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The Everyday Founders programme

You see a problem worth solving.You could build the answer.

A 26-week programme for 18 to 30 year olds in the UK who want to start a real tech business.

You learn to build it with Claude, one to one, and your Claude access is covered for the whole programme. There's no fee for the programme itself, and no tech background needed.

Are you ready?For 18 to 30 year olds in the UK. The first cohort starts on Monday 2 November, and a new cohort starts every month after that.
A young woman looking ahead with quiet confidence, in an iridescent treatment over a dawn horizon
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We run the programme in collaboration with Accenture, and CoEngineers shapes the learning. There are more names to come before November, and we'll add them here as they're signed.

01.The journey

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.

Week 1
Problem & incorporation
Find your problem, decide, and become the director of a real UK company.
Weeks 2–4
Vault
Get confident using Claude, and give your business a second brain.
Weeks 5–8
Offer
Turn the problem into something a person would actually pay for.
Weeks 9–12
Paid validation
Put it in front of real people and take your first payment. Your terms, privacy policy and refund policy go live before you sell.
Weeks 13–21
Ship
Build a working product, with two live sessions led by product and engineering mentors when you get stuck. Everyone does.
Weeks 22–26
Scale
First customers, real feedback, and the realities of running a business.
02.What could you build?

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 around

Getting to appointments

Older people and carers juggle transport, times, and reminders with nothing that joins it all up.

Small business

The admin that eats your evenings

A local trader loses hours every week to quotes, invoices, and chasing late payments.

Community

Running a club or group

A football team or choir held together by spreadsheets, group chats, and one exhausted volunteer.

Learning

Studying for something hard

People revising for a test, a licence, or a qualification with scattered, generic materials.

Selling online

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.

Local life

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.

Still looking for yours? Try Your job, but an app: pick a world you know and see the problems people in it put up with.

03.What you get

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 covered 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 guest sessions throughout the programme.
04.Straight with you

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.

Tina & Dom
The team behind Everyday, at Stay Nimble
05.Who it's 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?

01You keep noticing a problem other people just put up with.
02You're ready to learn by doing, one step at a time.
03You can give it real time each week, at a pace you can sustain.
04You want to work for yourself, and build something that's genuinely yours.

Not sure it's for you yet?

Take the readiness check

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.

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.
  • ✓To be starting the company on your own. For now, each Everyday Founder is the only owner of their company.
  • ✓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. There's no fee for the programme itself. 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.

If you claim Universal Credit or another income-related benefit, speak to your work coach before you apply. Starting a company and working on it can change what you're entitled to, and they can tell you how.

The next cohort is filling now.

The check takes a couple of minutes, and applying a few more. There's no pitch and no panel. We check that every application is genuine, and then confirm your place on the cohort you pick, with a date to work towards.

Six months from now, you could be trading as an Everyday Founder. Ready?

Already sure? Apply now.

For anyone in the UK aged 18 to 30 · A new cohort each month · Powered by Stay Nimble