Inspiration: A £4.1 Trillion Crisis
Imagine a future where the heartbeat of Britain's economy—its Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)—falls silent. This isn't a dystopian fantasy; it's a looming reality that threatens to erase:
- 52% of the UK's annual turnover
- 60% of private-sector jobs
- The livelihoods of 16.3 million people
Why? Because 2.2 million business owners are approaching retirement, and 70% lack succession plans. This impending crisis puts £2-4 TRILLION of economic value at risk of vanishing, jeopardising local economies and communities nationwide, threatening to widen the city-countryside divide and hijacking our economic growth.
The Problem Currently, Britain lacks the infrastructure to support this looming 'Silver Tsunami'. While there is interest in Business Acquisitions (the search term for 'how to buy a business' has been trending upwards the last 4 years), individual Private Equity is still an exclusive club, requiring insider knowledge and a £30,000 entry fee just to start due diligence. This barrier is strangling competent people to take over the local nursery, bakery, or electricians.
After all, who wants to drop 30 grand just to know if the pub's books & contracts are in order? We wouldn't want to either
The Solution We're tearing down these walls. Our platform empowers the next generation of entrepreneurs—Millennials and Gen Z—who are increasingly interested in acquiring existing businesses rather than starting from scratch.
With Ai & Digital Assets we can analyse, project, and finance businesses in the nick of time. Give us a Google Maps address or a website link, and in 30 minutes you have a full-fleshed report, next steps, and critical areas to go into your acquisition journey.
What it does: AI-Powered Due Diligence & Digital Asset financing
Our cutting-edge platform leverages two groundbreaking technologies:
DSPy (Domain-Specific Programming for AI)
- Creates tailored AI "programs" that guide LLMs through complex business analysis
- Offers reusable modules for consistent, expert-level insights
- Pushes the boundaries of AI application in financial assessment
Ontology-Based RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
- Constructs a comprehensive knowledge graph of financial data, company structures, and market dynamics
- Enables AI to navigate complex business landscapes with unprecedented accuracy
- Delivers context-aware, factual outputs that rival human expert analysis
By combining these technologies, we're creating a platform that can:
- Perform rapid, cost-effective due diligence
- Provide actionable insights for potential buyers
- Democratize access to business acquisition opportunities
The person qualified to take over the local nursery, bakery, or electricians is most likely not versed in law, accounting, and creating DCFs (discounted cash-flow models), but the knowledge is already out there. So all we do is make it accessible.
How we built it
Coffee, Code, and Chaos: Softgen, Cursor Ai, Nebius, Base and a lot of spaghetti tech
Challenges we ran into
Doing DSPy in less than 48h, shipping code, lots of bug integrations
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Handing something in - we were debating dropping out.
What we learned
Distributed teams do better than solo players
What's next for Bizzed
Getting it’s first 2000 users
Built With
- dynamiclabs
- python
- softgen
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