Work with us
We help decision-makers to shape regenerative futures, inspired by nature’s intelligence. We do this by understanding the now, imagining the future, and inspiring action. Three main ways to engage with us:
FORESIGHT + INNOVATION
Spore-tel
Foresight + innovation strategy through a fungi lens. We offer a nature-centric approach to your challenge, designed to shape regenerative futures for you and the planet.
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Big Corp Innovation, Sustainability and Foresight Leads.
Futures Agencies and Sustainability Consultancies.
Decision-makers with the agency to shape better futures.
Spore-tel is for those looking for a fresh perspective on an innovation challenge or sustainability initiative. It’s for acting on foresight, closing the intention-action gap. It’s for expanding minds and showing that regenerative ways are possible. It’s for anyone who believes that ‘business as usual’ isn’t working; that we can’t do business on a dead planet. Spore-tel is for those ready for a perspective shift, from merely reacting to change, to actively shaping it.
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Our process is loosely three steps, understanding the now (and unlearning the past), imagining the future, and inspiring action.
UNDERSTANDING THE NOW…
We kick off with an optional Field Trip (highly recommended).
We unlearn and let go what isn’t serving, to build space for renewal and regeneration.
Our collective Spore-co brings diverse perspectives on the challenge through interviews and fresh research.
IMAGINING FUTURES…
We align on foundational foresight: understanding the drivers of change impacting your challenge.
We imagine what regenerative futures look like.
INSPIRING ACTION…
We workshop and ideate initiatives to address your challenge, through a set of fungi-inspired design principles.
By looking through a nature-centric lens, we show that there are other possibilities: radical new approaches that can be actionable and regenerative.
Usually, this looks like:
6-8 weeks from scoping to delivery
Access to Spore-co, our global collective of brilliant minds
Playbook + 2 workshops
Or, kick off with a one-off consultation
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Spore-co - A global collective of brilliant minds, are hand-picked for each challenge. They’re interviewed and workshop with us.
Spore-tel - A set of regenerative design principles rooted in the intelligence of nature and fungi, are used in initiative ideation. They’re fun, mind-expanding and designed to shake the status quo, empowering you to make change in your corner of the world.
INSIGHT
Spore-print
Mapping the mushroom market - in food, drinks, wellness, materials. We help you understand the consumer, culture and category of mushrooms, and connect to the right partners, materials and ingredients. Designed to help ventures and mushroom culture to grow sustainably.
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Big Corp, Insight Agencies and for-good Brands wanting to understand the fast-growing mushroom culture and industries.
Product innovation teams looking for the right materials, ingredients, suppliers and partners. We have a database of 300+ mushroom businesses around the world, relationships with many of them, and partners with more, to be able to facilitate the right connections.
Mushroom companies, B-Corp, Visionary Founders, NGOs, RLOs and SMEs wanting to develop a distinct, compelling brand positioning for the right audiences.
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For product innovation, we connect you with the right fungi, mushroom and mycelium companies, for materials, ingredients and partnerships. This process is designed with reciprocity in mind. We’ve developed trusted relationships with partners worldwide, so every transaction champions regeneration over extraction, and partnership over co-opting.
Usually this looks like:
2-3 week turnaround
Scoping > consultation > research > alignment > connection
For mushroom insights, we share a holistic understanding of the consumer and category landscape, to help future-proof and position your mushroom brand and product, in a way that honours the complexity and awesomeness of the mushroom sub-cultures. The process is designed to help grow the mushroom industries sustainably.
Useful for: Addressing barriers to mushrooms / Avoiding ‘boom to bust’ with a new product / Understanding a white space opportunity / Semiotically mapping the category to position your brand
Usually, this looks like:
3x 2hr consultations over 4-6 weeks
Spore-print Playbook with macro trends, drivers for change, consumer audience needs and blockers, category landscape, strategic guidance and recommendations
Or, kick off with a one-off consultation
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We believe in growing the mushroom industries ethically and equitably. So, we’ve designed a sliding scale payment structure for Spore-print (sorry corps, but we want the small players to win too)
£££ corporate / ££ for startups / £ for charities
££ Collective pricing model for multiple business buy-in (only available to mushroom and psychedelics start-ups & SMEs)
This applies to the insight work. There is a different payment structure for making connections.
IMMERSIONS
Field Trips
A day outdoors in nature: your in-person immersion into nature-centric thinking, integrating fungi-inspired regenerative principles in your world.
Image description: Three square images laid over each other. The two background images are abstract, grainy images of mushroom spores in orange and earthy hues. The top image is a close-up photograph of three small porcelain fungus mushrooms growing on a tree branch.
Typical briefs that Sporesight can help you with:
“My brand needs a rebirth”
“We need a radical new perspective”
“I’m designing a new mushroom product”
“I need to solve an innovation challenge”
“Sustainability isn’t enough; we need regenerative design”
“I want to future-proof my brand in a sustainable way”
“I want to launch a mushroom venture, with ethics baked in”
“My organisation is stuck in ‘business as usual’ and I want to inspire action”
How we work
Spore-co
A global collective of brilliant minds.
Sporesight is a diverse collective of foresight experts, mycologists, strategists, thinkers, tinkerers, innovators, founders and mycophiles at the forefront of myco-culture and foresight thinking. Based on the challenge, we hand pick the best people to solve problems, the fungal way.
Spore-tel
Fungi-inspired design principles
We blend strategic expertise with an adventurer’s mindset. We’ve developed a set of Fungi Principles to imagine regenerative futures. They invite us to be more like a mushroom, inspiring public imagination and collective action. They pose radical new ways to design regenerative, ecosystem-centric systems and innovation.
Spores of wisdom