Questions, answered.

£1,000 a month, on a twelve-month term. The fee is typically treated as a business expense. There is no joining fee and no percentage of your sale.

That is the right time. Five years out, everything about the number is still movable - the profit, the structure, the story. A year out, your options have narrowed to the price you're offered.

Because you hold the thing every other member needs, and the room holds what you need next: what to build, back or buy, and people who understand what the years after a sale are actually like.

No - it is the alternative to it, and we'd argue a better one. Advisory sells you one person's playbook, at the end, for a retainer and a percentage of everything you've built. Membership surrounds you with owners who have actually done it - many of them, from years earlier, for a flat fee. And when a transaction eventually needs specialists - legal, tax, execution - members appoint them from the Black Book, on other members' recommendations and on their own terms.

Wanting to sell is the most commercially sensitive fact about your business. So confidentiality is not a feature of Rare Company; it is the precondition. No notes, no quotes, no exceptions.

You apply on the apply page - a short note, not a form-filling exercise. We read everything, reply to everyone, and then we talk. If the room can genuinely help you, we'll offer you a seat.