You see a problem worth solving.You could build the answer.
A 26-week programme for people aged 18 to 30 who want to start a real tech business.
No tech background, no degree, no permission needed. Just a problem you understand, and the readiness to put the work in.
Accenture funds the programme, and CoEngineers shapes the learning. There are more names to come before November, and we'll add them here as they're signed.
Six stages. One step at a time.
By the end of week 1, you'll be the director of your own company. By week 12, you'll have put a real offer in front of real people. By week 26, you'll have shipped a product and asked real customers to pay for it.
Every stage is real work, not theory. You share your progress each week, building it yourself, but never alone.
It begins with a problem you already notice.
The best tech businesses solve a real problem someone would happily pay to make go away. You don't need an original idea nobody's had. You need one real problem you understand.
What keeps bothering you? Here are a few starting points, to spark your own.
Getting to appointments
Older people and carers juggle transport, times, and reminders with nothing that joins it all up.
The admin that eats your evenings
A local trader loses hours every week to quotes, invoices, and chasing late payments.
Running a club or group
A football team or choir held together by spreadsheets, group chats, and one exhausted volunteer.
Studying for something hard
People revising for a test, a licence, or a qualification with scattered, generic materials.
Selling in three places at once
A shop owner selling on Instagram, at markets and online, with no single view of what's sold and what's left.
Finding help nearby
People who don't know what support exists near them, or how to actually reach it.
Any of these could be a real business. So could the problem only you keep noticing.
The support, the tools, and a company that's yours.
The tools and the company
- →Learn to build with Claude, one-to-one and at your own pace. Your access is funded for the whole programme.
- →Support to incorporate your own company through our partner, with a business bank account set up alongside it.
- →Everyday is your home base for the whole journey: a step-by-step path guided by Nim, your programme guide, plus plain-English guides to running a business.
The people around you
- →A cohort of people starting at the same time, building in public alongside you.
- →Mentors who've done it, joining live group sessions at the points where experience and judgement matter most.
- →A community you keep, fellow founders who stay in your corner long after the programme ends.
- →Live sessions at the deciding points: stress-testing your offer, getting unstuck mid-build, landing your first customers. Plus technical speakers throughout the programme.
This is real work. We'd rather tell you that now.
You'll incorporate a company and put your work in front of people who can say no. Some weeks will be hard. Some won't go the way you hoped.
But you won't be doing any of it alone. Your cohort is beside you every day. Mentors join live group sessions at the points where judgement matters. And Nim guides you step by step through the whole journey.
Your first product might not be the one that takes off. That's alright. What stays with you is the ability to spot a real problem, build an answer and put it in front of people. Whatever happens with this company, you'll know how to do it again.
If that sounds like exactly what you've been waiting for, you're the person we built this for.
The best businesses come from someone who's lived the problem.Why not you?
This programme is built for young people who weren't handed the network, the runway, or the permission. Sound like you?
What you'll need
- →To be aged 18 to 30 and living in the UK.
- →Photo ID. Before you can be a company director you have to verify your identity with Companies House, so you'll need a passport or a UK photo driving licence.
- →To be legally allowed to be a company director.
- →Around 6 to 10 hours most weeks, at a pace you set. Week 1 and the build weeks ask for more. Almost none of it is at a fixed time: there's under 8 hours of live, must-attend sessions across the whole 26 weeks.
- →£14.99 in week 1, to register your company. It's your company, so it has its own running costs after that. We'll show you the full picture before you apply.
If you're not sure about the ID, tell us on your application. We'll look at it with you before you commit to anything.
And if you start the programme and decide founding isn't your path, you can move into funded one-to-one career coaching with Stay Nimble, if that's right for you.
Applications open on 1 October.
Register your interest and we'll email you the moment applications open. It takes a minute. There's no pitch and no panel when you do apply.
The first cohort starts on 3 November 2026, and a new one starts every month after that.
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