How it works

The data layer underneath the advice.

Anyone can tell a gym owner to “post more Reels.” The part that is hard, and the part I built, is the layer underneath: the sourcing, the competitor audit, and the capacity maths that make a recommendation checkable rather than plausible.

Start here

One engagement, and it starts with a call.

Nothing is bought from a page. What you’re weighing up before you pay is a fifteen-minute conversation, and what follows it is one engagement in two parts.

01

The call

Free, about fifteen minutes, and it happens before you pay anything. By the time we speak, I’ll already have looked at your catchment: who’s nearby, what they charge, who’s running ads. You get a straight read on whether there’s a case worth pursuing, and the pricing, live, for your gym. If your catchment’s already taken, or too thin to source properly, you’ll hear that instead.

02

Your Turf Report

One-off. Every competitor in your catchment priced and profiled, who’s running Meta ads right now, your district’s demographics and income data, and your capacity gap sized in pounds against your own membership fee, with a ranked, three-action plan. It comes bundled with the execution half: a 48-hour competitor brief, a setup session with ads live before it ends, drafted creative, a month of content, and a costed intro offer.

  • Retention findings are framed as an unproven read, drawn from review sentiment
  • Revenue figures are per-member, not whole-book
03

Your Turf Programme

Ongoing, month to month, no minimum term. The research stays current instead of frozen on the day you signed: competitor alerts when someone nearby changes price or opens, creative rebuilt quarterly, research refreshed quarterly, and a standing line to think things through.

Covered by the same 90-day, full-refund guarantee as everything else.

The method

Four checks, run on every catchment.

None of it is a black box, and that is deliberate. Every step below is one you could check yourself, given the time. The value is that it has been done properly, priced against your own numbers, and written down with the sources attached.

01

The competitor audit

Every gym and studio within reach of yours, looked at the way a prospect would: current prices from their own site, their class model, and their reviews where a real review base exists.

02

The ad sweep

Meta’s Ad Library shows every ad a page is running, right now. I pull who’s advertising near you, what they’re saying, and who’s gone quiet, which is often just as useful.

03

The district read

ONS Census, income and activity data for your district, not the national average: age bands, household composition, what people near you actually earn.

04

The capacity gap

The space between the members you have and the members you could hold, priced at your own monthly fee. Your number on your fee, never an industry estimate.

How the gap becomes a pounds figure

Your current member count, against the capacity you set. The spare places, multiplied by your own monthly fee, over a year. That’s the whole calculation: no modelling, no assumptions borrowed from another gym, and every input is one you can read straight off your own books.

Why it matters that the maths is boring.

A number you can’t interrogate is a number you can’t act on with any confidence. Every figure in your report comes with the working attached, so when something looks off to you (and you know things the data does not), you can argue with it, and win.

Sourcing

Where every number in your report comes from.

No number reaches your report without a source behind it. If a figure can’t be confirmed, it is left out rather than estimated, and the report says so.

Your district

  • ONS Census 2021: age bands, household composition, health
  • ONS Regional Domestic Household Income
  • PAYE Real Time Information: local earnings
  • Index of Multiple Deprivation, via the local JSNA

Your gym and your competitors

  • Companies House: ownership and director filings
  • Each gym’s own site: pricing, classes, positioning
  • Independent review platforms, where a real review base exists
  • Local and regional press coverage

The wider industry

  • UK fitness industry benchmarks: pricing, utilisation, market size
  • UK trade press from the last month
  • Regulation that changes your costs: wages, rates, energy

Who’s advertising right now

  • Meta Ad Library: every ad each competitor page is running, live
  • What their ads actually say, and which offers they’re pushing
  • Each gym’s own social pages, read for positioning and tone
  • Checked at research time, not recycled from an old sweep

Before it reaches you

Every report gets marked before you see it.

The last step isn’t writing. It’s three separate reviews, each looking for a different way the report could be wrong.

And when something still gets through, it goes in a correction log: what was wrong, what it’s been corrected to, and what changed so it doesn’t happen the same way again. Showing you how I check my own work beats claiming it never needs checking.

01

Accuracy

The load-bearing claims are traced back to the original source. Special attention goes to hedged findings that quietly lost their caveat, and to numbers that drifted during editing.

02

Credibility

Read the way a sceptical gym owner would read it. Does it sound specific and checkable, or does it sound like AI marketing copy? Generic paragraphs get cut, not softened.

03

Design

Can each insight actually be found and understood on a phone, in one sitting? A true finding buried in a wall of text has failed just as badly as a wrong one.

See it on a worked example.

The method matters less than the output. Read the sample report and judge it on whether it would tell you something you didn’t already know.