SafeSeat, the free seat-plan tool for UK minibus drivers that tells you when your school or club trip becomes a legal problem
A free web tool for people who drive minibuses for schools, clubs and charities, showing exactly which permit, licence and rules today's trip needs.
For the person who drives the minibus at a club, school, scout group or charity: a short set of plain questions, and a one-page answer telling you what today's trip needs.
The expensive part of a business idea is not having it. It is the time you spend finding out it does not work. This pack is that work, already done, with its sources left open.
UK·39 sources·9/9 checks·Verified 2 days ago
Sourced from reddit.com, gov.uk
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One of the ideas that survived. 1,444 went through the filter and 94% died on cited evidence. Read what killed them.
One page of the evidence record9c47244fd5f734b2
A public forum post from December 2025 records a driver discovering only then that a pre-1997 licence carries minibus entitlement automatically.
Set by how big this idea could get and the market it targets, never by the size of the pack. See the ladder.
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Survived all 9 checks
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The pack’s own model puts month one at 2× what the pack costs, and payback at 2 months. Every input behind that is sourced, and the workings are the fourth document.
The numbers are in the pack. Pricing mechanics and unit economics, every input sourced, and anything the research could not stand up is marked so.
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What’s inside your pack
The moment you pay, you download the whole pack. 8 documents, no drip feed, no login.
your pack/8 documents
├──00_Executive_Summary.md
Executive SummaryThe opportunity on one page: what it is, what checked out, and what we do not claim.
├──01_Blueprint_BuildSpec.md
The Blueprint (Build Spec)What to build, in what order, on what stack. Includes the non-goals for v1 and what would kill this.
├──02_Marketing_Plan_GTM.md
The Go-To-Market PlanWhere your first customers come from. Named channels, the beachhead to start in, and the signals that say stop.
├──03_Operations_Plan.md
The Operations PlanHow it runs once someone pays. Delivery, capacity limits, the compliance you cannot skip, and where the manual work sits.
├──04_Financial_Model.md
The Financial ModelPricing and the numbers behind it. Anything we could not verify is marked missing, never made up.
├──05_First_Week_Checklist.md
First-Week ChecklistSix steps for days one to seven: confirm the buyer, size the smallest paid offer, pick one channel.
├──Marketing_Assets.md
Marketing AssetsLaunch copy you can send today: listing page, outreach, social. Claim-checked like the research.
└──QA_Report.md39 sources
The QA Report, with the receiptsEvery check this pack faced, each verdict, and a clickable source behind every claim.
8 plain-text documents in a zip, 5,000+ words. Yours to keep, edit, or paste anywhere. No login, no subscription.
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Could you run this?
Behind the research is a business somebody has to actually operate. Here is who they would be selling to, and how soon the first money arrives.
Sells to businesses
Mostly automated
Part-time hours
Vertical tool
MarketUKThe opportunity, its evidence and its economics are researched for this market. The pack itself is priced and sold in GBP.
Who paysThe person who runs a small organisation with a minibus, such as a club, nursery, scout group or church group. They are reached through the umbrella bodies that already publish minibus guidance to their members.
How we tried to kill it
Each check is an attack, not a rubber stamp. An idea dies on the first check where cited evidence goes against it. This one survived all 9. Finding nothing is not the same as finding a green light; see how each check works on /how-it-works.
The 6 below run on every idea, whatever it is. This one's lane ran 3 more on top, for 9 in all.
Exactly what this pack covers, plus a blurred look at the document you receive.
SafeSeat, the free seat-plan tool for UK minibus drivers that tells you when your school or club trip becomes a legal problem
01 · Every answer cites the rule it rests on, including the government guidance on section 19 and section 22 permits under the Transport Act 1985, and the government page on driving a minibus.
A public forum post from December 2025 records a driver discovering only then that a pre-1997 licence carries minibus entitlement automatically.
Two hard constraints come straight from that page and must be encoded in the software, not in a policy document: a check code is valid for 21 days, and it can be used exactly once.
02 · A paid account for the organisation, at about £18 a month, that stores each driver's licence details and keeps a dated record showing the checks were done before departure.
Solicitors for the Bus and Coach Association sought judicial review of the Department for Transport's approach to the exemptions.
Month 1 revenue
£216
LTV : CAC
18.9×
Payback
2 months
Unlocks the moment you buy
01Every answer cites the rule it rests on, including the government guidance on section 19 and section 22 permits under the Transport Act 1985, and the government page on driving a minibus.
02A paid account for the organisation, at about £18 a month, that stores each driver's licence details and keeps a dated record showing the checks were done before departure.
03A build plan that keeps the rules as versioned data with citations and verification dates, so a past trip record still reproduces the answer given at the time.
A look inside
Real, sourced lines taken straight from the pack. Every source below is a live link: open one and check the claim before you buy.
Extract · evidence record
A public forum post from December 2025 records a driver discovering only then that a pre-1997 licence carries minibus entitlement automatically.
Two hard constraints come straight from that page and must be encoded in the software, not in a policy document: a check code is valid for 21 days, and it can be used exactly once.
Set by how big this idea could get and the market it targets, never by the size of the pack. See the ladder.
14-day money back, no questions asked
Survived all 9 checks
Instant download the moment you pay
The pack’s own model puts month one at 2× what the pack costs, and payback at 2 months. Every input behind that is sourced, and the workings are the fourth document.
The numbers are in the pack. Pricing mechanics and unit economics, every input sourced, and anything the research could not stand up is marked so.
Secure checkout via Stripe. A pack is evidence-backed research, not a promise of business success. See our refund policy.