What M7 Is
NOT AN AGENCY. NOT A CONSULTANCY.
Better than Both.
M7 sits at a unique intersection. MIT data. AI startup product roadmaps. Fortune 500 brand signals. Live hardware intelligence. These four inputs — combined with a decade of building real technology — give M7 a view of what’s coming that nobody else has.
01 Agencies Plan the Future
Strategy decks, trend reports, roadmaps. Important work. Someone else’s work.
02 Consultancies Predict the Future
Market forecasts, scenario planning, frameworks. Useful. But still theoretical.
03 M7 Builds the Future
Real technology. Real deployments. Real results. For the brands that are serious about what’s next.
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36th Official MIT Media Lab Partner — February 2025. One of 36 organizations worldwide with access to the research, data, and intelligence coming out of MIT’s most forward-looking labs.
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February 2025 — Official Announcement
M7 IS THE 36TH OFFICIAL MIT MEDIA LAB CONSORTIUM PARTNER
The MIT Media Lab Consortium is one of the most selective research partnerships in the world. M7 joins a global network of organizations sitting at the absolute frontier of technology research, human-computer interaction, and innovation. Intelligence that flows from this partnership feeds directly into every client engagement, every keynote, and every Innovation Brief.
What We Offer
FIVE WAYS TO
WORK WITH M7.
Every engagement starts with a conversation. Most clients begin with a keynote or strategy session and grow from there. Here’s the full menu.
★ Primary Offering
01 — Keynote Speaking & Thought Leadership
The fastest, highest-ROI way to bring M7 into your organization. Matt Maher doesn’t deliver a broadcast — he delivers a blueprint. Every keynote is built around your team, your industry, your problems, and your moment in time. Audiences leave with three action items, not just inspiration.
SIGNATURE KEYNOTE
From $30,000
KEYNOTE + WORKSHOP
From $50,000
TECH TASTING
From $20,000
LUNCH & LEARN
From $5,000
02 — Strategy & Advisory
M7 embeds alongside your leadership team to define where technology intersects with your business model, and what to do about it.Not a framework. Not a deck. A working strategic partnership built on the same intelligence that informs CHANEL’s global tech roadmap.
- Technology landscape mapping specific to your industry
- Competitive signal analysis and early-warning intelligence
- Quarterly strategic sessions with Matt and the M7 team
- Cross-industry insight that your competitors don’t have access to
03 — Ongoing Consultation
The M7 Intelligence Engine runs every week. Your team can have direct access to it through a structured ongoing retainer that gives you the signal, the implication, and Matt’s unfiltered POV on a regular cadence. Think of it as having an innovation lead on call.
- Bi-weekly intelligence briefings custom-built for your team
- Real-time POVs on major platform shifts and AI announcements
- Platform deep-dives: product evolution, brand implications, opportunities
- Monthly measurement report tracking adoption and business impact
04 — Research & Development
The original M7 offering. Deep-dive research, technology prototyping, and proof-of-concept development for brands that want to move from “what if” to “what’s next.” M7 has built AR experiences, voice assistants, NFC activations, and drone content for the world’s most recognized brands.
- Technology audit and opportunity identification
- Prototype development and proof-of-concept testing
- Partner ecosystem access (MIT, AI startups, hardware vendors)
- Full case study documentation and internal activation playbook
05 — Last Resort — High-Fit Clients Only
In rare cases where M7’s strategy and R&D work leads to a build that only M7 is positioned to execute, the team takes on full implementation. This is not M7’s default mode — it’s reserved for clients with shared values, genuine commitment to move fast, and the budget to match. Warner Brothers taught us what happens when that bar isn’t met. We don’t repeat that lesson.
The right implementation client looks like this:
- Forward-thinking executive sponsor with genuine authority to act
- Organization willing to measure innovation on its own terms, not legacy KPIs from 20 years ago
- Commitment to crawl-walk-run: ship something, learn, scale
- Ready to move, not advise-and-shelve
How M7 Works
THE PROCESS
BEHIND EVERY
Result.
M7 doesn’t dine and dash. Every engagement ends with a clear action plan, and the option to bring the team back to run it.
01
Discover the Real Tension
Qualitative interviews with your stakeholders. Audit of what’s working and what isn’t. Identification of the gap between what your brand believes it’s doing and what’s actually happening.
02
Map the Opportunity
Cross-industry intelligence applied to your specific context. What CHANEL learned about AR that applies to your QSR brand. What your competitor doesn’t see coming. Where the whitespace is.
03
Build, Deploy, Measure
Real technology. Not decks. Not pilots that die in committee. AR experiences, voice assistants, AI integrations, NFC activations, deployed and measured against real business outcomes.
04
Crawl. Walk. Run.
Every engagement ends with a clear, staged roadmap. What to do this quarter. What to build toward. How to scale. The playbook is yours. M7 can run it with you — or hand it off.
Selected Work
RESULTS FOR
Iconic Brands.
The AR Try-On That Rewrote the Commerce Playbook
First-of-its-kind AR virtual try-on for the Bollé Nevada goggle. Webby Award winner. The only differentiating factor year-over-year was the AR experience. Metric: 456% / Tags: AR · Webby Award
Snapchat’s First-Ever Haptic Shake Activation
Interactive AR metaverse experience in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. The first AR experience on Snapchat to use a Haptic Shake trigger. A genuine world first. Metric: World 1st / Tags: Metaverse · Haptics
80,000 NFC Interactions in Fourteen Days
NFC-powered AR activations at construction sites — connecting physical passersby to digital brand touchpoints at unprecedented scale for an enterprise construction brand. Metric: 80K / Tags: NFC · IoT
The Team
SPECIALISTS IN What’s Next.
MATT MAHER
Founder · Futurist
Vogue Top 100 Innovator 2024. The futurist Fortune 500 executives call first. Speaker at CES, SXSW, MIT, and global stages. CHANEL & Glimpse Group (NASDAQ: VRAR) advisor. MIT Media Lab partner.
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JESS MERRELL
Chief Operating Officer
Leads operations across all client engagements, ensuring M7’s projects are delivered with precision, quality, and measurable impact from brief to launch
Operations · Client Delivery
NICK GODFREY
Chief Client Officer
Has worked with 27 Fortune 100 companies. Stewards client relationships and growth strategy, ensuring every brand partnership is built on trust and transformative outcomes.
Fortune 100 · Client Growth
ALEYNA GROSS
GenZ Whisperer
Platform and app development specialist. Builds platforms, apps, and databases from scratch with native fluency in the habits and behaviors of the next generation of consumers. Emerging thought leader.
Development · Platform Strategy
TERRY WELDON
Web3 Warlock
Deep practitioner in blockchain, NFTs, and decentralized experiences, architecting Web3 strategies that are technically sound, commercially viable, and actually executable.
Web3 · Blockchain · Strategy
EIMEAR TYRELL
Senior Strategist
Bridges research, insight, and creative strategy, turning emerging technology signals into coherent narratives and effective market positioning that brands can actually act on.
Strategy · Research · Narrative
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