Unblur your project,
unblur your market
Web 2.0 changed the game, turning the marketer into little more than a hand on the ranch, working the numbers, losing sight of the trail they were meant to blaze.
So, some let their fire go cold.
Not us.
Our fire
We are ready to dig in and find the path through the brush. A client isn’t someone to sell a dream to. A client is a person with a problem no one else has been able to solve. We are in it together to create a pathway.
Our kind of work, the good work, doesn’t always have visibility. It’s the team’s camaraderie, the discipline to go deep, the thrill of unearthing resolution, and the gut wrench of pushing a program into the marketplace.
We answer to the audience, first and foremost. It’s the idea that counts, the message that cuts through the noise, and the execution that stays true to the solution.
What do we do?
We collaborate to solve business problems by designing and implementing marketing solutions.
Our kind of problem usually involves a client’s positioning and proposition. The proposition needs an audience or sharpening, revival, or relevance.
We choose clients we click with, and we collaborate closely. By engaging with your audience, we identify the most appropriate marketing discipline and creativity to unblur your proposition.
How we work is a semi-structured social process. We don’t just respond to a brief. We get out and engage stakeholders in a structured way, stimulating conversations with specific ideas.
We have the experience and acumen to engage with scientists, CEOs, buyers, and end-users on the factory floor – any stakeholder who can provide insight.
This provokes insights. Our creative process takes place at the same time. This is how we work fast.
We’re storytellers at heart, and we create experiences that resonate. We bring your vision to life.
Our network consists of people who we trust to create and deliver excellence.
And to keep it running like clockwork, we map and stick to a process that allows for re-planning as we learn more.
Compensation principles
Compensation can take many forms once we agree to work together. Retainers with cash and/or equity payments, project-based success fees, and commissions – we have contracts in all these forms.
Your focus is our challenge. If the work is meaningful and we “click,” we can be happy and productive together.
Clients
EcoG
Sharpening the investor proposition.
EcoG, specializing in hardware and software solutions for EV charging, needed to refine their investor presentation for A-round financing. AMÖL engaged with EcoG’s CEO, management, customers, and investors, identifying a lack of unified vision and market potential clarity. We developed the “Universal Core” product positioning and nomenclature through this interaction to simplify EcoG’s value proposition. Antti and AMÖL team initiated a brand refresh due to the outdated look & feel, coordinating with other agencies for a unified marketing approach. The outcome was a streamlined investor proposition (eg, 12-slide pitch deck), a successful investor engagement, and a comprehensive messaging and branding refresh better reflecting EcoG’s shift from hardware to software.
Neom
Making the case for foreign direct investment.
NEOM is the flagship economic project of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The goal is to create an economic region in NW Saudi Arabia that will become an industrial center. It is the world’s largest construction project. Mark was on-site in a desert camp for one of the early years, immersed in the planning and construction milieu, and charged with developing propositions to attract investment from the global construction industry. A megaproject is unlike any other experience, and there are stories to be told about the people attracted to doing what seems impossible.
Space Network Services
Repositioning the cost/performance envelope for NationSats.
Countries or even cities can now have a radically cost-effective sovereign communications satellite. Working with SNS founders and engaging with other influentials, including potential customers, we sharpened the proposition and christened the Nebulite platform, a new niche in the Geostationary orbital marketplace. Our communications leverage Nebulite’s strengths in affordable sovereign satellite telecommunications, incremental fleet agility, resilience, and surgical HTS assist/offload.
Innofrugal
Creating a more sustainable and affordable world.
Antti, as a co-founder of Innofrugal, has helped it in its mission to promote global frugal innovation. This non-profit organization focuses on driving sustainable solutions for societal challenges. Antti and our team support Innofrugal’s goal to be a critical frugal innovation platform, achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals and maintaining values like collaboration and sustainability. AMÖL’s efforts enhance stakeholder engagement in creating affordable, sustainable solutions, contributing to practices like AI for Impact and Circular Economy.
Orava
Making Web3 work responsibly.
Orava is realizing its vision for innovative web3 engagement with influencers, content creators, and entrepreneurs. Antti’s expertise as one of the founders enhances Orava’s strategies in fan engagement and eco-friendly initiatives, particularly in leveraging NFTs for creative interaction and wealth generation. His guidance is vital in developing Orava’s unique, secure, and enjoyable fan experience ecosystem using web3 technology.
Metabar
Reframing water-based cleaning power.
Since the industrial revolution, societies have lifted and pressurised water for washing and put it through nozzles. This is energy and water-wasteful.
The demand for hygiene has increased – but not the supply of potable water. Metabar is about more for less – more cleaning power for much less water.
Platform of Trust
Positioning the Nordics leading data harmonization platform.
Platform of Trust, a unit of Finland’s Vastuu Group, is the first harmonization platform to equip customers with the tools to design their data products; we christened the Nordic flat-pack approach to data products. Customers in the construction industry can organize their materials management for TAKT operations. Mark a member of the AMÖL network, engaged with customers and influentials in the construction industry and, in the course of that, wrote the narrative proposition for global expansion. We later sold Platform of Trust into a project in the Middle East. Mark has a long history of working with this team in positioning, proposition development, and strategy.
Bitwards
Dematerialising 40 billion keys.
We have replaced money. We have replaced cards. And yet, we have not replaced an estimated 40 billion keys (a dongle is a key in a different form). Bitwards is revolutionizing access control with a universal, interoperable standard that simplifies and secures entry across various platforms, eliminating the need for multiple keys and cards. Mark has been a long-term strategic advisor on the globalisation of their platform.
SkyLifter
Disrupting precision-lift’s painful price/performance constraint.
Just as people want holes, not drills, constructors want a precision hook in the sky, not the helicopter tearing at the air to fight gravity. SkyLifter is a hybrid lift, a software-driven thruster system with the lift enabled by a lenticular Helium aerostat. Once seen, it cannot be forgotten. The initial “Duo” carries 2MT. Onboard batteries enable long-duration flight. We are targeting construction, defense, and agriculture applications. AMÖL is developing the construction sector proposition and is the Nordic representative.
Descycle
Reframing the toxic metals recycling process.
Recycled metals are harvested using toxic chemicals and the intense heat of furnaces and crucibles. More than 20 years of research into a special class of non-toxic salts named Deep Eutectic Solvents has demonstrated their ability to dissolve strategic metals from e-waste. The metals are then recovered from the pregnant liquid using electrolysis and other conventional methods. No heat, non-toxic, low capital – the world’s ability to recycle transition metals is stepping up. Mark is a founding shareowner in Descycle, and we are the Nordic representatives.
KQC
Bringing Quantum computing to today’s challenges.
Quantum computing is no longer far off – it is here. What should companies do to prepare for the opportunities and address the risks? KQC is a consultancy not like any other – a digital consultancy has coders and systems architects. But quantum computing is not a digital semiconductor paradigm – it is material. KQC has physicists and mathematicians. KQC is starting in Finland with a global model and its investment fund. AMÖL is a founding partner in this exciting offering because a new paradigm requires new communication methods.
Visma
Positioning a customer-focused entity around a growth mindset.
A Norwegian pioneer in mission-critical systems, VISMA has become a colossus across 22 countries. In Finland, it is the leader, ensuring the reliability of systems that affect the lives of Finns, from students to pensioners. We worked with the senior leadership team to facilitate the transformation of two large units. We scaled our engagement method to include Visma employees interviewing customers, and other employees, to maximise insights and compress time.
Bayanat AI
Brining geospatial insights to address Nordic challenges.
The United Arab Emirates has a world-leading geospatial insights capability that was spun from its military origins to expand globally. Bayanat AI, recognizing the strategic importance of the Nordics as a gateway to Europe, appointed Amöl as their exclusive partner for business development in this region. Bayanat is a division of G42, the UAE’s champion for cloud and AI services and the originator of the first Arabic LLM. Amöl’s role in business development for Bayanat entails creating joint ventures, scouting for suitable investment candidates, and identifying mutually beneficial projects, further solidifying Bayanat’s global footprint in the geospatial sector.
About the Founders
Antti Öhrling
Antti merges his enthusiasm for marketing and innovation with extensive experience in various leadership roles, such as Chairman, CEO, and Founder. He specializes in go-to-market strategies, with a rich experience in advertising, IT, telecommunications, publishing, and media. His entrepreneurial ventures have spanned across Europe, China, India, Southeast Asia, and the USA.
Antti has over 20 international patents.
Mark Linder
A former CMO, Mark has created front-line business, stakeholder, and investor development for unusual entities – in China, Venezuela, the UK, the UAE, KSA, the USA, and the Nordics. He is a partner in Architectural Democracy and a long-term Trustee of Common Purpose. If Mark has a specialty, it’s working in controversialised categories.
Mark has Ø patents.
Team
Pedro Aibeo
Architect-Engineer, Founder
Founder of Architectural Democracy, Pedro Aibéo is an internationally awarded Architect (Dipl. Ing., TU Darmstadt, Germany) and Civil Engineer with over 50 buildings designed and built in 18 countries. He is the founder and CEO of Gamified Cohousing, a Vis. Ass. Professor at UNAM University and at Wuhan University of Technology and a PhDc at Aalto University. He is also a published author.
Timo Mansikka-Aho
Long-form Writer
Timo is is a writer and designer based in Helsinki, working in international sectors, including ICT, boating, forestry, and construction. Timo interviews internationally renowned thought leaders and writes about them at Nordic Business Report.
Netta Paavoseppä
Revenue Developer
Netta is all about delivery. Whether leading sales or energising a sales team, Netta produces results. She is currently contracted to a major SAAS provider in Finland, as well as the new hotel/resort she built with her husband.
Anurag Sachdeva
Channel Developer
Based in India, Anurag has spent 20 years of experience driving growth and profits across product lines in India & South East Asia markets. His domains include Mobile Gaming (including Cloud Gaming), Licensing, Mobile Marketing, Animation & Telecom, with a focus on India, Finland & South East Asia.
Simon Parrott
Narrative Creator
London-based Simon is a creative director, working across branding, design, print, digital and film – from concept to execution. He is a singular creator and also an experienced team manager. He enjoys work with startups as well as the world’s biggest brands…Nokia, Shell Fuels, Puma, Amazon (AWS) and The FA.
Boris Zilberman
Ethnographic Researcher
An American living in Helsinki, Boris is an ethographic researcher. He plans and executes ethnographic research and management consulting projects. This insights process is often missing in B2B value chain analysis.
Boris is a successful ethnographer because people open up to him and he makes insightful observations.
Jesse Lempiainen
Founder, Designer, Coder
Besides being a gifted 3D designer, Jesse founded Geeeklab to help companies that market their apps and games save millions, by optimising the most crucial part of their users’ journey through our technology and expertise the thousands of tests and millions of data points give us.
Venkata Gandikota
SDG Founder
An engineer and researcher, Venkata raised €35M for Nordic sustainable startups. He co-founded Innofrugal in late 2013 with 2 colleagues. an NGO dedicated to open and frugal innovations. Venkata is a mobiliser of capital and talent in sustainable ventures.
Joni Hiirikoski
UX Designer
Joni is a full-stack designer, with a profound experience in product/UX/UI design and front-end development. He founded UX Studio. They work from from early-stage business concept to the final user experience and everything in-between. Joni understands delivery!
Winnie Lee
Branding & Digital Designer
After over 10 years of experience as an Art Director/Designer in Advertising, Branding, Digital and Integrated agencies located in London, Singapore, Shanghai and Helsinki, in 2012, Winnie started her own design studio with a focus on branding and digital design. She has created design works and experiences for a long list of well-known brands.
News & Articles
Reframing Narratives: The Promise and Paradox of Megaprojects
Mark Linder and Sami HaapojaIn the quest for innovative solutions to urgent global challenges such as rapid urbanisation, climate change, and population growth, megaprojects have...
Finland’s Connectivity in a Crisis: the Falling Cost of a Sovereign Communications Satellite Infrastructure
Yann Le Du, Björn Buckwalter, Ricardo Guttierez, Mark Linder and Antti ÖhrlingIt seems that the threat of sabotage to European subsea communications lines may have become a...
Satellite Business: The Next Era’s Predictive Landscape
Antti ÖhrlingOnce dominated by governments and a select few industrial giants, the satellite industry has evolved into a diverse global sector. In 2022, the commercial satellite...
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