Turn ideas, experience and expertise into work that works.
A free business library for people working out what comes next — planning an exit from employment, building an expert-led business, developing a portfolio career, or testing an idea alongside the life they already have.
Search the question that’s bothering you.
Guides, explainers, founder stories, videos and a checked directory, built out of years of mentoring, workshops and interviews. Free and searchable, with no login needed to read. A free account opens the working files attached to some Guides.
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More resonance,
less noise.
There is more advice than ever and more certainty than ever, and most of it is designed to make you feel behind. We think entrepreneurship should be democratised, not monetised at every turn — which is why every Resource is free to read, and why we’d rather tell you what didn’t work than sell you a system.
more possibility, less should- Free means free. An account is only needed for working files and templates.
- Nothing here is theory. It all came out of real work with real people.
- We take the work seriously. Ourselves, considerably less so.
- Your business should fit your life, not the other way round.
People working out what comes next.
Planning your exitStill employed, working out what the next thing is, what it would cost and whether it stands up before handing in a notice period.
Going out on your ownFreelancers and consultants in the first few years, working out pricing, positioning and how to stop the feast-and-famine cycle.
Building something biggerFounders past the scrappy stage, deciding what to sell, what to stop, and how to make the model actually work.
Rethinking the whole thingExperienced people with a portfolio career, a career change, or a business that no longer fits the life around it.
It started in a room in Surrey, in 2018.
One idea — breathe new life into old ways of working — filled a room, became an online community when the world shut its doors in 2020, and quietly produced a library. Every resource in it came out of a real conversation with someone working it out.
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Bring your people, we’ll bring the library.
We work with accelerators, membership bodies, councils and brands who want to give their community genuinely useful business support — co-created workshops, sponsored resources, speaking, and access to everything already in the library.
- Workshops and masterclasses for your members
- Sponsored guides and tools, co-branded
- Carbon Literacy training for small business networks
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