Ideas are cheap. Building is the interesting part.
A programme we set up to help early-stage founders, SMEs and people who have identified a problem worth solving. We reserve part of our development capacity for it. Our own products are built in-house — the Foundry is separate, and exists mainly for ideas that come from outside.
We don't fund ideas. We build them.
Some ideas need capital. Others need someone willing to build the first version. We contribute engineering, product design, research and infrastructure — not investment terms.
This is not an agency
No rates, no quotes, no packages, no client work. We choose what we investigate, and we may decide not to.
Selection is discretionary
Submitting a problem does not mean we will build it. Most submissions will not become projects.
Outcomes vary
Some experiments stay experiments. Some are released openly. Others become products, partnerships or independent ventures.
What a project can become
We investigate the problem and build a prototype.
The result is useful enough to be released publicly.
Some work is released free or open source when that makes sense.
A project can become a commercial product owned by Amelys.
Where an external originator is materially involved, an arrangement can be agreed.
A project important enough may become an independent brand or company.
Some projects fail. We leave the page up and say what we learned.
The log
Every project we have opened, whatever happened to it.
Currently building
Agreements that hold, wherever the other party is
An internal project. Getting a document agreed and signed across borders, with proof that stands up, is still harder than it should be. We are building it on our own platform and using it ourselves first. More when it opens.
Finding the right counterpart for a strategic deal, without going public
An internal project. On confidential deals, buyers, sellers and advisers rarely find each other outside closed personal networks. We are testing another way to do it, without exposing who is talking to whom. More when it opens.
Tell us about a problem worth solving.
Not a pitch. Not a specification. A description of something that goes wrong often enough to be worth fixing. If we think it is interesting, we may decide to look at it.
Submit a problem