We don’t have twelve service lines. We have three situations we’ve lived through more times than we can count, and a method for getting you through them faster than you’d do it alone.
01 · Founders scaling chaos
You’re here when: product-market fit is real, but every system that worked at 5 people is breaking at 50. You’re hiring against a wall. Your best people are starting to ask uncomfortable questions about the road ahead.
What we do: Sit beside you for 10–12 weeks. Identify which load-bearing walls you can actually move. Build the operating cadence that survives next year’s headcount. Coach (not replace) your leadership team into the version of itself that can run a 200-person company.
What changes: A roadmap your team owns. Hiring filters that protect the culture you have. Metrics your board will trust. A succession plan for the founder roles you shouldn’t be playing forever.
02 · Corporates losing ground
You’re here when: smaller competitors are taking margin you used to consider safe. The team’s smart and committed, but stuck. The deck from the last consulting firm is still on the shelf.
What we do: Talk to the people who are usually told to be quiet — the frustrated star engineer, the regional MD with the spreadsheet that doesn’t match the head-office one, the product manager who’s been right twice and ignored twice. Find the talent you already pay for but don’t use. Remove the obstacles your team didn’t think they were allowed to move.
What changes: Internal momentum that doesn’t require external air-cover. Clearer decision rights. A pipeline of internal leaders. The case study one of our banking clients calls “from boring and decaying to top market performer.”
03 · Financial services in transition
You’re here when: fintech is eating your edges, regulators are tightening the middle, and the digital transformation programme has been running for three years without anything looking transformed.
What we do: Bridge legacy and modern — not as a slide concept, as an operating model. We’ve been CIO and Management Board at a leading bank, MD/CTO at cross-border payments, chairman at a non-banking financial institution. We know which technology bets are worth taking, and which “innovations” are theatre.
What changes: Tech and business strategies that survive contact with reality. A team that ships. Vendor relationships that don’t capture you. Regulatory posture that holds up under inspection.
Our non-negotiables
- Speed over politics. Decisions in days, not quarters. We cut through layers — politely the first time.
- Inside-out solutions. External “best practices” rarely fit your specific context. We work with the talent and constraints you actually have.
- Real transparency. We’ll tell you things your own team is afraid to say. We’ll also tell you when we’re the wrong fit.
- Success-fee aligned. We’re confident enough to tie our compensation to your outcomes. If you don’t win, we don’t.
- Exit-first design. From day one, we’re building toward a hand-off. Success means you stop needing us.
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