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Mark Hay · Practical business support
Build a better business with clearer decisions, useful tools and practical AI.
I help owner-led businesses find the next useful move — then give them the tool, plan or focused support to make it happen.
- Useful result first
- No account needed for the free layer
- Human help when it earns its place
Mark Hay
Systems thinker, builder and practical partner for owner-led businesses.
Start with the outcome
What are you trying to improve?
Choose the job in plain English. Each route tells you what you will need, how long it should take and what useful result you can keep.
Start or strengthen a business
Find the missing basics before paying for more software, promotion or design.
You leave with
A prioritised business-ready action plan
5–10 minutes · Run the scorecard
Improve a website and win customers
Check the public page customers see and focus on the fixes most likely to remove friction.
You leave with
A public-page scan with observed signals, caveats and ranked first fixes
About 5 minutes · Scan a website
Plan money and pricing
Set a price from costs, margin, fees and VAT, then check the adjacent 12-month cash runway.
You leave with
A usable selling price and cash-plan route
2–10 minutes · Price a product or service
Run the business more clearly
Keep customers, cash, work and decisions visible without a heavyweight system.
You leave with
A calm operating view and next-action list
10 minutes to start · Open the business cockpit
Use AI effectively at work
Start with the job, improve the input and leave with reusable instructions or a checked prompt.
You leave with
A reusable AI workflow, not a list of tips
5–15 minutes · Open AI for Work
Find contracts and opportunities
Qualify the right work and turn tender discovery into a controlled bid decision.
You leave with
A bid/no-bid brief and clearer opportunity route
About 10 minutes · Explore Smart Tenders
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Choose an outcome
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Get a practical route
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Leave with a useful result
Free business support
The right tool, with guidance built in.
The tools, practical coaching and AI guidance now belong to one route: understand the job, produce the result and know what to do next.
Your route
Business-Ready scorecard
Guidance appears where it is useful.
Find the first gap worth fixing.
One useful question
Can a customer understand the offer and contact you easily?
Not yetYes
Your next move
Make the contact route obvious
Put one clear action on the page and use the same details everywhere.
How the support works
Use only as much support as the job needs.
Start free, keep the output and move up only when continuity, implementation or human judgement will make a meaningful difference.
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Follow a guided route
Answer a few practical questions and get the smallest useful next step for the job.
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Work with Mark
Bring in human judgement when the issue is valuable, ambiguous or ready to implement.
Proof in working products
Built to produce an outcome.
Product and publishing system
UK Shortlists
Structured buying guides and shortlist tools built around clearer UK purchase decisions.
See the work
Calm records workflow
QuarterReady Ledger
A focused income and expense product that turns messy admin into quarter-ready records.
See the work
Guidance with usable outputs
AI for Work
A joined-up route from choosing the job to improving a prompt and saving reusable instructions.
See the workWhen a tool is not enough
Need the next move made clearer?
Describe the bottleneck. I’ll help define the smallest useful route — a tool, a focused conversation or a practical day of work.