From research to revenue
Helmstone Advisory is a founder-led practice.
We turn complex offerings into commercial stories that buyers can act on.
For tech companies of all sizes — including SBIR awardees, growth-stage startups, and large enterprises.
We use TABA funds (along with other available resources) to turn your technology into a commercial business: positioning, market sizing, customer discovery, and a brand identity with creative assets that feel native to your category.
Deeptech Commercialization
Consumer Brands
For founder-led consumer brands building products with genuine craft, sensory, or cultural depth.
Brand strategy, positioning, market entry (including US & China), and creative direction, drawn from inside experience as a founder of a craft brand.
One-stop service that bridges strategy and creativity.
Most commercialization consultants hand you a strategy document. Helmstone gives you the strategy, the customer list, the media kit, and the visuals — all in one engagement.
This matters for tech companies that need the two parts integrated seamlessly, and for deep tech founders who can't afford two vendors on a $50K TABA (Technical and Business Assistance) budget. We bundle what typically takes a strategy firm plus a creative agency into one founder-led practice.
We work selectively and directly with clients. Every engagement is tailored, hands-on, and led by the founder.
One recent engagement was with an SBIR-awarded tech company in California, a multi-decade R&D organization specializing in laser ultrasonic testing systems.
Through TABA funding, I developed key commercialization assets for the company’s product line, including a brand identity and logo system, three custom technical illustrations depicting real-world operating environments, and a press-ready media kit.
Other engagements include target customer identification, regional and segment-specific customer mapping, market insight research, and more.