Expect a cautious first contract
Without filed accounts or consumption history, suppliers price for uncertainty. A twelve-month contract is usually better than a longer one — it lets you re-price with real data once you have it.
Improve your terms
Small steps materially improve what you are offered.
- Pay by monthly direct debit
- Offer a director's guarantee if you are comfortable doing so
- Provide the previous occupier's consumption if available
- Register at Companies House with a full trading address
Revisit at twelve months
After a year of clean payments and real meter data, most startups move into materially better pricing. Diarise the review the day you sign the first contract.
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