We partner with industry leaders to build next-generation, AI-powered businesses.

The Innovation Company combines proven company-building experience with deep AI and software capability — creating technology ventures grounded in real industry problems, real data, and real customers from day one.

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Why "The Innovation Company"

Purpose and method from another era.
Technology from the next one.

To find the spirit of our approach, you have to go back to the years between the wars — when engineers and explorers raised the Empire State Building in about a year, spanned the Golden Gate, and turned flight from a stunt into an industry. Consider our chosen emblem, the Beech 18. Along with its contemporary, the Lockheed Electra, it is widely regarded as one of the most legendary, innovative, and long-serving aircraft of all time — continuously produced from 1937 to 1969. In that era, workers and companies built things that mattered — things that pushed the bounds of what was possible in a world that was rapidly changing. They were disciplined and ambitious with their craft. Today we are in a similar age, and we apply that same purpose and method to our most advanced technologies — building AI ventures meant to last, not to trend.

Let's Start

We offer a complete company-building platform.

A complete platform means the four things a new venture actually needs — senior engineering, executive leadership, brand, and capital — all in-house, all in sync. Every venture we launch starts with a full team from day one.

AI & Software Development

A vetted, senior engineering and data science bench with immediate availability. We apply AI precisely where it creates leverage — agentic automation, proprietary data enrichment, intelligent platforms — not where it makes a press release.

Executive Leadership

Our principals serve as fractional executives inside each venture — operators who have founded, financed, scaled, and exited companies across fintech, SaaS, medical devices, and consumer products.

Brand & Performance Marketing

Launch strategies that create fast traction paired with brand positioning built to last. Creative and data-driven — we've taken products from redesign to viral, sold-out launch in a matter of days.

Capital & Financial Strategy

Targeted investment alongside our partners, plus the financial planning, fundraising experience, and deal-making to keep every venture funded through each stage of growth.

Our Dev Team is also available for standalone engagements that don't require the creation of a joint venture.

Why It Works

Ventures anchored in industry, not speculation.

Most AI ventures fail for predictable reasons: no domain depth, no proprietary data, no distribution, no verified demand. We solve all four before a line of code is written — by building every venture alongside an established industry partner.

01

Identify

We start with a verified industry problem — one our partners live with daily and will pay to solve.

02

Partner

Established operators bring domain expertise, data, distribution, and trial customers to the table.

03

Build

We contribute AI and software development, executive leadership, financial planning, and capital.

04

Scale

Ventures launch with customers waiting and channels open — then grow into market leadership.

Recent Results
4×
increase in sales productivity — reps moved from 80% admin to 80% revenue activity, with no added headcount.
$650M → $1.2B
annual originations — roughly 85% growth with no increase in operating headcount.
150M parcels
in a proprietary dataset — time-to-market cut from years to months by a lean team.
Ventures

The Proof is in the Building.

A selection of ventures built with our industry partners.

Acrematic

Land Investing · AI Platform

An AI-enriched platform for land investors — deal sourcing, seller outreach, and parcel intelligence built on proprietary national data.

150M-parcel AI-enriched dataset as a long-term competitive moat.

Brixsey

Commercial Real Estate · AI Platform

An AI-driven operating platform for commercial real estate — unifying CRM, data, mapping, analytics, and transaction workflows for brokers and operators.

Built alongside established industry partners in commercial RE and mortgage.

Next Venture

Next-Gen Mortgage Operating Platform

A JV combining the best of the Brixsey platform with the largest non-bank platform in the UK.

In development with committed industry partner.

Unifi

Fintech · AI Collections

Humanless, AI-driven debt collection bringing consistency and fairness to an industry overdue for change — validated with major consumer finance partners on live portfolios.

Processing real consumer portfolios today; built to run thousands of conversations concurrently.
Team

Operators, not observers.

Decades of founding, funding, scaling, and exiting technology companies — now applied to every venture we build.

John Dunning

John Dunning

Founder & CEO

Founding CEO of DigniFi and Clarimedix; former venture capitalist; Techstars mentor. Two decades building and financing technology companies from concept to market leadership.

Kevin Cawley

Kevin Cawley

Founder & Chief Tech Advisor

Co-founder of multiple acquired startups — Rook Capital, LinkSmart, Covalent Data — and co-founder of DigniFi, now a nationwide fintech.

Dave Clements

Dave Clements

VP of Engineering

Two decades launching products across aviation, healthcare, AI, and sustainability. Built and led engineering teams from scratch to 50+ engineers.

Advisory Board
Founders & Operators

Executives behind Spectora, Land Elevated, and Team Bennett at Elevations Credit Union.

Strategy Leadership

Senior leadership at Accenture, McKinsey, Vodafone, and KKR-acquired beeXact.

Global Operators

Senior roles at Alterra Mountain Company, Molson Coors, and Coleman. Multiple exits, $14B+ in M&A, 25 countries of work experience.

Partner With Us

You know your industry. We know how to build what's next.

If your business lives with a problem technology should have solved by now, that problem may be a company. Let's find out together.

Tell us about the problem you're living with. We read every message and reply personally.

Prefer email? Reach us directly at
john.dunning@innovationcompany.co