The first founder-grade burn-hacking base camp at Burning Nest — pre-deployed, fully-managed, and optimised so you can 10x your festival and disrupt your own consciousness.
847 applications. 24 places. The cohort is the product.
// rejection_rate: 97.2%
Burning Nest is one of the UK's highest-signal talent-density events. You already know this — that's why you keep going back. But the question isn't whether to go. It's whether you're going to ship your best self while you're there, or spend two days distracted by a malfunctioning gas canister.
Camp Apex is a burn-hacking framework. We've iterated on the festival experience over three years, A/B tested everything from yurt layout to meal timing, and converged on a stack that lets founders move fast and break paradigms. We turned down three Series C founders, two GPs, and a former cabinet minister last year. We're building a cohort, not a guestlist.
Our north star metric is insight-per-hour. We optimise everything — nutrition, sleep architecture, session cadence, and cohort composition — against that single KPI. The outcome is a measurably higher-ROI festival experience, compounding across every day you're on site.
Elite is not a bad word. We look at your trajectory, not just your title. Only the best candidates make it through. We vet for sector diversity, growth-stage mix, and the kind of intellectual horsepower that makes serendipitous collisions compound into something real. If you've been referred, say so. It matters.
Everything pre-configured. Zero setup required on your end. Ship your consciousness on day one.
8m insulated yurts with king-size bed, carpet, and Egyptian cotton bedding. Fully set up before you arrive.
Three meals daily. High-protein, macro-aware, locally sourced. Designed for sustained cognitive performance.
Curated natural wines, craft spirits, and cocktails. Staffed from 18:00. Access restricted to Apex cohort and guests.
High-speed internet throughout the camp area. Because your term sheets don't pause for the weekend.
6-person hot tub, members-only, bookable in 2-hour slots. Consistently rated our highest-signal networking environment.
We review every member's profile before the event and send you three warm intros to the people you should meet.
Identifies you to our team and grants priority access to all programming, facilities, and after-dark events.
Branded essentials, a founder's journal, festival skincare, and your personalised itinerary. Waiting in your yurt.
A single point of contact for the duration. Dietary requirements, scheduling, introductions. Nothing falls through.
We cap the cohort at 24. The seed cohort came from a tech entrepreneurs networking event that grew into something founder-grade.
"Closed a £340k SAFE with someone from the cohort. We'd known each other six hours. I gave a talk Saturday afternoon — he was in the front row. We signed the note on Tuesday. I'm not saying that happens every year. But it happened."
"My WHOOP showed 91% HRV recovery on Sunday morning. That's a personal best. At a festival. The sleep stack in the yurt, the macro protocol, the fact I wasn't assembling tent poles at midnight — it compounds. My team noticed the Monday I got back."
"I post consistently on LinkedIn. The talk I gave Saturday got 41,000 organic impressions by Monday morning. I've spoken at SaaStr. I've spoken at Web Summit. A Saturday afternoon session in a forest in Hampshire outperformed both. I'm still thinking about why."
"We track what matters. Everything else is noise." — Camp Apex manifesto, v3.1
Curated by founders, for founders. No filler. No awkward icebreakers. Maximum idea-throughput from hour one.
Yurts pre-configured. Welcome hamper in situ. Bar opens.
Structured speed-networking. We handle the warm intros so you don't have to.
Opening keynote. Founder perspectives on unstructured environments as performance accelerators.
Chef-prepared. Curated seating. This is where the real conversations happen.
High-protein, macro-optimised menu. Cold exposure available on request.
A frank look at why gifting culture doesn't scale — and what actually does.
Practical frameworks for agentic systems replacing headcount at the margin.
Chef-prepared. Seating curated by sector and growth stage.
Founder panel. Why the biggest exits come from founders who rejected the scarcity model.
Practical workshop. Wearables, recovery stacks and optimised cognition in uncontrolled environments.
Optional. Bookable slots via your concierge. Historically our highest-ROI session.
Fireside. Strong opinions, respectfully held. Anti-abundance takes welcome if you can defend them.
Why DAOs keep failing and how the next generation of community ownership will actually work.
Workshop. How to document, narrativise and distribute your Burning Nest experience for maximum reach.
How to engineer chance encounters. Closing session. Practical and surprisingly tactical.
Chef-prepared. Concierge-assisted departure. Post-event member directory distributed.
Both tiers include the full Camp Apex experience. Pricing reflects timing and level of concierge support.
Camp Apex membership does not include your Burning Nest ticket, which must be purchased separately.
A non-refundable 30% deposit secures your place. Applications subject to review.
That's not elitism — it's curation. The cohort only works if every person in it raises the median. We review your profile, your company, your trajectory. We look at what you're building and whether the room gets smarter when you walk into it.
Applications are not first-come-first-served. We aim to respond within 5 working days. A 30% deposit holds your place; the balance is due 30 days before the event. If you've been referred by a current member, include their name — it carries weight.
Questions? Email hello@campapex.co — but read the programme page first.