Selected work 2024 R&D advisory · Advanced materials

FutureScaleX

HubSpot CMS Designer & developer · Figma → HubSpot View live site
Live at every breakpoint — desktop · tablet · mobile.
The brief, in three moves

What we built and why.

Problem

Where we started

Research-and-advisory firm validating emerging-technology commercial viability for Fortune-500 energy, chemicals, and consumer-goods clients. Their prospects were chief-strategy officers at the most procurement-cautious organizations on earth — Oil & Gas operators, chemical conglomerates, F&B multinationals. The existing site read like generic management consulting. The Six-Lens Methodology that actually differentiated FutureScaleX from McKinsey or BCG was buried four clicks deep, with no visual identity of its own.

Phase 01 of 03
Approach

What we built

Greenfield design in Figma — bespoke typographic system, illustrative icon set built around the Six-Lens Methodology, sector-specific entry pages for Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Chemicals & Materials, and Food & Beverage. Then built on HubSpot CMS so the strategy team could publish techno-economic reports without engineering involvement. Methodology elevated to the homepage as the visual centerpiece. Industry pages structured so each vertical reads like the firm specifically knows that industry.

Phase 02 of 03
Result

What changed

Methodology as visual IA · 4 sector landing pages · enterprise-procurement-ready · strategy team publishes without engineering

Phase 03 of 03

A McKinsey-style strategy site that finally makes the Six-Lens Methodology the hero — not a footnote.

01 / 04

The brief

FutureScaleX validates whether emerging technologies — new battery chemistries, alternative protein platforms, hydrogen process integrations — will actually scale commercially. Their prospects are senior strategy leaders at the Fortune 500. The old site sold them as one more management consultancy. The new site needed to sell them as a research-driven specialist that wins where McKinsey and BCG don't.

02 / 04

Designing the methodology, not the firm

Working in Figma, we built the visual identity around the Six-Lens Methodology rather than around the firm itself. Each lens (Market, Tech, Regulatory, Capital, Operational, Stakeholder) got its own icon, color cue, and treatment in the design system. Every sector page reuses the same six lenses applied to that industry — so a chief strategy officer at a chemicals company reads the framework once and sees it specifically applied to chemicals.

03 / 04

Why HubSpot

The strategy team publishes long-form techno-economic reports monthly. They needed a CMS they could drive themselves without engineering. HubSpot's editorial UX matched what their team already knew from marketing-side use; we customised the templates so the editorial experience is constrained to the design system. No accidental Comic Sans, no broken hero variants.

04 / 04

The numbers

Four sector landing pages live (Oil & Gas, Power & Utilities, Chemicals, F&B), each anchored on the Six-Lens framework. Methodology made navigable from the homepage. Editorial velocity moved to weekly without engineering involvement. The site reads as a specialist firm to the exact buyer FutureScaleX targets.

By the numbers

The work, measured.

4
Sector landing pages
6
Methodology lenses
Eng-free
Editorial velocity
Design + dev
Discipline
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