Grants
Grant Applications Are a Full-Time Job. They Don't Have to Be.
The average small business spends 20 hours per grant application. That’s half a working week - researching eligibility, reformatting your business info, writing to someone else’s structure. And most of the time, you don’t even get it. The success rate for first-time applicants is under 20%.
The research alone is exhausting
There are thousands of grants available at any given time. Government, local authority, industry-specific, innovation funds, diversity programmes. Finding the ones you’re actually eligible for means hours on databases, reading criteria documents, cross-referencing deadlines. Most founders give up before they even start writing.
Your Business Plan Shouldn't Take a Month
You’ve got the idea. You know it works. But the plan? That’s been sitting in a half-finished Google Doc for three weeks. You’re not alone - 67% of successful entrepreneurs never wrote a formal plan before launching. Not because planning doesn’t work. Because the process is broken.
The old way is genuinely painful
Download a template. Realise it doesn’t fit your business. Google ‘how to write a market analysis’. Spend two hours on a section you’re not sure matters. Get interrupted. Come back a week later and lose your thread. The average professionally-written business plan costs $2,000-$10,000 and takes 2-4 weeks. For a solo founder, doing it yourself takes even longer because you’re learning the format while trying to think strategically.