Services
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Research
Ideation
Identifying and researching opportunities & turning your ideas into actionable concepts.
In-Depth Market Research
In-depth market research analyzes market dynamics, trends, and customer behaviors to uncover opportunities and challenges that shape the trajectory of your venture. At Maneki Studios, we leverage advanced methodologies, real-time data, and a network of industry experts to provide comprehensive insights tailored to your unique goals. Our research empowers you with a profound understanding of your market landscape, enabling informed decisions, risk minimization, and positioning your venture for sustainable success.
Structured Competitor Analysis
Structured competitor analysis identifies and evaluates your competitors’ strengths, weaknesses, strategies, and market positions to define your strategic advantage. At Maneki Studios, we use a proven framework that combines quantitative benchmarking with qualitative insights, dissecting not just what your competitors do, but why it works. This analysis equips you with a clear understanding of where your competition excels and reveals gaps and opportunities for you to stand out.
Finding your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP)
Defining your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) means pinpointing the segment of customers who derive the most value from your offering. At Maneki Studios, we use a data-driven approach to analyze customer behaviors, needs, and demographics, ensuring your ICP aligns with your venture’s goals. This clarity helps you prioritize your efforts, focus your marketing, and create solutions that resonate deeply with your target audience, leading to higher conversion rates and lasting customer loyalty.
Creating your Problem - Solution Fit
Creating your Problem-Solution Fit ensures your venture directly addresses a clear and pressing need in the market. At Maneki Studios, we collaborate with you to validate and refine your concept through customer feedback, iterative testing, and strategic insight. This process guarantees your offering meets genuine demand, providing a strong foundation for growth while reducing the risk of misalignment with customer needs.
Building your USP & UVP
Crafting your Unique Selling Proposition (USP) or Unique Value Proposition (UVP) defines what sets your venture apart and why customers should choose you. At Maneki Studios, we work with you to distill the essence of your value into a compelling narrative, combining deep customer insights with strategic positioning. A clear and powerful USP/UVP amplifies your differentiation, strengthens your brand identity, and makes your value immediately apparent to your audience.
Validation
Prototyping
Validating and testing concepts & building prototypes and your MVP to ensure product-market fit.
Lead Validation Interviews
Validation Interviews uncover the needs, pain points, and behaviors of your target audience by directly engaging with potential customers. At Maneki Studios, we design and execute structured, insightful interviews that go beyond surface-level answers to extract actionable insights. These interviews provide the clarity needed to align your venture with genuine demand, ensuring your solutions resonate with the market and reduce the risk of misaligned offerings.
Wireframing
Wireframing is the process of creating a visual blueprint of your product’s user interface and experience. At Maneki Studios, we develop intuitive, functional wireframes that prioritize usability, ensuring every element serves a purpose. This step streamlines communication, accelerates development, and lays a solid foundation for a user-centric product that meets customer expectations.
Conduct Product Discovery
Product Discovery is about deeply understanding your customers’ needs and translating them into actionable product strategies. At Maneki Studios, we facilitate workshops, research, and analysis to uncover the optimal product features and design. This ensures your venture delivers value from day one while avoiding unnecessary complexity or wasted resources.
Define Customer Journey
Defining the Customer Journey maps out how your audience interacts with your product or service, from initial awareness to loyalty. At Maneki Studios, we create detailed, customer-focused journey maps that reveal opportunities to enhance engagement and address pain points. This approach ensures a seamless, satisfying experience for your users, driving retention and advocacy.
MVP Prototyping
MVP (Minimum Viable Product) Prototyping turns your concept into a tangible product with essential features to test its value in the market. At Maneki Studios, we craft functional, scalable MVPs that balance speed and precision, allowing you to validate ideas without overextending resources. This process provides critical feedback for refinement, accelerating your path to a market-ready solution.
Conduct Market Testing
Market Testing evaluates how well your product or service resonates with your target audience in real-world conditions. At Maneki Studios, we design and execute rigorous testing campaigns to measure performance, gather feedback, and refine your offering. This data-driven approach minimizes risk, ensures market fit, and sets the stage for a successful launch.
Craft Branding & Positioning
Branding and Positioning define your venture’s identity and its place in the market. At Maneki Studios, we develop compelling, authentic branding and strategic positioning that communicates your unique value to your audience. By crafting a strong brand narrative and aligning it with your target market’s needs, we empower your venture to stand out, build trust, and drive long-term growth.
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launch
Launching your venture and helping you execute a successful market entry.
Conduct Market Segmentation
Market Segmentation identifies and categorizes the distinct groups within your target audience based on shared characteristics, behaviors, or needs. At Maneki Studios, we use data-driven methodologies to segment your market with precision, ensuring your efforts are laser-focused on the most lucrative opportunities. This approach enables you to tailor your messaging, products, and strategies to resonate deeply with each segment, maximizing impact and ROI.
Craft your Brand Messaging
Brand Messaging is the art of articulating your venture’s unique value, personality, and promise to your audience. At Maneki Studios, we craft compelling, customer-focused messaging that speaks directly to your target market’s needs and aspirations. Strong messaging builds trust, emotional connection, and brand loyalty, ensuring your venture stands out in a competitive landscape.
Define your Channel Strategy
Defining your Channel Strategy determines the most effective pathways to reach your target audience, whether through digital platforms, direct sales, partnerships, or other channels. At Maneki Studios, we assess market dynamics, customer preferences, and your goals to design a multi-channel approach that amplifies your reach and efficiency. This ensures your resources are optimised, and your product or service gets to the right audience, at the right time.
Create Launch Roadmap
A Launch Roadmap is a comprehensive plan outlining every step, milestone, and deliverable needed to bring your product or service to market. At Maneki Studios, we develop strategic, actionable roadmaps that balance agility with discipline, ensuring your launch is smooth, timely, and impactful. This structure provides clarity, keeps all stakeholders aligned, and ensures no critical step is overlooked.
Build a Campaign Strategy
Building a Campaign Strategy means designing targeted marketing initiatives to create buzz, drive engagement, and generate conversions. At Maneki Studios, we integrate creative storytelling, audience insights, and performance-driven tactics to craft campaigns that cut through the noise. Effective campaigns amplify your launch, building momentum and positioning your venture for sustained growth.
Create Sales & Distribution Architecture
Sales & Distribution Architecture establishes the framework for delivering your product or service to customers effectively and efficiently. At Maneki Studios, we design scalable, customer-centric architectures that streamline processes and maximise reach. This ensures your sales and distribution strategies are aligned with market demand, delivering value seamlessly to your audience.
Build Analytics & Tracking Structures
Building Analytics & Tracking Structures involves creating systems to monitor key metrics, track performance, and gain actionable insights. At Maneki Studios, we implement robust, tailored analytics frameworks that empower you to measure success and adapt your strategies in real time. This data-driven approach ensures you stay informed, agile, and ahead of the competition, maximizing the impact of your go-to-market efforts.
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Process
Our custom made venture building process ensures successful outcomes and your success!
01
Understanding Your Unique Needs.
In the Discovery phase at Maneki Ventures, we take the time - through as many calls or meetings as it takes - to truly understand you as a founder. We explore what drives you, the vision behind your venture, and the mission you’re passionate about. It’s not just about your goals or the product you want to build - it’s about understanding the many layers that make you, well, you, and figuring out how we can work together in a way that feels seamless and natural.
This step isn’t just about strategy; it’s about building trust and clarity. By digging deep into your “why” and the heart of your vision, we lay the foundation for a venture that feels authentic to you, reflects your unique purpose, and connects powerfully with your audience.
This step isn’t just about strategy; it’s about building trust and clarity. By digging deep into your “why” and the heart of your vision, we lay the foundation for a venture that feels authentic to you, reflects your unique purpose, and connects powerfully with your audience.
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Picking up where you left off.
In the Positioning phase at Maneki Studios, we take a close look at where you are in your journey and shape a tailored offering from our services to fit seamlessly into your roadmap. Together, we make sure everything you’ve already done blends smoothly with our process, setting your venture up for success before moving into development.
This phase is all about collaboration. We’ll work with you to figure out exactly how involved you want to be as a founder - whether you want to stay deeply hands-on or prefer us to handle more of the details. By aligning on expectations and responsibilities, we build a partnership based on trust and mutual understanding, keeping your vision at the heart of everything we do as we move forward.
This phase is all about collaboration. We’ll work with you to figure out exactly how involved you want to be as a founder - whether you want to stay deeply hands-on or prefer us to handle more of the details. By aligning on expectations and responsibilities, we build a partnership based on trust and mutual understanding, keeping your vision at the heart of everything we do as we move forward.
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Bringing your Ideas to Life.
In the Development phase at Maneki Studios, we roll up our sleeves and dive into bringing your vision to life. We don’t just take over; we co-create with you, using tools that keep you in the loop at every stage—whether you’re checking in from your desk or halfway around the world.
It’s all about making the process seamless and stress-free, so you can see progress, give feedback, and pivot if needed without missing a beat. By staying connected and flexible, we make sure what we build feels just as much yours as it does ours—tailored, collaborative, and ready to shine.
It’s all about making the process seamless and stress-free, so you can see progress, give feedback, and pivot if needed without missing a beat. By staying connected and flexible, we make sure what we build feels just as much yours as it does ours—tailored, collaborative, and ready to shine.
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Seamlessly Starting Your Adventure and Beyond.
At Maneki Studios, we make sure everything is handed over to you in full—no loose ends, no unanswered questions. Our goal is for you to feel completely confident and happy with what we’ve developed for your venture, knowing you’re exactly where you need to be to move forward.
And if anything comes up after the handover? We’re here for you.
Whether it’s answering a question you forgot to ask or providing support as you continue to grow, we’re happy to stay connected and be part of your ecosystem. Your journey doesn’t end at the handover, and neither does our commitment to your success.
And if anything comes up after the handover? We’re here for you.
Whether it’s answering a question you forgot to ask or providing support as you continue to grow, we’re happy to stay connected and be part of your ecosystem. Your journey doesn’t end at the handover, and neither does our commitment to your success.