Wazoku — We Activate Human Intelligence at Scale & Speed

We Activate Human Intelligence at Scale & Speed.

Wazoku is a global innovation scale-up that helps organisations activate Human Intelligence to solve complex challenges and create measurable value.

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Global solvers
500,000+
Years of experience
20+
Expert network
1,000,000+
Certified B Corporation

Our Story

Built to connect the world's intelligence.

Wazoku is a global innovation scale-up that helps organisations activate Human Intelligence to solve complex challenges and create measurable value. Through its Ecosystem Operating System, Wazoku.ai, and the Innocentive global innovation marketplace, Wazoku enables enterprises and public sector organisations to discover ideas, access external expertise, manage innovation portfolios, and track value creation using data-driven decision frameworks.

With over 500,000 global solvers and more than 20 years of experience delivering challenge-led innovation programmes, Wazoku operates at the intersection of human and synthetic intelligence, helping organisations move from innovation activity to innovation performance.

We built a platform that gave organisations a single place to capture ideas, structure challenges, and turn insight into action — an operating system for innovation, not a disconnected set of point tools.

In 2020, we acquired Innocentive, the company that pioneered open innovation and challenge-driven problem solving. That changed everything. Overnight, we combined a modern agentic AI platform with a 20-year track record in breakthrough R&D, a global network of 1,000,000+ scientists, engineers, startups, and subject-matter experts, and the deepest dataset on how innovation actually works. No other company brings together global intelligence, technology, and expert delivery in a single architecture.

We continued to build. The acquisition of PosterLab brought structured R&D partnership and collaboration capabilities into the platform — now Ecosystem Management — extending how organisations connect with research partners and technology providers.

We developed xV, a universal value metric built into wazoku.ai, that makes every type of innovation measurable, comparable, and governable for the first time. And we introduced Jen, our agentic AI, to compress timelines, sharpen problem definition, and put intelligence at the point of every decision.

These capabilities come together in what we call Total Innovation — an approach that connects your internal ecosystem of employees, partners, customers, and suppliers with our global external ecosystem of 1,000,000+ scientists, engineers, startups, and SMEs. That connection is at the heart of everything Wazoku delivers: better connections, sharper value focus, accelerated impact, ecosystem advantage, and change for good.

We are headquartered in London, with teams in the United States, Colombia, and Sweden. We are a certified B Corporation, because how you build a company matters as much as what you build.

2011

Founded in London

Wazoku launches as a purpose-built innovation platform — giving organisations a structured way to capture and develop ideas from within.

2020

Acquisition of InnoCentive

We combine our platform with the world's leading open innovation marketplace — adding 1,000,000+ scientists, engineers, and solvers, and 20 years of challenge-driven problem solving data.

2022

Acquisition of PosterLab

Structured R&D partnership and collaboration capabilities come into the platform — now Ecosystem Management — extending how organisations connect with research partners and technology providers.

Today

Wazoku.ai — The Ecosystem Operating System

xV, Jen, and Total Innovation come together in a single platform connecting internal and external ecosystems — with teams across London, the US, Colombia, and Sweden.

What we deliver

Wazoku gives you

Better Connections

One Connected System for Total Innovation

Total Innovation is Wazoku's answer to the fragmented world of disconnected innovation tools, wasted spend, and missed opportunities. It brings every type of innovation — continuous improvement, new market entry, capability development, disruptive R&D, big-bet exploration — into one connected, Intelligent, measurable, and manageable system.

Value Focus

One Value Framework for Every Innovation Decision

Wazoku delivers the decision intelligence backbone that connects strategy, R&D, and finance. Define needs. Prioritise opportunities. Govern portfolios. Track value through xV — a common metric that makes a process tweak and a moonshot comparable for the first time. Learning compounds instead of resetting. Decisions align without heavy process. Value becomes the driver of activity and investment.

Accelerated Impact

From Weeks to Days: Faster Innovation, Real Impact

Wazoku compresses the innovation timeline. AI-powered scoping turns weeks of problem definition into hours. A global solver network surfaces proven solutions before you build from scratch. Hackathons and structured sprints move from challenge to validated concept in days. Scout identifies relevant technologies, startups, and IP in real time. The result: faster decisions, faster validation, faster impact — without sacrificing rigour.

Ecosystem Advantage

Your ecosystem plus ours = 1,000,000+ experts on demand.

Wazoku connects your ecosystem (employees, partners, customers, suppliers) with our global ecosystem. 1,000,000+ scientists, engineers, startups, IP and SMEs – that lets you identify preexisting solutions, validate options with real expertise, and mobilise capability in days, not months.

Change for Good

Business as a force for good.

Wazoku is a certified B Corporation, meeting the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. We believe that business should be a force for good — and that the companies building the infrastructure for innovation have a particular responsibility to get this right.

Global

Headquartered in London. Operating everywhere.

Like so many of our clients in the decentralised world of work, we are a truly hybrid and global business — with teams across London, the United States, Colombia, and Sweden.

London

HQ

United States

North America

Colombia

Latin America

Sweden

Nordics

Wazoku London office

Innovation built on purpose.

We are B Corp certified and committed to being a positive force for people, organisations, and the planet.

Our Social Values