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From January 2022, the FCA is regulating pricing tactics in the home and car insurance markets – what differences will it make for households?

What’s happening to Bulb, and how is it different from the other energy company failures over the last several months?

We’re now recruiting a community of 100 Founding Members who want to play a part helping shape what we’re building.

Since I last blogged about this, more energy companies have gone bust, and more are teetering on the brink….

The regulator has just raised the energy price cap, allowing energy companies to charge more to customers, and yet suppliers are going bust. Why?

We’ve found a huge, open-plan space with tonnes of light and character in a great location on Farringdon Road, and now we’re on the hunt for more colleagues to fill it with. 

I love using tools for things other than their intended purpose. What happens when you try and apply process engineering to making great coffee?

Price or service – which is more important to people? And can we learn the answer from customer reviews online?

Jon considers the differences between building a brand, a business, and the codenames that parents give their unborn children…

One evening Greg asked a short, simple question: ‘Could we have the best coffee of any startup in ̶L̶o̶n̶d̶o̶n̶ the World?’ The answer is slightly longer...

A key theme of dystopian science fiction is that big evil corporations (or governments) would grow to dominate peoples’ lives. Tech needs to set us free and become a tool that empowers us, not a source of more control.

Why does purpose matter? And what's ours? And why does it matter? By someone who is fascinated by how we organise ourselves as a society and wants to help solve a big problem...

Businesses are too reliant on interviews as the dominant paradigm for candidate evaluation. Everything in moderation.

We’re going ‘Office first’. This means our default is coming to the office, but with individual flexibility to adjust where necessary. This is why.

We think it's possible to design a business which does good as an inevitable byproduct of profit seeking. Indeed, it's precisely what we're trying to do.