Services
Four disciplines, three ways to work with us. Clear scope, clear pricing, and a partner accountable for the outcome.
How we think about the work
We don't try to be everything to every client. We do four things, we do them at a senior level, and we turn down work that doesn't fit.
Many firms grow by adding practices and selling more hours. We've grown by staying disciplined about four disciplines that genuinely reinforce each other — a strategy that respects the operating economics, an operations program that funds the strategy, a transformation with a business case behind it, and a deal that captures the value it promised. When these come from one team, they don't just coexist. They compound.
The way we price reflects the way we work. There are no open-ended hourly meters and no surprise change orders. Once we understand the problem, you get a written proposal with a fixed scope, a named partner, and a fixed fee. Where the mandate suits it, we'll put a meaningful share of that fee at risk against the results we agree up front. The figures below are starting points, not quotes — the real number comes once we've scoped the work together.
Disciplines
Most mandates combine a couple of these. We'll recommend the right mix after our first conversation.
Where to play, and how to win.
Strategy is a set of choices about where a business will compete and how it will earn a durable advantage. We pressure-test the market, the economics, and the competitive position, then help leadership commit to the two or three moves that actually change the trajectory — and to the things worth stopping.
Cost, cash, and performance that holds.
Performance problems rarely live in one place. We map the operating model end to end — cost to serve, supply chain, working capital, and the P&L structure — and rebuild it around the moves that improve margin and cash. Then we install the tools and cadence so the gains survive after we leave.
Technology anchored to business value.
Transformation fails when it's run as an IT project. We tie every platform, data, and automation decision to a specific business outcome, sequence the roadmap so value lands early, and build the operating model and capability to run it — so the investment shows up in the results, not just the roadmap.
Protect the thesis, capture the value.
Deals are won or lost in the details. We run commercial and operational diligence that stress-tests the investment thesis, support valuation and negotiation with a clear-eyed view of risk, and plan the integration so the synergies you underwrote actually materialize in the first hundred days and beyond.
Engagements
Pricing is indicative — every mandate is scoped and quoted precisely once we understand the work.
| Engagement | Diagnostic | Engagement | Advisory |
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| Starting fee | from $60k | from $250k | Retainer |
| Best for | A focused question that needs a clear answer fast | A full strategy, transformation, or deal | Ongoing counsel to the leadership team |
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Process
Every engagement follows the same four movements. There are no theatrical reveals — just steady, visible progress your team is part of the whole way through, ending in results you can run without us.
We build a rigorous fact base — the market, the economics, the operations — and align with leadership on the two or three questions that actually matter. The brief is only as good as the evidence behind it, so we start there.
We write down the objectives and the metrics of success together, so we're solving the same problem. This becomes the reference we return to whenever a decision gets hard — it keeps everyone honest, including us.
Focused workstreams with weekly steering reviews. You see the analysis and the trade-offs as they develop, not a polished surprise at the end. Where the mandate calls for it, we work alongside your teams to put the recommendations into motion.
We hand over the models, the tools, and the capability so the gains outlast the engagement. Then we stay reachable through the first phase of execution, because the work only matters once it's real and working in the business.
Questions
A focused diagnostic runs three to five weeks. A full strategy, transformation, or deal is usually eight to sixteen weeks. Advisory retainers are ongoing and scoped quarter to quarter. Whatever the shape, we'll give you a realistic timeline in the proposal rather than an optimistic one.
Send us the shape of the problem and we'll come back with a proposal.