Melbourne · early-stage development

Ideas worth building, built properly.

Curious Ventures works on early-stage ideas, taking them from a sketch to a working pilot. We provide the technical development and the business development, and we are honest about which one an idea needs next.

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What we do

Most early ideas fail for an ordinary reason: the technology was never tested with real users, or the business case was never tested against real customers. We do both, early, and in small steps.

1

Technical development

Working software, not slideware. iPhone apps, backend services, data pipelines and the measurement and verification work that sits underneath them. Built to be demonstrated within weeks and trusted within months.

2

Business development

Finding the customer who has the problem, the partner who reaches them, and the price that makes sense for both. Conversations with the people who would actually buy, before the product is finished.

3

Pilots that teach something

A pilot is designed to answer a question, not to look busy. We set out what success would look like, run it with real users, and let the result decide whether to continue, change course or stop.

Projects

One project is in pilot now. Others are at the sketch stage and will appear here when there is something real to show.

In pilot

HomeCapture

Curious Ventures is developing HomeCapture. A homeowner films their own home in about fifteen minutes, guided room by room by the app. The recording is measured, sealed against alteration and sent to a property valuer, who reviews it from their desk and visits only for what the video cannot settle.

  • Guided voice walkthrough that adapts to the home
  • LiDAR room sizes, a sketch floor plan and the roof outline from above
  • Every recording sealed with Apple device attestation and a trusted timestamp
  • A valuer's review site with the evidence, measurements and a draft report

For valuers, lenders and insurers   homecapture.com.au →

How we work

Small, fast and in the open. The same four steps for every idea.

Name the questionWhat has to be true for this to work, and what is the cheapest way to find out?
Build the smallest real thingEnough working product to put in front of the people who matter, usually within weeks.
Run it with real usersA pilot with a start, an end and a measure of success agreed before it begins.
DecideContinue, change course or stop. Each is a good outcome if the question got answered.

Contact

If you have a problem that needs a working prototype, a pilot partner, or a second pair of hands on an early idea, get in touch.

Curious Ventures
Melbourne, Australia

hello@curiousventures.com.au