Perfect Strangers Circles
Private mastermind groups for experienced founders
Your most valuable conversations shouldn't happen by chance.
Apply for a CircleLondon · Monthly · Professionally facilitated · Strictly confidential
A private Mastermind Circle of up to 10 carefully matched founders, built around the experience, perspective and challenges each person brings to the room.
Meet monthly. Work through the decisions that matter. Learn from founders whose experience is genuinely relevant to yours.
The group is the product.
Most communities bring people together. We decide very carefully who should be together.
Every Circle is built by hand using structured member profiles and matching across four areas.
Business experience
What you've built, scaled and learned.
Current challenges
The decisions and transitions you're navigating now.
Contribution
Where your experience can genuinely help someone else in the Circle.
Personal fit
Communication style, values and group dynamics.
We combine structured matching with human curation and don't launch a Circle until the mix is right.
The goal isn't to find people like you. It's to find people who are useful to each other.
People worth having around the same table.
Circles are built for experienced founders and business owners running established or scaling companies.
- Make decisions with real consequences
- Have meaningful experience to share
- Want peers rather than mentors
- Are open about both what works and what doesn't
- Are prepared to contribute as much as they receive
Not everyone who applies will be placed in a Circle. We only make a match when we believe the person will both gain from the group and make the group stronger.
"I was drowning in my own success. Within 3 months, I made the boldest decision of my career. Now I actually sleep."
"I was burning out running a £400M+ business. Now I work less, achieve more. Even launched a new division."
"Anastasia's moderation is surgical — structure, timing, and questions that shift perspectives."
Bring the decisions that actually matter.
- Enter a new market.
- Raise or bootstrap.
- Hire or replace a senior leader.
- Change the business model.
- Navigate a co-founder disagreement.
- Decide what to build next.
You don't come to the Circle for generic advice. You bring a real situation and hear how other founders have dealt with comparable decisions, mistakes and turning points.
The conversation is based on experience rather than prescriptions.
- Up to 10 founders
- One carefully matched group.
- 3 hours every month
- In person in London.
- Same people
- Context and trust build from meeting to meeting.
- Professional facilitator
- Keeps the conversation focused, balanced and useful.
- Strict confidentiality
- What is discussed in the Circle stays there.
The longer the group stays together, the less you need to explain — and the faster you can get to what actually matters.
Your Circle isn't assigned. It's built.
Apply
Tell us what you've built, where you are now, what you're navigating and what experience you bring.
Curation call
We meet to understand what you're looking for and whether the format is right for you.
Matching
We look across the current member pool to find the combination of experience, challenges and personalities that makes sense.
Invitation
When we find a Circle where we believe the fit works both ways, we'll invite you to join.
We'd rather make you wait than place you in the wrong group.
Apply for a CircleApply for a Circle
Tell us what you've built, where you are now, what you're navigating and what experience you bring.
A few honest sentences are enough. We read every application and reply personally.
The right people change the conversation.
Up to 10 founders. One consistent group. Three hours every month. Built around what each person can bring to the others.
Apply for the next London CircleApplications are reviewed individually. We only form a Circle when the right combination of members is in place.