Services
Four kinds of work, one habit of mind.
Every engagement is scoped to end, led by a partner, and closed with a position you can act on.
01
Strategy review
A structured second look at the plan you already have — what it assumes, where it is fragile, and what would need to be true for it to work.
Typically · The plan has not changed, but the market has.
You get · A written position on where the plan is fragile.
What it involves
Test the assumptions the plan rests on
Interview the people who must deliver it
Model what has to be true for it to work
A written position on where it is fragile
Six to eight weeks
02
Market and portfolio decisions
Which markets to enter, which to leave, and where the next pound of capital earns the most. Evidence first, then conviction.
Typically · Growth has spread you thinner than anyone will say aloud.
You get · Evidence by market, and a recommendation on where capital goes.
What it involves
Economics by market, customer and channel
An honest allocation of shared costs
Options to enter, hold or exit
A recommendation on where capital goes
Eight to twelve weeks
03
Transactions and major moves
Support before the bankers arrive and after they leave — the case for the deal, the price of walking away, and the first hundred days.
Typically · A deal is live and the board is not aligned.
You get · The case for and against, and a first hundred days.
What it involves
The case for, and the case against
Integration and governance risk
The price at which you walk away
A plan for the first hundred days
Six to ten weeks
04
Governance and succession
Boards, ownership, and the handovers that define a firm. The slow questions that reward being asked early.
Typically · A founder is leaving, or the board has outgrown itself.
You get · A transition plan the partners will actually sign.
What it involves
Board effectiveness and composition
Confidential interviews across owners and partners
Sequencing for the handover itself
A transition plan the board will sign
Eight to twelve weeks
Every engagement
The same terms, whatever the question.
Whatever the question, these commitments are in every scope we write.
A partner throughout
The person you meet first leads the work and sits in every session.
A two-page scope
The question, the evidence, the fee and the end date, agreed in writing.
A fixed fee
Stated before we start. No day rates, and no meter running.
A clear position
A short memo that takes a view, argued in person.
Not sure where to start
Most questions are more than one of these.
Describe the decision in a paragraph. We will tell you honestly whether it is work for us.
What happens next
01
A reply from a partner within two working days
02
A forty-five minute conversation
03
A two-page scope, or an honest no
Taking two new engagements this quarter