale to your volumes, or whether the team can deliver.
Not a supplier with an agenda
Platforms and accelerators earn more when you work with the startups they already know, so their recommendations often come with a bias.
Not pilots that go nowhere
Most pilots stall in procurement, legal, or BU priorities, and end without a decision, costing budget and credibility.
Your expert filter for emerging technologies
We search across the network of startups and labs we’ve built over 15 years (and well beyond!), to find technologies that fit your needs, often before they’re widely known. Our team of scientists, engineers, and business experts then assesses their maturity, scalability, and business model, so you get a clear go/no-go.
An independent view your board can trust
We’re paid for the quality of your decision, not for placing startups. Any interest we have, such as an investment by our sister fund, is disclosed upfront, so our recommendations hold up in front of your board.
Real partners to count on
Before a pilot starts, we help you set clear success criteria, build the business case with your BU sponsor, and map the route through procurement, legal, and IP. If you need us, we steer the pilot with you until there’s a recommendation to scale or stop, backed by evidence you can show internally.
Your questions about Hello Tomorrow Consulting
Our team already scouts startups. What do you add?
We complement internal teams with deep tech ecosystem access, technology and startup scouting, and external expertise. We help you identify relevant companies and assess opportunities that may sit beyond your existing network or technical focus.
Can startups deliver at our scale?
That’s exactly what our due diligence checks. We screen for both novelty and maturity, and beyond the science, we assess each startup’s business, team, and readiness to scale. You’ll meet the ones ready for a pilot now, and know which to watch for later, from university spinouts to Series D and beyond.
What happens after you’ve found the right startups?
We can take you all the way to a decision. Our Startup to Pilot offer starts with a pilot roadmap: the scope, KPIs, and business case agreed with your BU sponsor, and a route mapped through procurement, legal, and IP. From there, we can steer the pilot with your teams until there’s a recommendation to scale or stop.
Want to make it repeatable? We can also help you set up your own venture clienting programme.
Can you work with our R&D and business units?
Yes. Projects can be structured around technical requirements, operational constraints and business objectives, helping the relevant stakeholders assess a solution against the same criteria.
What if we don't know which technology we need yet?
That’s where many of our projects start. We begin with your business rather than the technology: your products, your processes, and where you want to grow. From there, we scan the horizon for technologies that could make a real difference, narrow them down to a few bets worth exploring, and give you a clear go/no-go on each. You leave knowing what to pursue, and why.
Let’s talk about your next technology bet
Wherever you are, from an open question to a pilot ready to launch, tell us what you’re working on, and we'll help with your next step.