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For commissioners

The world's first integrated prison-to-self-employment platform.

MEM Academy gives MoJ, HMPPS, ICBs and Local Authorities a single piece of national infrastructure — gym network, AI tools, lived-experience coaches and live SROI — that would cost £885,000+ to build in-house.

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Why MEM exists

No one else has joined these dots.

Commissioners can buy a gym programme, a wellbeing app, an employment coach or an SROI consultancy — separately. MEM is the first platform that runs all four as one infrastructure, with lived-experience credibility at the centre.

The full stack — already live

National gym & coach network

Live partner gyms across England with vetted lived-experience PTs ready to take referrals — no new estate required.

AI coaching layer

Clara (financial literacy), MEM Advisor, Marketing Coach, Grant Expert, Workout & Savings Advisors — all built on Lovable AI Gateway, using frontier models from Google (Gemini) and OpenAI (GPT-5). No per-user licences.

Lived-experience workforce

Coaches with direct experience of the criminal-justice or care system, supervised and safeguarded — the credibility layer commissioners can't fake.

Live SROI & outcomes engine

WEMWBS-aligned wellbeing, employment, reoffending and taxpayer-savings dashboards. Evidence is generated by delivery, not by consultants.

Safeguarding & compliance baked in

DBS, MoU, prison-compliance workflows, data-sharing templates and audit trails — ready to drop into your procurement pack.

Self-employment & enterprise hub

Universal Credit calculators, HMRC deadlines, business-plan drafter, grant-finder — turning service users into taxpayers, not repeat clients.

Build vs partner

What it would cost to build this in-house.

Indicative cost for a commissioner or large charity to recreate MEM's stack from scratch, engineering, AI, network, safeguarding and three years of infrastructure.

Total to build alone
£885,000+
vs. partnering with MEM, below the £25k direct award threshold, with delivery from day one and live outcomes from week one.
In-house build estimate
  • Senior full-stack engineer (×2, 18 months)£270,000
  • AI / ML engineer (12 months)£110,000
  • Product designer (12 months)£75,000
  • Safeguarding & compliance lead (12 months)£65,000
  • Outcomes / data analyst (12 months)£60,000
  • Gym & coach network onboarding (national)£120,000
  • Cloud, AI inference & infra (3 yrs)£90,000
  • Programme / delivery management£95,000
  • Total£885,000

Ready for procurement

Safeguarding statement
DBS, DSL, incident & disclosure flow.
Data-sharing templates
GDPR, DPIA-ready, MoJ-compliant.
MoU & prison ops
HMPPS-aligned MoU and gate-release pathway.
Live evidence pack
WEMWBS, reoffending, employment, SROI.

Commission outcomes, not pilots.

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