FREE 10-MINUTE BUSINESS PLANNING WORKBOOK

Before you plan your next 90 days, answer these five questions.

The 5 Alchemy Questions is a free workbook for small business owners who know something needs to change before the end of the year — but haven't yet stopped long enough to work out what.

Five questions. About ten minutes.

One of them will probably be uncomfortable.

That is the one worth answering.

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You don't need another business plan.
You need one you'll actually finish.

Most small business owners don't have a shortage of ideas.

They have too many of them.

There are customers to look after, invoices to chase, marketing to do, problems to solve and a hundred things that somehow feel more urgent than sitting down and deciding where the business is actually going.

So planning gets pushed back.

Or you create a twelve-month plan filled with seventeen different priorities, put it in a folder and rediscover it three months later.

The problem isn't that you're disorganised.

The problem is that most business planning is too big, too vague and too easy to abandon.

The 5 Alchemy Questions takes a different approach.

Your Real Constraint

The one thing that, if you fixed it, would make several other problems easier too.
What Needs To Stop

The work, habits or processes you're still carrying simply because you've always done them.
The Obligations You've Invented

Things taking up your time because you think somebody expects them — even when they probably don't.
The Customers Worth Finding More Of

Not just an industry or demographic, but the things your best customers actually have in common.
What A Good Next 90 Days Really Looks Like

A measurable result you can look at in December and know whether you achieved it.

You've answered the questions. Now come and develop the plan

On Friday 11 September, small business owners from across Sheffield and the surrounding area will come together at the Leopold Hotel, Sheffield for one focused working day.

You arrive with your business and your answers to the five questions.

You leave with a detailed written 90-day plan — on paper, in your hand, before you go.

No vague notes.

No seventeen-point wish list.

No presentation you'll forget by Monday.

A finished plan for what happens next.

Friday 11 September 2026

09:15 – 16:15
Leopold Hotel, Sheffield
£30 per person
Limited to 75 places

How The Day Works

This isn't a day of sitting and listening.

You'll spend the day working on your own business.

The session is built around three practical stages.

First: decide what actually matters

We'll use your answers from the 5 Alchemy Questions to identify what needs to change over the next 90 days.

Not everything.

The things that will make the biggest difference.

Then: write the plan

You'll turn that thinking into a proper 90-day plan with one measurable outcome, three priorities and clear first actions.

Something concrete enough that you know exactly what Monday morning looks like.

Finally: make sure it survives October

A plan without a rhythm becomes another document in a drawer.

You'll create a simple weekly check that keeps your priorities visible, your actions moving and your plan alive for the full 90 days.

You'll also have the opportunity to talk through your plan with another business owner in the room.

The framework isn't complicated.

Actually giving yourself the time to finish it is the difficult bit.

That's what the day is for.

Who Is It For?

Is this day for you?

YES — if...

You run a small business and are involved in actually doing the work.

You have plenty going on but aren't completely sure what deserves your attention next.

You've made plans before and watched everyday business slowly take over.

You want clearer priorities rather than another enormous to-do list.

You'd value spending a day around other business owners who understand the same pressures.

You're willing to answer a few uncomfortable questions about what is — and isn't — working.

PROBABLY NOT — if...

You want somebody else to hand you a ready-made business plan.

You're looking for a room full of seven-figure founders comparing revenue charts.

You want to sit through presentations without doing any work yourself.

You're expecting a sales pitch or a clever upsell at the end.

There isn't one.

This is a working day for real small business owners who want the next 90 days to look different from the last 90.

Business Alchemy Network

Better questions. Better decisions. Better businesses.

Business Alchemy Network is built around a simple idea:

Business owners make better decisions when they have the right structure, honest conversations and other business owners around them.

There is no shortage of business advice in the world.

What is much harder to find is the time, space and support to decide what applies to your business — and then actually do something with it.

That's what Business Alchemy is about.

Practical thinking.

Useful conversations.

People who understand what running a business actually feels like.

And considerably less business waffle.

The 90-Day Planning Session brings all of that together in one room for one focused day.