SME Ninja for SMEs
Grow your innovation capability, not just your next project.
For innovative small and medium-sized enterprises: one shared workspace to see where the business stands, close the gaps that hold growth back, and show funders, investors and partners the progress you have made.
Where growing gets hard
Five common pains for innovative SMEs as they move from demonstration to growth and scale.
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“Which gap is holding us back?”
Technology, IP, market, team and finance rarely move at the same speed. It is hard to see which gap matters most at your stage, and what the next stage requires.
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“Every bid starts from scratch”
Business cases, market analyses and plans are rebuilt for each funder, investor or partner, and the last version is never quite where you need it.
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“The help is scattered”
Funding, IP, valuation and market tools sit in different places and rarely build on each other, so the team’s effort does not add up.
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“Progress is hard to prove”
Funders, boards and investors want evidence of what has changed, not claims, sometimes long after a project or programme ends.
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“Partnering takes over”
Consortium bids mean partner forms, a work plan and shared files spread across inboxes and versions.
A model that grows with you
- 7 development stages, from Explore (TRL 1–2) to Scale (TRL 9)
- 18 capability dimensions in six clusters, assessed in one diagnostic
- 17 practical modules, each producing outputs your team keeps
- 267 tools in 14 categories, organised by stage
From the SME Ninja assessment model 2026.1, module library and toolkit, November 2026.
How SME Ninja helps
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A shared view of where you stand
Your team answers the diagnostic together and sees one capability profile: strengths, gaps, an indicated stage and the reasoning behind every recommendation.
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Work you can reuse
Analyses, business cases and plans are saved as company outputs and exported to Word, PDF or CSV, or combined in one company outputs report for bids, investor packs and data rooms.
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A plan with owners
An action plan with owners, due dates, milestones, dependencies and deliverables, on a board and a timeline.
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Consortium workspaces
Partner forms, a work plan with a Gantt chart, discussion and files in one place for collaborative bids.
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Data rooms for deals
Share what investors, licensees, acquirers and partners ask for, with a readiness checklist and a record of every view and download.
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Progress that is shown, not claimed
Reassess every six months. Your history is versioned and never recalculated, so the change is there for anyone you choose to show.
Inside SME Ninja
One workspace for the whole team.
Screens from SME Ninja, shown with an illustrative company.
Company home
Your stage, your progress and what to do next, for everyone on the team.
Module library
Modules filtered by capability area, stage and format, with your recommended ones marked.
Toolkit
Tools for every stage, from exploring an idea to scaling up.
See where your business stands.
About 20 minutes for the diagnostic. Saves as you go. Confidential to your company.