Claymore Ventures

Strategy.Build.Scale.

AI-First Commercial Advisory

The Problem

01

You’ve hired consultants who delivered a slide deck.

02

You’ve hired developers who built the wrong thing.

03

You’ve hired creative agencies too busy chasing awards to chase your growth.

The gap between advice and delivery is where most businesses fail.

Claymore closes that gap.

What We Do

Three disciplines. One team.
Fully integrated.

Most firms make you choose. We bring a senior team of specialists and deliver all three.

01

We help you find the right direction.

Strategy & Commercial Advisory

Market entry. Competitive positioning. Commercial modelling. Go-to-market design. A senior team embedded alongside yours, not outsiders handing over a slide deck.

02

We build what the strategy actually needs.

Build & Technology

AI-native engineering. Platform builds. Process automation. Implementation-first, not theory-first. We translate strategy into working technology and ship it.

03

We scale the business, not just the brand.

Creative & Content

Design and content built to scale revenue, not win awards. Commercially driven brand strategy tied to growth outcomes. The creative layer that turns a product into a category leader.

Sectors

Industries we know.

Deep expertise. We don't take work we can't do well.

Media

Media

Commercial strategy, digital content monetisation, broadcast partnerships, audience growth, and streaming advisory.

Sport

Sport

Sponsorship and rights advisory, commercial partnerships, athlete and club commercial strategy, and sports media.

Financial Services

Financial Services

Fund management, deal advisory, capital markets strategy, investor relations, and financial modelling for growth-stage clients.

Technology

Technology

Digital transformation, AI strategy, platform development, and technology advisory for organisations ready to operate at AI speed.

AI Tools

Our AI Operating Stack

The AI platforms we run daily across every engagement.

20+The right tools, matched to each brief — continuously updated as new platforms ship.

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Strategy & Research

Claude

Claude

Long-Context Reasoning

ChatGPT

ChatGPT

General Purpose

Gemini

Gemini

Multimodal Reasoning

Perplexity

Perplexity

AI-Powered Search

NotebookLM

NotebookLM

Audio Learning

Voice & Image

ElevenLabs

ElevenLabs

Voice Synthesis

Grok Imagine

Grok Imagine

AI Image Generation

Nano Banana Pro

Nano Banana Pro

Fast Image Gen

Midjourney

Midjourney

Artistic Image Gen

Stable Diffusion

Stable Diffusion

Open-Source Gen

Video

Kling

Kling

Long-Form Video

Runway Gen 4.5

Runway Gen 4.5

Creative Video

Veo 3

Veo 3

Cinematic Video

HeyGen

HeyGen

Video Avatars

Synthesia

Synthesia

Corporate Training

Development & Automation

Claude Code

Claude Code

Agentic Coding

Codex

Codex

Code Generation

OpenClaw

OpenClaw

Open-Source Agent

Supabase

Supabase

Backend & Database

Vercel

Vercel

Edge Deployment

David McLean, Founder

Founder

David McLean

LinkedIn

After 15 years in big consulting, enterprise technology, global media, and financial services, the pattern became clear: the people advising had never shipped a product. The people building had never written a strategy.

David McLean founded Claymore to close that gap. Each engagement is led by David directly, supported by a curated network of senior specialists assembled for the brief. Not a permanent bench of generalists. The right people, for the right problem.

Strategy, build, and commercial design delivered as a single integrated engagement.

“I got tired of watching great strategies die in a slide deck. We partner with you, build the thing, and stay until it scales.”

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