Oxford Innovation Advice has acquired GrowthCanvas™ – an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered diagnostic and advisory tool utilised by business support organisations in the public and private sectors.
This acquisition reinforces our ambition to lead the market through our exceptional people, cutting-edge technology and deep data insights — with the ultimate aim of empowering the UK’s most forward-thinking SMEs.
In collaboration with Jaspal Sohal, the creator of GrowthCanvas™, our team will further develop the platform to establish it as the sector’s gold standard in AI-enabled business support.
GrowthCanvas™ will join our well-established GROWTHmapper® diagnostic platform, which is used by over 30,000 small businesses to inform their growth strategies. Together, these tools form a powerful digital portfolio to assist business advisers in delivering high-impact, personalised support at scale.
“This acquisition of GrowthCanvas is a key milestone in our mission to provide market-leading support to the UK’s most ambitious small businesses,” said Jane Galsworthy, Managing Director of Oxford Innovation Advice. “By combining Jaspal’s software innovation with our three decades of expertise in supporting SME growth, we’re building a dynamic platform that equips our advisers — and the businesses they support — with the tools to thrive.”
Already being utilised by several Growth Hubs and local authorities in the UK, GrowthCanvas generates real-time, Al-powered market analysis and growth support recommendations in minutes. The platform automates time-consuming tasks to provide detailed, individual reports that can be used by business advisers to provide enhanced support and insights to each SME client.
By conducting a real-time information gathering exercise for each business enquiry, using advanced AI to replace hours of manual research, the digital platform can produce a report that includes local competitive intelligence, demand trends, market analysis and growth recommendations.
As the UK’s leading provider of support for ambitious small businesses, Oxford Innovation Advice was an early adopter of GrowthCanvas, and has been using it to support delivery of business advice where it helps to reduce the research and preparation time required to deliver great growth support.
For more information on GrowthCanvas, visit www.growthcanvas.co.uk
