Motionspot

What Motionspot does

Motionspot is a UK-headquartered specialist inclusive design consultancy serving enterprise clients in real estate, banking, hospitality, healthcare, transport, life sciences and education. Founded c. 2012 by Ed Warner MBE and James Taylor, the firm operates from a Teddington, UK headquarters and a US office in Clearwater, Florida, and has delivered projects across EMEA, LATAM, Australasia and Asia. Its service portfolio comprises seven interconnected offerings — Inclusive Design Review, Access and Inclusive Design Audits, Strategy, User Engagement, Access Management Plans and Staff Training, RIBA Work Stage Advisory, and CPD training — applied across eleven sector specialisms.

The firm's intellectual property centres on a people-first, evidence-based methodology, including a proprietary 6-step Inclusive Design Process, a 5-stage User Engagement Approach, and the role of RIBA Inclusive Design Overlay Delivery Partner (a framework that embeds inclusive design at every stage of a project). Marquee outputs include the open-source two-part Inclusive Design Brief developed with The Crown Estate and Grosvenor across 500+ central London buildings, and primary research such as the 2,000-respondent OnePoll neurodiversity and office design study. Digital infrastructure is a standard martech stack (Shopify storefront, Zoho CRM, Hotjar analytics, Cloudflare, Cookiebot) and is not a productised platform.

The business model is project-based professional services fees on multi-year engagements, sold via a senior-led, content-driven enterprise consulting motion that combines thought leadership, CPD, webinars, industry events and reference-client networks. Pricing is bespoke and quote-based, with no public price list. Marquee client engagements include Barclays (400,000 sq ft Glasgow campus, 5,000 employees), The Crown Estate and Grosvenor, bp, Derwent London, Hotel Voco/Bespoke Hotels, Transport for London, Marks and Spencer, Landsec and Whipps Cross Hospital. The firm is privately held by its co-founders, has received a £62k Innovate UK grant (June 2023), and has not disclosed any institutional funding, revenue, or employee count.

Name

Motionspot

Legal name

Motionspot Ltd

Website

https://motionspot.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Motionspot is a UK-headquartered inclusive design consultancy, founded c. 2012, delivering accessibility reviews, audits, strategy, user engagement and RIBA-aligned advisory services to enterprise clients in real estate, banking, hospitality, healthcare and life sciences across the UK, US and select international markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Twickenham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Inclusive Design Consultancy Services: Project-based professional services fees for inclusive design reviews, audits, strategy development, advisory across RIBA work stages, user engagement, and CPD training. Engagements span weeks to multi-year programmes with flagship clients such as Barclays and The Crown Estate/Grosvenor.
2. Training and CPD Programmes: Recurring and one-off training revenue from CPD sessions, stakeholder training, and staff enablement programmes delivered to client organisations and built environment professionals.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Motionspot is an inclusive design consultancy that helps organisations design and refurbish buildings, spaces, and workplaces that are accessible, neuro-inclusive, and compliant with the Equality Act 2010. It delivers seven core services — Inclusive Design Review, Access and Inclusive Design Audit, Inclusive Design Strategy, User Engagement, Access Management Plans & Staff Training, Advisory Support across RIBA Work Stages, and CPD training — applied across eleven sector specialisms including offices, landlords and developers, hospitality, healthcare, life sciences, transport, residential, retail and leisure, education, masterplan/public realm, and international markets.

Product overview

Motionspot is a single, integrated inclusive design consultancy (not a multi-module SaaS platform) that delivers seven core advisory services - Inclusive Design Review, Access and Inclusive Design Audit, Inclusive Design Strategy, User Engagement, Access Management Plans & Staff Training, Advisory Support across RIBA Work Stages, and CPD - applied across eleven sector specialisms including Offices, Landlords & Developers, Life Sciences, Education, Masterplan & Public Realm, Transport, Healthcare, Residential, Retail & Leisure, International, and Hospitality. The services function as an interconnected engagement model rather than discrete software modules: audits and reviews feed into strategy and RIBA-stage advisory; user engagement with lived-experience groups underpins all stages; and access management plans and CPD close the loop on completed buildings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Inclusive Design Review Assessments of architectural plans and layouts during key stages of design and construction, benchmarking against inclusive design best practice, capturing inclusive design risks and actions, and measuring impact for diverse user groups including people with physical disabilities, neurodivergent conditions, and sensory needs.
• Access and Inclusive Design Audit
• Inclusive Design Strategy
• User Engagement
• Access Management Plans and Staff Training
• Advisory Support across RIBA Work Stages
• CPD (Continuing Professional Development)

Quantifiable outcome

• Barclays: every £1 spent on inclusive design saved £100 in retrofits later; enabled employment of disabled and autistic staff in technical roles
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers29 records

Segments9 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Eleven partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, minor and core.

• The Crown Estate and GrosvenorflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-developed the Inclusive Spaces and Places Initiative and the two-part Inclusive Design Brief covering 500+ buildings across central London. Motionspot led access audits, gap analyses, lived-experience engagement workshops (5 pan-disability workshops with 54 participants), and ongoing RIBA Stage consultancy.
• Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)flagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerMotionspot is a RIBA Inclusive Design Overlay Delivery Partner. Former employee Pareisse Wilson led development of the Inclusive Design Overlay to the RIBA Plan of Work, which embeds inclusive design questions across all project stages from design to maintenance.
• OnePollminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerResearch partner commissioned by Motionspot to conduct the 2,000-respondent UK online survey (1,000 neurodivergent + 1,000 neurotypical office workers) between 16-29 August 2023 that underpins Motionspot's neurodiversity research and thought leadership.
• AbilityNetminorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerAbilityNet reviews Motionspot's website accessibility and supports inclusive recruitment practices such as providing welcome guides to design studio interviews in advance.
• University of Cambridge (Dr Matteo Zallio)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch collaboration credited in Motionspot's Designing Inclusive Workplaces white paper; Dr Matteo Zallio from University of Cambridge co-developed the research content.
• University of BrightonminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerVivian Wall, Inclusive Design Consultant at Motionspot, is a lecturer and design tutor on the Interior Architecture course at the University of Brighton teaching accessible and inclusive design principles.
• Oxford Brookes UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerKathryn Gundry, Senior Inclusive Design Consultant at Motionspot, is a guest lecturer at Oxford Brookes University teaching first year architecture students.
• GenslercoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerCo-delivered the Barclays Glasgow campus project with Motionspot as inclusive design consultant and Gensler as architect; Motionspot worked closely with Gensler and the wider Barclays design team.
• Derwent LondoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerMulti-project relationship including inclusive design strategy for 300,000 sq ft 80 Charlotte St, plus subsequent work on Whitfield St, Featherstone, Soho Place, and COVID-safe space design.
• bpcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerEngagement with bp's disability and neurodiversity Employee Resource Groups to develop bp's Inclusive Design Standards playbook.
• Spire Healthcare (Bushey)minorImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerInclusive design of accessible en-suite bathrooms at Spire Bushey hospital; client reference Lisa Trybus (Hospital Director) cited.

Scale indicators10 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consultancy with accessibility and universal design capabilities embedded across buildings, transport, and public realm practices. Competitor for large enterprise mandates where bundled multi-discipline delivery is preferred.
• Arup: Global engineering and design consultancy with an inclusive design/access practice serving building, transport, and urban projects. Overlaps with Motionspot on enterprise advisory work but operates as part of a much larger multidisciplinary portfolio.
• Buro Happold: International engineering consultancy with an inclusive design and accessibility team serving real estate, healthcare, education, and transport sectors. Comparable on enterprise-scale inclusive design advisory, with broader engineering delivery.
• BDP (Building Design Partnership): Major UK/international architecture and engineering practice with a dedicated inclusive design team offering access audits, design reviews and post-occupancy evaluation. Comparable on RIBA-aligned consultancy and public/private sector client mix.

Emerging players

• Aspire Access: Smaller emerging UK access consultancy providing access audits and inclusive design services. Comparable on core service mix but smaller scale; representative of new entrants that could fragment the boutique end of the market.
• Good Things Foundation: UK social-change digital inclusion charity. Tangentially comparable as a lived-experience-led organisation addressing inclusion, though operating in digital rather than physical built environment; relevant for cross-sector partnership narratives.

Direct peers

• Centre for Accessible Environments (CAE): UK charity/consultancy providing access consultancy, CPD training, and inclusive design advisory services. Highly comparable in training/CPD revenue stream, access audit offering, and regulatory expertise around Equality Act and building regulations.
• Jane Simpson Access: UK specialist access and inclusive design consultancy providing access audits, design advice, and training across built environment projects. Closest direct competitor to Motionspot in terms of niche specialism, methodology-led approach, and UK RIBA-aligned project delivery.
• MJP Architects: UK architecture and urban design practice with specialist access and inclusion capability, delivering design reviews and advisory for housing, transport, and public realm. Comparable on niche inclusive design positioning within a larger practice context.
• David Bonnett Associates (DBA): UK access consultancy offering access audits, design reviews, and inclusive design services for buildings, transport and public realm. Direct competitor with overlapping RIBA work-stage advisory model and public-sector client base.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance5 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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