Building from the Ground Up: How Premier Labs Creates Companies with Real-World Impact
Premier Labs is a corporate venture studio that creates purpose-driven companies designed to solve real challenges in industrial manufacturing.
Backed by Premier Automation’s long-standing engineering expertise and market access, we combine the agility of startups with the rigor of disciplined company creation — launching ventures that are customer-validated, scalable, and built for measurable impact.
Our focus is simple: start with real customer problems, versus starting with a technology in search of a problem. By combining customer insights, proven engineering capabilities, and a stage-gated venture creation process, we ensure every company we build is grounded in market reality, not guesswork.
Each venture moves forward only when customer evidence and data confirm that the problem is urgent, the solution is viable, and the business model is sound.
This disciplined, customer-first approach reduces risk, accelerates growth, and creates companies designed to scale — faster and with greater confidence.
From Idea to Impact: Our Proven Venture Creation Process
At Premier Labs, every company we build moves through a structured, evidence-based process – built to turn real industry problems into validated ventures:
Sourcing: We identify high-potential problems from market insights, partner input, and entrepreneurs. These ideas are filtered through an internal triage process before advancing.
Customer Discovery: We validate the problem through direct interviews with industry stakeholders, ensuring urgency, clarity of the problem statement, and a firm understanding of workflow impacts.
Customer Validation: We develop a working proof of concept, refine the value proposition, test early economics, and confirm customer willingness to pay through pilot engagement.
Customer Creation: We build a prototype and MVP, conduct pilot testing, secure early orders, and finalize business and sales plans.
Company Creation: When traction is proven, we formalize the company — establishing structure, governance, and IP to support scale and launch.
Each phase of this process acts as a checkpoint, ensuring progress is driven by data, customer input, and real demand. The result: ventures that are validated before launch and built for long-term success.
Building the Future, Intentionally
For Premier Labs, building a company is a commitment to solving problems that truly matter. Our disciplined validation process gives every idea structure, but our purpose goes beyond process; it’s about creating lasting impact across the industries we serve.
By combining the rigor of engineering with the curiosity of entrepreneurship, we’re reshaping how industrial ventures are built — with validation, collaboration, and purpose at every step.
Each company that emerges from Premier Labs exists because a real customer needed it, a proven market confirmed it, and a team of innovators made it happen.
That’s what it means to build intentionally.
That’s what it means to build the future — from the ground up.