A clearer direction. An idea brought to life. Something worth owning or being part of.

Services

Bring the need. We’ll shape the work. Choose a starting point; we agree the scope, team, timing and fee with you.

Metaxis Advisory
A decision needs a way forward.

Working conversations
A decision, a business problem, an unfamiliar opportunity or an idea you want to think through with Tuna or the relevant associate.

Strategy and foresight
Read the context, challenge assumptions, explore options and agree the choices that should guide the work.

Policy and institutional connections
Connect public policy, institutional mandates and commercial decisions, including NDP6 alignment or a policy brief, so the right people can resolve what is holding progress back.

Reputation and social licence
Understand relationships, expectations and community concerns; shape a response that connects communication with practical action.

Ongoing advisory and special coordination
Stay alongside a mandate through working sessions, decision support, specialist coordination and review as circumstances change.

Creative and cross-sector problem solving
Bring an unconventional question, from a children’s book to a business redesign, and identify the mix of expertise it needs.
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Metaxis Concepts
You can see the possibility. Now give it form.

Concept and brief development
Translate an undeveloped idea into a clear purpose, audience, proposition and brief.

Products, services and enterprises
Define what people need, the value offered and how the proposed business or service could work.

Programmes and civic imagination
Develop social, economic and cultural responses rooted in the priorities of post-colonial African societies.

Feasibility and early testing
Identify assumptions, research needs and a manageable pilot before committing to the full programme.

Reverse engineering and reinvention
Start with an intended outcome or an underused asset; work in whichever direction reveals a viable route.
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Metaxis Packaging
Make the proposition ready for a decision.

Business plans and commercial propositions
Bring the purpose, market, operating model and commercial logic into a proposition that can be evaluated.

Resource design and mobilisation
Map financial, technical and in-kind inputs, including land, space, equipment, time, institutional support and expertise.

Funding and partner readiness
Prepare the project narrative, resource request, budget and supporting information for the appropriate counterparties.

Participation, ownership and shared value
Clarify who contributes, who decides, who benefits and how participation belongs in the model.

Implementation and decision packs
Set out roles, work packages, dependencies, milestones and the decisions needed to move into delivery.
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Metaxis Enterprise
Give the organisation a structure that works.

Enterprise and institution formation
Shape purpose, structure, governance and the specialist establishment work required for an enterprise, trust or foundation.

Business architecture and operating models
Connect the offer to its people, processes, budget, systems and day-to-day responsibilities.

Re-engineering and diversification
Rethink a stalled business, inherited model or new opportunity against present needs and future relevance.

Policy and operating procedures
Translate strategy into practical ways of working and coordinate the appropriate corporate and professional expertise.

Delivery, review and continuity
Coordinate implementation, review progress, strengthen capability and plan the handover or continuing advisory relationship.
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Metaxis Publishing
A publication begins with something worth sharing.

Editorial concepts and publication strategy
Define the reader, editorial purpose, format, contributors and business model.

Writing, commissioning and editing
Develop stories, interviews, profiles and useful information with a clear editorial voice.

Design and production coordination
Bring editorial design, photography, illustration, digital or print production into one production plan.

Distribution and commercial participation
Shape circulation, digital release, advertising and contributor opportunities around each publication.

Archives and continuing editions
Keep work discoverable, build the editorial archive and plan the next issue from what readers and contributors bring back.
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Metaxis Media
Some stories need to be heard. Others need to be seen.

Radio and audio
Develop interview, conversation, story and programme formats, from editorial treatment to the recording brief.

Television and moving image
Shape a visual treatment, programme or series with the contributors and production expertise it requires.

Programme development and production
Connect research, scripting, presenters, technical crews, schedules and production budgets.

Release and audience connection
Agree channels, distribution, permissions and the communications needed to bring the work to its audience.

Media around the wider ecosystem
Carry stories from projects, public conversations, enterprises and cultural work into audio and moving image.
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Metaxis People
The people around the work are part of the work.

Stakeholder engagement
Identify the people affected by the work, whose decisions matter and whose voice is missing.

Metaxis Connect and introductions
Bring relevant people, institutions, resource holders and opportunities into a purposeful conversation.

Partnership and collaboration design
Clarify contributions, expectations, decision-making and the practical terms of working together.

Associates, talent and internships
Invite relevant expertise and emerging talent into appropriately scoped work and learning opportunities.

Convening and relationship coordination
Sustain communication between citizens, private, development, public, government and political sectors.
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Metaxis Experiences
Create a gathering that gives people something to carry forward.

Event and experience concepts
Develop the purpose, audience, theme and form of a gathering, festival, summit or activation.

Programme and contributor curation
Bring the right questions, speakers, artists, facilitators and participants into a coherent programme.

Resources and production
Coordinate venue, technical and creative production, suppliers, logistics and financial or in-kind support.

Participation and communication
Connect invitations, registration, participant information and the visitor experience.

From gathering to action
Document the conversation, follow through on commitments and connect the outcomes to projects, publishing or the next edition.
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Metaxis Places
Imagine what a place could make possible.

Place and property concepts
Explore what a site, building or public space can make possible for the people who use it.

Programming and spatial briefs
Connect uses, activities, public experience and operating needs to a brief for the relevant design specialists.

Community and institutional alignment
Bring users, land or resource holders, institutions and delivery partners into the development conversation.

Resources and development coordination
Shape the business case and connect property, technical, construction and management expertise around an agreed mandate.

Operations, activation and stewardship
Plan how the place will be used, maintained, programmed and kept relevant after it opens.
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Metaxis Culture
Begin with the lives people are actually living.

Children and youth
Develop opportunities for imagination, participation, learning and creative contribution around young people’s lives.

Women
Shape cross-sector conversations and programmes around women’s political, economic and social participation.

Men
Create room for men’s lived experience, responsibility, participation and contribution to society.

Human and community themes
Let people identify the questions that matter to their lives and develop ways to respond together.

Civic and cultural programme design
Connect identity, local knowledge, creativity and shared value to programmes that people can help shape.
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Metaxis Expressions
There is more than one way to say what matters.

Expressions gatherings
Curate candid conversation, poetry, comedy, music and food around the lived experience of black entrepreneurs.

Creative sessions
Help someone reconnect with their creativity, explore an idea or begin a piece of work.

Creative Genius
Invite a talent, invention, performance or unusual perspective and explore where it can contribute.

Creative collaboration and production
Assemble artists, writers, designers and other collaborators around a purposeful brief.

From expression to a wider life
Explore how the work can become a publication, experience, product or programme, with authorship and participation agreed.
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Metaxis Retail
Give an idea something people can wear, use or keep.

Brand and range concepts
Develop the meaning, audience and product direction of a cultural or lifestyle brand.

Product development and design
Translate the idea into an appropriate product brief, design and sample process with relevant specialists.

Production and supply coordination
Bring specifications, sourcing, production requirements and fulfilment planning into the scope.

Retail and digital commerce
Connect range presentation, pricing, enquiries and the route through which people can buy.

Brand experience and continuing development
Use customer response and cultural relevance to refine the range and its expression.
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Metaxis Digital
Explore what technology could make possible.

Digital and ICT concepts
Define the human need, users, desired outcome and the role technology should play.

Platforms and information systems
Shape requirements for websites, digital services, archives and the information needed to operate them.

Workflow and service design
Map the journey, process and connections between people, tools and information.

Specialist development coordination
Scope and bring together the appropriate technical, creative and implementation partners.

Operation and improvement
Plan ownership, support, adoption and review so the digital work can continue to serve its users.
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Products

Ideas to keep. Tools to return to. Books, digital resources and publications for reflection, learning and living. Explore Metaxis Publishing ↗

The Vision Club · Digital Life File
Your life. A plan you can use. Reflection, life priorities and practical planning in one digital companion.
Digital edition in preparation.
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The Vision Club · Printed Life File
Make room to write it down. A printed Life File for thinking on paper, planning your next chapter and returning to what matters.
Print edition in preparation.
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Osho Magazine
Stories for a fuller life. Women, culture and lived experience, with room for ambition and everyday life.
Digital magazine; print edition in development.
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Tell us which edition interests you. Release dates, prices and fulfilment will be confirmed before orders open.

Brands

Ideas with a life of their own. Our named programmes and developing brands each have their own purpose and way to participate.

The Vision Club
A structured life-planning programme, supported by the Life File and a community of practice.
Programme in development.
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FutureFit
A cultural and creative festival concept for imagining and making the futures we want.
Concept.
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Founders Club
A recurring space for people building enterprises: clarity, useful relationships and practical next steps.
Programme in planning.
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Explore the wider collection
Enterprise and experiences; publishing and media; people, culture and places; retail and digital.
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Commissioned for you

Your mandate. A programme people can engage with. We create campaigns, publications and experiences for clients. NDP6 Alive is a proposed example: making a national development agenda understandable and participatory. Concept proposal; no government commission or endorsement is implied.
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Start with what you have. An idea, a challenge, a voice note or a brief.
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