Tell us what you’re working on. We’ll be straight about whether we can help.
Buying a business, selling one, taking on a franchise, franchising your own, finding suppliers, finding distribution, raising money. We're not a listings site — we run the operations behind these moves, which means we usually know what actually goes wrong in them.
- Buying
- Selling
- Franchising
- Sourcing
- Distribution
- Raising
- A real person, not a form that disappears
- A straight no beats a slow maybe
- You keep ownership — your customers, your brand, your money
Six moves, and what help means for each
One of these we run end to end. For the rest, help means judgement and introductions — so we've said which is which.
Buying a business
You've found something, or you're looking. The hard part is usually working out what you're actually buying — what the numbers mean, what comes with it, and what breaks the day the founder leaves.
Selling or handing one over
Getting a business into a state where somebody else can run it is most of the work, and it's the part that raises the price. Clean books and an operation that doesn't live in your head.
Taking on a franchise
Which brands are genuinely recruiting, what the real cost of a unit is, and whether the territory you want is free. We run this machinery for brands, so we see it from the inside.
Franchising your own brand
This one we do end to end and it's live: publish an application form, score applicants on what they can actually fund, run the discovery day, get the disclosure acknowledged with the cooling-off period enforced, and accrue royalty per outlet.
Finding suppliers or manufacturing
Who can actually make it, at your volume, at a quality you can sell. Introductions where we have them, and a straight answer where we don't.
Finding distribution or stockists
Getting your product onto other people's shelves — and being able to tell, afterwards, which of them are actually selling it.
Including the one about the missing listings
Is this a listings site? Can I browse businesses for sale?
Not yet, and we've taken the empty listings page down rather than leave it up looking busy. The machinery for a marketplace is built — listings, proposals, agreements, and the money path from a signed deal to a real order — but we don't have the supply behind it yet, and a marketplace with nothing in it wastes your time. When there's something worth browsing it'll be on this page.
So what do I actually get if I fill this in?
A conversation with someone who'll tell you honestly whether we can help. Sometimes that's an introduction, sometimes it's what we've learned running the same move for someone else, and sometimes it's 'we're not the right people for this' — which is a useful answer inside a week rather than after a month of being managed.
You said franchising is different. How?
Because it's the one where we run the whole thing rather than making introductions. A brand can publish an application form, score every applicant against what they can fund, run discovery days, get the disclosure document acknowledged with the cooling-off window enforced before anything is signed, hold territories per unit, and accrue royalty per outlet onto real books. Collecting and paying out that royalty is deliberately still a conversation with us, not a switch you flip — moving other people's money has rules attached.
Do you take a cut?
Not on your sales. You pay for the software and nothing else. If we ever broker something where a fee makes sense, it'll be a number written down in front of you before anything happens, never a percentage that quietly appears.
I'm not sure which of these I'm doing.
Then say that — there's an option for it. Most of the useful conversations we have start with someone describing a situation rather than naming a transaction.