Business consulting that pays for itself in the first quarter

We work with owner-managed companies turning over £2m–£50m who know they could grow faster but can't pinpoint what's slowing them down. Our consultants sit inside your operations for four to twelve weeks, find the friction, and fix it with you.

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What we actually do

Six practice areas. Each one starts with a diagnosis, not a slide deck.

Growth strategy

We map your revenue by product, channel and customer segment, then build a 90-day plan that concentrates effort where margin is highest. Most clients see a 12–18% revenue lift within two quarters.

Operational efficiency

Slow fulfilment, duplicated approvals, spreadsheets doing the job of software. We spend a week shadowing your teams, then redesign workflows so the same people produce more with less overtime.

Market entry

Thinking about expanding into a new geography or vertical? We run a structured feasibility sprint: four weeks, competitor mapping, regulatory review, pricing model, go/no-go recommendation.

Leadership alignment

When the board says "grow" but the ops director says "stabilise", nothing moves. We facilitate structured workshops that turn conflicting priorities into a single, sequenced action plan.

Digital readiness

Not every company needs an AI strategy. Some just need their CRM to talk to their accounting package. We audit your tech stack, score it against your actual needs, and recommend only the changes that save money or time.

Crisis triage

Cash crunch, key-person departure, supply chain collapse. We deploy within 48 hours, stabilise the immediate threat, and hand you a recovery roadmap before the month is out.

How an engagement runs

No mystery, no months of "discovery". Here is the sequence from first call to final handover.

1

Diagnostic call (30 min, free)

You describe the problem as you see it. We ask questions you might not have considered. By the end we both know whether there is a fit.

2

Scoping document

Within five working days we send a two-page brief: what we will investigate, who we need access to, how long it will take, and the fixed fee. No hourly billing surprises.

3

On-site immersion

A lead consultant spends one to three weeks embedded with your team. Interviews, process observation, data pulls. We work from your office, not ours.

4

Findings and action plan

A concise report with ranked recommendations, expected financial impact for each, and a realistic timeline. We present it to your leadership team and take questions on the spot.

5

Implementation support

If you want us to stay and help execute, we do. If you prefer to run with it internally, we schedule two follow-up check-ins at 30 and 90 days, included in the original fee.

Where the numbers changed

Four recent engagements, anonymised at client request, with the outcomes that mattered to each company.

Manufacturing — Belfast

Cutting lead time on bespoke orders

A 120-person fabrication shop was quoting 14-week lead times while competitors quoted 9. We restructured their scheduling logic and moved two bottleneck processes in-house.

Lead time reduced to 8 weeks; £1.4m in recovered orders over 12 months.
Professional services — London

Pricing model overhaul

A 40-person consultancy was billing by the hour and leaving money on the table. We helped them shift 60% of engagements to value-based pricing within one quarter.

Average project value up 34%; no loss in win rate.
E-commerce — Edinburgh

Fixing a returns problem

Return rate had climbed to 22%, eating into margin. Root cause was not product quality but unclear sizing guides and slow customer-service response. We redesigned both.

Returns fell to 11% in 10 weeks; net margin improved by 5 points.
Food & drink — Derry

Preparing for a trade buyer

The founder wanted to sell within 18 months. We identified four value-suppressing issues, resolved three of them pre-sale, and coached the team through due diligence.

Sale completed at 6.2× EBITDA, above the sector median of 4.8×.

Questions we hear often

Most of our projects fall between £8,000 and £45,000 depending on scope and duration. We quote a fixed fee after the scoping stage so there are no surprises. The diagnostic call is free and carries no obligation.
Yes. About half our engagements are with firms in England, Scotland or the Republic of Ireland. We travel to the client site for the immersion phase and handle the rest remotely.
Our strongest track record is in manufacturing, professional services, food and drink, and e-commerce. That said, the operational and strategic frameworks we use transfer well. If your challenge is one we have not tackled before, we will tell you upfront.
For standard engagements, we can usually begin the immersion phase within two to three weeks of signing the scope document. Crisis triage is faster: we aim for 48 hours.
No. We work alongside your people, not instead of them. The goal is to leave your team more capable than we found them, with tools and processes they can maintain independently after we leave.

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Address: 139 Bogan Lane, St. Gislason, Northern Ireland, VI1 4FE, United Kingdom

Phone: +44 7832 604442

Email: [email protected]

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