EPISODICICCE

Introduction

EPISODICICCE is a temporary workforce engagement and payment formation, transaction and evidence platform that exists to create better outcomes across the temporary labour market: stronger employment standards, more reliable tax and payroll compliance, lower supply-chain risk, clearer social value evidence, sustained workforce flexibility and greater commercial success for the organisations that participate. Its broader objective is to create an operating environment in which better working standards and stronger commercial performance reinforce one another, balancing the direction of national policy, regulation and responsible procurement with the flexibility, competitiveness and commercial outcomes on which the market depends.

Venture Thesis

Temporary labour is a strategically important part of the UK economy, with more than 1.5 million workers, self-employed individuals and other flexible participants estimated to undertake work through temporary arrangements each week. Yet despite its scale and economic importance, the market continues to face persistent commercial distrust, repeated regulatory intervention and growing external scrutiny over the fair treatment of the people whose work makes the market possible.

We believe many of the market’s persistent problems exist because temporary labour operates without the reliable transactional data on which most modern markets depend. This makes the market unnecessarily complex, heavily scrutinised, risk-laden, vulnerable to abuse and capable of producing poor ethical outcomes whilst also restricting commercial success for buyers and contractors.

Managing flexible workforces should not be so difficult, and we exist to change that.

Our ICCE platform is a multi-party operating system for supply-chain temporary labour activity, providing a shared, system-enforced trust layer through which labour engagements and payments are formed, transacted, attributed, evidenced and reported.

While the system manages engagement formation, activity governance, payroll processing, payment instruction and evidential reporting, it has been deliberately designed not to disrupt the structure of the existing market or absorb the commercial roles of its participants. Instead, ICCE is the enabling infrastructure platform beneath the process: the technology, foundation and operating kit that supply chains plug-into and build upon.

By providing the shared environment for funders, contractors, agencies and workers to communicate and enage with one another, we offer a small change with vast implications: reducing exposure across the labour chain, strengthening confidence between buyers, contractors, agencies and workers, and making governance, assurance and transparency a default system fact rather than a costly, fragmented and retrospective administrative obligation.

The purpose is not to fill a gap in the market. It is to restructure, from the inside out, how a vast and poorly structured market functions and interacts; aligning commercial outcomes with regulatory and social objectives, and ending the persistent trade-off between risk appetite and commercial advantage.

One system.

For.Every.One.

Launching 2027

Collaborative-Open Enterprise

As a Collaborative-Open Enterprise, Episodic is committed to transparency, meaningful stakeholder collaboration and continued alignment with evolving policy, regulation and worker expectations. Our aim is not simply to meet the minimum required standard, but to use evidence, consultation and responsible system design to support progressively better commercial, regulatory and worker outcomes.

That commitment extends to the journey towards launch. Episodic intends to continue developing in public wherever it is responsible to do so: publishing material progress, research, milestones, changes of direction and emerging priorities while maintaining appropriate protection for intellectual property, personal information, security-sensitive material and legitimate commercial matters. The objective is to make ICCE visible enough to be scrutinised, challenged and improved as it develops, rather than presenting the market with a finished system only after the important decisions have already been made.

ICCE has now completed Version 1.0 of its unified model and system specification, bringing the core model, target architecture and principal operating boundaries into a defined and controlled position. The project is therefore moving beyond its initial design and prototype phase into the next stage of venture development: completing the target platform, strengthening the end-to-end product experience, testing external market fit, validating counterparty requirements and building the commercial, technical and institutional relationships required for deployment. From an investment perspective, the emphasis now increasingly shifts from internal specification towards external evidence of adoption readiness, repeatability and scalable commercial value.

Episodic is currently seeking discussion with stakeholders, investors and relevant institutional organisations that share the belief that the temporary labour market requires material structural improvement, particularly where national policy objectives, commercial performance and outcomes for individuals can be better aligned. Across August to October 2026, three engagement channels are being opened at different stages: Consultation (2026), Stakeholder Access and Investor Access. Together, they provide routes for market challenge, strategic dialogue and early relationship-building as ICCE progresses towards its planned 2027 launch.

Consultation (2026)

ICCE’s first annual public stakeholder consultation invites participants to review, challenge and inform the system while implementation, reporting, commercial positioning and pre-launch adoption remain open to meaningful external input.

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Stakeholder Early Access

See ICCE in action before wider market release. Uderstand how the system is intended to work for their role and explore whether future participation is commercially, operationally or strategically relevant. Access is structured around the participant's needs and their reason for engaging.

Stakeholder access

Investor Access

Follow ICCE from development to market through public investor updates, early strategic discussions and controlled review opportunities for investors, advisers and strategic participants building familiarity ahead of future opportunities.

Investor access