Firms rarely break in one place. They grow faster than the way they run, and the cost shows up somewhere else entirely — in a region that misses, a decision that takes a month, a team that keeps rebuilding itself. We find where it actually starts.
Who owns what, how work moves between functions, and where decisions stall.
Comp design, targets, why one region delivers and another doesn't.
Sequencing an entry, who to hire first, and who's worth using locally.
Pick the one that sounds like your firm.
One defined outcome with an end date. A comp structure rebuilt, a region assessed, an underperforming function diagnosed and a written plan for fixing it. Fixed fee, agreed before anything starts — no discovery phase you're billed for.
Standing advice on people, structure and hiring decisions as they come up. You get a considered answer from someone who already knows your business, instead of briefing a new adviser every time something lands.
Some firms want something longer — a seat in the leadership meetings, or someone inside the business for a fixed period. That's possible for the right situation. It's a conversation rather than a package, so ask.
The words a founder uses carry most of the diagnosis.
Where decisions get made, and what quietly gets dropped.
They know where the friction is. Nobody asks them.
Ordered by what it costs to leave alone.
Strategy presented, invoice sent, nobody seen again. If we tell you to change something we stay through the difficult part.
Length is what consultancies bill for. You'll get the shortest document that says the whole thing.
Brokerage, trading, payments. Anywhere else we'd be guessing at your expense.
We also do search, so we have every incentive to find you a headcount problem. We'd rather lose the fee.
A lot of friction inside a growing firm comes down to work being tracked somewhere it shouldn't be. We build light, web-based things that hold a day together — shaped around how your people actually work.
See what we've built →You don't need a scope or a brief. “Solve my sales problem” is a perfectly good opening — working out what that means is the job.
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