Innovation & Digital Transformation

From the first spark
to the summit.

Evidence-led innovation and digital-transformation consulting — strategy, transformation, and AI training for teams that need to move. Plus the tools we've built to prove the method: a free methodology guide, the Asgard venture platform, and books on AI and innovation.

100+
Projects
36
Methodologies
2
Books Published
The Fivation arch Bifröst · the bridge to higher ground
Consulting Strategy, transformation, AI training
Products Asgard · Books · HRV Biofeedback (in development)
Based in Stockholm, Sweden
What we do

Three ways we move work forward

Comprehensive support across the innovation and transformation lifecycle — grounded in method, measured by outcomes across 100+ projects.

01

Innovation Strategy

Develop a comprehensive innovation strategy aligned to your business goals, using frameworks proven across hundreds of ventures.

  • Strategic planning workshops
  • Framework implementation
  • Innovation roadmaps
02

Digital Transformation

Navigate transformation with expert guidance on AI adoption, technology, process design, and the change that makes it stick.

  • Digital & AI maturity assessment
  • Technology roadmap
  • Change management
03

AI & Team Training

Equip your team with practical AI fluency and the methodologies of high-functioning innovators — hands-on, not theoretical.

  • AI-fluency workshops
  • Methodology training
  • Certification programs
How we think

Two modes of innovation

Not about ignoring customers — about knowing when validation works, and when it doesn't. The framework behind our consulting, Asgard, and our books.

Validate-first · ~90% ~10% · Build-first
Validate-first · the ~90%

Incremental & adjacent

Existing or related markets where customers can tell you what they need. Validate demand early with Design Thinking, Lean Canvas, customer interviews, and MVPs — the journey Asgard, our venture platform, implements.

Build-first · the rare ~10%

Breakthrough & deep tech

Technology-led innovation where customers can't validate what doesn't exist yet. Advance technical readiness first via the Technology Readiness Pipeline — the argument of our book Build First, Market Later.

Free tools · No login required

Try the method yourself, free

No account, no cost — prove the framework before you commit to a consulting engagement or a product.

01

Innovation Guide

36 methodologies across a 7-stage journey — Design Thinking, Lean Canvas, SWOT, Jobs-to-be-Done, and more, with learning pathways and a comparison tool.

Open the guide
02

TRL Self-Assessment

Pinpoint your Technology Readiness Level on the 9-level NASA / EU Horizon scale — where your technology actually stands today.

Take the assessment
03

IRL Self-Assessment

Score customer, solution, technology, market, business-model, and team readiness together, with a readiness map and where to focus next.

Take the assessment
What we've built

Products, from the same method

Self-serve software and books — the tools that come out of doing this work for real ventures.

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Volume 1 — book cover
Three-volume series · Clinical AI

Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

Vol. 1 available now · Abtahi, Astaraki & Seoane

A graduate-level path through modern medical machine learning — from how AI works, to how it reaches patients safely, to how it scales. Eleven chapters paired with hands-on Jupyter notebooks and seven recurring clinical journeys.

Explore the series
Build First, Market Later — book cover
Innovation manifesto & manual

Build Without Asking

Build First, Market Later · by Farhad Abtahi

The laser, the transistor, the iPhone, ChatGPT — none followed the validation-first playbook. Across 14 chapters and 50+ case studies spanning 147 years, a framework for when to build before the market asks.

Explore the book
About Fivation

Fivation isn't a fixed agency roster — it's a curated network of senior experts, assembled around the problem in front of you.

We bring together practitioners across clinical AI, deep tech, design, and go-to-market — the specific specialists your venture needs, embedded alongside your team rather than handed off at arm's length. Evidence-led method, senior hands, outcomes you can measure.

Senior practitioners, not juniors
Cross-disciplinary by design
Assembled per engagement
Embedded & outcome-aligned
Inside the network
  • Clinical & medical AIPhysicians, ML researchers, informaticists
  • Deep tech & engineeringHardware, software, and applied R&D
  • Digital transformationProcess, data, and change management
  • Product & designStrategy, UX, and rapid prototyping
  • Go-to-marketPositioning, growth, and partnerships
  • Research & academiaPeer-reviewed rigor and publishing
Get started

Let's discuss your next project

Tell us where you are, and we'll tell you the shortest credible path forward.

Reach Farhad directly — we read and reply to every message personally, usually within a day.

Email farhad@fivation.com

Email

farhad@fivation.com

Location

Stockholm, Sweden