Community, mentorship & workspace for your startup

This LLEP session examines the gap between marketing output and measurable growth. It challenges business owners to assess whether their current activity is aligned to clear revenue objectives or simply maintaining visibility.

Learn about the art of validating your assumptions so you only build what the market actually wants.

Customer Discovery is the process of questioning core business assumptions by interviewing real target customers before building a product.

https://ValidatingAssumptions.eventbrite.co.uk

This event will bring together Crucible members, local businesses and the wider enterprise community for a chance to connect, hear from emerging start-ups and learn more about the support available for businesses in Leicester.

This LLEP workshop is designed to help businesses gain a clear and practical understanding of the different legal structures available as they scale, diversify, or refine their operations. The session will explore a range of options including sole tradership, partnerships, limited companies, and Community Interest Companies and explain how each structure affects your governance, financial liability, tax and National Insurance, decision-making, and long-term business strategy.

https://bizgateway.org.uk/events/refocusing-your-marketing-to-drive-revenue-and-sustainable-growth-2/

This practical, in-person LLEP workshop is designed to give business owners and High Street businesses clarity and confidence in their marketing. You will focus on the core foundations that make marketing effective, helping you to engage the right customers, communicate your value clearly, and make better use of the tools available to you.

https://bizgateway.org.uk/events/essentials-marketing-necessities-for-business-growth/

Vibe Code Social is a relaxed, practical meetup for people using AI tools
to build apps, websites, automations, workflows, prototypes, side projects,
or ideas they are still figuring out.

https://www.meetup.com/vibecodesocial/events/314703992/?_xtd=gqFyqTIwOTIxMDMzN6Fwo2FwaQ%253D%253D&from=ref

Jonathan O’Brien is the founder of Obrioxia and has been building his own AI agent system to support founder operations, research, planning and business development. Join us as he shares a practical introduction to setting up AI agents that can help founders work more effectively.

Building practical AI agents for founders

Jonathan will introduce how founders can use AI agents to support everyday business tasks, from research and planning to reminders, lead tracking, market scanning and structured decision-making. This session is not about AI hype. It is about showing founders how AI agents can become useful operating support systems when they are given clear roles, boundaries, schedules and repeatable tasks.

Who is this for?

Founders, freelancers and early-stage teams who want to understand how AI agents can support their work.

What is it?

A practical workshop on setting up AI agents for founder productivity, research, automation and daily business operations.

Why are we hosting this?

So founders can move beyond one-off AI prompts and start thinking about repeatable systems that help them save time, stay organised and act on better information.

Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of what AI agents are, what they can realistically do, where they can go wrong, and how to start designing simple agent workflows for their own business.

Register here - https://AIAgentMasterClass.eventbrite.co.uk

Our guest speaker is Ian Kerr. He sold his cricket travel company Howzat in 2022 after 17 years in the trade. He's now building Follow On Tours, a specialist sports-travel brokerage designed for a world where AI automates most of the functions.

You'll see 3 founders pitch their startups and network with ~60 of our community members - founders, investors, advisors, etc

We're very grateful to the British Business Bank for supporting this event

The talk starts at 6:30pm, but you're welcome to join us from 5pm

Register here https://SummerMixerIanKerr.eventbrite.co.uk