"Real disruption comes from indies. We've watched too many great games die before release, despite help and support. It's time to institutionalise meaningful effort."
The problem
Because indies can't cover their own share.
50% non-repayable production grants remain unrealised.
The grant requires the studio to put up matching capital first. Studios do not have own capital.
Studios are hesitant to sell equity or engage with publishers.
The grant sits unclaimed and great games stall short of release.
The solution
BoostWerk provides proven indie studios (PC) with the matching capital they need to unlock non-repayable government funding, topped up with a self-publishing allowance. In exchange: a flat revenue recoupment plus a VSOP stake on exit upside. We mitigate risk with a portfolio approach.
Our USP
BoostWerk doesn't discover studios. We back the ones who already proved it: a grant approval, a funded Kickstarter, a shipped title, a festival win.
Publishers take IP. Investors take a board seat. Self-publishing is uncharted territory. BoostWerk is the logical extension, close to home: capital that unlocks the grant, experts when you want them, and favourable terms. The studio stays theirs.
Ecosystem
An invested network across publishing, production, PR, marketing, legal, finance, development, agile coaching and HR, available whenever a studio needs it. Experts are shareholders. Studios receive BOOST credits with their funding and book experts with them. Experts cash the credits out or reinvest them in BoostWerk.
Method and expertise
An invested network across publishing, production, legal and HR, available whenever a studio needs it.
Minimal overhead, so more capital reaches the games.
Studios come to us when they need help. Nobody is forced into it.
Studios set their own milestones. We hold them to those milestones, hard-gated.
Our in-house AI, Whether, models genre success probability and TAM/SAM/SOM from training and market data.
Their vision, their creative call. We bring pattern recognition from decades of shipping games.
Who we work with
Sound familiar? You have outside validation: a grant committee approval, a jury award, a funded Kickstarter, a shipped title. You don't want a publisher owning your IP, your roadmap or your decisions. You want to publish yourselves and keep the knowledge in house. You just can't cover the matching capital on your own.
Talk to us about your gameWe're building a network of operators who have shipped: publishing, production, PR, legal, finance, HR, dev. Studios book you when they need you. No retainers, no mandatory hours, no babysitting. You get first look at grant-approved PC titles.
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