We work alongside owner-managed firms and mid-market teams across England to fix what's slowing them down: unclear strategy, tangled operations, or pricing that leaves money behind.
Three areas where we spend most of our time with clients.
Most businesses we meet have never stress-tested their pricing. We audit your product mix, compare margin per line item and model two or three alternative pricing structures. The typical engagement runs four to six weeks and ends with a tested price list you can roll out the following quarter. One food-distribution client in the Midlands recovered £180k in annual margin just by restructuring volume discounts.
When a company grows past thirty or forty people, the informal systems that used to work start breaking. Handoffs get missed, nobody owns the bottleneck, and the founder is still approving purchase orders. We map your workflows end to end, identify the three or four friction points that cost the most time, and redesign them with clear ownership and simple metrics. We stay on-site two days a week during implementation so the changes actually stick.
Thinking about a second location, an acquisition, or a new market? We build a 12-month readiness plan that covers cash-flow modelling, leadership capacity, and the operational changes you will need before you scale. The deliverable is a board-ready document with milestones, not a slide deck full of generalities. We have supported nine expansion projects since 2021, ranging from £500k to £4m in committed capital.
Our team is small on purpose: four senior consultants, each with at least twelve years in industry before switching to advisory work. That means nobody on your project is learning on your time. You will not get a junior analyst running your engagement while a partner drops in for the quarterly review.
We price fixed-fee for scoped projects and day-rate for ongoing advisory. No retainer traps, no "phase two" surprises. If a project finishes early, you pay for what we delivered, not for the hours we estimated.
Clients stay with us because we tell them what we see, not what they want to hear. A logistics firm in Sheffield hired us to validate an acquisition target. After three weeks of due diligence we recommended they walk away. They did, and six months later the target entered administration. That kind of honesty is worth more than any strategy diagram.
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