Growth / Margin / Cash / Transactions / Operating model / Technology

Strategy that shows up in the numbers.

We work with founders, management teams and investors on the decisions that move revenue, margin and cash. Not a deck that gets filed, a decision someone owns, and a number that changes.

What we do

What we do about them.

Each of those questions has a body of work behind it. Engagements are scoped from wherever you actually are, not from a standard package.

Growth

  • Pricing architecture and discount governance
  • Sales process, coverage and incentive design
  • Customer segmentation and key account programmes
  • Channel economics and distributor network design
  • Market entry. New segment, geography or category

Margin

  • Cost to serve. Which customers and products actually pay
  • Vendor renegotiation and procurement consolidation
  • Portfolio and mix. What to push, what to kill
  • Overhead and productivity review
  • Cost programmes with savings tracked to the P&L

Cash

  • Working capital release across the full cycle
  • Receivables and collections recovery
  • Inventory and supplier terms
  • Cash forecasting the team can run themselves
  • Lender conversations and facility restructuring

Transactions

  • Commercial due diligence for buyers and lenders
  • Vendor diligence and pre-transaction readiness
  • Fundraise support. Model, data room, narrative
  • 100-day plans and value creation after close
  • Integration. Synergies landed, not modelled

Operating model

  • Organisation design and decision rights
  • Founder dependency. Delegation that holds
  • Reporting and MIS. The numbers to see weekly
  • Performance management and accountability
  • Governance, boards and succession

Technology

  • AI opportunity assessment. Ranked use cases with cost and payback
  • Automation mapping across the back office
  • Tech stack rationalisation and licence consolidation
  • System selection. The business case, not the implementation
  • Data and reporting foundations when every report disagrees
Most strategy fails in the gap between the analysis and the person who has to act on it.
How we work

Small teams, senior people, short engagements.

The people you meet are the people who do the work

No pyramid, no handover to a junior team after the pitch. Engagements are run by someone who has done the job inside a company, not only advised on it.

Scoped in weeks, not quarters

Most engagements run three to eight weeks against a defined question and a named end date. Longer programmes exist, but they're built from pieces that each stand on their own.

Judged on what moves

Savings found, cash released, margin recovered. If an engagement ends and nothing measurable has changed, it did not work.

Who we work with

Organisations small enough to move, and serious enough to measure it.

Founders and promoters

Owner-led businesses where the founder is still the bottleneck, and growth has started to cost more than it returns.

Private equity and venture funds

Commercial diligence on targets, and value creation across portfolios. Screening retainers for funds seeing more flow than they can assess.

Portfolio companies

100-day plans, value creation programmes, integration after a bolt-on, and reporting a sponsor will actually accept.

Startups past product-market fit

Pricing, unit economics, the shift from founder-led selling to a repeatable motion, and fractional commercial leadership before the full hire.

Corporates and large enterprise

Specialist input where a generalist team cannot produce it: benchmarking, independent challenge on a major decision, and defined workstreams.

Family businesses

Professionalising ahead of a raise or a generational handover. Governance, structure, reporting, and the difficult conversations that go with them.

Get in touch

Tell us what you're trying to decide.

It does not have to be a brief, or even a fully formed question. If you want to think something through, we are happy to be the people you do it with.