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A good idea rarely fails on the idea. It fails on a forecast investors don't believe, a plan that doesn't answer their questions, or tax relief that was never properly in place. Whether you're launching from scratch or buying something established, we get the numbers right before you commit.
SEIS & EIS Applications
Serious angels ask whether you're SEIS or EIS eligible before they ask anything else. Get it right and your investors claim 50% income tax relief under the Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme, or 30% under the Enterprise Investment Scheme. Get it wrong — the wrong share class, a missed form, an activity HMRC doesn't recognise — and the relief disappears. We draft your advance assurance, structure the shares, deal with HMRC and issue the certificates your investors need to claim.
- Advance assurance drafted and submitted to HMRC
- Share structure and cap table checked for eligibility
- Compliance statements (SEIS1/EIS1) filed once the money lands
- Investor certificates (SEIS3/EIS3) issued so they can claim
- Qualifying conditions monitored for the three years that follow
Financial Forecasts
A hockey-stick chart has never raised a round on its own. Investors, banks and grant panels want to see how the growth happens: what drives revenue, what it costs, how long the cash lasts and where breakeven sits. We build integrated three-to-five-year models — profit and loss, cash flow and balance sheet in one — with assumptions you can change and defend. Base case, upside and downside, so the awkward questions are answered before they're asked.
- Three-to-five-year integrated model: profit and loss, cash flow, balance sheet
- Revenue drivers, cost base and headcount plan built from your assumptions
- Burn rate, runway and breakeven mapped
- Base, upside and downside scenarios
- Built in Excel or Google Sheets, so you can keep it live after the raise
Business Plans
Most business plans are written to be filed, not read. Yours needs to answer five questions fast: what you do, who it's for, what problem you solve, how you make money and why now. We write plans for the people who will actually read them — angels, banks, grant bodies and HMRC for SEIS/EIS advance assurance — with the market analysis and financial model to back every claim. Standard turnaround is ten working days.
- Problem, solution, market, business model and the ask, in that order
- Competitor analysis and market sizing
- Financial model and funding schedule built in
- Formatted for SEIS/EIS advance assurance, grant bodies and lenders
- Pitch deck aligned to the plan, so the two never contradict each other
New Acquisition Due Diligence
The accounts you've been shown tell you what the seller wants you to see. Before you sign, you need to know what's underneath: revenue that's real and repeatable, liabilities nobody mentioned, director's loans, unpaid tax and the working capital you'll actually inherit. We review the target's numbers, flag the red lines, sanity-check the price and give you a clear view of what you're buying before the money moves.
- Quality of earnings: is the revenue real and repeatable?
- Hidden liabilities, director's loans and unpaid tax
- The working capital you'll actually inherit
- Valuation sanity check against the asking price
- Red-flag report you can negotiate from