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Pimpernel Pro
The guides will always be free. Pro is for when you'd rather not hold the whole thing in your head: a living, personalised plan, every deadline watched for you, and a human who checks the answers that actually matter — so you can get on with the life, not the admin.
Early access · founding-member pricing · nothing to pay yet
To be clear: everything you can read on Pimpernel stays free, forever. Pro doesn't lock the guides away — it does the work on top of them.
What Pro actually does
Not a wall around the content — a set of things done for you, the parts that are hardest to hold alone in a second language.
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The arrival planner, but saved and yours — a dated, personalised plan that remembers where you are, ticks off what you've done, and reshapes itself as your situation changes. One place that always knows what's next.
Built on your answers02
The ones that genuinely bite — validating your visa in the first three months, the carte de séjour renewal, your first tax return, even the fosse inspection. Pro reminds you before, not after, so nothing lapses while you're busy living.
Reminders that matter03
Priority "Ask Pimpernel" with a real person on the consequential questions, and your French letters checked before you send the recommandée. Not an AI guessing from the open web — someone who's done this, making sure it's right.
The bit you can't get from ChatGPT04
Every wizard set to your exact situation, the downloadable guide library to keep and print, and the full Library in depth — all in one account that travels with you from the first "should we?" to your tenth year in the village — plus the members' forum, where the real conversations happen.
Everything, in one placeWho's actually on the other end
The internet is filling up with guides to France written by nobody — AI, spun out by the yard, confident and accountable to no one. Pimpernel is the stubborn opposite. It's us: Will and Jenny, who made this exact move and learned most of it the hard way; our children, who now win arguments in French; and a menagerie that got comprehensively out of hand — the dogs, the cats, the (many) chickens, and the donkeys we genuinely did not plan on.
So when Pro checks your letter before you send it, or answers the question that actually matters, it's one of us reading it — a real person who has stood in the same préfecture queue — not a language model having a guess. Anyone can generate an answer now. We're here to make sure it's the right one, and to still be here when it counts.
— Will, Jenny & the menagerie
On your own, or with us alongside you
| Free | Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Every Library guide, kept current | ✓ | ✓ |
| The free tools & wizards | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ask Pimpernel — grounded answers | ✓ | ✓ |
| Your personalised plan, saved & living | — | ✓ |
| Deadline reminders before they bite | — | ✓ |
| Human review of your priority questions | — | ✓ |
| Your French letters checked before you send | — | ✓ |
| The downloadable guide & PDF library | — | ✓ |
| Wizards tuned to your exact situation | — | ✓ |
| The members' forum — post, reply & the full archive | Read a little | ✓ |
Founding-member pricing
No credits to top up, no pay-per-question meter, no upsell at every turn — just everything Pro does, for one honest monthly sum. Lock in the founding rate now and keep it for good; cancel any time.
Free
£0
Forever. No account needed.
Pimpernel Pro
£15 /month
or £150/year (two months free) — and your founding rate never rises.
Just need one thing checked? Get one-off human help — a real person on your letter, dossier or first tax return, from £15. (And the whole library's free to download either way.)
One honest membership — everything Pro does for one fair price. No credits to top up, no pay-per-question meter, nothing hidden. Founding members lock in the launch rate for good.
Pro is being built now. Join the early-access list and you'll be first in, at the founding rate, with a say in what we build. No payment yet — just your email.
No spam, ever. We'll only email you about Pro's launch. Unsubscribe any time.
Questions, answered
The Pimpernel promise stays the same whether you go Pro or not: honest, current, British-in-France know-how, with nothing to sell you that we don't believe in. Pro just does the work.