What is Business Launchpad?

Business Launchpad is an AI business planning tool for UK founders. You describe an idea in one sentence and get a Founder Brief immediately, without an account. A free account then builds eight more sections: brand identity, market analysis, MVP plan, 90-day roadmap, pitch deck, AI opportunities, 12-month financial projections and a full written business plan.

Is Business Launchpad free to use?

Yes. The Founder Brief is free with no account. The free plan lets you build three ideas with all thirteen sections. The Founder plan, £19 a month or £149 a year with a 14-day trial and no card, adds unlimited ideas and the downloadable Business Pack: PDF plan, PowerPoint pitch deck, Excel financial model and brand kit.

How long does it take to generate a business plan?

The Founder Brief takes about 30 seconds. The remaining eight sections build in around six minutes. The optional founder interview adds three to five minutes and tailors the later sections to your answers.

Will Business Launchpad tell me if my idea is bad?

Yes. Once your market analysis and financials are built, the Validation Verdict reviews the whole plan and returns one of three calls: build it, reposition it, or it is too crowded. It scores market opportunity, differentiation, execution feasibility and financial viability out of 100, names the biggest concern, and lists three cheap tests that would change the assessment.

Why use Business Launchpad instead of ChatGPT or Claude?

A general chatbot is excellent for thinking out loud, and Business Launchpad runs on the same frontier models. The difference is what you leave with. A chatbot writes "break-even around month eight" as a sentence; Business Launchpad gives you an Excel model with live formulas where changing the price moves the break-even month. A chat thread is not something you send to a bank or an investor; you get a branded PDF plan, a PowerPoint deck with speaker notes, the financial model, a one-page Founder Snapshot and a brand kit. A chatbot is trained to be helpful and will write an enthusiastic plan for a saturated idea; the Validation Verdict is willing to tell you the market is too crowded. And the sections stay connected: revising your competitor list flags exactly what was built on it, instead of quietly contradicting it.

Can ChatGPT write a business plan?

ChatGPT can write a readable draft of a business plan, and for structure and wording it is genuinely useful. Two things it will not do on its own: produce a financial model that recalculates when you change an assumption, since it writes numbers as prose rather than formulas, and tell you the idea is not worth pursuing, because it is trained to be helpful. It also has no memory of the plan between chats, so sections drift out of agreement as the thread gets longer. If you use it, write each section as a separate prompt, give it your real numbers, and ask it explicitly to argue against the idea.

What is the Idea Vault?

The Idea Vault is a private space inside Business Launchpad for capturing raw ideas, notes and sparks before they are ready to build. Ideas move through stages from spark to building, and any vault entry can be turned into a full plan with one click.

Is the output professional advice?

No. Everything Business Launchpad generates is a starting point produced by AI from your inputs. It is not legal, financial or tax advice, and financial projections are illustrative until you check them against your own numbers.

Legal / Cookies | Business Launchpad

1. Cookies

Business Launchpad sets no cookies of its own. No cookie banner is shown because no consent is needed for the storage this application uses.

Our platform provider, Base44, may set a session cookie to maintain your authenticated session. This is a strictly necessary technical requirement to log you in and keep you logged in while you use the service. It is set by Base44's infrastructure and is not accessible to our application code.

2. Browser storage we do use

The application uses the browser's localStorage and sessionStorage APIs. These are stored on your device and never sent to any server by the browser automatically, unlike cookies, which are sent with every request.

Under UK PECR (the rules that govern cookies and similar technologies), localStorage and sessionStorage are covered by the same consent requirements as cookies. Consent is required for non-essential storage. The items below are all strictly necessary for the service to work as you expect, so no consent is needed.

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Strictly necessarylocalStorage

Your chosen filter state on the dashboard (status, sort order, completion level).

Duration: Until you clear your browser data.

Why: Remembers your preferences so you do not have to reapply them every session.

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Whether you prefer grid or list view on the dashboard.

Duration: Until you clear your browser data.

Why: Remembers your display preference across sessions.

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A timestamp recording when the upgrade prompt was last displayed to you.

Duration: Until you clear your browser data.

Why: Prevents the same prompt appearing more than once every three days.

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Draft conversational interview messages for a specific idea, identified by its ID. This may include your business strategy and plans as typed during the interview.

Duration: Until you clear your browser data or log out. Cleared automatically on logout.

Why: Allows you to resume a conversational interview if you navigate away mid-session.

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Why: Prevents the trial offer appearing more than once per session.

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A flag indicating whether you have dismissed the Early Access banner in this session.

Duration: Current browser session only. Deleted when you close the tab.

Why: Respects your choice to dismiss the informational banner.

3. Google Fonts CDN

The application loads the Instrument Serif and Inter typefaces from Google's font delivery network (fonts.googleapis.com). This is a standard HTTPS request from your browser to Google's servers; it sends your IP address as part of the request. Google does not set a cookie in response to this request.

This connection is technically necessary to render the site in the designed typefaces. It does not involve tracking, advertising, or profiling. We consider it strictly necessary for the service to render correctly, so no separate consent is sought.

Google's privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.

4. Why there is no cookie banner

UK PECR requires consent only for storage that is not strictly necessary. We have reviewed every item stored by this application and concluded that each one falls into the strictly necessary category: the service does not function correctly without them, and they are not used for tracking or advertising.

We do not use analytics cookies, advertising pixels, A/B testing tools, session recording tools, or any third-party marketing script. If we add any of these in future, we will add a consent mechanism before doing so and update this page.

5. How to clear stored data

You can clear all browser storage at any time through your browser settings:

Chrome: Settings → Privacy and security → Clear browsing data → Cookies and other site data

Firefox: Settings → Privacy & Security → Cookies and Site Data → Clear Data

Safari: Settings → Advanced → Website Data → Remove All Website Data

Edge: Settings → Privacy, search, and services → Clear browsing data

Clearing storage will log you out and reset your view preferences. Your account data (ideas, plans, vault) is stored on our servers and will not be affected.

Cookies & Storage

1. Cookies

2. Browser storage we do use

3. Google Fonts CDN

4. Why there is no cookie banner

5. How to clear stored data