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Bonham Coutts

For innovators and entrepreneurs

A viable idea is not yet a fundable one.

Most good projects fail to raise for the same reason: the groundwork has not been done. No feasibility study, no investment memorandum, no honest costing. We produce those, and then arrange the finance.

Who this is for

You have a commercially viable idea. What you do not have is the development funding to progress it, or the means to produce the feasibility research and documentation an investor or lender will ask for first.

That is a common position and it is not a weakness. It is simply a stage — and it is the stage where most projects stall, because the work needed to make a project fundable itself costs money.

What we do

  • Assess whether the idea is commercially viable, and tell you honestly if it is not.
  • Produce a professional Feasibility Report — technical, commercial and financial.
  • Prepare the Investment Memorandum: the document investors actually read.
  • Arrange commercial finance for the project.
  • Set out a step-by-step action plan, so you know what happens next and when.

What we do not do

  • We do not provide the funding ourselves. We arrange commercial finance — we are not a lender.
  • We do not give investment, legal or tax advice, and we are not authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority to do so.
  • We do not guarantee that finance will be arranged, or on what terms.
  • We do not put a price on a development before we understand what the development involves.

Step one — the readiness review

Before anything else, we look at where the project actually stands: what is defined, what is assumed, what is costed, and what has never been tested.

The output is a short, plain statement of what is missing and what it would take to close each gap. Some projects need very little. Some need considerably more than the owner expected. Occasionally a project should not proceed at all, and finding that out at this stage is the cheapest possible outcome.

Step two — feasibility research

A feasibility report answers the questions an investor will ask before they ask them: can this be delivered, at what cost, over what period, into what market, and what has to go right.

We separate what we have verified from what the project owner has told us. That distinction matters more than any individual figure, and it is the first thing a serious investor looks for.

See: Feasibility reports.

Step three — the investment memorandum

The IM is the document the raise stands or falls on. It sets out the business, the market, the management, the financial position, the structure of the offer, the use of funds and the risks — including the ones that are inconvenient.

We prepare the IM from the underlying business, not from an existing pitch deck. Where the deck and the accounts disagree, we resolve the disagreement before it reaches an investor.

See: Investment memorandums.

Step four — arranging finance

With the groundwork complete, we arrange commercial finance for the project, or where the company qualifies, structure the raise under SEIS or EIS and present it to certified investors.

Opportunities are only presented to investors who have completed the qualification and certification process. That constrains how quickly a raise can move, and it is not negotiable.

Your action plan

  • 1. Initial conversation — what the project is, what it needs, and by when.
  • 2. Readiness review — what is missing, and what closing each gap requires.
  • 3. Feasibility research — commissioned and produced.
  • 4. Investment memorandum — prepared from the underlying business.
  • 5. Assessment — the twelve-stage process applied to your project.
  • 6. Finance arranged, or the raise structured and presented to certified investors.