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Engage the Sandpit

Bring us a capacity challenge.

We don't start with technology. We start with your problem, diagnose where capacity is being lost, and design what should change. Then we test it in a governed live environment — before you commit at scale.

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Who we work with

What bringing a challenge looks like.

The Sandpit serves four broad audiences. The method is the same for everyone — what differs is the kind of decision you're trying to make and the form of evidence you need.

For governments

Policy and strategy

You're designing a reform — extended scope of practice, a new care model, a digital strategy — and you need to know whether it will hold when it meets practice. The Sandpit prototypes the policy configuration in a live setting before rollout.

Typical timeline
3–9 months from brief to evidence package
What you receive
A configuration brief, a working prototype, and a real-world feasibility report — supported by governance documentation
For procurement

Procurement and commissioning

You're considering a significant tech or service investment and the proof of concept hasn't told you what happens at scale. The Sandpit identifies the optimal configuration for your intent and tests it before the purchase decision is made.

Typical timeline
3–6 months for context-fit assessment; longer for full live test
What you receive
A pre-commitment evidence pack — system fit, workflow integration, capacity impact, governance readiness
For investors

Investors and corporate partners

You're assessing whether a digital health, medtech or care-delivery innovation will create real value in a real health system. The Sandpit acts as a commercial advisory: we troubleshoot the configuration and flag where it's likely to fail in market.

Typical timeline
90 days for a Context-Fit Assessment
What you receive
A diligence-grade report on system fit, operational risk, evidence gaps, and the steps required to deploy
For services and NGOs

Health services and innovators

You have a workforce or pathway problem you can't solve by adding more, or you have a new tool that needs to live in the real system. The Sandpit redesigns the configuration around your environment and tests it against your data.

Typical timeline
6–18 months end-to-end; staged engagement
What you receive
A redistribution blueprint, working prototype, and evidence of capacity impact — plus a transition plan
How engagement works

Three modules. Enter at the one that fits.

Each module delivers something standalone, with a clear decision point before the next. You don't have to commit to the full sequence — many partners enter at Discovery and stop there with a usable blueprint.

Module 1

Discovery Sprint

3–6 months · Design method

We enter your environment and diagnose where capacity is lost. Workflow observation, ethnography, stakeholder workshops — with every affected group's input.

You receive A governance-safe redistribution blueprint
Module 2

Configuration Sprint

3–6 months · Workbench platform

We prototype the new configuration on the CareMappr workbench. Bolts onto your existing IT and clinical workflows. Doesn't replace them. Real data, simulated workflow.

You receive A working demonstrator on real data
Module 3

Sandpit Testing

6–12 months · Live environment

The prototype goes into a real clinical environment with real workforce, real data, real governance. Three tiers: feasibility, formal evaluation, or full-scale trial.

You receive Peer-review-grade real-world evidence
Submit a brief

Tell us your challenge.

The shortest, most useful first message includes a sentence on the problem, a sentence on what you've already tried, and a sentence on what a useful answer would unlock. We'll come back within five working days.

The questions worth asking us first:

  • Is this a workflow we can diagnose, or a tool we can configure?
  • Could this be tested in a live environment within 6 months?
  • What's the smallest version of this we could prove?
  • Is there a configuration that exists already and we should look at?

Submit a brief

We'll respond within five working days.

What happens next

From your message to a decision.

01
Within five working days — we respond.

One of the program team reads your brief and replies with a short note: whether it's a fit for the Sandpit, what module is the likely entry point, and any clarifying questions before a call.

02
A 30-minute discovery call.

With the most relevant pillar lead — Diagnose, Configure, or Measure — depending on where your challenge sits. We'll talk through the problem, the constraints, and what the engagement could realistically produce.

03
A short proposal.

Within two weeks of the call, you receive a written proposal: scope, modules, governance requirements, timeline and indicative cost. If the answer is "this isn't right for the Sandpit," we'll say that, with reasoning.

04
Engagement begins.

We start at the module that matches the problem. Some engagements run a single Discovery Sprint and stop with a usable blueprint. Others move through the full pipeline into Sandpit testing. The next module is decided jointly, not pre-committed.