About
About Seam.
Seam tells UK start-ups what government is doing that affects them, and helps them act on it. It is built for companies with no public affairs team and no agency.
Why Seam exists
The rules a young company works under, the money it could bid for and the consultations that shape its market all come from government and Parliament. Most start-ups have nobody whose job is to watch them.
It shows. Over five years, start-ups and scale-ups were about 1 in 48 of the organisations ministers met. Big corporates were about 1 in 6. Seam is built to close that gap: it reads what government publishes every day, picks out what matters to each company, and helps it respond.
Who runs it
Matt Bevington founded Seam in 2026. He was a special adviser to the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, covering science and technology policy, universities, and research and innovation.
Before government he spent four years at Global Counsel, where he ran the UK investor services practice, advising investors on political risk in the companies they back. He was earlier a public policy and foreign affairs analyst at UK in a Changing Europe, and an editor and industry analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
He writes Seam’s analysis and the RED|LINES weekly briefing.
The company
Seam is a trading name of Futureworks Intelligence Ltd, a company registered in England and Wales, number 17458346. Follow us on LinkedIn.
How we work: where our information comes from, how we look after your data and our privacy notice.
Get in touch
Email [email protected]. Journalists, see our press page.