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The workshop, Leuven
Your innovation department.Always on.
On demand.
For ambitious SMEs that want to move faster without hiring a full innovation team.
/ Innovation. Product & AI. Viability. Growth. One team.
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The notebook
Your company already has ideas. Most of them disappear.
Not because they were bad. Because nobody had the capacity to move them. That is the gap /second fills.
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The laptop
Meet the first member of your innovation department.
/second brain
Your always-on innovation consultant.
Not live yet
/second brain is being built. Until it opens, this box does one honest thing: it sends your problem to our mailbox.
How /second brain will work- Problem
- Context
- Assumption
- Opportunity
- Next step
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The whiteboard
Start with a question. Not a transformation project.
Opening soon
/second brain
Your always-on innovation consultant, living with your team.
Monthly subscription
Get early access/ 01
/second opinion
Bring one important question. Get an outside perspective and a concrete next step.
What is included in /second opinionEUR 495
Book this /second/ 02
/opportunity scan
Find where your company should invest innovation capacity next.
What is included in /opportunity scanEUR 1,950
Book this /second/ 03
/process sprint
Bring one process that everyone knows should work better.
What is included in /process sprintEUR 2,450
Book this /second/ 04
/idea sprint
Turn a promising idea into something concrete enough to validate.
What is included in /idea sprintEUR 2,950
Book this /second
/ Then: Prototype, build, launch, scale. Prices excl. VAT.
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The glass wall
Innovation is not a workshop. It is a loop.
/ Click a step
The object right now: A rough note
Understand the problem and explore possibilities.
/ Small loops. Fast decisions. Real progress.
How it works, step by step/scene 06
The team wall
Five humans. Four core capabilities. One innovation department.
They do not hand work to one another. They iterate together.
The team in full/ Click a name
Thomas Desaranno / Product & AI
“I have launched things that worked and things that did not. Both taught me what to build first.”
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The window
You do not need to build an innovation department to have one.
Innovation capacity without five new salaries.
Today
Human-led. AI-amplified.
Where we are going
Innovation department as software.
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The way out
What is sitting on your “we should” list?
Give it a /second.
No brief needed. No perfect idea needed. Start with what is bothering you.
- What
- /second is an always-on, on-demand innovation department for ambitious SMEs.
- For
- Ambitious SMEs that want to innovate continuously without hiring a full innovation team.
- Who
- Five people: innovation, product and AI, finance and viability, growth. Meet the team.
- Today
- Human-led. AI-amplified. /second brain is not live yet; send us a problem and get a short analysis, free.
- Start
- /second opinion EUR 495, /opportunity scan EUR 1,950, /process sprint EUR 2,450, /idea sprint EUR 2,950, excl. VAT.
/ In good company
Brands and teams we have built for.
- mindthriven
/second chance
What is sitting on your “we should” list?
No deck needed. Rough is fine. One question at a time, a person answers.
Prefer to think out loud first?
Ask /second brain.
Type the rough version, watch it become a brief, then send it here with one press. Nothing is shared until you do.
Ask /second brainPrefer email?
/ Write to us
Send us the rough version at thomas@slashsecond.com.
- 01We read it. Properly.
- 02You hear back within two working days.
- 03First call: your situation, our honest take, and a scoped next step, if there is one.