innov8 Ventures is a small studio building the everyday operations stack for growing businesses — mobile-first, honest about scope, and designed to get out of your team's way. First up: a people app your team will actually open.
Tuesday, May 19
Mobile-first HR — leave, payslips, directory.
A POS for small retailers. Q3 2026.
innov8 Ventures is a small product studio. We pick one boring problem at a time — payroll day, the morning rush, the stockroom — and ship the simplest tool that gets a team unstuck.
No platform. No suite. No "ecosystem." Just a handful of focused apps that talk to each other when they need to, and stay out of the way when they don't.
innov8 People ships this quarter. Counter and Stock follow. The rest of the everyday operations stack is on the slow burner — we promise to take our time.
A people app built for the way people work in 2026 — on their phone, between meetings, on the way home. Request leave in three taps. Find a payslip without raising a ticket. See who's in today.
A point-of-sale built for small retailers and food spots — the kind of place where the till changes hands twice a shift. Big buttons, fast receipts, end-of-day reports that don't lie.
Counting stock is the worst job in the building. innov8 Stock turns it into a phone walk-around with a barcode scanner — and tells you what's about to run out before it does.
We add one new product a year. The list below is where we think we're going next, but the order depends on what design partners are actually struggling with. Nothing here is promised; everything is being talked about.
Customer credit on a phone. Who owes what, last paid when.
The bookkeeping layer underneath. Tax-ready reports without an accountant on retainer.
Rota planning for shops, kitchens, and clinics.
Dispatch & delivery routing for small fleets.
We're a small team, so we have to be honest about what we're good at and what we aren't. These three rules show up on every product we ship — tap a card to see what we actually mean.
Every product starts on a phone because that's where the work happens — on a shop floor, in a meeting, on a commute home.
We pick the most boring tech for the job, so the team can spend its energy on the parts of the product you actually see.
We tell you what each product does, what it doesn't, and what it never will. No roadmaps for things we don't intend to ship.
If your question isn't here, send it — we add real ones in the order they arrive.
We're onboarding nine design partners now and opening to the next forty over the summer. Drop your email and we'll send a short questionnaire — no marketing list, no auto-renewing trial, no card on file.
A short questionnaire follows. Two minutes, no card, no marketing list.
Welcome, there. We'll reach out at within two business days — replies come from [email protected].
Pick the future products you'd actually use, and tell us how. Votes shape the roadmap — names get a note when their pick ships.
We've logged your vote, there. When your pick gets close, we'll write to first — replies come from [email protected].
