about Danny Seals

Great experience strategy doesnt start with better ideas

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Most organisations already have talented teams full of talented experts. What they often lack is confidence about where the real commercial opportunity sits.

Should they optimise what exists, Create something new or stop investing altogether?

That’s the question I built Knot to answer.

Throughout my career I’ve worked across customer, employee and organisational experiences for global organisations including Microsoft, HSBC, GSK, Zurich, Dyson, LinkedIn and RAKBANK.

The pattern was always the same, organisations were investing millions improving experiences. Yet they often couldn’t explain why those experiences were underperforming in the first place. Solutions were selected before the experience was understood.

That eventually became what I call Front-End Experience Strategy.

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OUR PHILOSOPHY

The Way We Tick

Great experiences start with understanding what is really happening inside them. We help leaders identify where important customer, employee, guest, visitor and patient experiences are losing value, where unmet needs reveal new growth, and what deserves investment before redesign or transformation begins. Built for CEOs, CFOs and experience leaders who want the evidence before the answer.

 

Push Boundaries

We thrive on bold moves and fresh thinking. When others stick to safe, incremental fixes, we're already exploring the friction markets they're missing. Our best ideas come from questioning what everyone else assumes is true.

 
 
 

Experiment Ruthlessly

We don't gamble on guesswork or best practice blindness. Every experience starts with solid insight, rapid testing, and ruthless validation. We de-risk at speed and turn uncertainty into action.

 
 
 

Design For Experience

We capture people in real situations and states. Design for what they actually experience, uncover the Friction Markets others miss, and fix the cracks bleeding value.

 
 
 

Move With Purpose

We're doers with direction. While others get stuck in endless planning and PowerPoint, we move fast with purpose. Real change happens when you stop talking and start building.

 
 

The story of ‘We are Knot’

  • 2014-2015

    We Entered Through experience

    Started in employee experience and engagement. Saw programmes change messages without changing reality. We changed the question from “What should we deliver?” to “What do people need to experience?” Insight became action fast.

  • 2016

    We Shifted to Product Thinking

    Added product thinking, service design and user research. Mapped journeys. Prototyped responses. Tested what mattered. Teams adopted it because it solved problems, not because another initiative demanded compliance.

  • 2017 - 2018

    We Changed How the work happened

    Replaced silos and sign-off theatre with lean sprints, users and fast feedback. Launched KNOT Another Podcast. Challengers found a voice. We did not question the work. We questioned how it happened.

  • 2019 - 2020

    We Built the System

    Named the method: SPIES, Strategy, Product, Interaction, Experience, Service. Built experience incubators. Designed for adoption. Scaled evidence-backed ideas. Strategy became something people could experience.

  • 2021-2022

    We Made Strategy Deliver

    Challenged legacy assumptions. Turned experiments into services inside organisations. Experience stopped being treated as a campaign. It became a product.

  • 2023 - 2025

    We named the problem

    Published The Insightful Innovator. Launched the Knot Another Deck. Named the gap: Experience Leak. Brought thinking together under one name: Knot.

  • Today

    We read before we redesign the Experience

    What began in employee experience now applies wherever important experiences affect revenue, margin, trust, loyalty, productivity or performance. We help senior leaders find where value leaks, where profitable growth is hidden and what deserves investment before delivery begins.

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