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Our Work

We get called when the problem has too many moving parts.

Pricing across markets. A much-loved design business deciding what comes next. A building project where moving the kitchen can move the opening date.

  1. 01Pricing when nothing stands still.
  2. 02Keeping what matters. Changing what needs to change.
  3. 03Move the kitchen.
Editorial sketch of a luxury retail interior, illustrating the pricing case study

Pricing when nothing stands still.

Luxury retail · Pricing systems

A luxury retailer sells through different channels, markets and business models. Pricing has to account for all of them without turning into another spreadsheet maze.

We designed the product thinking, pricing logic and system architecture behind consumer and wholesale decisions, connecting pricing to the wider business rather than treating it as an isolated calculation.

Consumer / wholesale / cross-border / tax / inflation / inventory

Current work.

Keeping what matters. Changing what needs to change.

The House Directory · Business & technology

The House Directory has spent decades helping people find remarkable makers, materials and specialists.

The brief isn’t to turn a good business into an AI company.

It is to understand what people already value, where the business is carrying unnecessary work, what technology can genuinely improve, and what should be left alone.

Our work spans the future proposition, technology and AI audit, and the roadmap for what comes next.

Current work.

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Move the kitchen.

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The drawing changes.

So might the approvals. The equipment. The quotation. The programme. The cost. And, if the restaurant is already trading, tonight’s service.

Places keeps those consequences connected.

It is our product for people opening or refitting hotels, restaurants and shops — keeping decisions, requirements, cost, programme, procurement and trading impact visible as the project changes.

Places is in development and being tested through pilots.

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