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From Pilot to Owned IP: How NatWest Scaled Its Accelerator on Disciple
NatWest grew Accelerator to 17,000 members in 12 months on Disciple's platform, against a 10,000 target.
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Enterprise
From Pilot to Owned IP: How NatWest Scaled Its Accelerator on Disciple
NatWest grew Accelerator to 17,000 members in 12 months on Disciple's platform, against a 10,000 target.
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A Year With My Camera
Emma Davies built A Year With My Camera on Facebook and Instagram, but her posts were lost in ad-led feeds. With her own branded app, weekly engagement rose from around 10% to more than 50%, and over 70,000 students have taken part.
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Action for Happiness
Action for Happiness reaches people who avoid public social feeds through a private, charity-managed app for daily actions, courses, and mutual support — with 75% of the community coming back each month.
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Battered Black Book
Battered Black Book is a private members' club for personal assistants to the ultra-wealthy. It grew out of a recruitment firm and a Facebook group into its own app — a members' Q&A feed beside a vetted partner directory, now a paid membership with partner-funded events.
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Bodily
Coach Karin Franzén Bohman built the community into Bodily's 10-week programme itself — members post from their own training and are in the app seven times a week — on a branded platform she chose over 30 others.
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The Green & Gold Crowd by Crowd Racing
Crowd Racing's Green & Gold Crowd makes racehorse ownership feel shared — one app for race updates, expert insight, and member discussion that replaced Facebook, WhatsApp, and email and became the company's core product.
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First Light Steak Club
First Light Steak Club turned its US wagyu subscription into a real club — a branded, members-only app where subscribers get chef recipes and cooking videos and connect with other steak lovers, giving the company content, community, and customer insight in one place.
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GRoW by Belina Consulting
When lockdown closed its doors, Belina Consulting's GRoW back-to-work programme moved learning, events, and support into one invitation-only app — some members went from monthly to daily use, and 90% keep the app after returning to work.
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Hari Ghotra
Chef Hari Ghotra brought her recipes, cookery classes, spice kits, and curry lovers into one free-to-download app — more than 400 dishes shared, a 5-star App Store rating, and books that outperform her other sales channels.
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Her Spirit
Mel Berry and Holly Woodford moved Her Spirit off social media into a private fitness app where women share challenges honestly and coaches stay close — now 90% of the business's revenue comes through the app.
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Jasmine Mays Fitness
Jasmine Mays ran her Las Vegas fitness business on Facebook until the personal and professional lines blurred and clients drifted. Her own branded app gives the programme an organised home — separate from her personal profile — with better engagement and retention.
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La Reserva
La Reserva de Sotogrande, a private residential club in southern Spain, wanted a space that felt like part of the club rather than a public social feed — a branded, private app where members find information about property, services, and events and connect directly.
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Luke Bryan
Country star Luke Bryan brought more than 400,000 fans closer to the tour and to each other in his own app — a paid community where subscriptions cover the running costs and fans post, message, and meet in person.
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Red Bird Ministries
After losing three children, Kelly and Ryan Breaux founded Red Bird Ministries. Since 2018 it has supported more than 1,300 grieving families in a private, focused app — where two families who lost infants on the same day found each other and met in person.
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Sanctuary
Yoga teacher Rod Stryker brought his 130+ hours of Yoga Nidra teaching and his global following into one app — Sanctuary — now home to more than 3,000 paying members practising live and on demand.
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