Everyone is piloting AI.We build the capability.
Squaircle is a design research and futures studio. We study how change is landing, imagine what comes next, and build the AI capability that gets an organisation there.
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We are not an agency and not a staffing bench. We are a design research and futures studio that ships: research before solutions, futures before roadmaps, and senior people accountable for the outcome end to end.
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Products launched through the Squaircle operating model.
Squaircle client portfolio
10M+
End users reached by products and platforms we shaped.
Cumulative platform reach
$400M+
Funding raised by clients building with us.
Public and disclosed client raises
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Reduction in referral-to-diagnosis time for a leading healthcare provider.
India healthcare client, 2022
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Lower operating costs on a modern mobile trading platform.
Financial services client, 2021
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Of trading activity migrated to mobile after platform redesign.
Financial services client, 2021
A design research and futures studio that ships.
Before the AI work, there is the looking: field research, behavioural evidence, weak signals and the futures they point to. That practice is where our transformation work comes from — and why it holds up once it is live.
Research before solutions
We look at people, systems and evidence first. The brief is usually not the problem.
Futures before roadmaps
Scenarios and signals set the direction, so today's build still makes sense in three years.
Craft as evidence
Prototypes, interfaces and shipped product are how we prove a position, not decks.
How we transform organisations.
Access senior leaders without building a permanent team.
Fractional Leadership is how clients access Squaircle. Interim leadership where you need it, for as long as you need it.
- An interim AI leader to set direction and governance
- A transformation office to run the change end to end
- Product leadership to get an AI-native product to market
BuildFastr powers the delivery.
The platform is not the company. Transformation is the work; BuildFastr is what makes it fast, consistent and measurable — AI-native delivery, reusable foundations and instrumentation from day one.
Real outcomes from real transformation.
21 products launched, 10M+ users reached, $400M+ raised by clients — and double-digit reductions in cost and time.
Built differently.
A lean leadership team.
Every engagement is led by someone who has carried the outcome before — no layers between decision and delivery.
Research before solutions.
Every engagement begins with evidence — signals, behaviour and constraints — so the build answers the real problem.
Shared accountability.
One team, one plan, one set of measures. Leadership stays accountable for the result end to end.
Futures from the Global South
Conversations and short films on change, signals and the futures being designed across the global south — the video strand of our research practice.
YouTube
@FuturesFromTheGlobalSouth
The channel is live and the first episodes are in production — conversations with the people building AI-shaped organisations across the global south. Subscribe now and the first one finds you.