Headline: Profitable Online Tutoring Business with 100 Signed Agents, 150K-Teacher Database and Its Own Booking Platform, Run Part-Time
Summary: An online 1:1 tutoring business, UK-incorporated, with 5+ years of trading. It sells through a signed network of education agents and runs on its own booking platform. About $200K in annual revenue, roughly 67% gross margin, and the whole operation is run by 1.5 part-time people. The product works; growing it is a sales and marketing question, not a build question.
Full description:
The business is an established online tutoring marketplace covering GCSE & A-Level, CELPIP & IELTS, and French A1–B2 with exam preparation. Students come mainly through a network of international education agents, and every lesson is booked and managed on the company's own platform.
Distribution you can't buy
The business has 100 signed agent agreements, and more than 50 agents actively send students. Most are ICEF members. The brand is well known in Latin America and among Canada-based agents, including IRCC-linked immigration consultants who refer students to the French programmes. Another 2,500+ qualified agent businesses sit in the CRM. No new business development has been done recently, so the untapped growth is sizeable.
A ready supply of teachers
79,000 LinkedIn followers, most of them teachers
A database of 150,000 teachers worldwide
A hiring pipeline run through an applicant tracking system (ATS)
Proven ability to hire strong English-speaking tutors in almost any subject, quickly
The business currently works with 100+ vetted tutors, averaging about 9 years of experience, with 1 in 20 applicants accepted.
Simple unit economics
Tutors are paid $20/hour and students are charged $60/hour, a 3× markup. All tutors are subcontractors, so there are no fixed delivery costs: margin holds whether volume is high or low.
Technology
The booking platform was built in-house and comes with the business as a supported SaaS service; the source code is licensable separately. An AI assistant for agents is launching now. Next on the roadmap is letting agents book tutors directly without the team's involvement, so the same small team can handle many times the current volume. The platform can sell any educational programme, which could turn the agent network into a wider course marketplace with tutoring as the starting point.
Growth opportunity
The main lever is sales activity: attending ICEF events, contacting agents directly, and placing account managers in Latin America, Eastern Europe or Asia. The playbook, including lessons learned the hard way, transfers with the business.
Deal options
Preferred: a strategic partner takes over the operating business and the agent network, and the current owner stays in as the technology partner with a 20–30% share.
Alternatively: a full or partial sale, with the platform supplied as a service.
The founder can stay on through the handover.
Ideal buyer: an education group, tutoring platform, agent network, or immigration/test-prep business that wants a ready-made agent sales channel and a teacher supply.
The detailed one-pager and a platform walkthrough video are available to serious buyers after signing an NDA.
