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Discovery Projects

Our AI and data science experts deliver innovation for your business through AI and data science

Accelerate your innovation through AI and Data Science with agile sprints, rapid results and flexible next steps - all tailored to your business needs.

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What is a Discovery Project?

Our Discovery Project delivers rapid results and real impact. We work intensively on your top priorities — from feasibility checks to solution development — using Agile methods to keep things fast and flexible. With weekly updates and sprint reviews, we ensure your innovation stays on track and adapts to your needs.

Key Features

Discovery Project Key Features

Who can benefit from a Discovery Project?

Discovery Projects are designed to benefit businesses of all shapes, sizes and sectors. Whether you're a start-up, growing SME or a large enterprise, we have tailored options to suit your needs. Start-ups and SMEs can access our subsidised and funded packages to maximise innovation while minimising costs. For larger organisations, our paid-for in-house option offers a fully customised experience delivered directly to your team.

Types of Discovery Projects

There are two options for Discovery Projects: In-house and Funded.

The In-house option is recommended for large businesses and enterprises as well as SMEs. The latter are eligible to receive a subsidy on the total cost.

The Funded option is ideal for Start-ups, Scale-ups and SMEs. Acceptance to the schemes are based on competitive project applications and discussions with our team of data science and AI experts who consider each application.

Our data science and AI experts at the National Innovation Centre for Data deliver all the Discovery Projects.

Types of Discovery Projects

Learn more about our fully-funded schemes

Why should you choose a Discovery Project?

A Discovery Project is the fastest way to unlock your business's potential and validate your innovative ideas. Our Agile approach ensures we focus on your top priorities, delivering quick results and adaptable solutions. Through intensive collaboration, feasibility assessments, and solution development, we move your ideas forward — efficiently and effectively.

With weekly updates and flexible sprint reviews, you'll stay informed and in control, ready to pivot or scale as needed. Gain clarity, confidence, and momentum to tackle your challenges and turn your ideas into real business outcomes.

Ready to accelerate innovation? A Discovery Project gives you the tools, insights, and progress to make it happen.

Getting you ready to launch your Discovery Project

All of our projects begin with a Project Success Workshop for relevant business and technical members of your organisation. With our expert Project Success Team, you will focus down on the business opportunity to define, validate and align your data science and AI project.

Find out more about our Project Success Workshop.

What will you gain from a Discovery Project?

Learn more about some of the benefits of undertaking a Discovery Project with the National Innovation Centre for Data:

Gains from a Discovery Project

What does your business need to commit to a Discovery Project?

Discovery Project Business Commitment

Why choose the National Innovation Centre for Data for a Discovery Project?

Working with our expert team will provide you with success as they:

Discovery Projects - why choose our expert NICD team

Hear from businesses we've worked with about their experiences working with our data science and AI experts on their Projects.

  • Our experience with the Hartree programme has been of immense value, not only in the excellence of their work for us, but in the important education in data science that we have received. The Hartree Centre North East Hub enabled us to move quickly in a space where we had very limited experience and only an outline hypothesis. We now have encouraging results which can be used to demonstrate the potential of our approach to investors.
    David Baillie [Founder] - Seascape Surveillance
  • Hartree Centre North East Hub helped us to unlock the value and power of our data through a combination of visualisation and optimisation. We are now looking to pilot the prototype tool with an NHS Trust soon and gather feedback for further development. Actionable Insights have always been our goal and this project has accelerated us towards that goal faster than we could ever have imagined.
    Fenwick Smith [CEO] - Floki Health
  • The Hartree Centre North East Hub helped us to explore what is possible in the rapidly evolving LLM space. We now have a broader understanding of the challenges and opportunities that these systems present, which gives us a solid foundation for future work in building our AI capabilities at Cognassist.
    Will Brown [Research Scientist] - Cognassist

Could one of our other services be better suited to your organisation's data needs?

We understand businesses may be at different points in their journey's.

In some cases you may need to carry out Project Success Workshop first, or a Data Skills Project may be more suited to your needs and time and financial commitments.

We can help you to decide the best way to move forward to achieve your business goals.

Find out more about our Product offerings:

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Project Success Workshop

A one-day, intensive session designed to help your organisation align and validate your data science project.

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Data Skills Projects

Unlike normal consultancies, we upskill organisational staff in Data Science and AI, fostering self-sufficiency and enabling businesses to identify and seize new opportunities independently.

Get started by telling us more about your business plans and we'll be in touch to organise an initial meeting.

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The Catalyst for change

The Catalyst in Newcastle is home to the National Innovation Centre for Data. It is a dynamic community of curious and ambitious businesses and research specialists, working collaboratively to develop products and services.