Capability Lab
We design and deliver healthcare innovation programs that help clinicians, researchers, students, and emerging builders move from real problems and early ideas to tangible concepts they can test, pitch, pilot, or bring back into their organizations.
Capability Lab helps accelerators, universities, foundations, and healthcare partners build stronger innovation pipelines.
What This Is?
Programming-as-a-service for healthcare innovation ecosystems
Healthcare founders need to clarify the problem, user, buyer, workflow, evidence needs, reimbursement logic, adoption risks, and pilot pathway before they can credibly move toward funding, partnerships, or scale.
We help participants understand the healthcare system around an idea, identify meaningful opportunities, shape concepts that can be tested, and build the narrative needed to pitch, pilot, or bring the idea back into an organization.
Capability Lab brings that healthcare-specific venture formation layer into founder programs and innovation ecosystems.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
Built for healthcare ecosystems that need stronger innovation pipelines.
Two Core Offerings
01
Healthcare Venture Formation Program
A modular workshop and sprint-based program for healthcare founder pipelines.
For accelerators, universities, foundations, incubators, and innovation programs that want structured venture formation support for healthcare founders and expert teams.
Includes:
Venture Formation Workshops
Venture Formation Sprints
custom cohort programming
Best for partners who want a structured program across multiple sessions or a deeper sprint.
02
Whiteboard Studio
A live applied working-session format for healthcare founders and teams.
Whiteboard Studio helps founders apply Stitium 37 frameworks to real questions around reimbursement, buyer clarity, workflow fit, evidence design, pilot readiness, market fit, and adoption.
Available as:
Biweekly public studio sessions — curated, theme-based, free or low-cost
1:1 founder whiteboards — paid working sessions for founders or teams
Cohort whiteboards — partner-paid sessions for accelerators, universities, foundations, and innovation programs
Best for partners who want a lighter, flexible way to bring healthcare-specific support to a cohort or community.
A focused workshop experience for introducing participants to healthcare venture formation.
Best for:
Innovation days, accelerator sessions, university programs, conferences, foundation grantee convenings, and early-stage healthcare innovation groups.
01 / DESIGN RESEARCH
Discovery: Opportunities & Markets
Participants identify meaningful healthcare problems, market gaps, operational pain points, and opportunity areas worth pursuing.
Participants leave with:
A sharper problem statement, prioritized opportunity area, early market assumptions, and key discovery questions.
02 / SYSTEMS Design
Mapping Health Ecosystems & Incentives
Participants map the healthcare system around an idea, including users, buyers, implementers, decision-makers, workflows, incentives, and adoption barriers.
Participants leave with:
A healthcare ecosystem map, stakeholder and incentive analysis, and understanding of where their idea fits within the system.
03 / VENTURE Design
Concept and Evidence Design
Participants shape an early concept, clarify who it serves, identify the riskiest assumptions, and define the first test or validation activity.
Participants leave with:
A concept canvas, riskiest assumptions, early validation plan, and short narrative for feedback or next-step support.
FORMAT - 02
A deeper, multi-week sprint for teams that need to turn an idea, product, or concept into a more tangible innovation asset.
Each sprint is designed for a different outcome.
Each sprint follows the same formation process:
Frame the opportunity → Shape the concept → Validate the riskiest assumptions → Build the narrative
01 / venture design
From Healthcare Idea to Venture Concept
This sprint helps teams turn a raw healthcare idea into a clear venture concept with a defined problem, target user, value proposition, assumptions, and next-step validation plan.
Participants leave with:
A venture concept brief, assumption map, validation priorities, and concept narrative.
02 / service design
Designing Service Around Healthcare Products
This sprint helps teams design the service, workflow, and adoption layer around the solution so it can be used, operated, and sustained in a real healthcare context.
Participants leave with:
A service model, workflow map, stakeholder journey, and concept narrative.
03 / venture & systems design
From Concept to MVP
This sprint helps teams define the smallest meaningful version of the concept, identify what evidence they need, and design the first MVP, prototype, or validation activity.
Participants leave with:
An MVP definition, prototype scope, validation plan, evidence goals, roadmap., and concept narrative.
Customizations
Partner Programs
Designed around a partner’s specific goals, audience, timeline, and healthcare focus area.
Best for: partners launching a healthcare innovation track, challenge program, fellowship, or venture formation experience.
Output: custom curriculum, facilitated sessions, participant tools, concept development support, and final showcase.
Whiteboard Studio is a facilitated pop-up studio format where participants apply Stitium 37 frameworks to real questions around reimbursement, buyer clarity, evidence design, workflow fit, pilot readiness, and adoption.
Each session is built around a theme, a core framework, and an applied whiteboard exercise. Guest practitioners can be brought in when a topic needs a specialist lens.
These sessions are available in the following 3 formats:
01 / venture design
Biweekly
peer sessions
Curated group whiteboard sessions for healthcare founders, clinicians, researchers, operators, and early teams working through real venture formation questions.
02 / Applied Strategy
1:1
founder sessions
Paid working sessions for founders or teams who want to apply a Whiteboard Studio theme directly to their own idea, product, service, or pilot pathway.
03 / Cohort Programming
Cohort whiteboards
for partner programs
Whiteboard sessions for accelerators, universities, and innovation programs that want to bring healthcare-specific venture formation support to a cohort or community.
Partner With Us
Whether you are running an accelerator, launching a university innovation program, supporting foundation grantees, or building internal healthcare innovation capability, Capability Lab can help your participants move from ideas to tangible concepts, stronger evidence logic, and clearer paths to pilot or adoption.