GoSME

Too many SMEs are facing the same challenges:

• Rising costs
• Platform dependency
• Late payments
• Isolation
• Burnout

And most are trying to solve them alone.

BeeTogether was created because the best solutions rarely come from another webinar, another guru, or another productivity hack.

They come from conversations with people facing the same realities as you.

📍 Manchester
📅 15 July 2026

Stop building alone.
Start building together.

You are stuck at £18K per month. Not because of your skills. Because of the model.

The math: 160 hours per month at £112.50 per hour = £18K. That is your ceiling if you bill every single hour.

But you cannot bill every hour. Client calls, proposals, admin, invoice chasing, learning new tools. All unbillable.

Real billable hours: 110 to 120 per month. Real ceiling: £12K to £13.5K.

You cannot scale past yourself. Cannot take on bigger projects because they require a team and you are alone.

Cannot serve more clients because there are only 160 hours in a month.

Cannot raise rates much higher because the market resists past £150 per hour. You are the bottleneck.

The model caps you. Agencies scale by hiring. SaaS companies scale by automating.

Platforms scale by extracting from others. You trade time for money. More money requires more time. You run out of time. Growth stops.

This is not personal failure. The solopreneur model has a built-in ceiling.

You can optimize, get more efficient, raise rates slightly, cut unbillable hours.

But you cannot break through the ceiling without changing the model.

The model caps you. Deliberately. Platforms want you here. Stuck at £12K to £18K per month.

Enough to stay. Not enough to leave.

You are profitable. You are dependent. You are the perfect customer.

The ceiling is the product.

To break the ceiling: stop trading time for money alone.

Build leverage. Team to share workload. Systems for repeatable processes.

Collective bargaining for shared clients.

The model that got you to £18K will not get you past it.