An honest read on your business, in one sitting
Outside advice on a business can cost thousands and take weeks. ScaleupKickstarter gives UK founders and social enterprise leaders a structured view of their business in minutes, and gives the advisors and programmes that support them one consistent place to start.
2 to 3 min
for a Snapshot, the quickest level
3
depth levels on one set of answers
4
report sections written for social enterprises
What we hold ourselves to
A diagnostic is only useful if you can trust it. These three commitments shape every report.
You can see the working
Scores are set by formula, and every factor is shown with its weight. AI writes the explanations, and marks where each point comes from and how sure it is.
Your report belongs to you
Keep it, export it or share a private link. Nobody else sees it unless you choose to share it.
One method for everyone
A founder on their own and an advisor with a whole cohort use the same questions and the same scoring, so results compare fairly.
What it’s grounded in
Specific to the business you actually run
The analysis starts from real context about your business, covers the model you actually run, and is built to be repeated as things change.
Grounded in your public record
Where your company is registered, we pull the public Companies House record into the analysis, so the read starts from real context rather than a blank form.
A social enterprise track
Mission-led organisations get 4 sections of their own: theory of change, social impact, social investment readiness, and governance and compliance, read alongside the commercial analysis from Medium Touch upward.
Built to be run more than once
Run it again when something changes and see what has moved, so progress becomes evidence you can show rather than a feeling you have.
One diagnostic, two kinds of user
The method is the same either way. What changes is the scale you run it at, and what comes out at the end.
Business owners
Run it on your own company and get a written report that ends with what to do next. Growing businesses and social enterprises each have a page of their own.
For your businessOrganisations that support businesses
Advisors, accelerators and growth programmes run it across a cohort: the same method for every business, bulk import at intake, and a monitoring export in the columns your funder asked for.
For organisationsBuilt by a not-for-profit, to reduce business failure
Working with
“The cheapest help a founder can get is an honest answer to a hard question, early enough to do something about it.”
Who builds it
ScaleupKickstarter is built by hibretOne, a not-for-profit community interest company based in Birmingham. Any surplus goes back into grants, scholarships and bursaries for the next generation of founders.