Innovation Scouting

Stop waiting for innovation to find you. We provide the simple, secure platform for targeted innovation scouting, helping you systematically scan the horizon, identify hard-to-reach partners, and strategically secure the technologies you need for tomorrow.

The challenge

Proactive innovation scouting is essential for staying ahead, but manual processes are slow, insecure, and ultimately ineffective.

Signal Overload, No Clarity

You're drowning in data from market reports, conferences, and internal requests, yet lack a single, structured system to capture, qualify, and compare potential technologies or partners. The signal gets lost in the noise.

The "Hard-to-Reach" Problem

The most relevant, cutting-edge suppliers and non-traditional businesses often don't respond to general calls or sit on standard procurement lists. You lack the secure and direct channel needed to engage these vital sources.

Security and Compliance Risk

When engaging with external, unknown entities during initial scouting, vetting, due diligence, and assurance checks are mandatory. Conducting this manually through emails and spreadsheets creates audit gaps and security vulnerabilities.

Slow Time-to-Strategy

Valuable market insights and potential partners sit in different departmental silos (R&D, Commercial, Tech). This makes it nearly impossible to quickly generate a unified, defensible strategic rationale for adoption or investment.

We were very sceptical at first as we know how hard it is for housing associations like ours to engage construction suppliers. But SimplyDo really surprised us with the quality of suppliers they engaged. Their process saved us so much time and effort particularly as we were working to a tight deadline. We’re absolutely delighted with the outcome!
Meg Smith, Head of Assets and Compliance, Caredig Housing

How SimplyDo helps

Simply Do Ideas transforms passive searching into an active, strategic capability, making systematic horizon scanning simple, secure, and smart.

Structured Discovery Channels

Launch highly targeted scouting challenges or calls for information designed to attract specific expertise or technologies. This gives you a centralised, comparable stream of vetted intelligence instead of unstructured data.

Secure and Simple Engagement

Provide a single, secure front door for hard-to-reach businesses to submit their capabilities. We make the initial qualification and data capture simple for them and auditable for you.

Comparative Vetting and Scoring

Use customizable criteria to quickly score and compare scouted technologies against your strategic needs. Our platform ensures every piece of information is centralised, traceable, and defensible for leadership review.

Build a Live Strategic Pipeline

Automatically route promising leads to the right internal experts (Technical, Security, Finance) for review. This accelerates the process from market insight to strategic decision and allows you to build a robust pipeline of future capabilities.

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