mantro product studio at a glance

mantro product studio GmbH is a service provider for the development of impactful* innovation. We leverage digital potential in core business and develop innovations for new business. In doing so, we design, accompany, and support innovation. Typical projects range from individual innovation initiatives around an idea to the conception of company-wide innovation setups.
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*impactful describes a measurable and sustainable financial effect for the company and sustainable and measurable benefits for the customer.

Development of Digital Products and Services

We build new and transform your existing products and services and introduce them to the market. In doing so, we focus on rapid, iterative, and customer-centric development as well as full-scale testing of the product and market placement, including sales channels and pricing. In short, we offer experience, tools, methods, and the right environment and mindset for:

• Development of new products and services based on existing technologies
• Digitization of existing products and services
• Transformation of existing products as-a-service

Business Model Innovation

We analyze the status quo of your competition, market rules and structures in order to change them sustainably to your advantage. This results in concepts and measures to change existing business models and develop new ones.

Venture Building

We build a competitive company out of your new business model. We cover everything from legal structure, employee selection, work structures and processes, actions and procedures of the operational business to the introduction and fine-tuning of a data-centric measurement system for business success. How is this possible? We bring the experience of 26 startups in mantro's history to get your company to market quickly and confidently.

• Lean startup = Methodology for starting companies with a focus on lean processes and iterative testing
• Human-centered design = Design with a focus on people both inside the company and on the market
• Pragmatism and speed = Building MVPs quickly and testing them in soft launch markets.
• Product thinking = Thinking in terms of products. In other words: focusing on the user experience and the users' needs. Product thinking helps to view process innovation in context and prepare this innovation for rollout throughout the organization.
• Small, interdisciplinary teams = Working in small groups with complementary interpersonal and technical skills.
• Ecosystem and experienced leadership = mantro product studio is part of the mantro ecosystem. It shares more than a decade of experience in innovation, business creation, and processes.

Naturate

Vattenfall approached us with a pre-existing idea - an app for ordinary people to help explore, understand, and offset their personal carbon footprint. Through user research, we refined the concept and tested it in the market.

Contribution

• Rapid conception and decision-making
• Digitization of existing products and services
• Transformation of existing products as-a-service

Success Metrics

• From concept to finished app in three months
• Almost 700 active users in the first month
• More than 100t CO₂ offset

Reev

2017 - N-ERGIE was looking for a new business model in the field of electric charging stations. mantro identified a new market and built a business model based on ABL wall charging stations. mantro also helped to grow and develop the business model into a fully-independent company.

Contribution

• Definition of the business model and legal establishment of the company
• In less than a year from idea to technical implementation of a real-time energy metering and billing system that complies with the General Data Protection Regulation and calibration law
• Establishment of the brand and definition of a clear marketing strategy for successful market entry

Success Metrics

• October 2018- first paying customers with 300 charging stations.
• 2022- approx. 3.6 million liters of fossil fuel saved
• 2022 - 62 employees