private · family only · July 2026
You said the market's already taken.
Here's why that's exactly why this works.
Your pricing point last week was right — it changed the price in a day (£97 died; it's £79 one-off now, less than a Medify summer). This page is the rest of the argument. Read it like a sceptic; that's what it's for.
Your objection, stated properly
Two big sites dominate. They're cheap monthly. They've been trusted for years. Most people prep in a two-month panic window. A new product from scratch — built by your dad, with AI — has no obvious right to win against that.
All of that is true. None of it is the whole picture.
Five facts that change the maths
- The entire market replaces itself every year. ~41,000 people sat the UCAT in 2025. Nearly all of them leave the market after one cycle — they get in, or move on. There is no locked-in customer base to fight for. Every January, the incumbents and everyone else start at zero with a brand-new cohort. "Dominance" in this market is one cycle deep.
- The incumbents can't copy our best moves. One-off pricing with no auto-renew would gut Medify's revenue model (their 3.1/5 Trustpilot is mostly people charged after their exam). Saying "the official free questions are better than any bank" would kill their own product. We can say and do both — they structurally cannot. That's not spin; that's the definition of an undefended position.
- Personalisation to last year's score exists nowhere. You checked — a re-sitter with a 1820 and a fresh Year 12 get identical content on every major platform. Re-sitter mode alone is a product category with zero competitors.
- Every current giant was once a newbie in an "owned" market. 6med was started by medical students. Medify launched into a market that already had established books and courses. New entrants win in this market roughly once a generation of applicants — because the customers are new every year (see fact 1).
- "Made with AI" is how everything gets made now. MedEntry ships an AI assistant. Medify is building AI features. The buyer's only question is "does it work?" — and if AI genuinely makes building this easy, it makes running it easy too. Worth thinking about who'd be well placed to run it.
The economics — why Dad calls it a no-brainer
Costs, actual: hosting £0 (Cloudflare free tier) · payments ~2% + 20p per sale (Stripe) · build cost already spent. There is no stock, no staff, no office, no subscription software. A £79 sale keeps roughly £77. A £149 sale keeps roughly £146.
| If we reach… | Sales (of ~41,000 sitters + parents) | Revenue (all £79 tier) | Cost to achieve |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 in 1,000 | ~41 | ~£3,200 | Time + reinvested profit only. Zero cash risked upfront. |
| 5 in 1,000 | ~207 | ~£16,300 | |
| 1 in 100 | ~414 | ~£32,700 |
These are illustrative capture scenarios, not forecasts — nobody can promise a conversion rate, and we don't do invented numbers. The point is the shape: downside ≈ £0, upside = real money, and the market resets every single year. And it repeats: the 2027 cohort, then 2028, then 2029…
Now price it from the buyer's side. The buyer is often a parent watching their kid chase medicine. What do they already pay? Tutors £50–100 an hour. A Medify summer £60–120 with an auto-renew trap. The test itself £70. An entire lost year if it goes wrong: unquantifiable. Against that, £79 once — for a system built around their kid's actual scores — is not a purchasing decision. It's a rounding error on the anxiety.
Speed: what's already done and what happens next
- Done, live now: the full training app, the free guide, the sales site, one-off pricing, refund policy. Built in a day; the incumbents' product cycles move in quarters.
- This cycle (now → Sep): free beta testers recruited from the applicant forums — re-sitters especially — in exchange for brutal critique. Their feedback hones it; the best of them become testimonials on results day (scores arrive same-day, receipts in hand).
- September: your result — whatever it is — gets published on the site. That's the founder story: real kid, real score report, before and after.
- January → next Sep: the 2027 testing cohort arrives with zero loyalty to anyone (fact 1), and we're there with proof, testimonials, and a price the big two can't match without breaking their own model.
Will this waste your time? (the honest answer)
- The daily cost is 60–105 minutes on weekdays, a 2-hour mock or analysis block at weekends, tapering before test day. That's not on top of your revision — it is the revision, structured. The only genuinely extra item is the error log: ~10 minutes a day, and it's the highest-value 10 minutes in the system.
- Keep Medify if you want it. The Engine runs alongside any question source by design — the drill timer doesn't care whose questions are on the other screen. Using both isn't disloyalty; it's actually the most useful test-bed data we could get: same student, both products, honest comparison from inside.
- It gives you hours back too: zero SJT grind (you're Band 1), VR held at maintenance (you're above the mean), and a stop signal so you never do the "one more mock" spiral.
- And the payback for test-bedding it: this thing is being built to sell from January, and the person who proved it should be paid from what it earns. The share is a conversation for you and Dad — but it's on the table in writing before your test, not as a vague promise after.
What we actually want from you
Not business advice — this page was the business advice. What you have that nobody else in this project has: you're inside the target market. You know what an 18-year-old opens twice and what gets closed in four seconds. So, as a consumer — on your phone, cold:
- Open the app and the sales page. Where do you stop reading? What's cringe? What words would your year group laugh at?
- Would you open it daily if a mate had made it instead of Dad? If no — what's missing?
- Does anything confuse you in the first 30 seconds? First confusion = lost sale.
- Forget whether YOU would buy it. Would the kids at the back of the class panic-googling in August? Would their mums?
One more thing, no pressure attached: if this sells in January, the face of it shouldn't be a 54-year-old from Derby. It should be someone who just lived the re-sit with the receipts to show. That seat's open.
Your engine: ucat-engine.pages.dev/app · your comparison page: /compare · the public site: the front page. Same code throughout.