AdVentures

AdVentures was a venture and operating platform through which I worked closely with early-stage startups and founder-led businesses at moments of growth, fundraising, and transition. The work spanned commercial strategy, fundraising support, customer research, and experience design — often embedded directly with teams to help them clarify their direction, strengthen their proposition, and build with the end user firmly in mind. Rather than operating as a traditional consultancy, AdVentures functioned as a hands-on partner: shaping both the commercial logic and the lived experience of what was being built.

AdVentures

AdVentures was a venture and operating platform through which I worked closely with early-stage startups and founder-led businesses at moments of growth, fundraising, and transition. The work spanned commercial strategy, fundraising support, customer research, and experience design — often embedded directly with teams to help them clarify their direction, strengthen their proposition, and build with the end user firmly in mind. Rather than operating as a traditional consultancy, AdVentures functioned as a hands-on partner: shaping both the commercial logic and the lived experience of what was being built.

AdVentures

AdVentures was a venture and operating platform through which I worked closely with early-stage startups and founder-led businesses at moments of growth, fundraising, and transition. The work spanned commercial strategy, fundraising support, customer research, and experience design — often embedded directly with teams to help them clarify their direction, strengthen their proposition, and build with the end user firmly in mind. Rather than operating as a traditional consultancy, AdVentures functioned as a hands-on partner: shaping both the commercial logic and the lived experience of what was being built.

CLIENT

Various

Role

Founder & Operator

Service

Commercial Strategy, Business Plan Development, Financial Modelling, Fundraising Support, Customer & Experience Design

CLIENT

Various

Role

Founder & Operator

Service

Commercial Strategy, Business Plan Development, Financial Modelling, Fundraising Support, Customer & Experience Design

CLIENT

Various

Role

Founder & Operator

Service

Commercial Strategy, Business Plan Development, Financial Modelling, Fundraising Support, Customer & Experience Design

AdVentures
AdVentures
AdVentures

Context & Intent

Context & Intent

Context & Intent

AdVentures began with a familiar but telling problem: strong interest at the top of the funnel, followed by rapid drop-off and weak conversion. The underlying issue wasn’t traffic — it was friction, dilution of value, and a lack of narrative coherence across the customer journey.

Rather than treating this as a purely design problem, the work approached it as a commercial and experiential challenge:
What does the customer need to understand, feel, and trust — and in what order — before they’re willing to act?

Work Details

Work Details

Work Details

Venture & Fundraising Support

A core strand of the work involved supporting startups through fundraising and commercial readiness. This included:

  • Building and refining financial models

  • Stress-testing assumptions and growth logic

  • Developing business plans and investor narratives

  • Coaching founders on how to communicate value clearly and confidently

The emphasis was always on coherence: ensuring that the numbers, story, and underlying business reality reinforced one another.

Customer & Experience Design

Alongside commercial work, AdVentures focused heavily on customer understanding and experience development.

This included:

  • Qualitative customer research and insight synthesis

  • Mapping and redesigning end-to-end service journeys

  • Working in-person with teams to elevate customer and guest experience — particularly within a health and wellness startup environment

  • Translating insight into tangible changes across services, touchpoints, and internal decision-making

The goal was not just usability, but felt quality — experiences that customers trusted, returned to, and recommended.