Bringing your innovative business to the UK?
The Innovator Founder visa (IFV) is for founders building genuinely new businesses endorsed by an approved body. We help applicants understand whether their idea, traction, and team meet the bar — and what to fix before they apply.
Check your endorsement odds first
The most common reason endorsement fails is that someone in the UK already does the same thing — so we check that first, by name. Upload your business plan and we fill in the questions from it for you to check, then score the business against all three criteria and read your CV against your plan to answer the question the endorsing body cares about: why you, for this business?
Your existing runs will be checked before you continue.
Innovation
Is the business genuinely new, viable, and different from existing UK market offerings?
Viability
Realistic business plan, market understanding, the right skills, experience and resources.
Scalability
Structured planning, growth potential, and the ability to create jobs in the UK.
What the check actually does
Ten minutes, start to finish. No booking, no waiting on a reply — you get the verdict while your plan is still open in the other tab.
- STEP 01~2 min
Upload your CV
Viability is judged on you, not the idea in the abstract. We read your career against your plan to answer the question endorsing bodies care most about: why this founder, for this business?
MyVisaFit · Your CVDrop your CV here or click to browseTap to select your CVPDF only · max 15 MB - STEP 02~1 min
Upload your business plan
The endorsing body reads your plan more closely than anything else, so we read it too — and fill in the questions it already answers. Every drafted answer is marked, and you can change or delete any of it.
MyVisaFit · Your planbusiness-plan-v4.pdf
We filled in 9 answers from your plan. Each one is marked so you can check it.
Who will pay for it, and roughly how many of them are there?
From your plan — check this
Owners of independent pharmacies in England, around 5,000 of them. The buyer is the owner-operator rather than a procurement team, so the sale is one conversation.218 / 4,000
- STEP 03~6 min
Answer what the plan doesn't say
Plain English, no jargon: whose idea it is, how the business makes money, who pays, how you'll show your English. The things an assessor checks that a business plan rarely states outright.
MyVisaFit · QuestionsTHE BUSINESSStep 1 of 4Whose idea is it?
You must have come up with the idea, or helped shape it in a big way, and be the only founder or a key member of the founding team.
Mine — I'm the only founderI co-founded it, and I have a central role in the teamSomeone else started it, and I'm joining them - STEP 04instant
Get the verdict, with the names
Who already does this in the UK, named. A score out of 10 on Innovation, Viability and Scalability with the reasoning. Red flags with the fix for each. Five runs, so you can re-check after every revision.
MyVisaFit · Your reportAlready doing this in the UK
Crowded — thin differentiation
Two UK companies run a similar service, both named in your report with what they do and how close they are. Verify each against Companies House before you apply.
Innovation6New in this market, but two UK players are close.
Viability8Your CV carries this: eight years in the sector.
Scalability5No hiring plan, and no route beyond the UK.
No job creation in the growth plan
Job creation is explicit in the scalability criterion. State planned headcount by year.
What's in the report
Written to be acted on, not filed. Every weakness comes with the fix, and you get five runs so you can re-check after each revision.
Who already does this in the UK, by name
The most common reason endorsement fails is that someone here already does it. We name the closest companies, say how near they are, and tell you what to verify against Companies House.
Your business plan, read against the criteria
Upload it and the check reads the same document the endorsing body will — and tells you where your answers and your plan disagree.
Founder fit from your CV, not your self-description
Scored against what your career actually evidences: employers, roles, durations, domains. A capable generalist with no link to the market is the most common viability failure.
A score out of 10 on each criterion
Innovation, Viability and Scalability, each with the reasoning, what helps you, and the specific evidence that is missing.
Red flags, each with its fix
Joining someone else's business, a part-time commitment, no hiring plan, a UK-only market, the £50,000 myth. Named, ranked, and paired with what to do about each.
Five runs, so revisions are free
A business case gets rewritten far more than a CV does. Re-check after each revision rather than paying again to find out whether the fix worked.
Would rather a person read the whole plan?
We prepare Innovator Founder cases end to end, with a regulated adviser handling the advice. Quoted per case after a call.
On the digital tech side? Try our Global Talent visa eligibility checker instead.