“The Business Development Accelerator has been a fantastic experience for Ubloquity, and Hannah’s mentorship has been truly instrumental. Through the program, we refined our commercial positioning and adopted a much more structured outreach cadence, which made our pipeline management far more organised.
The high-impact marketing materials we developed with Hannah’s guidance have already proven its value as we applied these new formats to a major strategic proposal. This opportunity could allow us to achieve our market penetration goals, we are incredibly grateful for the support that helped get us here.”
— Rick Atherton, CEO & Founder Ubloquity
“Hannah helped provide the questions needed to uncover some key learnings which have helped shape our approach to business development. The aim, with our takeaways she has helped provide, is a more structured sales process which will lead to our ambitious 2026 target.”
— Ed Rose, Sales Director, Insight Energy
“Hannah brings a great deal of knowledge and insight into how to respond to public sector tenders. She has been able to quickly understand our organisation and the work that we do. Her help in planning our responses and reviewing and editing our drafts has been instrumental in focusing our bids to score highly against the evaluation criteria. Hannah’s support and guidance has enabled us to confidently submit a number of winning bids.”
— Alex Bailey, Bailey & French CEO
“Hannah has been awesome for our business. Having an intelligent, challenging wordsmith is what every tech business needs. We write as engineers and we need the talent to make this readable. Hannah has helped us get more applications done, improve the words we use to describe our business as well as have great words about our offering. Hannah is my best-kept secret.”
— Freddie Talberg, EMSOL Founder & CEO
“Hannah delivered an informative and engaging session on Innovate UK applications for the University of Hertfordshire. The session was aimed at both early career researchers and experienced academic colleagues, and covered each element of the Innovate UK application process. Hannah was extremely helpful, friendly and collaborative throughout and we’ve already had fantastic feedback about the session!”
— Lindsey Ranson, Head of Innovation, University of Hertfordshire
“Hannah was instrumental in getting funding for Innovate UK’s competition ‘Feasibility studies for AI solutions: Series 2’. Her detailed feedback and understanding of what the assessors were looking for meant that we got an outstanding 83% overall score. ”
— Adria Tarrida, Viability CEO
“Hannah helped me realise that multiple go-to-market threads aren’t a problem, they’re an advantage if you manage them well. She brought structure to how we track and nurture opportunities and gave us the confidence to expand our reach.”
— Niall Riddell, Paua Founder & CEO
“Hannah provided FAR with an honest, constructive and insightful review of our business. This review progressed into a workable program of change for FAR over the last few months. We now have a more focussed, refined and impactful approach to securing new clients and partners and our overall business development.”
— Simon Brown, FAR Founder & CEO
“Since working with Hannah, the quality and success rate of our bids has increased greatly. The perspective she brings to each project is invaluable and her editing and writing skills are always top class.”
— Tom Devlin, UserLab, Founder & Principle Consultant
“Hannah worked with ZigZag to write a detailed project plan on a freelance assignment. She showed exceptionally good understanding of the project from the very beginning and was extremely diligent in her research.
The project was delivered inside a week, and she was flexible, professional, helpful and knowledgeable. I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending Hannah to other companies and would happily work with her again.”
— Al Gerrie, ZigZag Founder & CEO
“If you are a company looking for skilled, incisive and diligent bid and grant proposal management or support, Hannah is first class in this field. We remain very impressed at the additional value add that Hannah brings, and couldn’t recommend her services more.”
— Hellen Bowey, Alcove Founder & CEO
“Hannah supported Vida in planning and reviewi a key Innovate UK competition, with tight deadlines and extensive details required Hannah had been able to focus our attention on the key topic areas and meet the deadline. We were of course thrilled to have been awarded the grant, and would recommend Hannah to anybody considering grant funding.”
