BUSINESS IDEAS. PROPERLY TESTED.

Prove it before
you bet your
life on it.

You’ve got a business idea. Before you quit your job, borrow money, invest your savings or make a major commitment — prove what actually holds up.

THE BUSINESS PROOF ASSESSMENT · £99

Physical workbook + guidance + Business Proof Engine + personalised GO | PIVOT | STOP result.

The genuine BUSINESS PROOF Workbook photographed on a wooden desk, showing The Business Idea Test and GO, PIVOT, STOP on the cover.

One assessment. Your evidence decides.

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01 / ONE ASSESSMENT. TWO PARTS.

Do the work.
Let the Engine
do the maths.

Business Proof combines a physical evidence-led workbook with a structured digital analysis Engine. You do the thinking, testing and evidence gathering. Business Proof brings it together.

THE BUSINESS PROOF WORKBOOK

64 pages of practical
commercial testing.

Open BUSINESS PROOF workbook with recorded evidence and a pen, beside a laptop.

Work through customers, competition, numbers, selling, capital, business-model reality, real-world proof and critical risk.

Learn what matters. Test the assumptions. Record what actually happened.

BUILT TO BE WORKED THROUGH.

  1. READ
  2. WATCH
  3. DO
  4. RECORD
  5. MOVE

Business Proof guides you through learning, testing and recording evidence as you work.

THE BUSINESS PROOF ENGINE

Where your evidence
becomes a decision.

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BUSINESS PROOF · ENGINE

You’ve done the work.
Now let’s see what the evidence says.

Transfer the evidence from your workbook. Business Proof calculates the maths and returns your verdict.

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When you’ve completed the workbook, submit your evidence and key commercial figures through your secure Business Proof account.

The Engine performs the calculations, applies the Business Proof methodology and returns your result.

02 / HOW BUSINESS PROOF WORKS

From idea to evidence.

01

Work.

Work through the Business Proof Workbook. Understand what actually matters before committing serious time or money.

02

Test.

Get outside your own head. Talk to real customers. Test price. Test demand. Test the numbers. Find out what happens in the real world.

03

Submit.

Transfer your evidence and key commercial figures to My Business Proof. No weighted scoring. No complicated maths.

04

Result.

The Business Proof Engine analyses what you found and returns your result — GO, PIVOT or STOP — with the reasons and what to do next.

You do not need to understand the methodology behind the Engine. You need to do the work honestly and tell us what actually happened.

FACTS, NOT FEELINGS.

Your evidence
decides.

Business Proof doesn’t predict whether your business will succeed.
It tests what the evidence supports today.

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Carefully designed
commercial questions.

Real-world evidence. Commercial calculations. Critical risk checks. One consistent methodology.

03 / BEHIND THE RESULT

Built to analyse
evidence.
Not enthusiasm.

The Business Proof Engine takes the evidence you’ve gathered and tests it against a structured commercial framework.

  • 32 carefully designed commercial questions
  • 7 commercial areas
  • Structured commercial calculations
  • Critical risk checks
  • One consistent methodology
SEE A BUSINESS PROOF RESULT
01

REAL WORLD BUSINESS

Is this grounded in a real market?

02

THE NUMBERS

Does the maths survive?

03

SELLING & NEGOTIATION

Can you get a genuine customer commitment?

04

STARTING WITH LIMITED CAPITAL

What happens when the money runs out?

05

BUSINESS MODEL REALITY

Does the model hold up?

06

PROVE IT

Show me, don’t tell me.

07

MAJOR RISKS & LEGAL

What could break this — and can you legally trade?

EVIDENCENUMBERSRISKANALYSISRESULT

The Engine combines your evidence with structured commercial calculations and the Business Proof decision methodology. The same rules are applied consistently to every assessment.

No AI deciding whether it likes your idea. No gut-feel scoring. Facts, not feelings. The evidence drives the result.

THREE POSSIBLE RESULTS. EACH ONE USEFUL.

The right result is the one the evidence supports.

GO, PIVOT or STOP — the value is knowing before you make the bigger commitment.

GO

The evidence supports moving forward.

Not a guarantee of success. It means enough commercial evidence exists to justify the next commitment — deliberately, not blindly.

PIVOT

Something is worth pursuing — but something important needs changing or proving first.

Business Proof shows you what is holding the idea back so you can fix it, test again and make a better decision.

STOP

The evidence doesn’t support committing further to this version of the idea.

That can be an extremely valuable result if it prevents a much bigger mistake in time, cash or commitment.

GO is not a guarantee. PIVOT is not failure. STOP is not catastrophic. Every result is a commercial decision based on the evidence available today.

04 / YOUR BUSINESS PROOF RESULT

Not just a score.

Understand what the evidence means — and what to do next.

  • Your GO | PIVOT | STOP verdict.
  • What the evidence says.
  • Your strongest evidence.
  • What’s holding you back.
  • Your key commercial numbers.
  • The biggest thing to solve.
  • Your next three actions.
EXAMPLE RESULT · ENGINE EXCERPT
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YOUR BUSINESS PROOF RESULT

PIVOT

Something important needs changing, testing or proving before you commit further.

Here’s why.

01 / THE ASSESSMENT

What the evidence says

02 / THE STRONGEST EVIDENCE

Your strongest evidence

05 / YOUR PRIORITY

The biggest thing to solve

06 / PUT THE EVIDENCE TO WORK

Your next 3 actions

The BUSINESS PROOF Workbook and its reflection on a wooden desk.

THE BUSINESS PROOF ASSESSMENT

£99.

One structured assessment designed to help you make a better decision before you make a bigger commitment.

GET BUSINESS PROOF — £99

One payment. No subscription required to receive your assessment.

WHAT ARRIVES. WHAT YOU ACCESS.

  • Business Proof branded kraft protective mailer.
  • Premium Business Proof welcome / activation card.
  • 64-page Business Proof Workbook.
  • Guidance videos from Andrew at the points where explanation matters.
  • Secure My Business Proof account.
  • Access to the Business Proof Engine.
  • Automatic commercial calculations.
  • GO | PIVOT | STOP assessment.
  • Clear explanation of what your evidence says.
  • Your strongest evidence and biggest issue.
  • Your key commercial numbers.
  • Your next three actions.

BEFORE YOU BET BIG

Before you…

  • Quit your job.
  • Invest your savings.
  • Borrow money.
  • Put £20,000 into stock.
  • Sign a lease.
  • Build the expensive version.
  • Take on staff.
  • Bet the next two years on an idea.

Spend £99 finding out what the evidence says before the commitment becomes expensive.

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BUILT FOR BUSINESS IDEAS. NOT BUSINESS TYPES.

Whatever you’re
thinking of building.

Business Proof is designed to test the commercial evidence behind an idea — whether you’re building your first business, a side hustle, a new product, a service or your next venture.

PRODUCT & FMCG
Food · Drink · Beauty · Consumer products
RETAIL & ECOMMERCE
Stores · Online brands · Marketplaces
HOSPITALITY
Cafés · Restaurants · Bars · Accommodation
TRADES & SERVICES
Construction · Trades · Cleaning · Maintenance
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Consulting · Agencies · Freelance · B2B services
HEALTH & WELLNESS
Fitness · Beauty · Wellness · Personal services
TECH & DIGITAL
Apps · Platforms · SaaS · Digital products
CREATIVE & EDUCATION BUSINESSES
Training · Courses · Studios · Content businesses

A first business. A side hustle. Going self-employed. A new product or service. An existing business testing another opportunity. A second venture.

The business model changes.
The questions don’t.

Who is the customer? Will they pay? Do the numbers work? Can you reach enough of them? Can you deliver it? What could stop it? And what have you actually proved?

If you’re about to put real time or money behind an idea, Business Proof is built to help you test it.

05 / BUILT FROM THE REAL WORLD

The things founders usually discover after they’ve spent the money.

Business Proof was built to help you discover more of them before you do.

ANDREW DALY · FOUNDER

“Andrew Daly has scaled businesses, had businesses fail, recruited hundreds of people, and built businesses across 28 countries.”

Built from more than 20 years of launching, selling, scaling and learning what happens when the numbers, customers or cash don’t behave as planned.

Business Proof takes lessons from building, selling, scaling, hiring, cash pressure, customers, major retailers, things working and things going wrong — and turns them into a practical way to test an idea before the commitment gets expensive.

This is not about pretending every idea should become a business. It is about making a better decision with better evidence.

A COMMERCIAL TEST

This isn’t about learning to sound like an entrepreneur.

Business Proof is not an MBA, a startup accelerator, a business-plan template, a motivational programme or a get-rich-quick course.

It is a structured commercial test.
Do the work. Gather the evidence. Find out what holds up.

06 / SUPPORT AFTER THE RESULT

You don’t have to do
the next part alone.

Every Business Proof result includes clear next actions. If you want additional support, Business Proof can help you move forward based on what your evidence actually says.

GO → MOVE FORWARD

Act on the evidence.

You have evidence worth acting on. Continue independently or get support turning it into a disciplined launch plan.

PIVOT → FIX & RETEST

Strengthen what matters.

Understand what needs changing, strengthen the weak evidence and test again before making the next commitment.

STOP → REASSESS & REBUILD

Use what you learned.

Avoid throwing more money at the wrong version of the idea and decide what is worth testing next.

EXPLORE BUSINESS PROOF SUPPORT

BUSINESS PROOF FOR EDUCATION & ENTERPRISE

Better evidence.
Better founder decisions.

Give your student founders and early-stage entrepreneurs a structured way to test an idea before they commit significant time or money.

  • UNIVERSITIES
  • ENTERPRISE PROGRAMMES
  • ACCELERATORS
  • INCUBATORS

Business Proof combines a physical evidence-led workbook, real-world testing and the Business Proof Engine to give founders a structured GO | PIVOT | STOP assessment and clear next actions.

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YOU’VE GOT AN IDEA.

Now prove it.

Before you bet big, spend £99 finding out what the evidence says.

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Your evidence decides.

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