Our Approach

How we work

An engagement runs in three stages, held by the same team. Discovery establishes where the business stands and where the real openings are. Delivery is the body of the engagement, where strategy turns into pipeline, partnerships, and product change. Scale is what carries the work forward once we step back.

The engagement

Discover, deliver, scale

Three stages, held by the same team from the first conversation through to renewal — so nothing is lost in a handover.

01

Discover

We establish where you stand and where the real openings are — a clear read on strategy, market position, and the technology decisions ahead.

02

Deliver

The body of the engagement, where strategy turns into pipeline, partnerships, and product change — evaluation, procurement, and getting decisions made.

03

Scale

What carries the work forward once we step back — adoption across teams, renewal value, and the capability to keep going without us.

The appraisal

Where you stand, made legible

Discovery produces a capability appraisal — commercial, product, and placement maturity scored across the factors that move a decision, on a clear five-level scale. It turns a room full of opinions into one shared picture of where the value is and where the gaps are.

EdV Capability Maturity Explorer: a sample appraisal scoring commercial, product and placement maturity across a radar of factors on a five-level scale
A sample capability appraisal. The full set of factors and the scoring rubric are shared with clients.

Why it works

What stays the same

The split between schools, education businesses, and investors changes what we do — but never how we do it.

Aligned with both sides

We work with schools and with the businesses selling into them — openly. We help a vendor succeed by getting products that genuinely land in classrooms, which is exactly what the school needs too. The two sides pull the same way.

Built from inside education

Our team has run schools and sold into them. We've been on both sides of the table, so the work is grounded in how decisions actually get made.

One team, end to end

The people who scope the work are the people who do it. No handover to a delivery team you have never met halfway through.

Trusted by 400+ schools and education organisations worldwide

Hachette
Edmentum
MagicSchool
Kunduz
Trusity
Harpier
IQM
Creatify
GESS Dubai
Quantum Media
ISC Research
Adaptive Reader

Let's talk

Whether you work in schools, sell into them, or back the businesses that do, we'd be glad to be in the conversation.