Ideas Lab
Not everything becomes a company.
Some become products. Some become client work. Some stay experiments. These are open concepts, listed with the question that decides which.
Kerbside Truth
A single machine-readable record of what every UK council actually accepts, updated from source documents rather than scraped summaries.
Open question
Who pays: councils, retailers, or the apps that need the data?
Return Reason Codes
Free-text return reasons are unusable. Classify them at the point of entry into a fixed set that maps to a fix: sizing, description, damage, delivery.
Open question
Does a merchant change anything once the codes are clean?
Bench Camera
A fixed camera over a propagation bench, one frame a day, counting germination and flagging drift before a grower would notice it.
Open question
Is daily resolution early enough to save the batch?
Weight of the Box
Estimate the packaging weight of an online order from the product page alone, so a shopper sees the packaging cost before they buy.
Open question
Estimates were within 18% — accurate enough to be interesting, not to be published.
Depot Handover
Damage is usually created between vehicles, not on the road. Photograph pallets at each handover and attribute damage to a leg of the journey.
Open question
Will a depot accept a system that assigns blame to a depot?
Spec to Skip
Read a materials schedule and predict the skip volume a job will generate, before the first delivery arrives on site.
Open question
Prediction needs site waste data that almost nobody records accurately.