Exploring what's worth building.

Every venture here started the same way: conversations with the people closest to the problem.

Motion Bridge

Projects

What we're building

Active projects and experiments, plus the ones we've retired.

NewReLLM
NewReLLM
NewReLLM

A multiplayer simulation that lets teams rehearse a high-stakes strategy call: consulting AI executives and living with the trade-offs before they face them for real.

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Maximiser
Maximiser
Maximiser

A personal operating system that quietly captures where the day goes and what each meeting was really about, with almost no manual entry.

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Forward Lab
Forward Lab
Forward Lab

Students learn how startups actually work by running one for 12 rounds: hiring, pricing, and pivoting toward fit without running out of cash.

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Lisa ListenerRetired 2026
Lisa Listener
Lisa Listener

Frontline teams talk to a voice agent about what's broken, so innovation leaders finally hear the problems surveys and town halls miss.

Retired in 2026
Assumption MapperRetired 2026
Assumption Mapper
Assumption Mapper

Turns a venture's untested beliefs into a ranked, evidence-backed decision log, so "we validated that" finally comes with receipts.

Retired in 2026
Who's doing the research?

TheMotionBridge is a small team of builders and researchers, grown out of our founder's 15+ years launching ventures in China and across Europe with Techstars, XNode, and Mach49.

We launch ventures of our own and, now and then, help a partner bring an idea to market. Everything hangs on one question: how do you tell what's actually worth building?

It starts with talking to the people closest to the problem.

Matthieu BodinFounder
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Nothing to buy

We're not selling you anything. We want to understand your world, not pitch into it. We kindly ask to record conversations to make notetaking simpler, and we never ask for confidential information. We're after challenges and the things you'd want to see solved.

It goes both ways

You get a genuine conversation about your area of expertise. And when the research concludes, you receive the whitepaper with what we learned from you and your peers, anonymised.

30 minutes

A short, focused conversation. Sometimes open-ended questions, sometimes reacting to concept cards or an early prototype. What you share genuinely shapes what gets built.

Frequently Asked Questions

Most of our work starts with discovery: understanding a problem deeply before anything gets built. That means talking to people who live with the problem day to day. If one of us contacted you, it's because your experience is directly relevant to something we're researching.

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