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Client Story - Shared Language For Risk and Decision-Making

When Moses Adedoyin joined GuideWell, he saw a familiar enterprise problem.

Teams had ideas.
Leadership wanted growth.
People were moving quickly.

What they didn’t have was a shared methodology for evaluating risk, testing assumptions, and making investment decisions.

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Case Study - Mazda

Mazda partnered with Precoil to help teams move forward on high uncertainty initiatives where progress had slowed. Through a hands-on working session applying the Precoil Extract–Map–Test (EMT) approach, teams worked on real projects, clarified assumptions, and defined concrete next steps grounded in evidence rather than debate.

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Case Study - DuPont

DuPont partnered with Precoil to embed the EMT System (Extract–Map–Test) as enterprise decision infrastructure for high-uncertainty growth, enabling teams to surface risk early and make faster Commit / Correct / Cut decisions. Across 35+ growth initiatives, EMT drove $24MM in new revenue, $12MM in cost savings, and institutionalized evidence-based portfolio management across 100% of business lines.

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Test Before You Invest

Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) is becoming increasingly popular to accelerate innovation. Yet, we need a modern way to evaluate startup business models and design experiments to test before we invest.

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Case Study - Adobe

This goes to show you with some rigorous testing and core principles to guide you, anything is possible.

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Start with Learn

Why is the Build Measure Learn loop so hard to put into practice? Because we don't start with learn.

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Ethics in Experimentation

When you are designing an experiment to de-risk your business idea, check in with your team and ask “Are we experimenting with our customers or on them?”

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Crowdfunding and Corporate Innovation

Corporations have been quietly embracing crowdfunding over the last 5 years. If you haven’t noticed, it is probably because they are using lightly branded entities or “labs brands” to do so.

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Net Promoter Score or Product Market Fit Survey?

One of the common mistakes I’ve seen with NPS is that it is used at the wrong time. Combine this with the fact that it is also a lagging indicator and you get not only misrepresented information but you get it, way, way too late.

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