Should we build, buy or partner?

Should we build, buy or partner?

There's a deal on the table or a build plan being costed, but nobody has tested whether customers want what it would deliver.


In one session, we work out what each route assumes about customers and plan tests to check it before you commit.

In one afternoon together, we map your riskiest assumptions and design the tests that prove what matters, before you invest a thing.

A workshop to test the opportunity before you choose a route


Together, we lay out what building, buying and partnering each assumes, find the customer questions they share, and design tests that answer them fast.


The outcome is evidence on the opportunity itself, so you choose routes based on more than momentum.

Lay out the different routes

What would each route give us, cost us, and require us to assume?

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What each route delivers

Cost and time for each

What each one assumes

Who backs which route

Find the shared questions

Which customer questions decide it, whichever route we take?

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Whether customers want it

What they would pay

How fast they'd adopt

Where the routes really differ

Test before you commit

How do we answer those questions before the deal or build goes ahead?

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Tests that work for each route

What would favour each route

Results before the deadline

Who makes the final call

What you leave with

What you leave with

What each route assumes about customers, side by side

The customer questions that decide it, whichever route you take

Quick tests that answer them before the deal or build goes ahead

What result would point to build, buy or partner, agreed up front

An owner and a date that fits your deal or planning timeline

Experiment Jam Agenda

A 3-hour remote session, facilitated by Future Foundry's experimentation experts.

9:00

Welcome and introductions

9:10

Overview of the opportunity and the routes on the table

9:30

Understanding what each route assumes

10:45

Break

11:00

Finding the customer questions that decide it

12:00

Planning tests that land before your deadline

12:25

Wrap-up and next steps

Experiment Jam Agenda

A 3-hour remote session, facilitated by Future Foundry's experimentation experts.

9:00

Welcome and introductions

9:10

Overview of the opportunity and the routes on the table

9:30

Understanding what each route assumes

10:45

Break

11:00

Finding the customer questions that decide it

12:00

Planning tests that land before your deadline

12:25

Wrap-up and next steps

Experiment Jam Agenda

A 3-hour remote session, facilitated by Future Foundry's experimentation experts.

9:00

Welcome and introductions

9:10

Overview of the opportunity and the routes on the table

9:30

Understanding what each route assumes

10:45

Break

11:00

Finding the customer questions that decide it

12:00

Planning tests that land before your deadline

12:25

Wrap-up and next steps

"This approach replaced guesswork with evidence. We now know exactly which ideas to pursue, which to kill, and where to focus our investment."

Tiffany Bain

New Ventures, John Lewis

"This approach replaced guesswork with evidence. We now know exactly which ideas to pursue, which to kill, and where to focus our investment."

Tiffany Bain

New Ventures, John Lewis

We help corporations de-risk new ideas, get them to market faster and make better investment decisions through structured experimentation.

@2026 Future Foundry Group Ltd, All Rights Reserved

We help corporations de-risk new ideas, get them to market faster and make better investment decisions through structured experimentation.

@2026 Future Foundry Group Ltd, All Rights Reserved

We help corporations de-risk new ideas, get them to market faster and make better investment decisions through structured experimentation.

@2026 Future Foundry Group Ltd, All Rights Reserved

We help corporations de-risk new ideas, get them to market faster and make better investment decisions through structured experimentation.

@2026 Future Foundry Group Ltd, All Rights Reserved

We help corporations de-risk new ideas, get them to market faster and make better investment decisions through structured experimentation.

@2026 Future Foundry Group Ltd, All Rights Reserved