Build the experience layer for the Halo ecosystem from Scotland.
A configurable SaaS portal platform that extends Halo with branded customer, employee and partner experiences. We are seeking grant support to establish a Scottish product development team and bring the platform to global market.
- Total programme cost
- £1.025m
- Grant ask (≈44%)
- £450k
- R&D delivery plan
- 18 mo
- Year 5 base case
- £3.6m ARR
Figures are indicative and shown for funder discussion. Use the simulator below to model alternate grant contribution levels.
Why this is grant-worthy R&D, in Scotland.
- ◆8 high-skilled Scottish FTE at project end, ~25 by Year 5
- ◆£575k private match against a £450k grant ask
- ◆Productised IP retained by HaloNinjas Ltd in Scotland
- ◆Global export via the Halo partner channel
One platform. Multiple service experiences.
Halo stays the system of record. The Experience Portal renders the customer, employee, partner and executive surfaces from a shared configuration layer — so partners can deploy a tenant in days, not months.
Branded self-service for the customers you serve
- ◆Service catalogue with smart request flows
- ◆Tickets, status, SLAs and history
- ◆AI-assisted knowledge search
- ◆Configurable per tenant and per audience
One platform. Every partner's brand, terminology and journey.
Branding, colour, typography, modules and even service terminology can be configured per tenant — so the same product can ship as a dark command centre for one customer and a light, customer-friendly portal for another. Configuration, not a forked codebase.
From concept to buildable product.
These are early proof-of-concept screenshots from HaloNinjas running against a Halo back-end. Screens are illustrative — the grant programme productises the underlying portal platform into a multi-tenant SaaS for the Halo channel.
Branded distillery operations portal
Skinned per tenant: live KPIs, AI assistant suggestions, and a service catalogue front door — all rendered from the shared configuration layer.
- ◆Tenant theming + branded header
- ◆Live KPI tiles (work orders · on-time maintenance)
- ◆AI assistant suggestion surfaced inline
- ◆One-click access to issue, request, SOPs, dashboard
Shift-level operations view
Logged-in dashboard for a shift lead: open work orders, approvals awaiting them, change requests, and contextual SOPs pulled from the knowledge layer.
- ◆Role-aware navigation rail
- ◆KPI summary across maintenance & quality
- ◆Recent activity timeline (WO / QI / NC)
- ◆Relevant SOPs surfaced by context
Early POC — internal Distillery Operations skin. Content shown is illustrative; the grant programme productises the underlying portal platform for white-label deployment across the Halo partner channel.
Built in Scotland. Designed for a global service-management market.
Scottish-owned product IP, high-value software engineering jobs across the Perth, Dundee and Inverness corridor, university collaboration pathways into Abertay, Dundee and UHI, and an export-focused SaaS revenue model targeting the global Halo channel.
Four pillars that make this a fundable R&D programme.
Configurable experience layer
One schema renders customer, employee, partner and executive portals — a research challenge in tenant-scoped configuration, design systems and runtime composition.
Halo integration framework
An abstraction layer over the Halo APIs with versioning, rate-limit handling and fallback behaviour, so the product survives upstream change without breaking partners.
Product IP retained in Scotland
All productised IP — schema, components, integration framework, AI triage — is owned by HaloNinjas Ltd and held inside Scotland for the long term.
SaaS platform for global channel
Designed from day one for white-label deployment across the global Halo partner network, with export-led ARR as the commercial model.
Five stages. 18 months. Evidence at every gate.
Discovery & architecture
- UX research with Halo partners
- Technical architecture & API contract
- Validation workshops & evidence pack
MVP build
- Auth, service catalogue, ticket flows
- Tenant configuration layer
- Design system at WCAG 2.2 AA
Beta pilots
- 3–5 pilot customers via Halo partners
- Telemetry, support model, pen test
- Partner feedback evidence pack
Commercial launch
- Packaging, pricing, onboarding
- Documentation and partner enablement
- First commercial contracts
Scale
- Marketplace & vertical templates
- AI search & analytics packs
- Year 1 ARR foundation
Model the grant contribution.
The full programme is modelled at £1.025m over 18 months with a base case of ~44% grant support (£450k grant, £575k private match). The slider below shows how alternate intervention rates would rebalance the grant ask, private match, jobs supported and milestone cover.
- Programme cost
- £1025k
- Grant ask
- £451k
- Private match
- £574k
- Duration
- 18 months
- Intervention rate
- 44%
Indicative — grant percentages depend on the funding route, final scoring and eligibility.
A defensible path from pilot to £3.6m ARR.
Indicative figures for funder discussion only — not a forecast of guaranteed revenue. Upside case modelled to £6m+ via Halo partner channel acceleration.
Risk controls, mitigations and monthly governance.
A working data room for funder due diligence.
18-month R&D programme narrative.
Workbook with WP costs and 5-year forecast.
Funder cover letter from HaloNinjas Ltd.
All documents bundled for download.
Expanded register with owners and review dates.
Single-sheet summary for funder boards.
Ask the Project Pack.
Grounded only in the approved HaloNinjas pack. It refuses anything outside the pack and won't invent figures, partners or claims.
Answers are generated from the approved HaloNinjas project pack and should be verified against the source documents before formal submission. Figures, forecasts and partner references in this briefing are indicative.
Ready to review the funding case?
Download the full funder pack, or book a short discussion to walk through the programme, grant fit, delivery plan and Scottish economic impact.