AIscent Co. · Beauty NPD Acceleration

The NPD process
reimagined.

Most beauty teams lose weeks to friction nobody can see clearly. We make it visible, then we fix it, together.

Book a demo → Recover weeks
Diagnose Design Drive
The Problem

Beauty teams are brilliant.
Their processes hold them back.

01
Briefs that create rework
Vague or over-specified briefs send R&D and Procurement in circles before a single formula is touched.
02
Gates that block everything
Processes built for a different era freeze all activity at every checkpoint, even when work could run in parallel.
03
Friction nobody owns
Every function feels the delay. Nobody has the full picture of where the real bottleneck lives. Until now.

Talented people spend their days in approval loops and status updates instead of building the products that made them fall in love with beauty in the first place.

The Methodology

Three phases.
One transformation.

A structured approach that infuses AI intelligence into every layer of NPD, from discovery to delivery.

Phase One
Diagnose
AI-powered chat sessions and human conversations map exactly where friction lives: by function, by stage, by frequency.
Phase Two
Design
We build the tools, skills and process adjustments that remove low-value work and give people back their creative energy.
Phase Three
Drive
Pulse surveys and ongoing check-ins confirm what is working. The process keeps improving. The partnership keeps delivering.
AI-infused at every stage
Phase One · Diagnose

Meet Nova.
Your AI diagnostician.

Nova has confidential conversations with your team, across every function, to surface the friction costing you weeks. She does not judge. She listens.

  • Runs with Marketing, Procurement, R&D and Regulatory simultaneously
  • Maps brief quality, gate flexibility and cross-functional friction
  • Delivers a Friction Map: visual, clear, actionable
  • Paired with live human sessions led by the AIscent Co. team
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Nova · AIscent Co.
NPD Diagnostic · Active
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Hi, I'm Nova. I'm here to understand how your NPD process really works, no judgement, just listening. When you receive a brief, how clear is it usually?
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It varies a lot. Sometimes very clear, but more often we go back and forth before R&D can even start.
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That back-and-forth is really common. What tends to be missing from the brief when that happens?
Share your thoughts…
Phase Two · Design

We don't deliver a report.
We build the solution.

Once we know where the friction lives, we build AI-powered skills and tools that remove it, permanently. Low-value work gets lifted from people's plates so they focus on what only humans can do.

✍
Brief Intelligence
AI-assisted briefing tools that structure inputs correctly the first time, eliminating the rework loops that delay R&D by weeks.
⚡
Gate Redesign
Identifying which activities can run in parallel and rebuilding gate logic so development never stops unnecessarily.
🤝
Handoff Skills
Function-specific tools that make cross-functional handoffs clean, documented and accountable. No more chasing status updates.
🧠
Knowledge Building
Skills that capture institutional knowledge inside the process itself, so expertise doesn't walk out the door when people leave.
6 to 12
weeks recovered
per launch cycle
4
functions aligned
around one process
∞
tools the team
keeps using
Phase Three · Drive

The work doesn't
stop at delivery.

Pulse surveys run every 6 to 8 weeks to verify what is working, surface new friction before it compounds, and keep the process improving over time.

01
Pulse Survey
Short, targeted check-ins across functions. 5 minutes per person. Anonymous and safe.
02
AI Analysis
Nova detects patterns, flags emerging friction and compares against the baseline map.
03
Monthly Brief
A concise report for leadership: what improved, what needs attention, what to do next.
04
Adjust & Improve
Tools and skills are refined based on real usage data. The process keeps getting smarter.
"We came to fix the process. We stayed to keep it winning."
Drive turns a one-time project into an ongoing partnership. Clients get continuous intelligence; you build a recurring relationship grounded in measurable results.
The Output

Faster launches. Better products.
Energised people.

01
A faster NPD process
Weeks recovered from every launch cycle by removing friction at the brief, gate and handoff stages, not by pushing people harder.
02
AI skills your team owns
Tools built specifically for your functions that keep working after the engagement ends. Not a presentation. A capability.
03
Aligned functions
Marketing, Procurement, R&D and Regulatory working from the same process logic, with clear handoffs and no invisible friction.
04
Ongoing intelligence
Pulse data that tells leadership what is working, what has changed, and where to focus next, in real time.
"When the low-value work is lifted, people bring back the energy that made them great at their jobs in the first place."
100%
of the team
feels the difference
The AIscent Co. Team

We've been in the
industry for decades.

We know how to transform the way beauty brands build products, because we've been living that process our entire careers. Now we're using everything we learned to make it faster, smarter and more human.

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Lydia
Co-Founder · AIscent Co.
Decades of beauty industry experience across global brands. An operator who has navigated every stage of NPD, and knows exactly where the time goes.
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Xochitl
Co-Founder · AIscent Co.
Senior brand manager across global beauty houses. Built NPD processes, managed stage-gates, and developed products from brief to shelf. Now building the tools that make the whole system work better.
"We're not consultants who studied beauty. We're operators who built it, and we're ready to transform it."
Engagement Model

How we work together.

Three phases, scaled to where you are. We share pricing on a call, because no two NPD processes carry the same friction, and we price to the outcome, not a template.

Phase One
Diagnose
  • →Nova AI sessions + live human interviews
  • →A visual Friction Map across functions
  • →Short, focused sprint, low commitment
Pricing on request
Phase Two
Design
  • →AI skills & tools built for your functions
  • →Brief, gate & handoff redesign
  • →Capabilities your team keeps and owns
Pricing on request
Phase Three
Drive
  • →Pulse surveys every 6 to 8 weeks
  • →Monthly intelligence brief for leadership
  • →Ongoing optimisation, a real partnership
Monthly retainer · on request
Why AIscent Co.
Operators, not consultants
We've lived every approval loop, late gate and re-briefed launch. We know where the friction hides because we've been there.
AI-native delivery
Nova and purpose-built skills give you modern, fast, confidential diagnosis, then tools that do the heavy lifting day to day.
Capabilities you keep
We don't leave a slide deck. We leave working tools and a process your team owns long after the engagement ends.

Let's start with the diagnosis.

Low commitment, high value. Let Nova talk to five of your people. Everything that follows comes from what she finds.

Book a demo → info@aiscent.co
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