Founding Membership

Better digital decisions, with a practical member system behind you.

Protect what already works, understand what needs attention, and put the recurring work behind enquiries, reviews, visibility, and follow-up into one practical operating rhythm.

Free helps you understand. Paid helps you implement.

Use EBC for the principle—or join when you want the system installed.

The free Brief, Scorecard, community, toolkit, and open sessions help you diagnose a problem and make a useful improvement without buying.

EBC does not begin by selling a tool or rebuild. We establish the business problem, protect working routes, and explain what any recommended change is meant to do.

Founding Membership adds The Machine: a standard system configured around your business, activated progressively, and supported by a monthly implementation rhythm.

The Machine

Four business jobs, joined into one member system.

The technology stays backstage. The value is knowing that a genuine enquiry, a happy customer, an approved post, or an overdue opportunity has a clear route.

Respond

Lead Recovery

Capture genuine enquiries, acknowledge them quickly and follow them through one clear route without relying on memory.

Prove

Reputation

Ask completed customers for reviews through an approved, repeatable process and keep the request status visible.

Stay visible

Social Visibility

Connect supported profiles, use repeatable post frameworks and schedule approved content without starting from zero.

Track

Machine Foundation

Keep contacts and opportunities in one simple pipeline and see the exceptions that need human judgement.

Progressive activation

A working first route before an account full of unused features.

Each module is tested before it is activated. If a critical route or stop condition fails, it stays off while the business uses a manual fallback.

Days 1–7

Foundation and Lead Recovery

Set up the business details, users, pipeline and one approved enquiry-to-quotation route. Nothing goes live until the controlled tests pass.

Days 8–14

Reputation

Connect one approved review destination and test the request and reminder process from a genuine completed state.

Days 15–30

Social Visibility

Connect one supported profile, prepare the first four-week plan and schedule one member-approved post.

Every month

One useful improvement

Review the evidence, choose one priority and complete or advance one action through the clinic, action pack or member route.

More than software

The club surrounds the system with relationships and implementation.

The EBC community and local relationship layer

A short fit and onboarding conversation

The Machine installed progressively around one business location

One standard enquiry, quotation, booking, or event route

A monthly implementation clinic

Member action packs and practical briefings

A 30-day value review

Appropriate introduction and contribution routes

Founding 10

£497 setup, then £297 a month.

Plus VAT if applicable. Initial 90-day commitment, then monthly. Metered email, SMS, and telephone usage is paid by the member.

The Founding 10 price is locked for twelve months.

Start with fit

We will say when the standard version is not the right route.

The first conversation looks at your enquiry flow, average job or customer value, current follow-up, and the operating gap that matters first. An application is not a contract, payment, or automatic offer.

Fit

Built for owners who want control without doing every setup alone.

Strong fit

The standard system matches the business

  • You run an Edinburgh-area service business.
  • Genuine enquiries lead to quotations, bookings, or consultations.
  • Follow-up still depends too heavily on an inbox, notes, or memory.
  • Reviews and regular visibility materially affect trust.
  • You will use one simple pipeline and approve your customer messages.

Poor fit

Another route would be more honest

  • You want EBC to supply or guarantee the leads.
  • You need a complex multi-location or regulated CRM immediately.
  • You expect daily done-for-you marketing inside the membership.
  • Nobody in the business will own the next action or update the pipeline.
  • You want access to a member list rather than a useful member relationship.

A good first proof

One useful action completed

The first month is successful when the member activates the agreed route, handles a controlled or genuine value event, and can explain what changed and what comes next.

Scope

Know what Founding Access includes—and what remains separate.

Clear boundaries protect the member experience and keep EBC from becoming an unlimited agency retainer.

Included

The standard member system

  • One business location and one standard conversion mode
  • Up to three standard users
  • One five-stage opportunity pipeline
  • One connected enquiry route
  • Approved acknowledgement and bounded follow-up
  • One approved review-request route
  • One supported social-profile connection
  • Standard guides, group support, and defect correction

Not included

Custom and managed work

  • No guaranteed leads, sales, reviews, reach, rankings, or revenue
  • No unlimited consulting or hidden agency retainer
  • No managed daily content or community management
  • No bespoke CRM, migration, funnel, advertising, or Voice AI build
  • No review fabrication, gating, takedown work, or automatic responses
  • No unreviewed website, CRM, publishing, or outreach changes
  • No extra locations, brands, or conversion routes inside the standard fee
  • No metered email, SMS, or telephone usage included

Member products

Extra work is scoped honestly

Website Makeovers, custom automations, additional locations, managed content, data migration, ads, and specialist work can be discussed separately when the need is clear.

Questions

What owners usually want to know before applying.

Is this just a HighLevel subscription?

HighLevel powers The Machine, but the membership is not a generic software account. EBC installs a standard operating system, activates it progressively, provides the local member relationship, and keeps the support boundary clear.

Does EBC generate the leads?

No. The standard system helps the business capture, acknowledge, progress, and learn from genuine enquiries it already receives. Advertising and lead-generation services are separate decisions.

Will EBC create and post all our content?

No. Social Visibility includes supported connections, a planner, reusable frameworks, and scheduling guidance. Managed content production is separately scoped.

Can the system be customised?

The founding membership is deliberately standard. Additional locations, complex migrations, custom workflows, and unsupported integrations are quoted separately so routine membership does not become an unlimited build.

Who pays for texts, calls, and emails?

The member pays metered communication usage through transparent rebilling or an approved connected account. This keeps the core membership price predictable.

What happens if we cancel?

After the initial 90-day term, membership continues monthly under the approved notice terms. Data export, account access, numbers, integrations, and deletion arrangements are documented before purchase.

Next step

Bring the real process, not a polished sales story.

Tell us where enquiries arrive, how the business responds, and what keeps slipping. We will decide whether the standard founding system is useful before discussing access or payment.