The Twists and Turns of Building a Digital Strategy

It’s never just about the tech. It’s about the terrain.

Things are rarely what they seem-especially in an emerging business category.
Like any sharp marketing team, we’re laser-focused on our client’s direct competitors. After all, everyone in this space is racing toward a version of tomorrow’s “super material.” We’re talking about a substance so resilient, so remarkable, that it can substantially enhance existing industrial materials when simply applied as “an additive.” So ok. It’s not the world’s first additive, but it’s one that is pretty extraordinary.

At the moment, the smart money is betting on gaining leadership in one of the largest and most essential industrial materials markets globally-foundational to infrastructure, transportation, and urban development, where even a 1% share could more than return all the private equity ever invested in the production of this additive.

So far, so good. But the deeper we dig in with our client’s marketing and sales leadership -the more layers we peel off this onion-the more the real game begins to reveal itself.
Yes, we’re competing with other emerging players. But as it turns out, the biggest opportunity might not be in outrunning fellow innovators. It may be in going after the incumbents-very large, very established companies that have been supplying additives to this sector for years.

Their products work. Ours transforms. That’s the difference.
And it’s a big one. Because what we have isn’t just an additive. It’s a super material-among the highest quality on the market. It can do what theirs can’t: upcycle carbon and enhance the performance and sustainability of major industrial materials-concrete, asphalt, tires, rubber, microchips, composites, coatings… the list goes on.
So while others are fixated on the startup next door, we’re mapping a different kind of strategy – a David vs. Goliath move designed to flip the status quo.

That means acting fast.
Being bold.
Showing up differently.
It means building a digital strategy that leads with clarity and confidence, because our job is to make sure the biggest concern for our client becomes: can they produce enough to meet demand?

Ten years ago, this material barely registered outside a lab. Five years ago, 150 startups were chasing its promise. Today, a handful of serious players are emerging. And what we do know is that this market is going to literally soar.

The game is on.
And it’s not the one we thought we were playing.

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