The Mighty Shed

What The Mighty Shed does

The Mighty Shed is an independent, London-based brand innovation consultancy founded in 2012 by Angelique Green, the current CEO. The firm operates two business lines. The first is professional services: senior-partner-led accelerator programs that fuse cultural foresights, brand strategy, and innovation capabilities for Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 clients. Service offerings include Portfolio Growth Strategy, Purposeful Brand Strategy, Cultural Innovation Safaris, Hidden Needs Research, Actionable Foresights, Product Innovation, Brand Activation Innovation, and Expert Think Tanks. Named enterprise clients include Coca-Cola, The Macallan, Red Bull, Taco Bell, Fernet-Branca, Twisted Tea, Pepperidge Farm, Reynolds American, Britvic, Accolade Wines, and 19 Crimes, with documented case studies spanning food, beverage, alcohol, snacking, QSR, tobacco, and cannabis-adjacent briefs in the UK and US. Coca-Cola packaging work has won a Cannes Gold Lion, a Clio Award, a One Club Award, and a One Show Award, with reported outcomes including 60M+ media impressions and a 97% conversion rate on The Macallan Manor campaign.

The second business line is Pleasure Codes Plus, a subscription cultural foresight intelligence platform built around the company's proprietary 8-territory Pleasure Codes framework. The platform tracks thousands of global signals updated weekly and distributes them to subscribers at £95/year via a Substack-led delivery model with optional escalation into full-service consulting engagements. The Mighty Shed describes its client concentration as deliberately anchored in food, beverage, and wellbeing categories for the consulting franchise, with the subscription product extending access to individual brand leaders, R&D professionals, and innovation teams. There are no disclosed funding rounds, no institutional investors, and no parent company; the firm is founder-owned and operates with 101–250 employees from London.

Name

The Mighty Shed

Legal name

The Mighty Shed

Website

https://themightyshed.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

The Mighty Shed is a London-based brand innovation consultancy founded in 2012 that delivers senior-partner-led accelerator programs combining cultural foresights, strategy, and innovation for Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 consumer brands, and sells a £95/year Pleasure Codes Plus subscription intelligence platform.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Birmingham

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

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Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - Consulting Engagements: Fee-based consulting engagements with Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 companies for brand innovation programs, cultural foresights, portfolio growth strategy, and innovation accelerator programs. These are typically project-based or retainer engagements led by senior partners.
2. Pleasure Codes Plus Subscription: Annual subscription product providing access to the Pleasure Codes intelligence platform at £95/year. Includes trend reports, brand/culture moves database, and foresight content mapped to 8 territories of desire.

Pricing tiers

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Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

The Mighty Shed is a brand innovation consultancy that fuses cultural foresights, strategy, and innovation capabilities into tailored accelerator programs for Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 consumer brands across food, beverage, and wellbeing categories. Their core commercial offering comprises senior partner-led consulting engagements covering Portfolio Growth Strategy, Purposeful Brand Strategy, Cultural Innovation Safaris, Hidden Needs Research, Actionable Foresights, Product Innovation, Brand Activation Innovation, and Expert Think Tanks. They also monetize a proprietary subscription-based cultural foresight intelligence platform called Pleasure Codes Plus, priced at £95/year, which maps thousands of global signals into 8 proprietary Pleasure Codes representing territories of human desire.

Product overview

The Mighty Shed offers Pleasure Codes Plus as its primary subscription product, providing cultural foresight intelligence through a proprietary framework of 8 Pleasure Codes that map territories of human desire. Beyond this platform, the company delivers tailored accelerator programs including Cultural Innovation Safaris, Expert Think Tanks, Hidden Needs Research, Actionable Foresights, Product Innovation, Brand Activation Innovation, Purposeful Brand Strategy, and Portfolio Growth Strategy services. These consulting programs are designed to spark strategic growth opportunities and deliver brand innovation for Fortune 500 and FTSE 100 clients.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Pleasure Codes Plus: A subscription-based cultural foresights intelligence platform providing access to trend reports, brand and culture moves mapped to eight territories of human desire, updated weekly. Priced at £95/year with access to the Pleasure Codes Compass and field guides.

Products and services

• Pleasure Codes Plus A subscription-based cultural foresight intelligence platform that tracks thousands of global signals and decodes them into 8 proprietary Pleasure Codes mapping the future of desire and wellbeing, providing trend reports, brand/culture moves database, Pleasure Code Currents, and field guides for brand leaders and innovation professionals.
• Portfolio Growth Strategy A consulting service that helps enterprise brands define a new future creating long-term, sustainable portfolio growth through tailored accelerator programs.
• Purposeful Brand Strategy A consulting service that turns a brand into a powerful tool that adds passion to purpose work among employees and consumers, unleashing growth for the road ahead.
• Cultural Innovation Safaris A consulting service that enables teams to quickly learn from the leading edge of culture to spot, inspire, and generate disruptive insights and opportunities for brand innovation.
• Hidden Needs Research A consumer research consulting service that uncovers hidden needs consumers did not know they had to inform meaningful brand and product innovation opportunities.
• Actionable Foresights A consulting service that future-proofs brand innovation plans by exploring cultural foresights disrupting consumer behaviour across the shifting states of pleasure and wellbeing.
• Product Innovation A consulting service aimed at winning more than category fair share and driving top-line growth through accelerating meaningful product innovation.
• Brand Activation Innovation A consulting service that future-proofs brands by creating the now, next, and new so brands thrive in next-generation culture.
• Expert Think Tanks A consulting service that inspires client teams with rich insights and ideas from subject-matter experts outside the company, drawing on a 200+ collaborator network spanning artists, technologists, scientists, chefs, mixologists, and entrepreneurs.

Quantifiable outcome

• 6,300+ tastings with first-time US whisky drinkers
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Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

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Feature3 records

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• The Future Laboratory: UK-based consumer foresight and trend forecasting consultancy serving global brands. Highly comparable in geography, client type (F500/FTSE100 consumer brands), and foresight-led methodology.
• WGSN: Subscription-based trend forecasting platform serving consumer brands across fashion, beauty, food and lifestyle. Closest analog to The Mighty Shed's Pleasure Codes Plus subscription model and category breadth.
• TrendWatching: Global trend intelligence firm offering consumer trend reports, advisory and innovation workshops for major brands. Overlaps directly on foresight-driven innovation consulting for enterprise consumer clients.
• IDEO: Global design and innovation consultancy applying human-centered research to product, brand and service innovation for Fortune 500 clients. Closely comparable on innovation accelerator engagements and methodology.
• Frog (Capgemini Engineering): Design and innovation consultancy combining brand strategy with product and service design for global enterprises. Comparable in delivering foresight-led innovation programs to large consumer brands.
• Wolff Olins: Global brand consultancy creating brand strategy, identity and activation programs for F500/FTSE100 clients. Comparable in senior-partner-led brand innovation engagements with global consumer brands.
• Landor & Fitch: Brand consulting and design firm under WPP serving large global CPG and consumer brands. Comparable in brand strategy, purpose articulation and activation work for the same enterprise client base.
• Siegel+Gale: Global brand strategy and experience design consultancy serving F500 clients including CPG majors. Comparable in senior-led brand innovation, positioning and portfolio growth engagements.

Broad incumbents

• Kantar: Global market research and insights powerhouse. Broader and more established player offering overlapping consumer insight, brand strategy and innovation capabilities as part of a much wider portfolio.
• Mintel: Global market research firm publishing category reports and consumer trend intelligence across CPG. Adjacent to Pleasure Codes Plus as a subscription insight product, but at much larger scale and broader coverage.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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