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The Edit

Member deep-dives: bold, opinionated stories on the S/ME businesses shaping the UK. For the magazine's own reporting, see The Newsroom.

Innovation

LeaseAssured: The Smarter Way to Sign a Commercial Lease

Commercial leases have barely changed in decades. LeaseAssured is rethinking the whole process from scratch, and the results are telling.

Money

The Outsourced Marketing Director: Why Smart Founders Are Choosing Brains Over Headcount

Growing businesses are quietly ditching the idea of a full-time marketing hire, and bringing in someone who can both think and do. Tracy Dixon of The Marketing Depot is exactly that person.

Lifestyle

Sound Reasoning: How Robson Acoustics Built a High-End Audio Business.

In a sector dominated by faceless global brands, one Scottish maker is proving that hand-built, bespoke manufacturing, with real relationships and real craft, is not just a viable business model. It's a better one.

Trends

The Borrowed Brain: Why Smart Businesses Are Rethinking Who Does Their Marketing

Hiring a full marketing team is expensive, slow and often overkill. A new model is quietly reshaping how growing businesses get serious about their brand, and it starts with knowing what you actually need.

Money

The Accountant Who Arrives Before the Problem Does

Most financial advice reaches you after the decisions have already been made. Guilherme Oliveira built Goldfin Advisory around a different premise entirely: that the numbers are only useful if you're looking at them while they still mean something.

Culture

The Late Payment Epidemic Is Killing Creative Culture. One Checkout Wants to Fix That.

Britain's service economy runs on talent, trust and late invoices. Paify thinks the last one is optional.