Founding Partner Programme · 12 Seats

You’re not buying access
to a consultant. You’re buying
a seat in an operating system.

Name: Founding Partner Programme
Brand: partnerships.community
Price: 1200 GBP
Availability: LimitedAvailability

£100 / month · Lifetime arrangement · 12 seats only

A monthly seat at the table with Simon. Fifteen percent of every client you refer — for life, no ceiling. Your name on the wall when this ecosystem becomes what it’s going to become. Twelve founding seats. When they’re gone, the offer closes.

Claim a Founding Seat → Start with a £2,500 Sprint instead

27 Live subdomains

20+ Years operating

15% Rev share, no cap

12 Seats total

Founding Partner Programme 27 live systems · one operator BBC News · 22 April 2026 LGBTQ+-founded consultancy 15% revenue share · no cap · lifetime 20 years · 4 continents 12 seats · no dilution ZODIAC Bar & Club · Reopening 9–10 May 2026 £100 / month Advisory board access · monthly call with Simon Founding Partner Programme 27 live systems · one operator BBC News · 22 April 2026 LGBTQ+-founded consultancy 15% revenue share · no cap · lifetime 20 years · 4 continents 12 seats · no dilution ZODIAC Bar & Club · Reopening 9–10 May 2026 £100 / month Advisory board access · monthly call with Simon

Who this is for

Three kinds of people
belong here

This is a small group on purpose. Be honest with yourself about which one you are.

The Operator

You’re building something and need a peer, not a vendor.

You’re a founder or operator who thinks in systems. You want early access to AI tools that actually work in production. You want a direct line to someone who’s deployed it for real — not a consultant who theorises about it.

You are: a founder, fractional exec, startup operator, or agency owner running lean.

The Connector

Your network is the value you bring to the table.

You know people who need the work Simon does. You introduce them, he delivers, you earn 15% of the revenue — no cap, for life. The maths work in your favour from your very first referral. You’re not a sales rep; you’re a founding partner.

You are: a consultant, advisor, investor, or operator with a portfolio of relationships.

The Builder

You want to shape what gets built before the public sees it.

Every new product, AI agent, and automation tool ships to Founding Partners 30 days before anyone else. You shape the roadmap on the monthly call. Your input doesn’t get lost in a Typeform — it’s a direct conversation.

You are: a product thinker, innovation lead, or someone who genuinely wants to be inside the build.

The Maths

Run the numbers.
They hold up.

How many clients do you refer per year? See your net position.

Referral ROI Calculator

The 15% revenue share is lifetime and uncapped. A single Sprint referral covers a significant portion of your annual fee. A single mid-tier engagement covers it entirely.

How many clients do you refer per year?

Annual Founding Partner fee −£1,200

Referral revenue earned (15% of referred client spend, est. £2,500/client) +£0

£500/year Ecosystem Credits (use on your own projects) +£500

Net annual position −£700

Zero referrals: your net cost is £700/year for a monthly advisory session with a 20-year operator. That is one afternoon of most consultants' fees.

What you get

Six things that compound.
None of them expire.

Every benefit is permanent to your account. There is no renewal risk, no renegotiation, no tier drop.

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Advisory Board Seat

A monthly 1:1 with Simon. Not a group call, not a Loom video, not a newsletter. A real conversation where you shape product roadmap, pricing, go-to-market strategy, and partnership ecosystem directly.

12 seats means 12 people get this. When the seats are full, no new seats open.

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Earn forever. On every introduction.

Refer a client who starts a £2,500 Sprint — you earn £375. Refer one who takes a full engagement — you earn significantly more. No cap. No expiry. Lifetime, tied to your account, paid automatically.

The maths above are conservative. Most referrals exceed a single Starter Sprint.

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Founding Wall — Permanent

Your name, logo, and link on partnerships.community permanently. Not a sponsor tile. Not a rotating slot. A permanent public record that you believed in this before the rest of the market caught up.

27 subdomains. Your name on the founding wall reaches every visitor to every one of them.

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Thirty days before the world sees it.

Every new product, AI agent, and tool ships to Founding Partners a full month before public launch. You get to test it, break it, request changes, and deploy it in your own work before anyone else can access it.

The AI workforce tooling alone has displaced 12+ FTE of work in internal operations. You get it first.

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Half a Sprint. Free. Every year.

£500 in Starter Pack credit, annually. Use it to run your own AI workforce audit, kick off a project for a portfolio company, or gift it to a client as part of your own service offering.

A Starter Sprint is £2,500. Credits cover 20% — or stack over two years for a free one.

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The Collective — Founders Only

The Collective is partnerships.community's private operator network. As a Founding Partner, you're not a subscriber — you're one of the twelve people who built it from the start. Real problems, solved in hours. Ideas pressure-tested before they cost you.

12 founding members. The Collective is yours from day one. It grows with the ecosystem.

Why Simon

The receipts are
public record.

"I built this because the old model — agencies, retainers, six-figure consultants who deliver decks — is broken. I run 27 live systems alone. Not prototypes. Not case studies. Production systems. I did it with pattern recognition, obsessive systems thinking, and a refusal to accept that complexity requires headcount.

That’s what Founding Partners get access to. Not a methodology. An operating system."

SIMON WILLIAMS — FOUNDER, PARTNERSHIPS.COMMUNITY & CEO, ZODIAC BAR & CLUB

📺 BBC News · 22 April 2026 · Live coverage

Live subdomains, one operatorOne codebase. One person. 27 production surfaces. The proof that one person can run what used to need a team.

20yr

Career track record, 4 continentsDentsu → iProspect → PHD (Head of Search UK/Global) → Braze (Director of Partnerships). LGBTQ+-founded. Built this for himself first. Then decided 12 people deserved to be inside it.

£300k

Raised for LGBTQ+ causesVia ZODIAC Bar & Club, Camden — Trans-founded, now being rebuilt for its 5th year. The first pro-bono Founding Partner slot went to the community, not a paying client.

48h

Sprint delivery benchmarkThe Starter Pack Sprint — a full AI workforce audit and deployment — runs in 48 hours. Not average. The actual build. Founding Partners see the next one before it ships.

Endorsements

Three people.
No script.

“

Simon is extraordinary at his job. He endeavours to push boundaries in the name of innovation and drive a business into the digital age.

Erica Kokiw

President, PHD Canada

“

I’ve always been impressed by Simon’s genuine partnership mentality and his desire to deliver unique digital solutions and innovation to market.

Adam Carroll

Revenue Growth Expert

“

Simon is simply one of the most visionary people working in the digital space.

Joel Balodis

Partnerships Consultant

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The Founding Wall

12 seats.
Which one is yours?

Founding Partners are listed permanently across the ecosystem. This is how the wall looks today.

Seats claimed 1 of 12

When all 12 seats are claimed, the Founding Partner Programme closes permanently.

Founding seat

SMB Lab
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Investment

Two ways to start.
One right answer.

Start with a Sprint if you want to see the work. Start with a Founding seat if you want to be inside the build.

Entry point

Starter Sprint

£2,500

one-time project fee

→Full AI workforce audit
→48-hour build sprint
→Live production deployment
→Can upgrade to Founding Partner after

View the Starter Pack

Good if you want to see the work before committing to a longer relationship.

Recommended

Conviction capital

Founding Partner

£100/mo

£1,200/year · billed annually

✦Monthly 1:1 advisory call with Simon
✦15% revenue share on all referrals — lifetime
✦Permanent name on founding wall
✦30-day early access to every new product
✦£500/year in Ecosystem Credits
✦Access to The Collective — private operator network

Claim a Founding Seat →

11 seats remaining — once full, this offer closes permanently.

Questions

The questions people
actually ask

The things people are actually wondering about.

No, it is not a retainer. A retainer buys your time. This buys a relationship. You get a monthly advisory call, but Simon is not on-call, not billing hours, not writing reports for you. You are one of 12 people who shape the direction of this ecosystem and earn from your network. That is a different thing.

Yes, honestly. £1,200/year for a monthly 1:1 with a 20-year operator who has run digital programmes across Dentsu, PHD, and Braze — and who currently operates 27 live systems alone — is not a premium fee. Most fractional advisors at this level charge multiples of this for a single session. The referral revenue is upside. The advisory access is the floor value.

You refer a client. They engage with partnerships.community — a Starter Sprint, a full engagement, an AI workforce build, whatever it is. When they pay, you receive 15% of the gross revenue tied to your referral. No cap. No time limit. The arrangement is lifetime, tied to your account. If you refer someone who becomes a long-term retainer client, you earn 15% of every payment they make, permanently. Payments are made automatically via the same Stripe infrastructure.

A Starter Sprint is a project. You come with a problem, Simon builds a solution in 48 hours, you deploy it. That is a transaction. A Founding Partner is a relationship. You are inside the build, shaping what comes next, earning from your network, and permanently on the record as someone who was here first. Sprint clients can upgrade to Founding Partner at any point — the seats are first-come.

The first seat went pro-bono to the SMB Lab — community conviction capital, deployed before a single contract was signed. The remaining seats are open. Once you join, your name appears on the founding wall and you are introduced in the private channel. The group is small enough that every person matters. View the SMB Lab project to see what that first conviction looked like in practice.

Ecosystem Map

You’re not buying access to a consultant. You’re buying a seat in an operating system.

Three kinds of peoplebelong here