Family offices with several interests. Each holding is run well on its own terms. We look across all of them and say where the capital and the attention should go next.
Corporates and institutions. Large companies, universities, foundations and public bodies with a growth plan or a change programme that has stalled. We get it moving and stay until it is delivered.
Boards and chairs. An independent view before a decision such as a transaction or a change of leadership. We prepare the evidence and write the paper.
Founders and management teams. Trading businesses getting ready to raise or to enter a new market. We get the plan and the numbers to the standard an investor expects.
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Selected work
Our clients are confidential, so each case is described by its sector rather than by name.
We could not keep up with the public contract notices, so we built something that could. In its first 45 days the scanner read 4,312 notices and passed 41 as worth a bid. It has run every day since, and a person still makes the final call.
We worked inside a venture-backed online MBA for four years. We wrote and taught the marketing module, built the growth plan and mentored 350+ founders one to one.
For consumer goods and services businesses we use our own validation method. It was developed in consulting, has been tested over seven years and has been run with 350+ start-ups.
It answers one question before the money is spent: will people buy this.
Find the gap. We start with retailers and buyers and ask what they cannot currently get.
Test it. The concept goes in front of real customers under a stand-in brand. The pass mark is agreed before the test starts. A test takes between two weeks and two months.
Stop or go. If it fails, it stops there and the cost has been a few weeks. If it passes, there is evidence to act on.
Take the proof to market. A concept that passes goes to buyers, investors or launch with the results behind it.
Answer eight questions about the business as it is today. You get the practice that fits and a first step, on screen. You do not need to give an email address.