For B2B companies
whose market story
isn’t keeping up
with their reality

The story your organisation tells itself and the story your market is prepared to believe are rarely the same. We work in that gap — and we close it.

Unblur your project.
Unblur your market.

We work with B2B companies who need to address alignment challenges

Every organisation carries two versions of itself: the one it believes internally, and the one the market is actually prepared to receive.

Strategic buyers — investors, partners, enterprise customers — are skilled at reading that distance. They may not name it, but they feel it. It shows up as hesitation, shortened due diligence, or a deal that simply goes quiet.

We work in that gap. First by aligning what the organisation understands about itself — across leadership, commercial teams, and the people closest to the customer. Then by identifying precisely what the strategic buyer needs to be able to close their own gap: the confidence to commit.

From that alignment, we brief and build the communications that do the actual work — the propositions, narratives, and materials that move decisions forward.

What We Offer

When the internal story has stopped working

Leadership knows what the company does. The people closest to the customer know something different. And neither version is what investors or partners need to hear. We go into that divergence, find what’s actually true, and build from there.

When a strategic move needs to land with multiple audiences simultaneously

A new market, a funding round, an acquisition, a category that doesn’t exist yet. Each audience — board, customer, regulator, press — needs a version of the story that holds up under scrutiny and connects to the others. We design that architecture and produce the materials that carry it.

When complexity is the problem

Some propositions are genuinely hard to communicate — not because the team can’t write, but because the category is new, the technology is unfamiliar, or the geopolitical context makes simple claims impossible. This is where we’ve spent most of our careers.

How we work together

Your focus is our challenge. If the work is meaningful and we “click,” we can be happy and productive together.

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.

 

Clients

About the Founders

Refugees of traditional marketing, Antti, Mark, and the team go where others fear – the most complex, technical, futuristic, polarising, or geo-political issues – to understand, simplify, story-tell, and amplify to reach relevant audiences.

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.

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