GPCDS Labs launch

Announcing the launch of GPCDS Labs after our official incorporation.
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Author

Charlotte Jane Hadley

Published

March 6, 2026

We’re excited to announced that GPCDS Labs has officially launched today after incorporating at Companies House. Visible Data is our trading name and how we want to be known, this name is representative of our mission:

Dataviz for all points with humans at the heart.

The Journey So Far

It’s extremely early days for us. On February 3rd 2026, our founder, Charlotte Hadley, gave a speculative pitch to SETsquared - the world’s largest university-backed incubator based in the South West’s “Silicon Gorge.”

Charlotte pitched her vision to increase the role, scope, and value of data enterprise visualization, with a strict focus on accessibility and digital inclusivity. She was invited to bring the startup into the incubator and has spent the last month iterating rapidly, culminating in our official incorporation to bring this purpose to life.

What’s Next: Our Immediate Roadmap

Now we’re Companies House official, we are focusing on four clear goals for the near future:

  1. Define our values, mission, and purpose to ensure we build ethically from day one. Our goal is to acquire B Corp Pending status before August 2026.

  2. Mature our product plan to turn our vision into scalable software.

  3. Build a concrete business model with aligned top-down and bottom-up metrics.

  4. Submit our application for SEIS Advanced Assurance before the end of Q2 2026.

Why SEIS Advanced Assurance is our critical next step

We’re a software company. Specifically, we are Pier: a human-first data communication workspace.

It’s an R&D intensive and ambitious endeavour. The Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS) is an incredible catalyst for growing these kind of ventures as it offers early-stage investors a de-risked strategy through income tax relief on their investment. We do not have SEIS advanced assurance. Our goal is to submit the application before the end of Q2 2026, noting that the application does not guarantee approval. Should our application be approved we will provide updates on the company blog.

Our brand so far

We are a proud Bristol-based startup within the DeskLodge (in fact Charlotte was awarded Desklodger of the month in 2025) and have worked with Brand51 on the design for Pier’s logo

Pier's circular logo featuring a stylized white 3-dimensional pier that loops to form the capital letter 'P'. The structure stands on thin vertical pillars against a background of three horizontal color bands: a pale blue top band representing the sky, a turquoise middle band representing the sea, and a coral-orange bottom band representing the land.

The rest of our branding including our colour palette was designed by our founder Charlotte Hadley.