1D
One-day intensive
A structured workshop taking businesses from validation to practical action.
Launchpad helps councils, growth hubs, chambers, universities, incubators and business support providers deliver structured, personalised and AI-enabled support to start-ups and early-stage businesses.
Use it within workshops, mentoring programmes, smaller cohorts or one-to-one delivery, with platform access funded for three, six or twelve months.
Growth hubs, councils, chambers, universities, colleges, incubators, accelerators and commissioned delivery teams.
Adapt Launchpad around the businesses being supported, the experience of your delivery team and the outcomes of your programme.
A structured workshop taking businesses from validation to practical action.
A personalised pathway delivered at a pace that suits the individual business.
More direct facilitator input while retaining peer learning and accountability.
Deeper support delivered over time, with a route into GrowthPad.
Launchpad gives mentors and facilitators structure, while protecting their time for the conversations where they add the most value.
Launchpad combines structured business education, practical AI tools and experienced mentoring into one flexible delivery platform.
It helps delivery organisations provide more personalised, consistent and scalable support while allowing advisors to focus on the conversations where they add the greatest value.
Adapt every programme around the individual business rather than asking every participant to follow exactly the same journey.
Reduce repetitive conversations by giving founders practical tools, guided exercises and AI assistance before mentor time.
Every participant follows a structured framework whilst still receiving support tailored to their individual needs.
Businesses continue working between sessions instead of waiting until their next workshop or mentoring appointment.
Participants leave with practical business plans, financial thinking, marketing strategies and clear next actions rather than just workshop notes.
Launchpad doesn't replace advisors. It gives them better information, more structured conversations and more time to focus on coaching, challenge and commercial thinking.
Launchpad can be used as a complete programme, built into an existing business support offer or used by advisors as a structured mentoring framework.
Cohort size, delivery pace, facilitator input and continued platform access can all be adapted around participant needs and programme outcomes.
Deliver a structured workshop that takes founders through validation, financial planning, positioning, marketing and practical next steps.
A mentor guides the founder through Launchpad at a pace that reflects their confidence, experience and commercial priorities.
Deliver Launchpad to a smaller group of businesses, combining peer learning with more direct facilitator input.
Spread delivery across several sessions so businesses can research, test assumptions, implement activity and return with stronger evidence.
Platform access can be funded for three, six or twelve months, allowing founders to continue developing their plans, revisit tools and use the platform alongside mentoring or onward support.
Launchpad can be configured around an existing business support programme or used as the structure for a completely new offer.
We work with delivery partners to define the audience, delivery model, level of mentor support and length of platform access before participants are onboarded.
Agree the target businesses, eligibility criteria, programme objectives and the outcomes participants should achieve.
Select the workshop format, cohort size, mentoring input and whether delivery takes place in one day or across several sessions.
Businesses receive access to Launchpad and complete the information needed to personalise their support and working tools.
Facilitators and mentors guide businesses through validation, financial planning, marketing and practical implementation.
Participants retain access for three, six or twelve months and can progress into mentoring, specialist support or GrowthPad.
Launchpad gives participants one structured place to work through the commercial decisions needed to create and develop a viable business.
Advisors can use the platform to guide conversations, challenge assumptions and identify where a business needs more specialist support.
Explore customers, demand, competitors and the strength of the commercial opportunity.
Work through pricing, costs, cash flow, funding needs and the financial assumptions behind the business.
Define positioning, audiences, messaging, priorities and the most relevant routes to market.
Turn participant information into more focused plans, actions and working business documents.
Translate ideas and workshop learning into prioritised actions that can be implemented after delivery.
Use participant responses to guide mentoring conversations and identify the most useful next intervention.
Launchpad is designed to complement advisors, mentors and facilitators rather than replace them.
It gives delivery teams a clearer framework, stronger participant information and more time to focus on the work where human experience adds the greatest value.
Give participants structured information and practical tools so advisors spend less time repeating general business guidance.
Use participant plans and responses as the basis for more focused, evidence-led and commercially useful discussions.
Give every participant a structured foundation while retaining the flexibility to tailor support around individual needs.
Combine guided delivery, written activities, visual planning, self-directed tools and one-to-one mentor support.
Identify when a business needs specialist finance, legal, HR, marketing, export or investment support.
Support more businesses without reducing the programme to generic, low-touch content or removing personalised guidance.
Launchpad can be adapted around your cohort size, advisor capacity, contract requirements and intended participant outcomes.
GrowthPad is being developed to help delivery partners support more established businesses through the decisions, systems and capabilities needed for sustainable growth.
It will create a natural progression route for Launchpad participants, while also supporting existing SMEs that need more advanced help with markets, leadership, people, finance and commercial development.
Validate, plan, launch and begin trading.
Strengthen systems, enter markets and prepare to scale.
Help businesses compare market opportunities, assess demand and plan regional, national or international expansion.
Strengthen lead generation, customer journeys, CRM processes, conversion activity and commercial follow-up.
Improve financial understanding, growth forecasting, funding preparation and the commercial evidence behind investment decisions.
Support recruitment planning, team design, leadership capability and the transition from founder-led delivery into a stronger organisation.
Help businesses understand contracts, partnerships, risk, intellectual property and the legal foundations needed for growth.
Use business information, market context and advisor guidance to create focused growth priorities and practical next actions.
Growth hubs, councils, banks, chambers, universities and business support providers can contribute insight into the tools, reporting and delivery models most useful to established SMEs.
Book a 30-minute online demonstration to see how Launchpad could be configured around your programme, participants and intended outcomes.
We can discuss delivery formats, cohort sizes, mentor involvement, platform access and how Launchpad could complement your existing business support provision.
Book a 30-minute demoSee how founders move through validation, financial planning, marketing strategy and practical action planning.
Explore one-day workshops, guided mentoring, smaller cohorts or multi-day programme delivery.
Discuss your target businesses, intended outcomes, advisor capacity and wider support pathway.