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THE GOAL

Earn £2.00B in total revenue. Fastest time wins. That's it.

The leaderboard is ranked by speed — not how much money you've made. Build lean, buy smart, and sprint.

THE BASICS

  • 🖱️ Click the Proposal button to earn money instantly — great early on.
  • 📈 Buy Revenue Sources to earn passively every second without clicking.
  • 👥 Hire Staff to protect your client base from churn and multiply revenue.
  • ⚡ Buy Upgrades to multiply everything — some are game-changers.

OFFLINE EARNINGS

Your empire keeps earning while you're away. Close the tab, go to sleep — your passive revenue still ticks. You'll see what you earned when you come back.

  • Offline earnings accrue for up to 8 hours — after that, they cap.
  • If your offline earnings push you past £2.00B, your victory will be waiting for you to claim when you return.
  • Runs expire after 7 days of inactivity — so don't leave it too long!

REVENUE TIERS

Your firm title changes as total earnings grow. Purely cosmetic — but very satisfying.

🏠Sole TraderBoutique Practice📈Growing Firm🏙️Regional PlayerTop 100 Firm🌟National Brand👑Accounting Empire

REVENUE SOURCES

Buy clients to generate passive revenue every second. You start with simple bookkeeping work and unlock increasingly valuable client types as you grow — all the way up to acquiring entire firms.

Each additional purchase of the same type costs more than the last, so diversify as new options unlock.

📒
Bookkeeping Client
Basic books. They pay late but they're loyal... ish.
🧾
Tax Return Client
Once a year chaos. Worth it.
💰
Payroll Client
Reliable recurring revenue. The dream.
📊
Management Accounts
High-value clients who actually read their numbers.
🔬
R&D Credits
Specialist work, premium fees.
🎯
CFO Advisory
You're basically running their business now.
🤝
Acquire Small Firm
Buy the competition. Inherit their clients — and their problems.
🏦
Acquire Regional Firm
Playing in the big leagues. Integration is never smooth.

CHURN — THE SILENT KILLER

Every client type has a churn risk — clients leaving takes revenue with them. The more clients you have, the more churn you accumulate. Left unchecked, it will hollow out your passive income.

  • Watch the churn indicator — when it turns red, you're losing ground fast.
  • Staff (especially the Client Success Manager) reduce churn. So do several Upgrades.
  • Bad Events can spike churn temporarily — see the Events section.

STAFF

Each additional hire of the same role costs significantly more. Effects stack, but with diminishing returns.

👩‍💼
Junior Accountantreduces churn · boosts click value
Fresh out of uni, full of enthusiasm.
👨‍💼
Senior Accountantreduces churn · boosts revenue/s
Knows where the bodies are buried.
🧑‍💼
Managerreduces churn · boosts revenue/s
Delegates everything. Still essential somehow.
🤗
Client Success Managerreduces churn
Their whole job: stop clients leaving.
👔
Partnerreduces churn · boosts revenue/s
Gets 40% of everything. Worth every penny.
🦅
Chief Operations Officerreduces churn · boosts revenue/s
Runs the day-to-day so you don't have to.

UPGRADES

One-time purchases — no stacking, just permanent multipliers. Tech, Marketing, and Office upgrades all help in different ways. One of them is a genuine step-change. You'll know it when you see it.

💻 Tech
📗
Excel Pro Templates
VLOOKUPs for days.
🖥️
Practice Management Software
No more spreadsheet chaos.
📱
CRM System
Finally know your clients' birthdays.
🤖
Automation Tools
Let the robots do the boring bits.
Implement Socket
Supercharge proposals & recurring revenue. The game changer.
📣 Marketing
📣
Referral Scheme
Your clients sell for you. Genius.
💼
LinkedIn Presence
#Accounting #GrowthMindset #Blessed
🏆
Award Entries
Being shortlisted is honestly enough.
📰
PR Agency
Press coverage > paid ads.
🏢 Office
🪑
Proper Desk
Off the kitchen table. You've made it.
🏢
Serviced Office
Hot desks and bad coffee. Still better than home.
🌆
City Centre Floor
Clients are impressed. You're slightly stressed.
🏛️
Headquarters
Your name on the building.

RANDOM EVENTS

Events fire randomly during a run. They're temporary — ride the good ones, survive the bad ones.

✅ GOOD
🚀 Tax Season Surge!
Everyone needs you right now. Ka-ching!
📈 LinkedIn Post Goes Viral!
"10 things only accountants understand" 🔥
🌊 Referral Wave!
Word of mouth is doing its thing.
🎉 Win a Major Contract!
Government money. Slow but very steady.
⚠️ BAD
😱 Key Client Leaves!
They found someone cheaper. Ouch.
💔 Partner Leaves & Takes Clients!
Classic. Just absolutely classic.
⚠️ HMRC Compliance Check!
Everything stops. The taxman cometh.
😬 Bad Google Review!
"1 star. They calculated my tax wrong."
📉 Economic Wobble!
Clients are tightening their belts.

ACHIEVEMENTS

Each achievement is earned once and lives on your player card forever. Some reward speed, some reward restraint — a few reward doing things the hard way.

🚀
Speed Demon
Win a run in under 30 minutes.
💎
Diamond Hands
Win without hiring a single member of staff.
🧮
Calculator Brain
Buy every single upgrade in the shop.
👑
Hall of Famer
Appear in the all-time top 10 on the leaderboard.
🌱
Bootstrapper
Win without acquiring any small or regional firms.
🏦
Full Service
Own at least one of every revenue source type.

PRO TIPS

  • 🪑 Grab a cheap office upgrade early — it's the easiest passive boost you'll find.
  • 🤗 Hire a CSM before churn turns red. Once clients start fleeing, it spirals fast.
  • ⚡ The big Tech upgrade mid-game is a genuine step-change — prioritise it when you can.
  • 🚀 During click-boosting events, spam the Proposal button hard.
  • 🤝 Acquire your first small firm as soon as you can afford it — acquisitions snowball into the endgame.