Built for the whole city

Useful tools, given to the city.

Software that used to take a whole company now takes a small team. So we build genuinely useful things for Bristol's founders and give them away. No catch, no upsell, no agenda.

The anchor tool · live now

The Bristol Pulse

10 events this week · next: Content Creation & Video Marketing: Create Compelling Messages

Every talk, meetup, angel night and fundraiser in Bristol's founder scene, in one place — keeping your finger on the city's pulse. Filter by what you need. Subscribe and get the week ahead in a single, short email each Sunday.

A showcase of everything Bristol has to offer its builders — yours whether or not we ever meet you.

The funding tool · live now

Grants this month

33 open · £5.8m available

Every pound a Bristol founder could win — grants, competitions and awards, open right now with real deadlines and a link straight to the funder. Saves four hours of searching.

Curated, with the honest status on each — open to browse, no sign-up.

The investment tool · live now

The Raise

14 open right now

Where Bristol founders raise investment — the local angel networks, SEIS/EIS funds and accelerators a founder can actually go to, with a link straight to each one.

We point you their way — we don't gatekeep the intro.

The community tool · live now

The Ask

1 ask on the board now

Concrete asks from Bristol founders and charities — an intro, a beta tester, a lawyer for an hour. The thing that quietly kills good ideas is having no one to ask, so we made a place to ask.

Every ask on the board is real — founders helping founders.

The AskReal asks only
Beta testersBristol Spring (that's us)

Founders to test-drive the Sunday Pulse digest and tell us, bluntly, what's missing.

Also offering: Your fingerprints on a tool given to the whole city.

See the board · post an ask →
Roughly one new tool a month

The rest of the toolkit.

An honest list — each one a real starting point we'll keep growing as the community feeds it. They go live the moment they're useful, not before.

Also from the community

Boston Tea Party

Next First Friday: Fri 3 Jul, 8:30–11am · Boston Tea Party, Whiteladies Rd

Our monthly coffee — founders meeting as friends. No sign-up, just come.

More about First Friday →
Why we give it away

Useful and generous, given to the city.

We're builders, creators, founders, startups — passionate about creating and building, and excited to see the city of Bristol flourish.

Faith stays exactly where it has always been — in how the work is done, and in why it is given away.

This tool is the public half · the people are inside

The tools are yours either way. The room is where it compounds.

The Town Square is the members' room behind these tools — 130+ Bristol founders, the directory of who does what, asks and offers answered by people who've been there, and a wave from someone building alongside you. Two minutes to join, nothing to pay, leave any time.