Impact

We believe brand, business and creativity can help solve some of the world's hardest problems. We partner with founders and companies where impact is core to the business, helping sharpen the commercial model, understand the customer, tell the story and build the brand.

Bringing those pieces together helps turn a strong mission into a venture people want to buy from, back and believe in. It's how we make impact irresistibly investable.
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Capabilities

Focus & Vision

We work with founders, teams, customers and the market to understand what's really going on. We uncover the patterns, opportunities and challenges that matter, helping create focus around where to play, what to prioritise and the vision that aligns the business around what comes next.

Customer Strategy

We help you get clear on who your most valuable customers are, what they need and what will make your offering resonate. Through research, testing and validation, we turn customer insight into sharper decisions about product, brand and growth.

Venture & Commercial Strategy

We connect impact logic, commercial logic and capital alignment, shaping the business model and investment narrative that make growth fundable.

Go-to-Market Strategy

We work out how your venture can win in market, shaping the right offer, channels, pricing and positioning around the customers you need to reach. Whether you're launching or already growing, we build a practical route from proposition to demand.

Brand Strategy

We define the brand positioning and how impact shows up in the market, articulating what you stand for and connecting it to your commercial strategy to drive growth.

Brand Design

We create the identity and design system that brings your brand to life, building the trust and distinctiveness impact ventures need to earn attention and demand.

Messaging & Executional Guidance

We turn strategy into language and assets your team can use every day, making your impact story clear, consistent and ready for market.

Workshops

Golden Fork Workshop

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Every great impact venture needs commercial, impact and brand strategies moving in the same direction. When things start forking, this focused session gets your team aligned on where to go next. We take care of onboarding and workshop design, run a half-day with your key stakeholders, then process and playback with a recommendation. Leave with clarity on direction and confidence in the decisions ahead.
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Initiatives

PU Creativity & Innovation Scholarship

Supporting emerging Māori and Pacific talent at AUT with funding, mentorship and access to the creative industry, helping build more pathways into creative careers.

Testimonials

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Alison Mau
Tika Founder
I don't have adequate words to express how lucky we were to walk into Previously Unavailable's offices (early days, very rough at pitching! No money!) and walk out with a team like this one. How they work this magic I have no idea and plainly am not supposed to - that's their secret sauce 😎 I can say, though, that this team has taken the toughest job possible and turned it into a beautiful, accessible, welcoming world. I can't recommend them highly enough. They're the best.

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We take on select projects, working with companies who are inventing or reinventing. If there’s a project you’d like to talk to us about, please get in touch.

Auckland

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Future Demand Vol. 2

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How marketing to tomorrow’s customers will break your brand out of the performance trap

Social Updates

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29 May

Portrait is a new bespoke process from our venturing and strategy teams, built for marketers who want more ROI from their media spend.

LinkedIn

14 May

Hot off the press: our latest rebrand for Spoke just launched earlier this month ☎️

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8 May

James Hurman has been on a world wide book tour — Helsinki, New York, Chicago, Toronto... and now finally, back in NZ!

By The Numbers

$500m+

Launched
Companies

40+

Equity
Companies

4

Venture Funds

Weekly Whakatauki

He iti te mokoroa, nāna i kati te kahikatea
Something much larger can be overcome by something much smaller.

Where in the world is James Hurman?

Cannes

43.5539° N, 7.0170° E

Bookshelf

The Selby Is in Your Place – Todd Selby

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It Runs Through Me – Tom Misch ft. De La Soul

Overheard at Previously

“Walking is actually good for you”

Studio Snaps

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Clients & Partners

Icehouse Ventures
Westpac
AF Drinks
Ārepa
Fonterra
Emma Lewisham
MedWorld
NZTE
DB Breweries
Education Perfect
Torrens University Australia
OnBoard
Shuttlerock
Pylot
Lion
Mānuka Health
Ideally
Tracksuit
Breast Cancer Foundation NZ
Helius
Brothers Beer
ASB
BNZ
Fonterra
Melodics
Sunfeld
Contact Energy
Simplicity
Futurity
PieFunds
DB Breweries
WOOP!
Ārepa
Hawker & Roll
Stolen Rum
21C Skills Lab
Ascential
Heineken
Clearhead
Westpac
Stuff
AF Drinks
Spark
The Comfort Group
NZ Trade & Enterprise
Serious Food Co.
Toothcrush
Timely
Compostic
Medworld
Growbright
Sanford
Emma Lewisham
Goodman Fielder
TVNZ
PĀMU