CORPORATES · BUSINESS LEADERS, HR AND IT
Your strategies. Results on the ground.
We put your teams on real business challenges, in every market, with an entrepreneurial culture: work around the blockers, test fast, track real KPIs, not vanity metrics.
30–50%
target reduction in the time to deploy your business roadmap. An observed example: a 24-month roadmap delivered in 12, a 50% shorter timeline.
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Team performance
A far cry from two-year learning paths forgotten by module three: short, intense formats where cross-functional teams tackle a real business issue, with the methods and tools of winning startups.
In front of your teams: entrepreneurs who have launched, scaled and sold companies. They don’t talk about the future. They practice it.
Who it’s for: a business leader, with HR as co-sponsor.
Inspiring masterclasses, bootcamps, hackathons, multi-month challenges. From 10 to 500 participants, on site or hybrid.
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Strategy deployment
Headquarters wrote the strategy. We adapt it to every country, business unit and team, and keep it alive until it becomes how people work.
Sales & marketingRetail & e-commerceCustomer experienceSupply chain & logisticsESGDigital & AI transformationOrganization & managementRegional rolloutTool and platform adoption
Who it’s for: headquarters, business leaders and IT.
Workshops, annual events, leadership seminars, and concrete projects driven all the way to team adoption.
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Growth and innovation
New markets, products and services, acquisition channels, partners. We source, assess and propose PoCs and partnerships, then measure the value at the end of the test.
Through venture clienting, your teams test startups as suppliers, with short pilots, before any investment.
Who it’s for: innovation, strategy and business unit leaders.
Open innovation, startup sourcing, 6–8 week PoCs.
Client cases · Measured results
Tested, sold,
then scaled.
Unilever · France, Europe
6 months to first revenue
An organic product concept tested, 2 marketplaces and 1 selective retail network opened, then the executive committee’s go-ahead to scale.
Carrefour · France
3 months to first revenue
Social media tested as a sales and customer relationship channel for a hypermarket, with seasonal bundles delivered at home, then a playbook for every hypermarket in the region.
Orange · France
6 months to a validated plan, then a model for the region
The digital transformation strategy applied to a pilot building: 100 employees co-design their workspaces and vote on the plan. The model is then used for the other buildings in the region.
Disneyland Paris · France
+30% productivity, with revenue generated before industrialization
A digital revenue target: the teams generate and test solutions (bundled offers, sales journeys, same-day tickets in the app). From the first sales, a playbook guides the group, its subsidiaries and new hires to scale.
Clarins · Paris, Shanghai
5 stores opened instead of the 1 planned
The retail strategy tested in real conditions before rollout, with a launch kit: customer engagement, dedicated events, digital and merchandising adapted to each region.
Marriott · Korea, India, China
3 countries new businesses in production
New drinks, a food concept, a morning ritual: MVPs co-created with local teams, moved into production as soon as they gained traction, then presented for rollout across the region.
CMA CGM · ZEBOX · Americas, Asia
2 continents for the group’s innovation model
A partner program for each region (partnerships, investment, events, PoCs), resources and P&L modeled per zone, performance KPIs, and the first team trained in the United States.
Your next roadmap?
“80% of the projects from the accelerator program made it into our roadmap.”
Bauke Rouwers · General Manager, Unilever
“Hack40 helps us roll out my team’s playbook and track its performance.”
Juliette Bron · VP Digital, Disneyland Paris
In the press · L’Usine Nouvelle
“Getting hacked by your own employees”: our corporate hacking formats with GRDF, L’Oréal and Macif.
FOCUS · AI AND IT
From signing the AI partnership to business adoption.
You’ve signed with Google, OpenAI, Anthropic or Salesforce. What’s often missing is phase 1: experimenting with the business teams.
We run that phase with your teams and with startups in your sector that already build on your partner’s model. Use cases tested in weeks, and a clear decision on what deserves to be deployed.
Then from pilot to production. AI champions in every team, agentic workflows adopted in real work, and AI fluency measured in value created: productivity gains or new revenue.
OUR ACCELERATION FRAMEWORK
Inspired by the first startup accelerators.
From startup mindset to startup execution.
10,000+employees trained and supported in our corporate programs
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Frame
Your strategic goal, turned into a business challenge and a problem to solve.
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Engage
Workshops that expose teams to the best market trends, get cross-functional teams working together, speed up decisions and build ownership.
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Experiment
Every module measures real impact: outcomes, not outputs. Scale, iterate or pivot: we speed up, adjust or change the hypothesis, without losing traction.
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Prove
Validate the impact in the market and internally, and lock in a first win.
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Scale
A playbook other teams and countries can activate, so you deploy without starting over.
Strategy is no longer the bottleneck. Deployment is.
Companies don’t fail for lack of vision. They fail when a strategy designed at global level takes too long to adapt to each local market.
CustomersPartnersInternal resourcesMarketCompetitors
That’s the agility Hack40 builds into your teams: adapt the strategy to the field fast, test it locally, and keep headquarters’ intent intact.
What matters is what your teams do the Monday after.
Every program brings together the same three ingredients. That’s what sets it apart from a standard training or seminar.
1 · BUSINESS SPONSOR A business leader who owns the goal Sales, marketing, supply chain: the roadmap to accelerate.
2 · HR PARTNER HR, owning the leadership goal Learning, leadership, collaborative culture and agility.
3 · REAL CHALLENGE A real business problem to solve Designed by Hack40, with real KPIs and results presented to the sponsor.
STARTUP METHODS AND OPERATING STACK
Learning by doing: your teams leave with the methods, tools and rituals of winning startups.
See all methods and tools
METHODS
Design thinking
Start from the customer: observation, empathy interviews, ideation, personas, customer journeys.
Lean startup
Hypotheses, MVP, build, measure, learn. Scale, iterate or pivot at every cycle.
Design sprint
One problem, one prototype and one user test in five days.
Growth hacking
Acquire, activate, retain: fast tests on real channels, with real customers.
OKRs and KPIs
Outcome-driven objectives, a North Star metric, weekly check-ins.
AI and no-code prototyping
Working prototypes in days, not months, with off-the-shelf AI tools.
TOOLS
Collaboration & knowledge
Notion, Slack, Google Workspace, decision logs
Alignment & execution
Outcome-driven OKRs, North Star metric, weekly operating cadence, KPI dashboards
Workshops & facilitation
Miro, Mural, Klaxoon, business and product canvases, design sprints
Product & team workflows
Jira, Trello, ClickUp, Asana, backlog discipline, cross-team cadences
GTM & sales execution
HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, pipeline reviews
AI-native productivity
LLM workflows, AI copilots, prompt libraries, decision support
Our manifesto
The hacker posture
Large organizations are over-processed and built around risk control. The hacker posture: know the rules to get around them, de-risk continuously, experiment and pivot until the first impact and the first win.
Know the rules like a professional.
Hack them like an entrepreneur.
Teams are the new heroes.
Empowerment is the new management.
Test and learn is the new perfection.
No guru. Only customer feedback matters.
Anticipate to choose. Experiment to decide.
No truth, but hypotheses to be tested.
OUR STORY
We built your incubators. Today, your business leaders trust us with execution.
For ten years, we designed and ran accelerators, labs and intrapreneurship programs for Unilever, BNP Paribas, Naval Group, La Poste and Leroy Merlin.
Most of these programs are now run in-house. Business leaders use them, and bring in operators like Hack40 to get from idea to results.
THEY TRUSTED US WITH THEIR PROGRAMS
Insights
Notes from the field on AI and scale.
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The Contraction of Product Time
Why your moat is probably in the most copyable layer of your business — and what to do about it
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The Contraction of Capital Patience
Why leadership teams are still running companies on narratives the market no longer funds — and what to do about it
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The Contraction of the Customer Path
Why companies are still optimizing the sales funnel while the buying decision is moving upstream