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WHAT WE DO

We are a Public Innovation & Strategic Design Studio

We design, build, and deliver public innovation infrastructure for governments, regulated industries, and institutions committed to generating public value. Every engagement produces tangible systems — programmes, services, governance models, and collaborative ecosystems — that turn institutional ambition into measurable public outcomes.

As an innovation studio rooted in the field, we’ve worked with 50+ organisations and 170+ local governments across Latin America, Europe, and the US, operating as embedded partners — from initial discovery through delivery and institutional handover.

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Strategic Consulting & Orchestration

For organisations that need to align institutional action around public innovation — and orchestrate the actors required to make it happen. We design the strategic architecture that aligns institutions around public innovation — shared vision, governance models, decision frameworks, and multi-stakeholder processes that make transformation possible, legitimate, and coordinated across sectors.

Collaborative innovation
Strategic Design & Planning
Foresight & Design Futures
Cross-Sector Orchestration Frameworks

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Strategic Service Design

For institutions that want to create or transform public services that people genuinely value, trust, and enjoy. We drive public sector service transformation that works for real people in real contexts — bridging the gap between technical infrastructure and human experience, and ensuring every touchpoint is coherent, accessible, and grounded in shared public purpose.

Strategy
Insights & Research
Service Design Strategy
Prototyping & UX Design
Evaluation & Iteration

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Innovation Programmes

For organisations that want to activate ecosystems, build capabilities, and mobilise actors around complex public challenges. We design and operate programmes that activate ecosystems, install lasting capabilities — the methods, mindsets, and institutional routines — and mobilise actors around shared public purpose. From open innovation challenges and labs to capacity building and learning journeys.

Service innovation
Open Innovation Challenges
Capacity Building Programmes
Innovation Lab Design
São Paulo
Santo Tomas
GAM
BID
Fiscalia
Renca
Generadoras
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Visa
CMPC
British Council
PNIPA
UN Habitat
São Paulo
Santo Tomas
GAM
BID
Fiscalia
Renca
Generadoras
Bloomberg Philanthropies
Visa
CMPC
British Council
PNIPA
UN Habitat

Latest publications

Diseño Público

Vol 1 . Diseño Público: Transformation Patterns

UNIT systematised ten years of work alongside 170 local governments in 17 countries to identify ten recurring patterns of institutional transformation, organised around three dynamic capabilities: learning, connecting, and signalling.

Client reports

Towards an Audience Engagement Strategy

UNIT conducted a service design-based audience characterisation for GAM, identifying 8 user profiles and formulating 6 strategic objectives with 19 specific goals to strengthen the relationship between the cultural centre and its communities.