How we work
Four weeks from first call to first win
We don't spend three months writing a report you'll never open. Here's what actually happens when you bring us in.
The diagnostic call
A 90-minute session where we walk through your P&L, your org chart, and the three things keeping you up at night. No pitch deck. We ask questions, you answer honestly, and we both decide whether there's a real fit.
Data deep-dive
We spend a week inside your numbers: gross margin by product line, customer acquisition cost by channel, overhead ratios against industry benchmarks. You get a written brief, five pages max, showing exactly where profit is leaking.
Priority map
We rank every opportunity by effort required and financial impact. Some fixes take an afternoon: renegotiating a supplier contract, adjusting a pricing tier, cutting a reporting layer that nobody reads. Those go first.
Execution sprints
We work alongside your team in two-week sprints. Each sprint has a measurable goal: reduce debtor days by four, increase average order value by 8%, consolidate two warehouses into one. We stay until the change sticks.
What we do
Six ways we get involved
Every engagement is scoped around a specific financial outcome. If we can't define the outcome in one sentence, we don't take the project.
Margin recovery
We audit your cost base line by line. In a typical engagement we find 6–12% of revenue lost to supplier drift, scope creep in service delivery, or pricing that hasn't been reviewed since 2019. The fix usually pays for our fee within the first quarter.
Cash flow planning
Profitable companies still run out of cash. We build rolling 13-week cash forecasts, restructure payment terms with your top ten customers, and set trigger points so you know eight weeks in advance when a squeeze is coming.
Operational restructuring
When a department is too slow or too expensive, we redesign the workflow rather than just cutting heads. That means mapping every step, removing the ones that exist only because "we've always done it that way," and retraining the team on the new process.
Leadership alignment
Senior teams that disagree on priorities waste months. We facilitate structured decision-making sessions, assign clear ownership to every initiative, and install a weekly rhythm that keeps the board focused on five metrics instead of fifty.
Growth modelling
Before you hire ten people or sign a new lease, we model the scenario. What revenue do you need to break even on the expansion? How long until the new market covers its cost of entry? You get a spreadsheet you can stress-test yourself, not a slide deck with hockey-stick charts.
Exit preparation
Thinking about selling in the next two to three years? We clean up the financials, document the processes that currently live in the founder's head, and position the business so a buyer sees recurring revenue and transferable relationships rather than key-person risk.
Outcomes from real engagements
What changed for our clients
These figures come from projects completed between 2022 and 2025 across manufacturing, professional services, and e-commerce firms with £2m–£30m turnover.
Who hires us
The kind of firm we work with best
We're not a good fit for everyone, and we'll tell you that on the first call if it's the case. Our strongest results come from businesses that share a few traits.
Revenue between £2m and £30m. Big enough to have real complexity, small enough that one good decision moves the needle. You have a management team, but the founder or MD is still deeply involved in daily operations and wants to step back without the business wobbling.
You've grown quickly and the systems haven't kept up. Reporting is patchy. Pricing was set intuitively and hasn't been revisited. There are two or three people whose departure would cause genuine chaos because nothing they do is documented.
If that sounds familiar, we should talk. If you're a startup looking for a business plan or a corporate looking for a 200-slide strategy review, we're probably not the right partner.
Common questions
Before you get in touch
Most projects fall between £8,000 and £35,000 depending on scope and duration. We agree a fixed fee before work begins, so there are no surprise invoices. The diagnostic call is free and carries no obligation.
Both. The data deep-dive can happen remotely, but execution sprints work better when we spend at least two days a week with your team. We've worked with firms across Northern Ireland, the Republic, and mainland GB. Travel costs are included in the project fee for UK-based clients.
Manufacturing, professional services, and e-commerce make up about 80% of our client base. The financial principles transfer well across sectors. Where we add the most value is in businesses with physical inventory, multi-step fulfilment, or complex service scoping where margin erosion hides easily.
Quick wins, like renegotiated supplier terms or corrected pricing, often land within the first month. Structural changes to team workflows or reporting systems take eight to twelve weeks to embed fully. We track progress against the priority map so you can see exactly what has moved and by how much.
You keep every model, template, and process document we create. We offer a lightweight retainer for ongoing advisory if you want a monthly check-in, but there's no lock-in. About half our clients come back six to twelve months later with a new challenge; the other half run independently with the tools we've left behind.
Get in touch
Let's talk about your numbers
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Address
92 Cambridge Street, High Nikolausfield, Northern Ireland, XE4 2AT, United Kingdom
Phone
+44 24 1889 9699
Email
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