For UK founders raising pre-seed & seed

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The Raise Ready Data Room

Look investor ready before the first meeting.

A Notion template that gives UK pre-seed and seed founders a complete data room, plus a built-in guide to what goes in it. I built it while preparing my own raise, including getting SEIS/EIS advance assurance, and turned it into the template I wish I'd had.

26 ready-made pages across Company, Product, Customers, Financials, Legal, Team and Market
A dedicated SEIS/EIS section: advance assurance, what HMRC asks for, and how to keep your eligibility
Guidance on every page: what goes there, why investors want it, a checklist, tips and common mistakes
A Q&A tracker and an investor access log to stay on top of due diligence
Placeholder text, so you fill it in rather than start from a blank page

£39One-off · Notion template

Get the data room

How it works: after you buy, you get a link. Duplicate the template into your own Notion, fill it in, and share only the pages you choose with investors. This template is guidance, not tax or legal advice. Check the details with HMRC's guidance and an accountant.

The HQ · Community

Raising is lonely. It doesn't have to be.

Coming soon

The HQ is a community for founders getting ready to raise. Swap notes with people a few months ahead of you, get your deck torn apart (kindly) before an investor does, and stop guessing.

Deck nights

Bring your deck. Leave with a better one.

Live teardowns with other founders.

Office hours

Ask the question you're embarrassed to ask.

Regular open sessions with me.

Mock pitches

Practise the hard questions out loud.

So the real ones don't land cold.

The library

Templates, checklists and real examples.

The stuff that's usually behind a warm intro.

Founding members get in first. Sign up for the checklist and you're on the list.

Hi, I'm Alan

About

I've sat on both sides of the table.

I'm a founder building in fintech. Before that I spent years in enterprise sales, selling payment infrastructure to law firms and fiduciaries, which means I know what it takes to get a sceptical buyer to say yes.

When I prepared my own raise, including SEIS/EIS advance assurance, I couldn't find a straight answer to what investors actually want to see. So I built the tools I wish I'd had, and Raise Ready HQ is where I'm sharing them.

No fluff, no 40-slide frameworks. If you're not ready to raise, I'll tell you.

Fintech founder
Ex-enterprise sales
SEIS/EIS: been through it
UK based

Free · 25 points · 2 pages

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