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From your first idea to ready to scale.

Short, focused advisory sprints for early-stage founders. We've built our own businesses past £1m, and we help you get clear, make the calls, and walk away with a plan that's genuinely yours.

Two programmes, from £1,000. We only ever work with four founders at a time.


Goldman Sachs 10KSB Everywoman Award 2025 Whole Foods Supplier of the Year Built to £1m+ Cookbook author

Two ways to work with us

Start where you actually are.

One programme for pressure-testing an idea before you launch, one for founders already in market and ready to grow. Both are advisory, both end with a plan you own.

Pre-launch · concept stage

The Concept Sprint

£1,000 / one week

One focused week to pressure-test your idea and leave with a simple plan to launch.

For founders with an idea they believe in, not yet launched.
  • Discovery call, then two working calls in one week
  • Private WhatsApp group for the week
  • Bonus follow-up call about a month later
  • You leave with a simple, costed plan to launch
Explore the Concept Sprint
In market · ready to grow Flagship

The Founder Sprint

£2,200 / two weeks

Two focused weeks to get clear, get moving, and walk away with a plan to scale that's genuinely yours.

For founders past the idea stage with something real in market.
  • Discovery call, then two working calls a week for two weeks
  • Private WhatsApp group, plus the option to add a third week (+£800)
  • Bonus follow-up call about a month later
  • You leave with a marketing and sales plan you can run
Explore the Founder Sprint
Who you're working with

Founders who've actually done it.

We're the founders of My Gluten Free Bakery and Good Grain Bakery, London artisan bakeries we built from a home kitchen to over £1m a year across retail, e-commerce and subscriptions. One of us came from a career in investment management, so we look at every business through both lenses at once: the craft and the commercials.

We've created our own products from scratch too, taking them from a test-kitchen recipe to a manufactured range and scaling up through a co-manufacturer. So if you make a physical product, we've been where you are.

We've lived the messy middle. The capacity ceilings, the pricing that didn't quite add up, the channel that looked great and quietly lost money. This is the help we wish we'd had when we were in it. Practical, honest, and grounded in having built the thing ourselves.

And we've built all of it as mums, running businesses around family life. So supporting other women and mums who are building their own thing is close to our hearts. Whoever you are, you're welcome here, but if that's you, you'll feel right at home.

The short version
  • Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses
  • Everywoman Award winner, 2025
  • Whole Foods Supplier of the Year
  • Built to £1m+ revenue
  • Own products: recipe to co-manufacture, and building a manufacturing site
  • Retail, e-commerce & subscriptions
  • Ex-investment management
  • Cookbook author
How it works

Built for momentum, not homework.

Most founders aren't short of ideas. They're short of a clear head and a plan they trust. So the shape is simple, and the same across both sprints.

We start with a call

A discovery call to understand where you are, your goals, and what's really holding you back, before we plan a single thing.

Two sessions a week

Focused working calls where we diagnose, pressure-test your thinking, and map the way forward. You leave every call with clear decisions made.

A WhatsApp line to us

A private WhatsApp group for the duration. Quick questions, voice notes and reviews between sessions, so you're never stuck waiting to move.

One thing to be clear on: this is advisory. You leave with the clarity, the decisions and the plan. The doing stays in your hands, which is exactly how you end up with a business that runs without us.
The programme, in detail

See exactly what happens.

Two focused weeks, with the option to extend a third. Clarity first, then traction. A suggested arc we flex around the priorities we set on the discovery call.

Before we start · included

The Discovery Call

A proper 20 to 30 minutes getting under the skin of your business. Where you are, where you want to get to, and what's genuinely in the way. You leave with a few clear priorities we'll build the sprint around. We leave knowing whether we're the right people to help. No pressure either way.

  • Where the business is right now
  • What “good” looks like in 12 months
  • The real bottleneck, not the obvious one
  • Your numbers, at a glance
  • The 2 to 3 things we'll focus on
Week 1 · Foundations & clarity

Get the thinking straight

We map the whole business so we can both see it on one page, then sharpen the parts everything else depends on: who you're for, what you sell, and what you charge.

Call 1
  • Full business deep-dive
  • Map it end to end
  • Spot the real bottlenecks
Call 2
  • Positioning & ideal customer
  • Your offer and range
  • Pricing that makes sense
You walk away withA one-page business map and a ranked list of what to fix first.
Week 2 · The growth engine

Get customers coming in

How you find people, win them, and keep them. We shape a marketing and sales approach you can run yourself, matched to your channels and your capacity, not a generic playbook.

Call 3
  • Marketing & brand story
  • Channel mix that fits you
  • Content without the overwhelm
Call 4
  • Getting customers (and the cost)
  • Keeping them: retention & loyalty
  • Sales process & new channels
You walk away withA marketing and sales plan you can start running this week, plus your priority next steps.
Week 3 · Systems & scale

Make it repeatable Optional · +£800

When you want to go deeper, add a third week. The difference between busy and growing is systems. We look at how your operations run, sense-check the numbers, point you to the right tools and automation, and build out a full 90-day roadmap so momentum doesn't stop when we do.

Call 5
  • Operations & capacity
  • Unit economics & margins
  • Where the money leaks
Call 6
  • Tools, automation & AI
  • Your 90-day plan
  • What to do first, second, third
You walk away withA full 90-day action plan and a shortlist of tools to buy back your time.
Bonus · one month on · included

A follow-up call

About a month after we finish, we jump back on a call together. We see how it's landed, unblock anything that's stuck, and adjust the plan to what's actually happening. It's the part most programmes skip, and often where the real progress shows up.

By the end

What you'll actually have

  • A clear map of your business and its biggest levers
  • Tight positioning and an offer that sells
  • A marketing and sales plan you can run yourself
  • A prioritised action plan (a full 90-day roadmap with the extra week)
  • A shortlist of tools and systems to buy back your time
  • A sounding board who's built it, not just advised on it
Who it's for

Is this you?

A strong fit if
  • You're past the idea stage with something real in market
  • You're ready to make decisions, not just gather more opinions
  • You'll put the time in between sessions
  • You want a clear plan you own, not someone to hand it all to
Probably not yet if
  • You're still deciding whether to start at all
  • You want someone to run the business for you
  • You can't give the two weeks real time and focus right now
Everything on the table

What we can cover

We won't touch all of it in the time we have, that's the point of the discovery call, but nothing about your business is off limits.

How to apply

Three steps to a spot.

We work with a maximum of four founders at any one time, and each starts with a proper look at fit, both ways.

1

Send a short application

Email us or drop a DM with a few lines on your business or idea, where you're at, and what you'd want. Five minutes, no polish needed.

2

We book the discovery call

If it looks like a fit, we jump on a call to make sure it really is. No hard sell, either way.

3

Claim your spot

Say yes and we hold your place. First come, first served, and we only ever work with four founders at a time.

£1,000The Concept Sprint · one week, all in
£2,200The Founder Sprint · two weeks, all in

No retainer, no lock-in. Add a third week to the Founder Sprint for £800. A bonus follow-up call a month later is included in both.

batch&SCALE

Tell us where you're stuck.

If it's a fit, one of this month's four spots could be yours. When we're full, we're full, and the next opens up when a founder finishes.