Pepper is a venture studio. People who live with a problem every day bring it to us. We build the product and the company around it, together, and test it with real customers from week one.
Every idea runs the same cycle. One week to prototype, one week to build what customers will use, eight weeks of selling. Then we decide together: keep it and build the company, or stop and move on.
A clickable prototype of the core workflow, shown to the people who have the problem.
We turn the prototype into a working product that a first customer can actually use.
Eight weeks with real customers. Pilots, first payments and a clear number to hit.
If the numbers hold, we build the company. If not, we stop, take what we learned and move on.
Not a finished business plan. A real problem, the right person, and a way to reach customers.
Something people deal with every week, that costs time or money, and that they already try to solve with spreadsheets, calls or paper.
You have worked in the industry, run the business or been the customer. You know who to call and what they will say.
Customers we can reach in months, not years, and who will pay for a pilot once they see it work.
We keep going only when the numbers say so. Every company has a next step and a date. That is how ideas become companies instead of side projects.
Ten weeks to a clear answer: one week of prototype, one week of production and eight weeks of selling. Then we decide together whether to keep going.
No. A clear problem and a sense of who has it is enough to start. We work out the rest together.
Not at the start. What we need is time to talk to customers. We agree together when it is time to go all in.
Each company is founded together. Ownership is agreed per idea, in writing, before any work starts.
We read every idea ourselves and reply by email. If it fits, the next step is a short call about the problem.
We treat every idea confidentially. What makes a company is the people and the work, so we rarely sign NDAs at the first conversation.
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