Financial Planning
24-month runway, P&L forecasting, break-even analysis, fundraising after endorsement.
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Best AI business plan generator for the UK Innovator Visa process
Generic AI business plan tools fail the Innovator Founder Visa. What a visa-specific generator must do, and where off-the-shelf alternatives break.
Duke Harewood · 22 APR 2026 · 9 MIN READ - FINANCIAL PLANNING
11 financial model templates for your UK Innovator Visa business plan
Eleven financial models that make an Innovator Founder Visa business plan defensible — three-statement, break-even, sensitivity, and eight more.
Duke Harewood · 22 APR 2026 · 12 MIN READ - FINANCIAL PLANNING
The 20% Prince2 contingency: financial discipline that gets endorsed
Innovator International wants 20% contingency on top of your break-even forecast. Here's why project-management thinking beats optimism with assessors.
Duke Harewood · 22 APR 2026 · 6 MIN READ - FINANCIAL PLANNING
£100k per employee: the hidden scalability benchmark
Richard Harrison's rule: an Innovator Visa business should generate £100k revenue per employee per year. Here's how to structure your P&L so it clears.
Duke Harewood · 22 APR 2026 · 7 MIN READ - FINANCIAL PLANNING
The 24-month runway rule: what replaced the £50k
The old £50,000 Innovator Visa threshold is gone. What replaced it is stricter — 24 months of verified runway, and funds you can prove are already yours.
Duke Harewood · 22 APR 2026 · 8 MIN READ - FINANCIAL PLANNING
Free AI-optimised Innovator Founder Visa business plan template
A seven-section Innovator Founder Visa business plan template built around what endorsing bodies actually score — not what generic templates pad out.
Duke Harewood · 22 APR 2026 · 9 MIN READ