Scott, founder of LaunchKit

The founder

I build businesses for a living. These are the files I run mine on.

I'm Scott. Thirty years in property and construction, twenty of them running companies of my own. LaunchKit is the set of files I kept rebuilding from scratch, finally done properly.

In business for myself since 2006 · founder of Salus Studios

Most template shops are anonymous. This one isn't, because the whole point of these files is that someone has actually used them to run a business.

What you're buying

The Premium Business Plan, $59.99, one payment.

Who it's for

Freelancers and first-time founders who need a serious plan: for a bank, for an investor, or to find the holes in the idea before real money goes into it. If you already have a finance team, this is not for you.


Why me

I left school at sixteen and went into an apprenticeship, with no family money and no head start. I studied at night and on my days off while working full time, and kept at it until I had a degree. Thirty years later the career spans more than $500m of development across residential, commercial, retail and industrial schemes, including a $250m transatlantic US/UK joint venture, US investment into a London high-rise scheme, taken from first negotiation through planning and funding to financial close under my management, and now on site.

The number that matters most to you is smaller. I have run my own companies for twenty years, several of them, one after another: winning the work, writing the proposals, sending the invoices, chasing the ones that went quiet. The first LaunchKit template exists because I could not afford a solicitor, so I wrote my own contract and improved it every time a job taught me something. That is the same job you are doing.

It has not all worked, and I will not pretend it has. I have backed the wrong idea, hired too fast, priced a job so keenly it made no money, and stayed with something long after I should have walked away. Each of those cost me, and each one taught me a lesson no template ever could. That is really what the hour with your plan is for: not a lap of honour round the wins, but help spotting the mistakes I have already paid for so they do not become yours.


What I'm running now

Not a portfolio of past logos. Products that are live on the app stores and on the web right now, built and run by the same person who wrote the files you are looking at.


The hour of my time

Buy the Premium Business Plan and you get one hour with me, by email, or on a call by appointment if you would rather talk it through. I write the replies myself, not a chatbot or an assistant. Spend it in one go or across a few emails over the month after you buy. Straight answers on pricing, contracts and first hires; if your idea has a hole in it I will tell you where. No upsell at the end, the hour is the product.

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Everything on this page is one founder's experience, not legal, financial or tax advice. The templates are a professional starting point and a qualified professional should review anything before you rely on it.

Ask me something first

You do not have to buy anything to email me. Every message is read and answered within 24 hours, at [email protected].