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Your Consulting Business Launches in 30 Days -- Or You're Bleeding Revenue Into Q3

If you're a senior operator going solo, you already know: every week without revenue infrastructure is £8-12k you'll never recover.

One-person services agency: positioning, productization, a personal brand website, and your first 5 retainer clients -- built to UK legal standards.

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30
Days to Revenue
Proven launch playbook
£8.5K+
First Project Value
Transparent pricing
5
Retainer Clients
Recurring revenue target
£500
Total Startup Cost
Fully compliant
What Actually Ships in 30 Days -- And What Stalls Your Launch

Your Ltd registers with Companies House in 48 hours. Your professional indemnity quote arrives from Hiscox the same afternoon. But your positioning stalls for weeks -- because you're trying to serve everyone, package nothing, and price by the hour like it's 2019. A one-person consulting launch ties legal setup (Ltd, IR35-safe contracts, PI insurance) to revenue mechanics: tiered pricing from £8.5K to £14.5K, a LinkedIn content calendar that pulls inbound leads by day 10, and a 30-day playbook that takes your expertise from loose offer to signed contract. Without it, your agency stays an idea your accountant registered but your market never sees.

What is holding your current website back?

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

You've got deep expertise but no idea how to package it into something sellable
Risk: So you write bespoke proposals for every lead, burn hours on scoping calls, and still end up undercharging.
IR35 rules are opaque, and one wrong determination costs you thousands in back-taxes
Risk: HMRC reclassifies your contracts -- suddenly you owe employer NICs plus penalties, retroactively.
No website
Risk: No LinkedIn presence. No proof you exist as a business. Prospects Google your name, find nothing, and hire someone who looks the part.
You registered an Ltd but skipped professional indemnity insurance
Risk: One client dispute over a failed migration and you're personally on the hook for negligence claims.
You're pricing by the hour instead of by the outcome
Risk: Income stays capped at billable hours -- you can't scale, systematize, or take a week off.
No retainer system means feast-or-famine cash flow from month one
Risk: You close a £14K project, celebrate, then watch three months of empty pipeline roll by.

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

UK Ltd via Companies House

We register your limited company with Companies House, set up a virtual registered office, and structure your director and shareholder setup correctly. Clients see a real entity from day one -- not a freelancer with an invoice template.

IR35 Compliance via Qdos Contractor

Every contract goes through an IR35 status determination via Qdos Contractor before you sign. We build contract templates and working practices documentation that protect your outside-IR35 status.

Hiscox Professional Indemnity Insurance

We walk you through Hiscox's online application for professional indemnity cover tailored to consulting and platform migrations. Policies typically run £200–£600/year and protect you against negligence claims.

Productized Service Packaging

We turn your expertise into 2–3 fixed-scope offers with clear pricing: a discovery audit, a full migration sprint, and a monthly retainer. No more custom proposals -- clients pick a package and book.

Personal Brand Website

A fast, conversion-focused Next.js site covering your positioning, service packages, pricing, bio, testimonials, and booking system. Deployed on Vercel with a 95+ Lighthouse score.

Retainer & Billing Systems

Stripe subscriptions, automated invoicing, proposal templates, and a lightweight CRM pipeline. Your first 5 clients go through a repeatable onboarding system -- not a chain of ad-hoc emails.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Define your niche, competitive angle, and one-line positioning so every LinkedIn post and proposal lands the same message

Stop writing bespoke proposals for every lead -- your pricing page pre-qualifies budget and scope before the first call

Build a public pricing page with three tiers that filters bad-fit leads before they waste your calendar

Avoid HMRC reclassification penalties by structuring contracts that pass IR35 tests from day one

Optimise your LinkedIn profile and draft 30 days of authority content targeting your ideal client

Show up in Google when prospects search your name -- a live site proves you're a real business, not a side hustle

Automate discovery calls, Stripe checkout, and onboarding emails so manual admin stops eating your delivery hours

Protect yourself from negligence claims with Hiscox PI insurance tied to your service tier and revenue band

Execute a week-by-week playbook: legal setup days 1–3, productisation days 4–10, outreach days 11–20, close by day 30

Break the hourly-rate ceiling -- outcome-based pricing lets your income scale past billable hours and time-off guilt

Deploy IR35-compliant contracts, scope-of-work templates, and a one-page proposal format checked against UK law

Replace feast-or-famine cash flow with a retainer system that guarantees recurring revenue from your second signed client

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Next.jsVercelSupabaseStripeCal.comResendPlausible Analytics

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Discovery & Positioning

Week 1

We audit your expertise, target market, and competitors. You come out with a niche, a positioning statement, and 2–3 productised service definitions with pricing attached.

02

Legal & Compliance Setup

Week 1–2

Ltd registration at Companies House, a Qdos IR35 assessment, a Hiscox professional indemnity application, a business bank account, and a virtual office -- all up and running.

03

Website & Brand Build

Week 2–3

A Next.js personal brand site covering services, pricing, about, testimonials, and integrated booking. Deployed on Vercel with analytics and SEO fundamentals in place.

04

Systems & Automation

Week 3

Stripe billing, Cal.com scheduling, email sequences, proposal templates, and a lightweight pipeline tracker. Everything your first 5 clients will actually touch.

05

Outreach Blitz & First Close

Week 3–4

LinkedIn content goes live. Direct outreach to 50+ qualified prospects. Free audit offers deployed. The goal: one signed engagement before day 30.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Companies House charges £12 for standard online registration or £30 for same-day. A virtual registered office runs £10-£50/month if you'd rather keep your home address off the public record. Business bank accounts are free with providers like Starling or Tide. Total legal setup sits around £50-£200 before insurance and accounting.
Worth it. If a client claims your advice caused financial loss -- say a migration went sideways -- professional indemnity covers your legal defence and any damages. Hiscox offers policies from around £200/year for consultants. Many enterprise clients won't sign a contract without proof of PI cover. It's cheap relative to what it protects against.
IR35 determines whether HMRC treats you as an employee or a genuine business for tax purposes. If your contract falls inside IR35, you pay employee-level tax and NICs. Qdos Contractor handles status determinations and contract reviews. Getting this wrong can mean backdated tax bills running into tens of thousands. Assess every engagement before you sign.
Yes, if you productise before you start selling. A fixed-scope discovery audit priced at £2,500-£4,000 is an easy first sale -- low commitment for the client, useful signal for you. Pair that with 10 outreach conversations a day from week two, and closing one engagement by day 30 is realistic. The key is having a clear offer ready before you pick up the phone.
Price by outcome, not by the hour. A platform migration audit runs £2.5K-£4K. A full end-to-end migration sprint is £8.5K-£14.5K depending on complexity. Monthly retainers for ongoing optimisation sit at £1K-£3K. Put prices on your website -- it pre-qualifies leads and signals that you know what you're worth. Transparent pricing converts faster than "get in touch for a quote."
Five pages at launch: a homepage with your positioning statement, a services page with productised packages and pricing, an about page with your background, a case studies or testimonials section, and a contact page with embedded booking. Build on Next.js for speed. A 95+ Lighthouse score and clear calls-to-action will outperform any elaborate design.
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