The archive
Every field researched so far. Each dive files the same row, so they can be read against each other.
What a fit-out really costs: reading a builder's quote
The eleven lines that get left out of every quote, and the four that are always padded. A playbook for the first quote you receive.
Padel clubs: the boom, and the arithmetic underneath it
Four courts, €420k, and a business that only works if you can fill Tuesday at 11am. The occupancy curve nobody publishes.
- Model
- Asset
- To start
- €420k
- Net margin
- 28%
- Payback
- 40 mo
- Owner
- 8h/wk
Capex is not the number. Working capital is.
Almost every plan we see is funded to open and not funded to survive. The months between opening and break-even are where businesses die, and nobody budgets them.
What things actually earn: 14 fields, Q3 2026
Gross and net margin, payback and owner hours across fourteen researched fields — the table the rest of the site is built on.
Dental clinics: buying a job, or buying a business
One chair is a job with good pay. Four chairs is a business someone will buy. The gap between them is the only thing worth studying.
- Model
- Service
- To start
- €320k
- Net margin
- 19%
- Payback
- 27 mo
- Owner
- 35h/wk
Self-storage: the business that sells you space you already own
A shed, a fence and a payment link. Why the margins are absurd, why the payback is slow, and the one number that decides whether a site works.
- Model
- Asset
- To start
- €195k
- Net margin
- 44%
- Payback
- 38 mo
- Owner
- 4h/wk