Experience
Built through doing the work.
Devon's judgement has been developed through studying business and entrepreneurship, building ventures, working on product and commercial questions, and mentoring teams through the early stages of an idea.
This is the evidence behind DEV, not a CV or a claim that experience removes uncertainty.
BRDGthegap
Ignite Young Minds mentoring experience
Company-building experience
BRDGthegap
A company Devon co-founded to explore better ways of connecting people, evidence of ability and opportunity. The work spans proposition, product, research, customer journeys, public artefacts and commercial choices.
- What Devon has worked on
- Product, proposition, research, customer journeys, public artefacts and commercial decisions.
- What it demonstrates
- It keeps DEV close to the reality of building something people must understand, trust and use.
BRDGthegapProduct / company evidence
People→Evidence→Opportunity
Candidate-owned proof
Practical evidence of ability before or alongside conventional review.
Human review
Evidence is interpreted with judgement rather than treated as an automatic verdict.
Employer signal
A clearer basis for an employer-controlled progression decision.
A concise statement of the product direction. No client or employment outcome is claimed.
CAMBRIDGE JUDGE BUSINESS SCHOOL / IGNITE YOUNG MINDS
01Customer definition
02Competitor research
03MVP thinking
04Assumptions
05Testing
06Business models
07First-user planning
08Pitching
Programme mentoring experience. Participants are not presented as DEV customers and no outcome is guaranteed.Mentoring experience
Ignite Young Minds
At Cambridge Judge Business School's Ignite Young Minds programme, Devon mentored teams through customer definition, competitor research, MVP thinking, testing, business models, first-user planning and pitching.
Devon supported programme teams through practical venture questions, from who the customer might be and what already exists to what could be tested, how a first version might work and how the idea could be pitched clearly.
Discuss a programmeWhat you actually leave with
The thinking becomes something you can use.
DEV work is made tangible through clear artefacts. The examples described here are illustrative structures, not material from a paid client.
Decision Memo
Turns one consequential question, the evidence, viable options and a recommendation into a decision you can return to.
See the relevant service ↗Decision Brief
Helps separate evidence from assumptions before comparing options and deciding what needs answering next.
See the relevant service ↗Idea Check
Makes an early idea, likely first customer, key assumptions and the cheapest useful first test visible.
See the relevant service ↗Validation Map
Connects customer and competitor evidence to an offer, MVP direction and a real-world validation test.
See the relevant service ↗First 10 Launch Map
Creates a practical route from the idea to a testable first version and realistic initial users or customers.
See the relevant service ↗Put the experience to work