For Founders & CEOs

You built the business. We help you build the machine that runs it.

You know your market better than we ever will. What we know is what holds growing businesses back, and how to get to it before it costs you sleep, growth, or a chunk of the valuation.

Sound Familiar?

You've done the hard part. You built a business that works.

Now it's asking more of you than any one person can give. That's not failure. That's what growth does.

Everything runs through youYou're in every key decision by default. Holidays make you nervous. The business model lives in your head.

Growth is getting harderRevenue is up but margins are falling. Each team does things their own way. Quality depends on individual heroics.

You can't see clearlyReports arrive late and get argued over. Different teams use different numbers. Decisions run on instinct, not evidence.

What You Get

A copilot in the engine room, not an advisor on the sideline.

Grow faster Run leaner Exit higher

We've built and sold businesses of our own, so we know what this feels like from your side of it. We work shoulder to shoulder with you and your leadership team, in the detail, building what's missing.

The truth of where the business is today

A candid, structured health assessment. We name the risks, the gaps and the growth blockers, and set out a roadmap for closing them. Most founders find at least one item on that list uncomfortable.

Systems that free you from the day to day

Operating rhythm, documented processes, real data. The business stops depending on you being in every decision.

Productivity and margin, not just revenue

Growth that holds up, because the engine underneath it is sound rather than simply being pushed harder.

A valuation that survives diligence

Whether the liquidity event is 2 years out or 10, everything we build makes the business worth more and easier to sell.

How It Works

No hourly billing, no open-ended engagements. A fixed fee, agreed before we start.

One assessment, calibrated to your business. The framework and the rigour are the same for everyone. What changes is the depth, which we set against the size and shape of the company. We size it in the first conversation, and the fee with it.

Initial Meeting

45 minutes

A straight conversation about where the business is, where it needs to be, and whether we're the right copilots to get it there.

Result: a clear yes or no, from both sides.

Organisational Health Assessment

4 weeks · Fixed fee, agreed upfront

A structured health assessment across all 17 elements, built around the shape, size and industry of your business rather than run off a template. We tell you what's strong, what's at risk and where the growth is.

Result: a comprehensive health assessment report and roadmap.

Embedded Execution Programme

Month to month

We embed with your leadership team and deliver the roadmap together. In the engine room, building alongside you.

Result: a business that's leaner, stronger and more resilient.

De-risk & Stabilise→Professionalise→Scale / Exit Ready→Exit

Introduced to us by your investor? The same rules apply: you see everything we produce, and nothing is shared with anyone without your agreement.

What We Look At

The SME Vector Framework: one complete picture of your business.

VECTOR 1

The Operating Framework

How your business runs, day to day and week to week.

Vision, Values & Strategic Planning

Organisational Rhythm

People & Culture

Processes

Data, Metrics & Insights

Systems & Technology

VECTOR 2

The Growth Engine

How your business wins, delivers and renews.

Business Model

Brand Platform

Market Activation

Customer Experience

Innovation Lab

Mergers & Acquisitions

VECTOR 3

The Foundations

How your business, and its value, is protected.

Governance

Finance

Risk & Compliance

Assets & IP

Ownership & Structure

The Report

What you actually receive.

The full report runs to more than 30 pages: every element scored, the evidence behind the score and a roadmap for what to fix first. These 3 pages are from a sample assessment. Tap any page to enlarge.

Sample report scorecard: 17 elements scored with heat map

The scorecardAll 17 elements scored, with the gap between self-score and evidence

Sample report Organisational Rhythm page, scored 6 out of 10

Organisational Rhythm · 6/10“Meetings are organised around departments not strategy”

Sample report Data, Metrics and Insights page, scored 4 out of 10

Data, Metrics & Insights · 4/10“No margin visibility on roughly 60% of projects”

Pages are sanitised and blurred. The complete sample is available on request. Request the sample →

45 minutes. The truth of where the business is today.

Your 45 minutes is with a founder who has built, scaled and exited, not a triage desk. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you in the meeting rather than 3 weeks later.

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