The t.METHOD canvas

Our t.METHOD™ canvas is a model of process that, unlike others, is a curated synthesis of divergent value models. Served simply. So you can transform your business, and disrupt your world.

What sets it apart is that (i) it’s rooted in living context, (ii) it’s crafted in sequence, to avoid costly ‘agile and aimless’ pivoting, and (iii) it leverages biological patterns of value potential. Which means it’s hardwired for abundance. Which we love!

  • The t stands for Tensegrity. We originally called it the Tensegrity Method - but turns out, that was a bit of a mouthful!

    Tensegrity is a design principle coined by Buckminster Fuller in reference to the tensional integrity of systems. The strongest systems only work when all parts are held in tension.

    Nature favors tensegrity structures the most - from the structure of our DNA and cells, to our our skeletal, muscular and myofascia systems, to spider webs, birds’ nests and trees.

    Tensegrity structures are the most effective, use the least materials and energy, and unleash the greatest transformative potential. Which directly relates to business in terms of performance, efficiency and disruptive power.

    When we lean into the tension, we unlock our disruption potential.

As a journey, it looks like this

  • discovery-led

    We map your market ecosystem, reshuffling interconnections to reveal disruptive opportunities and risks.

    We unpack market patterns to how the current system has been patterned in.

    This process reveals un-met market needs and untapped value potential.

    It also helps you make better strategic choices on where to play, and reveals levers of market system disruption.

    Cross cutting skills:

    SENSING | Systems thinking. Systems mapping. Levers of systems disruption.

  • discovery-led

    We map your cradle-to-cradle lifecycle to better understand the material impact you and your industry has on the environment.

    Using Value Thinking techniques and deep Life’s principles, we explore where bio-value is being lost or uncaptured, and places of un-tapped bio-value potential.

    This reveals incredible growth opportunities for disrupting industry practice.

    Cross cutting skills:

    SENSING | Value thinking. Value chain thinking. Lifecycle mapping. Ecology + Planetary boundaries.

  • discovery-led

    We identify all your customers / users / stakeholders and, using advanced Design Thinking empathy skills and interviewing techniques, we unpack the real pain-points people have (beyond functional "jobs-to-be-done").

    We then map the needs of your customers, to understand their un-met needs (head / heart / hands), and the tensions of competing needs between different groups.

    This helps you get way better insight and reveal the levers for powerful innovation.

    Cross cutting skills:

    SENSING + SEIZING | Customer Interviewing techniques. Needs mapping. Ethics.

  • discovery

    We map the relationships you have (or want to have) with your customers and unpack lifetime value potentiality.

    Using Developmental Relationship techniques, we explore your network potential.

    This uncovers areas for creating compounding lifetime value, and reveals where you can better scale for growth.

    Cross cutting skills:

    SCALING | Customer lifetime value thinking. Network thinking.

  • distillation

    We distil the insight and value levers revealed from Steps 1-4, to give clarity on your strategic direction and your role in contributing to your world.

    This defines your core purpose and your disruptive regenerative potential. Not as a story of ‘why’, but as a practice of how.

    We lay down the key guiding principles that will strategically steer your business, guide where and how you innovate, and where to invest your tech and people.

    Lastly, we bridge strategy to innovation and lay down the key design challenges that you take into the design innovation phase.

    Cross cutting skills:

    SEIZING | Purpose mapping. Principles in practice mapping.

  • design-led

    We go through a rapid-fire innovation process using biomimicry and life-leveraged design principles to create the products, services and experiences you offer.

    We take the design challenges identified from Step 5, and we undertake desk-top bio-research, to bio-brainstorm solutions.

    With this bio-lens, we then ideate low-fi concepts for prototyping and testing.

    We run this step alongside Step 7, to learn how to create material and energy efficient solutions. This helps you create stronger, more scalable value propositions that can disrupt your world.

    Cross cutting skills:

    SEIZING | Biomimicry design. Systems design. Circular design. Ethics design. Ecology design.

  • design-led

    Running alongside Step 6, we rapid fire explore how you might operationally deliver your value propositions, re/thinking the natural, technical and people resources you might use, as nutrient flows in interconnected systems.

    This helps you unlock significantly greater customer value and reveals where you can really disrupt both industry and market norms. This is the game-changing step.

    Cross cutting skills:

    SEIZING + SCALING + TRANSFORMING | Biomimicry design. Systems design. Circular design. Operating service mapping.

  • design-led

    We map your Marketing Mix in a regenerative value-contributing way, with a different set of ‘Ps’, to shift your Marketing efforts from costly, noisy, push comms to low-cost, high cut-through, pull attraction-led initiatives.

    Using Life’s Principles to map and align, we unpack the hallmarks of brand authenticity and how to flow that seamlessly into your positioning and communications. This helps you build brand legacy and market cut through.

    Cross cutting skills:

    TRANSFORMING | Brand positioning and brand authenticity thinking. Regenerative marketing mix mapping.

  • design + define

    We map your Monetization in a structured way to better convert value from equitable value exchanges without the high-risk duplicity of bait and hook tactics, locked in subscriptions or broker-in-the-middle margin maximization.

    We unpack all the layers of value you’ve created, to reveal how to create more, and more regenerative, revenue streams and identify where you can can profit in multiples.

    Cross cutting skills:

    TRANSFORMING | Revenue modularity thinking and revenue stream mapping.

  • define + deploy

    We pull everything together to give you a summary go-to plan that you can execute.

    We distill the future business blueprint you've created and we then backcast back to where you are currently, to identify the key stages of what you need to do, and when, to get from here to there.

    Cross-cutting skills:

    TRANSFORMING | Backcasting.

Why is it shaped like this? Well, it’s based off a tree…..

The (not so) humble tree

Not just a beautiful metaphor. An elegant business model unlocking real value potential.

You see, a tree is a systems-based model, hardwired for disruptive regenerative growth. It creates ongoing demand yet spends zero on sales. It has unparalleled innovation with only easy-to-find, dirt-cheap materials. It builds kick-ass network effects without exploitation. It has second-to-none productivity by operating lean. It has zero legacy load yet branches out to hedge risk. And it’s so agile it adapts 24/7 to continuously changing conditions. It’s a tried, tested and proven model that’s gone through rigorous live market testing for, oh, the last 360 million years.

How does it do this?

A tree not only has the world’s best inbuilt sensing, seizing and scaling system, it has the world’s best symbiotic relationships. Instead of chasing unfair advantage, with a finite win:lose mindset, the tree builds strategic advantage with win:win solutions - from its mycorrhizal root network to its pollinating flowers. And it’s waste - well, that’s the air we breathe.

When it comes to re/designing your business, it’s commercially smarter to use a process crafted by Nature’s principles, using game rules that have stood the test of a really really long time.

Contextually networked to the real world. Rooted in deep connections. Value held in circular flows. Hardwired for contribution. Creating conditions conducive to life.

#genius hidden in plain sight

From Aotearoa, NZ

With 60+ million years of isolation, Aotearoa is blessed with 80%+ endemic plant species, each with unparalleled adaptive strategies we can learn from in re/designing our business regeneratively. Our strategic advantage isn’t built from “faster, better, cheaper”, it’s built from emulating biological models, rooted in the soil.

#genius hidden in plain sight

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