Bigger team, bigger turnover, bigger workload…
Rare Company is your private Circle of established owners in your city, backed by a national network of founders who've built and sold, all working on the number everyone else ignores: yours.
Member results
Illustrative examples
London member · £8m engineering group
Restructured a £12m acquisition offer in 24 hours - after calls with two members who had sold to the same buyer.
Manchester member · £5m services firm
Hired an exit-experienced FD in 6 weeks from a member introduction. No recruiter, no fee.
London member · £9m distributor
Took £180,000 more out of the business this year - after members shared their distribution policies.
The real scoreboard
Not just the number your accountant could calculate. The full balance sheet of ownership:
A common company grows none of these. A rare one grows all five - and membership tracks them, in numbers, at every review.
Testimonials
“Pivotal in growing my business to a near £10 million valuation. Compared to advisors, this has been a real breath of fresh air.”
“One conversation about my earn-out was worth more than any invoice I've ever paid an adviser.”
“It's the only room I've been in where nobody wanted anything from me.”
The people
The calibre of the room is the product - owners who have built, are building seriously, or have sold. Nobody is admitted to sell to you.
Property investment · Managing Director
“Pivotal in growing my business to a near £10 million valuation.”
iGaming technology · Co-CEO
Co-CEO of an iGaming technology supplier.
“The room asks better questions than any board I've sat on.”
Communications · Founding Partner
Founding partner of a communications consultancy.
“I've stopped making the big calls alone.”
Vertical software · Exited
Bootstrapped a vertical software company to eight-figure revenue; sold to a listed US buyer. Brings earn-outs and US acquirers, first-hand.
Manufacturing group · Buy-and-build
Mid-way through a buy-and-build with three completed acquisitions. Brings deal structure and integration, scars included.
Consumer brand · Scaling
Stepping out of the day-to-day after appointing a managing director. Brings the letting-go playbook.
The fastest way to fix a company is to sit with owners who have already fixed theirs.
The membership
Six to eight established owners at your stage, in your city, every month - chaired by people who have built, grown and sold. Commitments recorded, progress chased.
The national network on demand when a decision can't wait, private dinners and events across the UK every month, and quarterly experiences that turn contacts into people you trust.
Your company measured like an asset - indicative value, owner-dependence, what it pays you - tracked at every review so you can see ownership getting better, in numbers.
From the founders
We're Eddie and Astan. Between us we've built, scaled and sold companies - Eddie's software business went to a NASDAQ-listed buyer in under four years; Astan has exited several times at seven and eight figures.
Here's the honest bit: for most of those years, our companies ran on us. We worked the hours, carried the decisions, and paid ourselves last. The people who could have changed that - owners a few years ahead, founders who'd already sold - were exactly the people we never sat with. Business networks were full of people selling things. Advisers arrived at the end, when most of the outcome was already set.
So after our exits, we built the room we went looking for and never found: small, candid, confidential, and full of people who have actually done it. If you've built something real and it still owns too much of your life, apply - the conversation costs nothing.
Selection
Every seat is considered. That is what keeps the room worth being in.
A few key details - about four minutes, no essays.
Every application, personally, answered within days.
Your business, your timing, and whether we can genuinely help. You weigh us too.
Fit is judged against the members you would sit alongside - never with a direct competitor.
Stage, scale, intent and personality - matched deliberately, not filled first-come-first-served.
Said plainly either way, and the door stays open.
How it works
Circles meet in person, monthly, in your city - the same six to eight owners each time, chaired by people who have built and sold. Between meetings the national network is on call, private events run across the UK every month, and every quarter there is an experience you could not book yourself.
Seats are limited because matching is deliberate: a Circle only works when everyone at the table has something the others need. Nothing is ever sold inside the membership - no advisers hunting clients, no introducers, no pipelines. And everything said in the room stays in the room.
The guarantee
Experience the whole of membership. Not right for you? Your fees are returned in full - no forms, no argument.
The membership must earn its place every year. If the value plainly isn't there at your annual review, we say so before you do - and we won't ask you to renew.
Interested?
£1,000 a month. By application only. Protected for ninety days.
Join Rare Company →Questions
£1,000 a month, on a twelve-month term - typically treated as a business expense. No joining fee, no success fee, and no percentage of anything you ever sell.
A private group of six to eight established owners at a similar stage, meeting in person in your city every month, chaired by people who have built, grown and sold companies. Same faces each time; commitments recorded and followed up.
Established British owners and directors serious about making their business the exception - properly profitable, easier to run, worth more - whether a sale is five years away, further, or not the plan at all.
No. Nobody is admitted to prospect the room - no advisers hunting clients, no introducers, no sponsors. It is the first house rule and the most protected.
What your company is worth - and whether you might one day sell it - is about the most commercially sensitive information there is. Confidentiality isn't a feature; it's the precondition. No notes, no quotes, no exceptions.
By stage, scale, intent and personality - never with a direct competitor. The aim is a table where someone has already faced whatever is coming next for you.
One Circle session a month, events as you choose, and the network when you need it. Membership should give you time back, not consume it - that's half the point.
The first ninety days are protected: your fees come back in full. After that, membership must earn its place every year at your annual review - and if it hasn't, we say so first.
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Think it's your room? Let's find out.
Read by the founders. Answered within days. A conversation before anything else.
Join Rare Company£1,000 a month · 90-day guarantee · Membership by application