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Accelerator Centre Waterloo: From No Feedback System to Benchmark-Excellent in One Quarter

Quick Answer

In Q4 2025, Adlius designed and implemented a founder feedback system for the Accelerator Centre Waterloo, achieving a 44% survey response rate across 603 mentorship meetings, rated Excellent by SurveyMonkey industry benchmarks. Before the engagement, the organisation had no reliable, scalable way to capture founder feedback on its mentorship programme.

The Situation

The Accelerator Centre, one of Canada’s leading startup incubators, runs hundreds of mentorship meetings every quarter. The team knew the programme mattered. What they could not reliably see was how it was landing: one-off surveys produced inconsistent data the team could not act on, and there was no scalable system connecting individual mentorship meetings to programme decisions.

What Adlius Did

Adlius applied the Insight-2-Action approach to the feedback problem itself: understanding from founders and mentors why existing surveys went unanswered, redesigning the capture moment around how founders actually work, and implementing a measurement system the AC team could run without us.

The Results

44% founder response rate
603 mentorship meetings measured
1 quarter to full implementation

A 44% response rate is rated Excellent against SurveyMonkey’s industry benchmarks, and unlike a one-off survey spike, it was produced by a repeatable system across an entire quarter of real programme activity.

What the Client Said

Adlius consistently encouraged us to view challenges through multiple lenses, leading to deeper, more strategic thinking.

Accelerator Centre, Waterloo, on the Q4 2025 mentorship feedback engagement

Why It Transfers

The Accelerator Centre did not have a survey problem. It had a demand-decoding problem wearing a survey costume: nobody had established what founders would actually answer, when, or why. That is Phase 1 of Insight-2-Action applied to an internal process rather than a commercial offer, and it is the same move Adlius makes when a service business cannot work out why its proposals stopped converting.

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