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Run Your
Own Round.

Your funding round, run from ChatGPT or Claude. Unzip it, upload two files to a Claude chat (or open the folder in Claude Code or Codex) and say "Let's run my round." My method, my tools and 25 guides, built on 150+ rounds and £130M raised alongside founders.

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Run Your Own Round

Let's run my round.

Good. Five questions first. What does the business do, and who pays you for it?

We bake bread and coffee for 1,500 customers a week. I want £150,000 to open a second shop.

That's ten tickets of £15,000, or six of £25,000. Six is easier to fill. Who already knows you and has money? Start there: five people a day. I'll draft, you approve, nothing goes without your yes.

25guides you can print
3spreadsheets
6stages, start to close
150+rounds behind the method
£20once, yours to keep

Is this for you?

It's for you if

  • You're raising your first or second round, from friends and family up to a seed round.
  • You'd rather run it yourself than pay a fee or hand over equity to someone who raises for you.
  • You need the model, the deck and a list of investors who already know you, in that order.
  • You want a daily list of who to follow up, not another spreadsheet you forget about.

It's not for you if

  • You want someone to raise the money for you. This helps you do it yourself.
  • You haven't started trading or found your customer yet. Start Your Business comes first.

You'll need

  • A computer or a phone.
  • A Claude or ChatGPT account. A free one works the guide-and-spreadsheet way.
  • About 30 minutes for the first session.
  • Sending emails from your own mailbox needs Claude Code or Codex on a computer. Everything else works in a chat.

Upload two files. Say one sentence.

No platform, no login, no subscription. It works with the AI you already use.

1

Download the folder.

Pay once and download straight away. Put the folder somewhere you'll keep it. Your round lives inside it, on your own computer.

2

Open it in ChatGPT or Claude.

In Claude Code or ChatGPT's Codex, choose the folder and the AI reads the playbook by itself. In a Claude chat, upload the tool and the core file from the for-a-chat folder, and a guides file when it asks: nothing to install.

3

Say "Let's run my round."

It starts from what your AI already knows about your business, checks it with you, and builds the rest from scratch. Then you get your next three jobs with dates.

Watch how it works.

Buy, download, upload two files to a Claude chat (or open the folder in Claude Code), and say one sentence. Forty-five seconds, start to finish.

Music: Ovanea by Moavii, from Free To Use.

This is what you get to look at.

Real screens from the folder. The round shown is the worked example that comes with it: a fictional bakery, four weeks in.

The round dashboard: money committed against the target, where every investor is, emails sent each week and who is due a follow-up. On a phone it shows as the phone version: one column, read top to bottom.Swipe sideways to read it all.
Your round on one page: committed against target, where everyone is, who's due.
The cover slide of a pitch deck made by the round desk: a bold headline, the size of the round and a full-height picture
Your deck, designed for you. Drop in eight of your own pictures.
A deck slide showing revenue by year as a bar chart, with forecasts drawn lighter
Your numbers as charts, straight from your model.
The ask slide of the deck: the amount, what it buys and the closing date
The ask, with what the money buys. Six colour themes.
*** FICTIONAL EXAMPLE: every person, firm and number here is invented. ***
Otterburn Lane Bakery  ·  Monday 22 March 2027
Committed £40,000 of £150,000 (27%). Close 2027-07-31.

1. Replies to answer (3)
   clara-fictional        Fictional Family Office
   felix-notreal          Notreal Dental
   jonas-dummy            Dummy & Co Accountants

2. Follow-ups due (3)
   greta-example          Follow-up 1  last contact 2027-03-08
   hugo-pretend           Follow-up 1  last contact 2027-03-10
   iris-imaginary         Follow-up 1  last contact 2027-03-12

3. Next five people
   nell-template          warmth 3  email, message 1               Our flour supplier
   otto-demo              warmth 2  email, message 1               Customer; runs a building firm in Leeds

Drafts: 2 waiting for your yes, 1 approved and ready to send.
This week: 1 email sent. Pipeline: To research 2, Connected 1, Warming 1, Intro sent 3, Replied 2, Meeting 2, Due diligence 1, Committed 2, Passed 1.
The daily screen: replies first, follow-ups due, then the next five people.
One of the guides: the term sheet decoder
Every guide prints or saves as a PDF.

Six stages. Start anywhere.

From "should I raise?" to money in the bank. Got a term sheet already? Jump straight to the close.

1

Ready

Should you raise at all? Which money fits, exactly how much, and the round shaped so it can close: fixed tickets, a name, a deadline.

2

The numbers

A 24-month model with every assumption sourced. Runway, break-even, and the three tests an investor will run on you.

3

The deck

A designed twelve-slide deck in the order investors read, with your best traction number on the cover and up front in everything you send. Drop in eight of your own pictures, save it as a PDF.

4

Your investors

Your own network sorted into a scored pipeline. Then new names, researched one by one. No bought lists.

5

The daily thirty

Replies first, follow-ups due, five new people. It drafts, you make it yours, you send it (from your own mailbox automatically in Claude Code or Codex).

6

The close

The data room, due diligence answers, the term sheet read clause by clause with my red flags.

Run Your Own Round.

£20 once

Retained Advisory is me beside you until the round closes. This is the same method, for you to run, for £20.

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  • The booklet: every guide in one PDF, for your phone or to print
  • The playbook: my method, start to close
  • 25 guides, from the message library to the term sheet decoder
  • Three spreadsheets, including the round calculator
  • The round tracker, deck maker and dashboard
  • A worked example round to copy from
  • Works with ChatGPT or Claude

What buyers said.

Word for word.

“Jamie's playbooks are a gamechanger.”

Jay Shah, Sportbuddy

What's in the folder.

The AI reads the playbook. These are yours: 25 guides in my voice, three spreadsheets and a worked example.

The Run Your Own Round folder: the playbook, the tools and a library of guides

Start

What to say to your round deskThe twelve requests that do most of the work in a raise, in the order you'll need them.
The round calendarNine months laid out month by month, the twelve-week outreach sprint week by week, the daily thirty, a five-line weekly review and what to do at the eight-week verdict.
Twenty lessons from 150 roundsThe twenty things I've learnt raising money alongside founders that I'd want you to know before your first message, each with the story or number behind it.
Plain-English glossaryEighty fundraising terms in one or two plain sentences each, in alphabetical order, with a small sum wherever a sum makes it clearer.

Investors and outreach

Who to ask: the investor persona worksheetA worksheet for working out exactly who should back your business, where they already are in your life, and how warm each one is before you write a word.
When your own list runs outYour warm list will carry the first weeks of a round. This is where the next names come from, how many you need, and how to reach people who don't know you yet without going cold.
The message libraryEvery message you'll send in a round, from the first note to the closing date, with a template, when to send it and filled examples you can rewrite in your own words.
The contact sheet: messaging the people who already know youYour LinkedIn contacts ranked by real relationship, a page to strike out anyone you shouldn't message, and a send page you work through by hand, about 20 to 25 a day.
Thirty posts that make investors trust youThirty prompts, five written examples and a four-week plan for the posts a stranger should see before you ever message them about money.
The first callHow to prepare for, run and follow up a first conversation with an investor in 25 minutes, so it ends with a next step and a date.
What they say and what it meansTwenty-five things investors say, what each usually means, two plain sentences to say back and what to fix before the next conversation.
The investor update kitThe monthly update template, three filled examples, a schedule and the rules for sending it, so the people who said "not yet" watch you do what you said you would.

Deck and numbers

Ten words or fewer: the one-liner workshopA four-step method for saying what your business does in ten words or fewer, with 20 worked rewrites and the two-sentence pitch that follows.
The deck teardownScore your twelve slides out of 36, run 40 checks, then put the deck through two tests before a single investor sees it.
The ask: how much, in what tickets, for whatHow to size a round line by line, work out what actually lands after fees, cut it into tickets, and write the ask slide.
Unit economics crib sheetThe five numbers that show whether you make money on each sale, with formulas and a fully worked example for five kinds of business.
Is the valuation sane?How an early-stage valuation really gets set, the sums behind pre-money, option pools and convertibles, and how to defend your number without killing the deal.
Forty questions on your numbersThe questions investors ask about a financial model, in six groups, each with what a good answer contains.
SEIS and EIS in plain EnglishOne page on the two UK tax reliefs most angels ask about first: what they are, why investors care, and what you do before you raise. For UK companies only. Figures checked in November 2026; the rules change, so confirm the current ones on gov.uk and with your accountant before you rely on them.

Diligence and the close

The due diligence question bankEighty questions investors ask before they send the money, with what a good answer includes and the document that proves it.
The data room, file by fileSix folders, every file that goes in each, how to name them, what to leave out, and the page of awkward things to write before an investor finds them.
The term sheet decoderSixteen clauses in plain English, with the sum, the question to ask and the red flag, then what a headline cheque really leaves you to spend.
Fake investors and bad actorsThe patterns that give a fake investor away, twelve checks to run before you engage, and what to do if you're already in it.
After the money landsThe closing checklist, the first 90 days with investors, the update rhythm, protecting the cap table, and what to do when it starts going wrong.

You, the founder

Staying standingThe human side of a raise: ghosting, desperation, family money, when to pause, what to do if it fails or the cash runs short, and how to still be well at the end of it.

Spreadsheets and the worked example

Round calculatorTickets, dilution, use of funds, what reaches the bank, and what a convertible turns into.
Investor pipelineThe tracker and daily log, for founders who prefer a spreadsheet to the round desk's own pipeline.
Financial modelA 24-month model: assumptions with sources, monthly profit and cash, runway and break-even.
A worked example roundA fictional bakery four weeks in: its pipeline, messages, model, deck and dashboard.

The playbook.

My strategy for raising money, from six years of teaching it in public: what works now, the mistakes, and what I've stopped recommending.

The round tracker.

Runs in your chat or on your computer: your pipeline, reply checking, the model, the deck and the dashboard, plus sending from your own mailbox in Claude Code or Codex.

The rules of the road.

Who you can legally send a deck to in the UK, EU and US, and the email and privacy rules, in plain English.

Jamie Mussett Harford
"No investor will take you seriously if you treat them like an outbound prospect."

I've worked on more than 150 funding rounds and raised £130M alongside founders. I've also turned £250,000 of investment into £0. Both are in this folder. It works the way I make clients work: relationships, not volume. Five people a day. Thirty minutes. Every message written for one person.

Jamie Mussett Harford

The rules it keeps for you.

Investors can tell a mail merge in a second. So the round desk keeps the rules I hold clients to.

Nothing goes without your yes.

Every message waits for you to read it, change it and approve it.

One person at a time.

One recipient per email, from your real address. No tracking, no mail merge, no bought lists. LinkedIn is always by hand.

No chasing.

Two follow-ups at most, each with something new, then it stops. Anyone who asks to stop is never contacted again.

Your data stays yours.

Everything is kept in the folder on your computer. Nothing is sent to Nine Bar.

Questions founders ask.

What do I need?

Easiest in a Claude chat, with nothing to install: you upload two files from the folder to start (a guides file when it asks) and it tracks your round, builds the model and the designed deck, and draws the dashboard. Also ChatGPT Plus, or Claude Code and Codex if you use them. On free ChatGPT, Gemini or Copilot it works the guide-and-spreadsheet way: the same method, with the big sums in the spreadsheet and no dashboard. Sending from your own mailbox needs Claude Code or Codex; everywhere else it writes each email and you press send.

Is it safe to open and run?

Yes. Nothing in the folder installs anything, runs on its own or sends anything to anyone. It holds guides, spreadsheets with no macros, PDFs and one small Python script, round.py, that uses only what comes with Python. It never goes online, except one thing you choose: on your own computer, in Claude Code or Codex, it can send email from your own mailbox using an app password you create and can cancel. Nothing is ever sent to Nine Bar: no accounts, no tracking. In a chat, what you upload is read by that AI company, so don't upload passwords or card numbers. You can open the script in any text editor and read every line, and the folder includes a page that lists exactly what it does.

Do I have to explain my business from the start?

No. It first looks at what your AI already has: its memory of you, your project files, any documents you've connected, and your existing deck or accounts if they're there. It tells you what it found, asks you to confirm it, and only asks about what's missing. If there's nothing, it builds the picture with you in five questions.

I'm not technical. Can I use it?

Yes. The easiest way is a Claude chat: upload two files to start, a guides file when it asks, and talk in plain English. The START HERE page in the folder walks you through it in five minutes, and every resource opens in your browser like a web page.

Will it email investors on its own?

No. Every message waits for your yes on that exact message. In Claude Code or Codex it sends from your own address, one person at a time, at a steady pace, and stops following up the moment someone replies.

Does it include an investor list?

No. It builds your list from your own network first, then helps you research new names properly. If you want me alongside you while you raise, that's Retained Advisory.

Where does my data go?

It stays in a folder on your computer. Nothing is sent to Nine Bar. Your email password is typed into your own computer, never into a chat.

Can it guarantee I'll raise?

No one honestly can. It gives you the method I use, the discipline to run it every day, and a straight read of whether your round is working after eight weeks.

Can I get a refund?

If it won't open or run on your computer, yes. Email Jamie within 30 days of buying: we'll help you get it working, and if we can't, we refund you in full. We don't refund a change of mind, because the download is yours the moment you pay.

Rather have me in it with you?

Run Your Own Round is the do-it-yourself version. When you want me alongside you, there's more.

Retained Advisory

2 calls a month

Me beside you for as long as the round takes: the model, the deck, the investor conversations and the negotiation. Two calls a month and WhatsApp in between.

See Retained Advisory

Your pitch deck, written

100+ decks so far

Twelve plain slides and a model that holds up, written and designed with you. It starts with a free WhatsApp chat, in any language.

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