What DAY8 does

DAY8 (legal entity DAY8 GmbH, trading as DAY8 Future Advisory) is a Zurich-based boutique innovation and transformation consulting firm founded by Raphael Ueberwasser and Fritz Seidel. The firm enables organizational change through facilitation, training, and advisory services built around structured innovation methodologies — notably Design Sprints (adapted from the Google Ventures framework with proprietary enhancements), Jobs-to-be-Done, Systematic Inventive Thinking, and Design Thinking — rather than software products. Its primary customers are large European enterprises seeking faster, more collaborative approaches to transformation; the named client roster spans financial services (Munich Re, SIX Group, Generali), retail (Migros), manufacturing (Bosch, Hoermann), aviation (Lufthansa Group), media (Tamedia), sports/federations (FIFA), food (Mondelez), fair trade (Max Havelaar), and healthcare/dental (Straumann).

The service portfolio comprises four pillars: Transformation Consulting (sparring on culture, agility, and adaptive value streams), Sprint Workshops (4–5 day Design Sprints and multi-team corporate hackathons), Training and Events (Innovation Toolbox Master Program, Design Sprint Bootcamp, Facilitation Training, keynotes, and event moderation), and Team Development (offsites and collaboration workshops). Delivery is anchored by the two co-founders and supported by a curated network of partner organizations (oceandrop consulting, Kickstart Innovation, Impact Hub Zurich, Re:verse Service Design, Brain & Heart, and others) plus 11+ individual experts. Distribution combines direct enterprise engagement — referrals, LinkedIn outreach, inbound — with public open-enrollment training programs marketed through Eventbrite and Udemy. The company is headquartered at Sihlquai 131 in Zurich (co-located with The Hub / Impact Hub Zurich) and serves German-speaking Europe (Switzerland, Germany, Austria) and international clients in English, with French on request.

DAY8 runs a partnership-led operating model with a lean core team (two founders plus a partner network) and has not raised external funding. Revenue is generated entirely through professional services — consulting retainers, project-based sprint workshops, instructor-led training, and keynote/event moderation — priced under a fair-price policy with custom quotes per engagement and tiered adjustments for KMU, corporate, and impact-oriented clients. A separate founder-led venture, Boomerang Ideas Research (a self-service market research platform for social-media-based brand tracking), sits outside the core DAY8 service offering but reflects the founders' adjacent product activity.

Name

DAY8

Legal name

DAY8 GmbH

Website

https://day8.io

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

DAY8 is a Zurich-based boutique consulting firm that enables large European enterprises to drive transformation and innovation through Design Sprint workshops, facilitation training, keynotes, and advisory engagements, delivered by two co-founders and a curated partner network across the DACH region and internationally.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Zürich

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Transformation Consulting & Sparring: Advisory services for organizational transformation, leadership sparring, and strategic consulting engagements. Typically project-based or retainer arrangements with enterprise clients.
2. Sprint Workshops & Hackathons: Facilitated workshop engagements for teams solving business challenges including Design Sprints, Strategy Sprints, and multi-team corporate hackathons. Duration ranges from half-day to 5-day intensive sessions.
3. Training & Certification Programs: Instructor-led training programs including Innovation Toolbox Master Certification (one-month, part-time), Design Sprint Bootcamp (2-day), and Facilitation Training (1-day). Also includes Learning Bites on collaboration, creativity, and productivity.
4. Keynotes & Event Moderation: Speaking engagements, keynote presentations, and event facilitation services for company events, team offsites, and conferences.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

DAY8 is a Swiss consulting and advisory firm specializing in organizational transformation, innovation, and collaboration. The company delivers transformation consulting and sparring, sprint-style workshops (Design Sprints, Hackathons), training programs, keynotes and event moderation, and team development services for corporate clients. Founded in 2018 and based in Zürich, DAY8 partners with leadership teams to design and execute change initiatives.

Product overview

DAY8 Future Advisory is a service-based consulting company offering a unified portfolio of transformation and innovation services. The core offerings consist of Transformation Consulting, Sprint Workshops (including Design Sprints and Hackathons), Training Programs (covering Future of Work, Leadership, Agility, and Innovation skills), Keynotes & Event Moderation, and Team Development services. DAY8 positions itself as enabling businesses to drive transformation and innovation through optimized collaboration, combining simple methods and tools with corporate experience in strategy and product design. The company also operates Boomerang Research (a separate market research venture founded by one of the co-founders) which offers brand tracking and product insights.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Transformation Consulting & Sparring Strategic advisory and sparring sessions for leadership teams navigating organizational transformation and change initiatives.
• Sprint Workshops (Design Sprints & Hackathons) Time-boxed, facilitated workshops including Design Sprints and Hackathons used to rapidly ideate, prototype, and validate solutions within corporate teams.
• Training Programs Structured corporate learning programs designed to build innovation, collaboration, and transformation capabilities inside client organizations.
• Keynotes & Event Moderation Conference keynotes, panel moderation, and event hosting on topics of transformation, innovation, and collaboration.
• Team Development

Quantifiable outcome

• 80% reduction in change requests following Design Sprint implementation
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Kickstart InnovationcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary go-to-partner for larger innovation events and special customer projects. Collaborated on the Snackathon (largest workshop DAY8 has run with 25 teams/100 attendees over 3 days) and bridges gap between startups, corporates, and cities. Clients include Axa, Swisscom, Coop, Migros, PostFinance, and Nespresso.
• Impact Hub ZürichcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCo-working space, events venue, and customer project collaboration partner. DAY8 runs workshops and trainings at their Viadukt location in Zürich. Impactful community of entrepreneurs and innovators.
• oceandrop consultingcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerStrategic partnership focused on human-centered organizational transformation. DAY8 founders are co-founders/partners in oceandrop, combining DAY8's innovation methods with oceandrop's transformation expertise to shape agile and human-centered organizations.
• Brain & HeartminorGTM or Marketing PartnerProfessional social media and content marketing agency. Essential partner for communication and brand marketing activities.
• HEYNEWminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerValidation partner for testing and assessing the potential of business ideas. Helps validate concepts before full innovation engagements.
• Oppenheim & PartnerminorGTM or Marketing PartnerBrand communication agency for when clients need professional communication strategy development and execution.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• IDEO: Global design and innovation firm that originated the Design Thinking movement and runs enterprise innovation workshops, training, and transformation engagements. A much larger incumbent operating in the same category as DAY8 but with significantly broader reach.
• Innosight: Strategy and innovation consulting firm (founded by Clayton Christensen) advising large enterprises on transformation and growth. Overlaps with DAY8's transformation advisory and innovation training offerings.
• Doblin (Deloitte): Deloitte's dedicated innovation practice offering enterprise innovation strategy, sprints, and transformation. Competes for the same enterprise transformation RFPs as DAY8 but as part of a Big Four portfolio.

Direct peers

• Board of Innovation: Boutique innovation consultancy headquartered in Belgium with a similar offering mix of corporate innovation sprints, transformation advisory, and training. Closest comparable in size, methodology, and enterprise-targeting GTM.
• Livework: International service design and innovation consultancy delivering sprints, transformation programs, and capability building to large enterprises — overlaps with DAY8's Sprint Workshop and Transformation Consulting lines.
• AJ&Smart: Boutique Design Sprint facilitation and training firm closely associated with Jake Knapp's methodology. Directly comparable in offering (Design Sprint Bootcamps, training, facilitation) and target buyer.
• Fahrenheit 212: Innovation consultancy that runs enterprise sprints, prototypes, and capability-building programs — directly comparable boutique competitor in the corporate innovation space.
• Strategyzer: Swiss-founded innovation methodology firm (Alex Osterwalder) selling the Business Model Canvas, Value Proposition Design, and related training. Comparable as a methodology-led boutique focused on innovation enablement and corporate training.
• ?What If Innovation: Innovation consultancy that helps corporates unlock growth through sprints, capability building, and training — directly comparable service mix to DAY8's Sprint Workshops, training programs, and advisory.

Emerging players

• HLab Innovation: Emerging boutique innovation firm offering corporate innovation training and sprints. Smaller and earlier-stage than DAY8, with a similar niche focus on training enterprises in innovation methods.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/dayeight

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments1 record

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