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Free diagnostic inside. Your case, your ideas, your route — in one place.

No guarantees of visa outcomes — a diagnostic, not a promise.

UK Innovator Founder

Welcome, founder.

Your route to the UK — validated, tracked, and driven to ILR. One map, no guesswork.

Your Journey

1
Founder
Profile
2
Idea
Validation
3
Endorsement
Prep
4
Visa
Application
5
12-mo
Checkpoint
6
24-mo
Checkpoint
7
ILR
Settlement

Endorsement Readiness

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Readiness is scored from your diagnostic.
Run the free Validator to get your first number.

Next Step

Start with the free Idea Validator. Fifteen minutes, and you will know how an endorsing body reads both you and your idea — plus which of three routes fits you best.

This week in Academy

How endorsing bodies read the "viability" section — 18-min lesson, free.

Rule of the route

Max 180 days outside the UK in any rolling 12 months — or the 3-year ILR clock breaks.

Your curator

VT Advisory Desk
Response within 1 business day.

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Idea Validator

The same questions the assessors will ask — in London or in Paris. First I read the founder, then I stress-test the idea, then I match you to the right route: UK Innovator Founder, France Projet Innovant, or France Création d'Entreprise.

Idea Vault

My Ideas

Every idea you validate lives here — scored, tracked, re-testable. Your profile is saved: validating another idea takes half the time.

Included from Step 4 · Endorsement & Visa Case

Endorsement Readiness Tracker

Every month you log what's done. We score your readiness, flag what's slipping, and tell you where to accelerate — so you arrive at the endorsing body with the evidence already built.

Monthly check-in

Example of a live case — your own tracker opens when your endorsement case starts.

Business plan v2 — market section rewritten
May 28
Competitor matrix — 14 players mapped
Jun 02
3 customer-development interviews logged
Jun 09
Financial model — 3-year P&L draft
due Jun 24
Letter of intent #1 (pilot client)
due Jun 30
MVP clickable demo
due Jul 15

Readiness

Readiness is re-scored every month against the endorsing body's framework, so slippage shows up while there is still time to fix it — not at submission.

Where to accelerate

Financial model is the bottleneck. Viability is the #1 reason endorsements fail — a plan without a defensible P&L reads as a wish, not a business.
No traction evidence yet. One signed LOI from a pilot client outweighs ten pages of market analysis. Target: 2 LOIs before August.
Innovator Founder Academy

Learn the route from the inside

Short, practical trainings built from real endorsement cases. Free lessons open to all portal members.

How endorsing bodies read "viability"

The single section where most applications die — and how assessors actually score it.

Free · 18 min

Your first 90 days on the visa

Companies House, banking, premises — the setup sequence that keeps checkpoints painless.

Free · 22 min

Endorsement Interview Bootcamp

Mock-interview drills: the 20 questions bodies ask, with model answer structures.

£190

Checkpoint Mastery: 12 & 24 months

Evidence packs, site-visit prep, and the metrics assessors verify.

£240

ILR by Design: the 7 criteria

Pick your two settlement criteria on day one and build the evidence backwards.

£290

Fundraising for visa founders

Teaser, deck, data room — raising your £50K+ the way that also scores for settlement.

£340
VT Idea Lab · MVP Showcase

160 directions. Pre-validated. MVP-ready.

Concepts our lab has already worked through against the innovation / viability / scalability tests — each with an MVP starter we can build for you in weeks. See something close to your idea? That's the point. Pick one, adapt one, or bring your own.

Saw something close to yours? Every concept here can be adapted to your experience, capital, and market — that's exactly what the Idea Sprint does. Your MVP: £4,900, built in weeks.

Products & Services

One ladder. From free diagnostic to permanent residency.

Start where you are. Every step is small relative to what you have already built — and every step is optional.

Step 0

Idea Validator

Founder + idea diagnostic against the real assessment criteria. Route matching across UK & France.

FREE
Step 1

Deep Diagnostic Report

Full written breakdown of every red zone against the endorsing body's framework, with a prioritised fix-list.

£390
Step 2

Idea Sprint

We close the red zones with you: USP, moat, viability evidence, scale story. Draws on the 160-concept Idea Lab.

£1,900
Step 3

MVP Build

A working product to put in front of assessors — something to touch and click, plus pilot-user traction strategy.

£4,900
Step 4

Endorsement & Visa Case

Business plan to the body's framework, pitch deck, financial model, submission, mock interviews, full visa filing.

£12,500
Steps 5–7

3-Year Growth Curator

Evidence for 12/24-month checkpoints, site-visit prep, 180-day tracking, ILR criteria mapped from day one.

£3,000–5,000 / cycle

Not sure which step is yours? That is exactly what the free Validator answers — or bring it to a human.

Why VT

We don't sell a visa. We sell a strategy.

Since 2015

2,000+ clients across 100+ nationalities. London · Dublin · Dubai.

Tool + labour

We built this portal, the Validator and a 160-concept Idea Lab — the same product depth we bring to your MVP.

Honesty first

We filter. We take founders who will drive their business for three years — and we tell you the truth for free.

How we work

The assessor — in London or Paris — is a commercial evaluator de-risking a 3-year monitoring obligation. Everything we build reduces their risk: a founder profile that proves viability, an idea stress-tested before submission, a working MVP instead of a paper plan, and evidence tracked monthly so checkpoints are painless. You build the business. We de-risk the journey.

MK
Your curator
MK
Maria K.
VT Case Curator · online
Hi! I'm following your case. Questions about your validation result or the next step — write to me here.

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