What is tech mentoring and coaching at Shaped Thoughts?
Are you noticing the challenges of the insurance field amidst shifting industry trends? Have a groundbreaking idea for an InsurTech business that would address those hurdles? Or maybe you’re already diving into development but are afraid you lack the right knowledge and tools to make it happen? Feeling like you’ve hit the wall?
If any of these scenarios hit home, our free tech mentoring is what you need.
But what is it exactly? Mentoring, coaching, consulting—call it as you like. The idea is simple—we offer you an opportunity to leverage our unique perspective, extensive experience and skills to assist your InsurTech venture, be it a start-up or scale-up, in navigating your technological challenges, fostering growth, and achieving long-term success.
Through our technology audits, we can provide a thorough evaluation to validate your business ideas from a technical standpoint, ensuring they are feasible and sustainable. By meticulously assessing various technology aspects, we identify potential vulnerabilities and opportunities for optimisation, offering actionable insights that empower informed decision-making and drive product innovation, which we find particularly valuable to investors and VCs.
In other words—we help you validate your idea.
Why Shaped Thoughts should be on your radar for idea validation and consulting?
Why consider us for tech mentoring and validating your InsurTech idea in the first place?
At Shaped Thoughts, technology and InsurTech are what lies at our heart. We can’t help it—not when we have years of experience in both the tech and business sides of the industry. Our strong A-Team strives to make the delivery of mission-critical software feel like a breeze. After all, our vision is insurance that is simple and accessible to all.
Have a vision of your own? Let’s hear it! We are keen to share our knowledge and perspective to help you succeed.
Meet your mentors
Meet Rafał, Mateusz, and Bartosz—Shaped Thoughts’ founders and, more importantly, your mentors.
Drawing on our 35+ years of collective professional experience and exclusive insights from collaborating with partners across Europe, covering various Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) roles, we’re equipped to guide your technology business from idea discovery to crafting a solid product roadmap.
Here are the key things we bring to the table
There’s plenty more where that came from and we’re happy to share!
What we give you
Help with business development, with a focus on technology
Help with building a top-notch IT team
Guidance on MVP development
Consultancy on cloud architecture
Comprehensive mentoring and coaching
What you gain
Insurance and InsurTech business know-how
The path to building an effective and efficient Product Team
Feedback on how to build an efficient MVP with fast time to market
Feasibility study of the technical architecture
Tech mentoring and a viability study of your product idea
We sign an NDA to give you confidence your product idea is secure.
Networking is king
Over the years, we’ve built a vast network in the insurance realm, tuning in to the various challenges professionals face. To us, each conversation is an opportunity to broaden our perspective and notice what previously went unnoticed. By forging partnerships and fostering connections, we’ve helped many expand their horizons.
And we’re here to do the same for you. We can help you avoid common pitfalls and build innovative products more effectively. From crafting cutting-edge tech solutions to assembling superb IT teams, our ultimate goal is to guide you towards faster success.
Nothing to lose, plenty to gain
By taking the time to validate your business idea you’re one step closer to success. Why is that? Because it can save you from costly mistakes, help you create an outstanding team, and hence, develop a better product, which is all crucial for launching a successful venture. That’s all our tech mentoring is about.
Ok, so where’s the catch? Here’s the thing—there is none. You share your idea, we share our expertise. It’s really that simple. It’s a two-way street—we help you succeed, you help us broaden our horizons. Everybody benefits.
It’s free to talk to us. All it takes is your time and effort. Whether you’re willing to devote them to this is up to you. Why not give it a shot?