Helping places invest with confidence

Investment Zones are complex, long-term programmes designed to accelerate place-based growth. As activity increases, learning can surface too slowly and evidence can remain fragmented, limiting the ability to adapt investment decisions in real time. Revalorise is the working name of an emerging digital solution intended to address this challenge. It aims to improve visibility of activity, enhance the reusability of learning, and strengthen confidence in investment decisions during delivery.

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Basic premise

A common reality of programme delivery.

Activities can outpace visibility

Delivery moves quickly. What is happening is not always immediately visible or captured in enough detail to reveal meaningful patterns.

Learnings are not always portable

What works, and what does not, often lives in documents, inboxes, and conversations. It can lack the context needed for reuse.

Decisions rely on partial data

Choices are made with the available information. That information may not always be complete enough to aid confident judgement.

Conceptual model

Value realisation across programme networks.

Intended deployment

Programmes operating within a shared framework.

Cardiff & Newport
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m
East Midlands
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m
Glasgow City Region
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m
Greater Manchester
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m
Liverpool City Region
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m
North East England
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m
North East Scotland
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m
South Yorkshire
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m
Tees Valley
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m
West Midlands
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m
West Yorkshire
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m
Wrexham & Flintshire
Activation date
2024
Planned duration
10 years
Funding envelope
£160m

Development trajectory

Structured to progress via interdependent stages.

Stage 1:
Scoping

What will be delivered

An assessment confirming whether a credible digital pathway exists, and recommended next steps.

Bounded approach

  • Focus on definition and feasibility only.
  • No build or delivery activity is expected.
  • A valid outcome may be not to proceed.

Specified outputs

  • Clear articulation of the digital opportunity.
  • Defined options and associated trade-offs.
  • Recommendations grounded in consultation.

What will be examined

Several independent digital pathways will be evaluated to determine which, if any, merit progression.

A shared view of investment activities

Pathway 1
  • Explore activity distribution by place and theme.
  • Surface meaningful patterns and relationships.
  • Create a shared view for strategic conversations.

A structured evidence base of investment learnings

Pathway 2
  • Capture learning examples with sufficient context.
  • Improve access to and interpretation of information.
  • Reduce reinvention and accelerate informed action.

A support layer for investment decisions

Pathway 3
  • Align important decision criteria to purpose.
  • Link choices to evidence and comparable cases.
  • Increase coherence and explainability of outcomes.

What will be confirmed

The conditions under which further development would be justified, and where it would not.

Investment Zone activities

Whether activities can be seen and compared in a consistent way.

Investment Zone learnings

Whether learnings can be captured with sufficient context for reuse.

Investment Zone decisions

Whether decisions can be better supported using shared evidence.

Stage 2:
Prototyping

Considered only if Stage 1 identifies a credible pathway worth testing in practice.

Stage 3:
Productisation

Considered only if Stage 2 demonstrates clear value and repeatability.

Stage 4:
Commercialisation

Considered only if Stage 3 results in a viable product with a sustainable operating model.

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