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Communication coaching for founders, pre-seed to Series A

You got good at building the thing. Nobody taught you to lead the people building it.

The pitch, the team, the board. forefront builds that capability with you through practice, not theory.

Free, about 45 minutes, no obligation. Tell us what's coming up and we'll say honestly whether we can help.

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This probably sounds familiar.

  • "I can talk to an engineer all day. Put me in front of investors and I fall apart."

  • "We are all mates here, so I keep putting off the conversation I know I need to have, and it's making things worse."

  • "Talking to my team is easy. Talking to my board, I second-guess every word."

  • "When we were small we all just knew what was going on. Now half our problems are people not knowing."

You were hired by your own company for what you can build. The job became about how you communicate, and no one handed you the tools. That gap is learnable, and closing it is the difference between a good builder and a leader people follow and back.

We coach the moments that count, by practising them.

You don't get better at pitching by reading about pitching. You get better by doing it, getting honest feedback, and doing it again. forefront gives you a safe space to practise the exact situations that decide your outcomes, before they count for real. The frameworks are forefront's own, built and designed in the room, so you can reach for them under pressure. And the work continues, because a one-off session fades and a practised habit doesn't.

  • 1,000+

    founders coached

  • $250M+

    raised by founders we have worked with

Founders, funds and accelerator programmes we work with

  • Techstars
  • Barclays Eagle Labs
  • NatWest
  • Startup Wise Guys
  • SAMVID Ventures
  • Pivotal Ventures

This works for founders like you.

A technical founding team learned to pitch with the room rather than at it, and started winning the conversations that decide funding and partnerships. A founder walked into a conversation they had been dreading with a structure to follow, and came out having said the hard thing and kept the relationship.

This is practised capability, not a pep talk.

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Mike Lane-Evans coaching a founder cohort

How it works.

A diagnostic call, then a package built around you. Not a single day off a menu.

  1. A free diagnostic call

    We work out exactly where you need support, and what is coming up.

  2. A package built around you

    A focused piece of work or a retainer, shaped to your stage and your budget.

  3. The work, with 'Follow Ons'

    Reps in a safe space, then a reinforcement session a few weeks later, included.

  4. We measure it

    Confidence on the specific situations, before and after, and the real moments you used it.

The founder moments we build for.

The raise. The team you have never led. The conversation you keep avoiding. Keeping everyone aligned as you grow. The board. Each one framed as an outcome, with a method behind it.

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  • The raise
  • The team you have never led
  • The conversation you keep avoiding
  • The board

Start with a conversation.

Tell us what is coming up: the raise, the team, the board, the moment you can't afford to get wrong. We will tell you honestly whether we can help, and where to start.

Free, about 45 minutes, no obligation. Tell us what's coming up and we'll say honestly whether we can help.

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$250M+ raised by founders we have worked with, across accelerators including Techstars and Barclays Eagle Labs

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