How to Build and Scale
New Technology Products

I outline how to turn fragmented product, market, and technical work into a clear, credible narrative for grants and early stage investors.

How to make assumptions explicit and shared so that validation, market exploration, and strategy are easier By Chris Burgess You hear a lot about building products by solving problems. But what happens when the product already exists and you now need to validate it? This is the situation many companies find themselves in, especially those moving from projects to products.  Products are always built in response to a perceived problem, whether that problem has been made explici

I started with a clear goal. I wanted to interpret and summarise scattered data. I am not technical, so I set out to build an AI agent with no code. More than sixty hours later, with more than twenty seven nodes created and the need to start vibe coding, it became clear that it was anything but simple.

Every company gathers feedback, data, and ideas, but few know how to connect them into clear direction. This post explores why so many teams struggle to make sense of their customer and market insights, and how new ways of working — and smarter tools — can help.

Learn a a simple, one-hour workshop method framework for startup leadership decisions. The Decision Scorecard helps teams align quickly, make fair calls, and stay transparent.

Deep tech startups face a unique challenge. Their technology often works long before the market is ready for it. This case study explores how one company navigated that gap between invention and adoption, revealing five lessons on how to turn deep tech innovation into product-market fit. From focus and market relevance to data and timing, it offers practical insights for founders bringing science-based innovation to market.

Innovation for startups often begins with excitement and ambition, but it can quickly drift when curiosity overtakes focus. In this article, Chris Burgess shares how a real-world product story from HP revealed the cost of chasing shiny features, and what founders can do to keep experiments grounded in user value. Learn how to build what matters by turning good ideas into products people genuinely need.

Discover how the innovation paradox impacts businesses and learn strategies to overcome it.

Startups in emerging technology often get stuck in custom delivery. Every client request feels like progress, but it leads to fragmented projects instead of a scalable product. This post explores how to build repeatable value through product led growth by understanding your audiences, finding patterns, validating them with evidence, and turning those insights into a story that scales.

HP wanted to establish a software licensing model. This post outlines how we transformed our internal tools into a scalable product.

A number of devices we have are capable of scanning our homes using its cameras, is there a future where this data is stored where we want?

Early VR arcades figured out how to make virtual experiences feel natural. The secret wasn’t better graphics, it was designing around the way our hands actually move.

It appears that the role of a software developer is essential for creating AR content. I outline how I think this can be addressed.

I outline general advice for anyone currently using augmented reality on mobile, or anyone thinking about trying it out.