The global platform helping indigenous communities convert their most sacred natural assets — plants, honey, resin, bark, seed, root — into defensible intellectual property, premium global brands, and generational wealth.
The most bioactive natural assets on earth are in the hands of indigenous communities. The IP frameworks to value them are not.
Kakadu plum holds the world's highest concentration of Vitamin C. Stingless Amazonian honey has been used medicinally for centuries. Wild rice is sacred to the Anishinaabe people of North America. All of them are priced as raw materials. None of them have to be.
The San people of South Africa steward one of the world's most bioactive plants. The rooibos industry grew to $350M before they had legal IP protections. In 2019, they finally won the right to benefit-share. Indigenova was built for before that happens to you.
The science exists. The global premium market exists. The demand for indigenous-origin, provenance-verified, bioactive-backed products is growing faster than any other segment. What's missing is the validation standard, the IP architecture, and the commercialisation model.
Every framework in the Indigenova platform was proven in practice by Mānuka Performance — an indigenous-led, science-backed company from Aotearoa New Zealand that built a proprietary validation standard, a multi-market export strategy, and a B2B ingredient licensing model from commodity honey.
"The land has always held its value. The question was never what the asset was worth. The question was who owned the framework that proved it."
The honey-to-IP framework is portable. Every example below represents a community with a bioactive-rich asset at commodity price and an Indigenova framework waiting to be applied.
The Commodity Escape Diagnostic asks six questions about your asset, your community, and where you are right now. It gives you a score, a tier classification, a personalised result — and a free chapter from the playbook.
The full commercialisation playbook for indigenous bioactive founders. Every chapter follows the same structure: the Māori honey case study as proof, the universal framework as your tool.
Every framework in this platform was proven in practice by Mānuka Performance — before Indigenova existed as a name.
The diagnostic is free. The free chapter is free. Everything else is priced so the first sale pays for itself many times over.
"I built Mānuka Performance to prove that an indigenous-led, science-backed company from Aotearoa could compete on the world stage without compromising the values that make it worth building. Indigenova is what I wish had existed when I started."
Tristan Vine is the founder and operator of Mānuka Performance Ltd — a New Zealand-based advanced nutraceutical company that has built PolySure™ (a proprietary polyphenol validation standard), commercialised multiple export product lines across the USA, South Korea, China, and the Middle East, and established R&D partnerships with AgResearch and the Bioeconomy Science Institute.
The company operates with Māori values at its commercial core — Kaitiakitanga, Manaakitanga, Whanaungatanga — and is the live pilot case study behind the Indigenova framework. The playbook is not theoretical. It is the documented system of a company that is running it right now.
Take the five-minute diagnostic. See your score. Get your free chapter. Start the journey.