Alkane has been working with gemaker for more than a decade, and gemaker continues to play an important role across our external communications.
Comprising a team of experts with a diverse range of skills, gemaker keeps our regular communications ticking over with impressive efficiency, productivity and cost-effectiveness.
On top of that, I can hand over a problem, and they deliver a professional and comprehensive solution, often within very short timeframes. gemaker is responsive, resourceful and incredibly good at making things happen.
The website looks fantastic. Thanks & much appreciated for a great job.
I recommend gemaker as a cooperative, collaborative and enthusiastic team who are leaders in their space.
At very short notice, gemaker went above and beyond to meet the grant application deadline. We appreciated their flexibility, dedication and high- quality work under pressure.
gemaker has provided important skills development to graduate research students undertaking the Monash Doctoral Program, in seminars that offer our students a competitive edge when engaging with industry partners for their study and career paths.
We regularly receive positive feedback from students on the gemaker sessions, on how content-rich and informative they are. It’s great to know that our PhD students are able to get such a comprehensive understanding to help them in the future.
The gemaker team have an approach to commercialisation and the gathering of market intelligence that is evidence-based, rigorous and follows a logical methodology.
gemaker met the brief exactly! Thanks to their commercialisation expertise and experience of academic environments, they understood the message we wanted to communicate, and how best to achieve that. They were able to provide a meaningful infographic for us, with a quick turnaround time.
When starting up a new business, you want to invest in services that will yield a high return on investment. gemaker was able to provide me just that. The team was approachable, professional and a pleasure to work with.
We were impressed with the detailed analysis Gemaker provided. Russell was able to produce a sophisticated breakdown of the biofabrication market with minimal input from our side, and the recommendations for our pathway to market served as a meaningful basis for discussion on our strategy.
gemaker provided valuable assistance to ensure our research industry partnership event was a success. Their approach was flexible, they had great ideas and we appreciated their willingness to use their own networks to benefit our researchers. In particular, the pitch training was very well received and provided valuable tools for researchers to better engage with industry
Engaging with gemaker from concept to delivery of the Astralis website was seamless, with their professional team providing expert advice and recommendations. We are proud of our new-look website, which more than met our expectations.
gemaker’s enthusiastic engagement was instrumental in increasing beta-testing clients to over 1000…[This] contribution was invaluable to maintaining the business momentum.
gemaker took the time to understand our long-term needs and clearly explained the pros and cons of different approaches. They worked closely with our designer to implement the design accurately and beautifully. We were very pleased by gemaker’s exceptional ability to hold both the creative and demanding technical sides of the project together.
The final website was flexible, cost-effective, and the entire experience was excellent.
We were attracted to gemaker as we identified with their can-do attitude and their strong commitment to providing high quality work to clients. The service provided was exceptional.
I found Tim, and gemaker, to be very thoughtful and understanding, and grasped very quickly what we were trying to achieve. gemaker was efficient, both in the development and implementation of the project, and delivered everything according to our agreed timetable. The post-project report was very helpful, and gemaker provided extra insights via email. I was very satisfied with the project delivery.
Natalie and the Gemaker team did a great job communicating the development of the Dubbo Project to the local communities, media, and State and Federal Government agencies and ministers.
gemaker are truly client focussed. The solutions they have offered us match the way we work. They are keen to provide us with what we need rather than force us to accept what they’ve done before.
gemaker’s guidance was invaluable. They helped us structure and refine an application that showcased our strategy and project to best advantage. We were extremely happy with their service.
gemaker had a strong attention to detail and a high level of professionalism that gave me comfort that we were in the right hands.
I would definitely recommend the course, both to researchers close to translation—with a product almost ready to go to market—and also to those still doing basic research.
gemaker helped us develop a comprehensive communications plan and exceeded our expectations in delivery of high quality results in communications for the CRC and provided lasting impact to our stakeholders. gemaker’s customer service attitude is second to none.
gemaker understands the university sector. The team applied a practical approach with excellent communication to develop our Research School’s strategic business plan – a very positive experience.
Warren at gemaker was instrumental in reviewing and refining our CRC-P application. His insights and feedback directly contributed to our successful outcome.
We chose gemaker because of their deep knowledge of the sector. It was clear to us from the outset they understood the opportunities and challenges we face. Their genuine passion for what they do, is what sets them apart.
The gemaker team pulled out all the stops and got the work done in a very tight time frame. They handled the pressure well… I would certainly recommend them.
gemaker are truly client focussed. They are keen to provide us with what we need rather than force us to accept what they’ve done before.
“Fantastic workshop! I truly learned from it.”
“Great workshop even for those with some experience in the area.”
“The facilitators were great.”
Deadly Science has truly appreciated Natalie’s support with the creation and implementation of our Strategic Plan.
Natalie’s guidance in targeting specific areas for us to focus on and facilitating this process has been a major gamechanger for the direction of our charity as we expand our board and team of staff.
The gemaker team has greatly enhanced our branding and marketing. We’re impressed by their expertise, flexibility and responsiveness, and especially by their ability to communicate highly technical information clearly and powerfully.
gemaker are experts in this sector! Their approach was inclusive and thorough. They provided a high-quality report with a quick turnaround that met our precise needs. The gemaker team gave our researchers useful recommendations and I enjoyed learning from their information-gathering process. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend gemaker. They stand out as excellent compared to past providers we’ve used.
We were very happy with the outcomes of the strategic review undertaken by gemaker. Natalie has significant and relevant experience with an open and honest communication style that connected well with the Executive team. gemaker also undertook data analysis that led to surprising outcomes and recommendations, providing solutions and suggestions that were non-obvious and provided good value.
gemaker was great! They took the time to understand our tech and really took charge.
The gemaker team has diverse skills and experience ranging from media and marketing to commercialisation and intellectual property strategy, fundraising and industry and government partnerships. They have helped on all these fronts to position our company as a national leader in sustainable urban mobility.
I highly recommend gemaker’s services to businesses at all stages of growth.
Collaborating with gemaker was a true partnership: their team felt like an extension of ours, enabling high performance under pressure. They developed our grant application with exceptional skill, commitment and care – as if it were their own funding bid.
The gemaker team have been consistently positive, reliable and able to flex their support as our needs change. They initially came on board as an emergency stop-gap during a period of staff transition, and have since become a seamless extension to our team — helping us increase capacity and fill knowledge and resource gaps as needed. Their depth of experience, high-quality advice and reliable support have made a real difference to both our commercialisation managers and UoM researchers. I highly recommend gemaker for tech transfer support.
We wouldn’t hesitate in working with the gemaker team again, they have outstanding expertise, the turnaround time was quick and their service is great value for money.
I engaged gemaker as an external service provider to develop a Research Engagement Plan. gemaker were thorough, flexible and responsive and able to adapt to deliver the outcome that was right for us as the client. I was impressed by the approach and style of the team and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.
KCA worked with gemaker on our recent research commercialisation professional salary survey. There had been a large gap between this and our last survey, so most of the questions and methodology had to be drafted from scratch, along with benchmarking the survey to its international counterparts. Jess from gemaker was fantastic in pulling together all of our feedback, structuring the questions appropriately and was very responsive throughout the process. A delight to work with!
The gemaker team were outstanding in developing and managing a major grant application in a short time period. The partners were very satisfied with the knowledge, competence and abilities of the gemaker team.
Without gemaker our application wouldn’t have been nearly as good. I thoroughly enjoyed working with the team and found they had a great ability to quickly grasp what was needed. I was very grateful for their flexibility and dedication to getting the job done in challenging circumstances.
gemaker’s technical and commercial expertise, coupled with their experience navigating the academic sector, makes them a great team to work with. Furthermore, they are very well-connected within the sector, and a surprising benefit of working with them was their willingness to connect my team to their networks.
We have to be agile, so gemaker’s swift support as a one-stop-shop for strategic advice, business planning, graphic design, writing, etc, has been key to our success. They’ve saved us heartache by providing sound advice based on extensive experience. The responsive gemaker team speaks our language and their can-do culture is a great fit for InSpace.
Our company, Life Cell Marine Safety, is commercialising an innovative product and rapidly expanding into international markets. With limited resources, gemaker have been able to assist us with our digital marketing and PR in a cost-effective way. They understand the financial pressures of being a startup and have worked within our budget and with considerable flexibility to help us achieve our goals. They are a real partner in our journey and I am reassured that I can tap into many of their other services as required, knowing that they are already familiar with our product and company.
The breadth and depth of the gemaker team’s knowledge showed both in their technical interactions with the researcher and their digestible and actionable report. They were highly responsive and the process was very smooth.
gemaker’s team was highly responsive and provided exceptional clarity throughout the CRC-P grant process. They helped demystify the submission and, with their deep understanding of what makes a strong application, gave us real confidence every step of the way.
The benefit of working with gemaker versus a traditional grant writer, was that it was a team approach. We were able to utilise the skills and experience of multiple people on their team. We had four senior gemaker team members contributing to our grant, all of whom had extensive expertise across a variety of sectors. This resulted in a very high-quality grant application, giving us the best chance of success.
The gemaker team was highly professional and knowledgeable in this space. They also had great industry contacts that they were able to leverage to benefit our project. I don’t know if the bid would have happened without gemaker.
ASM has engaged Gemaker’s support on a number of successful grant funding opportunities.
Their ability to comprehensively understand ASM’s strategic investment proposition and articulate this into a compelling narrative to address specific government requirements was critical to our success in these submissions
Our application was so comprehensive and well written that we didn’t receive any requests for clarification from the assessors. We’re grateful for gemaker’s guidance, and the tireless work they gave to our proposal.
Working with Gemaker was an exceptional experience. Their team’s expertise, strategic insights, and commitment made all the difference in our grant submissions. I highly recommend them for anyone looking for impactful solutions.
We used gemaker for their in-depth sector-specific knowledge and proven success communicating and engaging across research, industry and government.
Their wide-ranging knowledge enables them to probe and distil complex scientific information. gemaker does not just take the information given and present it nicely, but takes the time to make sure that opportunities are not missed and the distilled information is accurate and aligned to the target sector.
gemaker’s strategic planning services were clear, thorough and excellent.
gemaker has provided guidance and support to polish our business strategies and best respond to the COVID-fuelled, rapid global growth in the e-mobility sector.
gemaker has been an invaluable resource and partner and we are so glad we settled on Natalie’s team to help us with our growth plans as they have been, and remain, a very important part of our journey.
The marketing collateral gemaker produced for our conference stall was high quality. The team were all pleasant to work with, and we appreciated their help in organising and editing our grant application.
gemaker helped AINSE significantly increase our profile. They understand our organisation and needs, so we will definitely use gemaker’s services again.
Working with gemaker was enjoyable and straightforward. Their understanding of the ecosystem and restraints of SMEs and start-ups allowed them to provide a superior grant writing service that focused on aligning to government objectives.
We were very impressed with the quality and clarity of the report and the transparency of the financial costing for the project.
Being a small technology transfer office, we needed assistance with an increasing number of innovations that needed to be evaluated, especially when the field was outside of our area of expertise. Gemaker was particularly helpful in obtaining industry expert feedback, which helped us better understand the market need and our value proposition. We were more efficient in making decisions and progressing the projects through the commercialisation pipeline.
We would recommend gemaker to fill staff and knowledge gaps, make the right connections and overall increase the efficiency of progressing innovations through the commercialisation pipeline.
We engaged gemaker for an independent review of our CRC-P grant application and were thoroughly impressed. Their deep expertise in government grants was evident, and the insights—particularly from Warren—were invaluable in strengthening our submission. The turnaround was fast despite a tight deadline, and the post-review discussion added even more value. I also appreciated the extra advice Nat shared, which will benefit our business beyond the grant itself.
gemaker were efficient and easy to work with. They really understood the technical and commercial contexts of our business. There’s no way I could have briefed a copywriter or graphic designer as effectively as Natalie directed her creative team.
I trusted the gemaker team to deliver a high quality service within my tight budget and they did that through a highly skilled, dedicated and reliable team.
The website is better than I could have ever imagined! It looks brilliant!!! Thank you for your incredibly efficient work.
I enjoyed working with gemaker for a couple of reasons. The team is patient and collaborative, listens to feedback, and is committed to delivering high-quality work through an iterative design process. The team was great, dedicated to timelines and deadlines throughout the project. I learned a lot from their strategic business insights throughout the engagement and thoroughly enjoyed our conversations.
The gemaker team is made up of people with “flexible minds” who can think outside of the box to deliver what the client needs. I found them to be very knowledgeable and easy to work with. Their ability to translate very technical information into plain English resulted in a very usable high-quality report.
gemaker was able to provide me with a very high-quality, accurate report that met my exact requirements within a short timeframe. Their flexible approach and efficiency delivered the exact results that I needed.
The gemaker team is great to work with and extremely proactive.
I was impressed by gemaker’s dedication, they worked long hours to meet the tight timeframe. We learned so much from them and now better understand how to address grant criteria. gemaker’s service and expertise exceeded our expectations.
Natalie is a gem if you would pardon the pun. Natalie and her team are highly professional, very dedicated and as a result their analysis is thorough and they provide detailed insights. Within a tight timeframe they provided us with professionally researched information for inclusion in our business plan. We would not have been able to have put together such a detailed business plan without them.
I choose to work with the gemaker team as they take the time to truly understand our business and our clients.
It was a positive experience, and Tim was very helpful throughout the process. The website is performing well, and the training provided was excellent, allowing me to make several changes as needed.
KCA chose gemaker for their sector knowledge, competency and cost-effectiveness. gemaker delivered the inaugural SCOPR report in an excellent format to tight deadlines, demonstrating professionalism, clarity and sensibility in all interactions. The report was well-received by research organisations and government stakeholders.
We found the work we did with gemaker extremely valuable. It provided us with an excellent understanding of the patent process, including the key requirements and the application pathway.
I choose to work with the gemaker team as they take the time to truly understand our business and our clients. The ideas that gemaker generate are practical solutions and therefore work in application. They listen to us, understand what we want to achieve and use their expertise to propose solutions, have helped us strike the right chord with our clients.
I engaged gemaker for a market survey on attitudes towards lithium-ion batteries. The gemaker team truly went above and beyond – from a face-to-face scoping meeting, to providing timely updates on the survey performance and delivery of an impactful report and presentation with key statistics and recommendations. I look forward to the next opportunity to work with gemaker.
Working with gemaker was very straightforward and took the stress out of the grant application process. The early establishment of clear timelines and responsibilities gave me confidence they would meet our tight deadline. They quickly understood our project and articulated it effectively to meet the grant criteria.
gemaker’s software commercialisation training was both practical and well delivered. Klaus and Natalie’s experience and case study approach to the learning was highly valuable. This training has strengthened our team’s ability to support UWA researchers in developing and deploying their software commercially.
The program was engaging and feedback from participants was very positive. An immediate outcome was significantly increased collaboration with our Technology Transfer Office by researchers who participated in the training, because they now appreciate the importance of engagement, especially early in the commercialisation process.
gemaker were generous in sharing their wealth of commercialisation knowledge in the context of the university environment as well as from the perspective of industry. Their depth of experience meant that they could provide flexible and practical solutions with real-world examples.
Working with gemaker has provided valuable guidance regarding business plans, marketing and PR, investment and product direction that has helped us quickly gain traction in the market.
gemaker provided great service, great advice and were very easy to deal with! They delivered exactly what we needed as a start-up and provided us with high-quality outcomes at good value for money.
Working with gemaker helped us to clarify and refine our messages and offerings to clearly communicate our value proposition and capabilities. Having experts work alongside your team delivers successful outcomes and also builds capacity and capability in your organisation.
The gemaker team rose to the challenge of analysing the complex market for our products. I appreciated their hands-on, proactive and adaptive approach. They are skilled interviewers and delivered an insightful report with a clear path for the next steps in our commercialisation.
