The Role of TEA: A Mirror, Not a Report

A good TEA doesn’t just calculate cost — assumptions. It shows founders:

• What must be true for the economics to work

• Where the biggest levers are

• Which risks matter and which don’t

• What plant size is required to hit target COGS

• What commercial-scale unit operations actually look like

  
  

Most importantly:

A TEA brings science, engineering, and business into the same conversation — something that rarely happens early enough in some startups.

If you’re building a biotech, food-tech or sustainable-materials startup…

…there’s a good chance at least three of the misconceptions above apply to your process today.

A TEA doesn’t slow you down — it saves you from going fast in the wrong direction. If you want to explore your process assumptions and see where the real economic breakpoints are:

👉 Book a TEA scoping call

Your technology might be promising — Let’s make sure the economics scale with it.

Gustavo Valente

Director, Sustech Innovation

gustavo@sustech-innovation.com

www.sustech-innovation.com