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Wake Up Now.

Stories, ideas, practical tools and ways ordinary people can make life a little easier when the cost of everything keeps climbing.

Cost of living

Start with the bills that keep coming back.

There is no magic fix for the cost-of-living squeeze. But there are plenty of places where households and small businesses can stop paying twice, compare what they already buy, use a free alternative, or bring several jobs into one network.

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Phone & messages

Use BrainO Chat for free app-to-app calls and messages. Add outside calling only if it is actually needed.

See the phone tools โ†’
02
Bills & subscriptions

List what leaves the account every month. Look for duplicate tools, forgotten subscriptions and services the network can replace.

See network tools โ†’
03
Groceries & the kitchen

Use Kitchen Academy to plan meals, build a shopping list from the meals you pick and make better use of what is already in the cupboard.

Open Kitchen Academy โ†’
04
Free tools first

Legal Lee, games, BrainO Chat and other free member tools give people somewhere useful to start before paying for anything.

See the free tools โ†’
05
Small business overheads

Websites, calls, customer messages, bookings, marketing and admin are expensive when every job needs another subscription.

See business tools โ†’
06
Legal paperwork

Legal Lee and the Law Library can help organise documents, explain information in plain English and make the next question easier to understand.

Open Legal Lee โ†’

Savings depend on what a person already pays for and what they actually replace. Wake Up Now does not pretend every tool saves every person money.

Free media

Watch it. Play it. Share it.

The Wake Up Now video and song libraries are free to play. Stories, comedy, state songs, Written Off, network videos and whatever the crew makes next.

Wake Up Now videos
Free to watch

Open the video library โ†’

Play

Have a game.

A few of the BrainO games are open from here. Pick one and have a crack, or open the arcade and see the lot.

Behind Wake Up Now

The wider BrainO network.

Wake Up Now is one part of a much bigger network of tools, services, media and projects. Some are free tools, some are services, and some are simply useful places to explore. Wake Up Now is here to explain what is around and let people choose what is useful to them.

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Get on the bus.
The running joke, the social-media line, and an open invitation to come along for the ride.