Case Study: Open Doors builds a validated social mobility platform with Red Badger

Open Doors builds a validated product in under 6 months with Red Badger

The customer, Open Doors, faced the challenge of enhancing social mobility and representation for young people from underrepresented backgrounds. They needed to harness the power of digital platforms to help these individuals extract job-relevant skills from their life experiences and connect them with employers. Red Badger was engaged through its Mission Beyond initiative to validate and build an investment-ready product.

Red Badger deployed a structured approach to digital innovation, running cross-functional teams through design thinking sprints to validate assumptions and design an interconnected platform. This solution evolved from the initial Talent Compass chatbot into the broader Open Doors ecosystem. As a result, Red Badger delivered a validated product vision and a funding-ready proposition, with the concept exhibiting extremely high conversion rates and being acknowledged as valuable by all participants in user tests.

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