Your parked idea, built and funded.
We take parked ideas and ship them. James and Louis build alongside you for twelve weeks, until the product is live and the investors are taking the call.
Idea sharpening
Most ideas die from being too broad. We sit with you to cut the surface area down to one wedge worth betting on. The one a buyer will actually pay for.
Technical foundation
A production-grade stack you actually own. The same tools and patterns we run our own businesses on. You leave with real infrastructure, not a prototype.
Pitch & investment
Deck, narrative, financials, data room. Investor-ready materials that survive real diligence. Written by operators who have stood on the other side of the table.
HNWI introductions
When the round is right, we make warm introductions to the high-net-worth individuals in our network. The kind of cheque writers founders rarely reach on their own.
What we take. What you get.
Honest terms, written once and not revisited.
Tech-for-equity. One percent of the company in exchange for the architecture, the build, and our time.
Of the funds raised in the round we help you close. Paid on success, not on slides.
Paid once on signing. Fully credited back against the 10% success fee when the round closes — so if you raise, it costs you nothing on net. It exists to filter for founders who are serious enough to put a small amount of skin in the game.
An architecture that scales the moment a user shows up.
A product that sells, not a prototype that demos.
Investor-ready materials that survive diligence.
Warm introductions to capital, not cold lists.
James and Louis on the build, not a junior associate.
A desk in Derby.
If you want one.
Optional coworking in the heart of Derby, sat alongside the team. Real coffee, real conversations, real velocity.
We say no a lot.
We only work with people we genuinely believe in and ideas that scale. If we are not the right fit we will tell you straight, in the first call. The honest no is worth more than the polite maybe.
What we’ve built together.
A small, deliberate set of companies built alongside the founders we back. Here is the first, in their own words.
From grassroots to the global stage.
KickStats is the ultimate AI-powered platform for players, coaches, and scouts. Track. Analyse. Perform.
“James and Louis kickstarted Kickstats whilst scaling their own business. It was the kickstart we needed to take the idea to a product we can sell to customers and investors.”
Read the essays.
Apply. Review. Join.
Three short steps. No bureaucracy. No 14-stage process. The same speed we expect of the founders we back.
See the processYour next chapter starts here.
Tell us about the company you want to build. If we’re a fit, we’ll get back within a week.
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