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Business Consulting

Operator judgment. Real clarity.

Embedded consulting for founders and leadership teams ready to grow past the chokepoints. Growth strategy, org design, unit economics, and operating cadence delivered by people who have run companies, not just advised them.

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Why most consulting fails

Every founder we work with has tried something close to this before. The consulting industry sells strategy. Founders need operating leverage. That gap is why most engagements end with a deck and no movement.

PATTERN 01

The Strategy-Only Deck

A big firm sold you a 90-page deck. The slides were beautiful. The frameworks were tidy. Six months later, nothing has changed inside the business, because nobody from the firm ever ran a P&L, sat in your operations meeting, or had to fire a vendor. Strategy without operating experience is theatre.

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Implementation included in most engagements
PATTERN 02

The Founder Bottleneck

Every decision routes through you. Hiring. Pricing. Vendors. Marketing. Customer escalations. The business looks like it scales, but really it scales as far as your calendar does. You’re the chokepoint and the visionary at the same time, and you’re losing on both fronts.

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Person making every real decision
PATTERN 03

The Org Chart That Doesn’t Match Reality

On paper, you have departments. In practice, the same five people own everything that matters. Roles overlap, accountability is fuzzy, and your best operators are quietly burning out doing three jobs. Growth doesn’t fix this. Growth makes it worse, faster.

70%
Of mid-market growth stalls trace to org design
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“We hired a top-tier firm before this. Got the deck, didn’t get a single new hire made or process running. Nick sat in our leadership meeting every week for 90 days and rebuilt the operating system from the inside. The difference was night and day.”

Founder & CEO, Multi-unit franchisor

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What we work on

We don’t do all six on every engagement. We diagnose first and then focus on the two or three that will actually unlock the next stage of growth. And we sit in the room while we do it.

Growth Strategy & Roadmapping

12–24 month operating roadmap built from your unit economics, not industry benchmarks. Channels, hires, capital, and milestones, sequenced so each one earns the next.

Org Design & Hiring Plans

Roles, reporting lines, and the actual hiring sequence that gets you out of the founder bottleneck. We tell you who to hire next, what they should own, and what to stop doing yourself.

Unit Economics & Pricing

CAC, LTV, contribution margin, and pricing architecture across products and segments. We rebuild your model so every channel and offer ties back to a number that matters.

Operating Cadence

Weekly leadership rhythm, monthly business reviews, quarterly planning, and the dashboards behind them. The operating system that makes a small team feel like a real company.

Capital & Fundraising Readiness

Story, model, deck, and data room, built to the standard institutional capital actually expects. No fluff, no vanity slides, no last-minute scramble before the term sheet conversation.

Acquisition & Exit Prep

Buy-side or sell-side: diligence packages, integration plans, and the operating cleanup that protects valuation. Built by people who have been on both sides of the table.

What you get

Deliverables.

Other agencies hand you a strategy deck and call it deliverables. We build the infrastructure, ship the work, and track what moves.

  • [DIAGNOSTIC]Diagnose the real growth bottleneck. Not the symptom you are paying attention to.DEPLOYED
  • [STRATEGY]Build a 12–24 month operating roadmap with sequenced bets and capital allocationACTIVE
  • [ORG_DESIGN]Redesign the org around the next stage of growth, including hiring sequence and ownershipENABLED
  • [ECONOMICS]Rebuild the unit economics and pricing model from contribution margin upDEPLOYED
  • [OPERATIONS]Stand up the operating cadence (weekly, monthly, quarterly) and the reporting behind itSTREAMING
  • [EMBEDDED]Sit in the room weekly with the founder and leadership team. Embedded, not advisory.SCHEDULED
  • [HANDOFF]Hand off a documented operating system the leadership team can run without usGATED
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The receipts
18 mo
Avg Operating Roadmap Horizon
4x
Faster Decisions Once Cadence Is Live
30%
Avg Margin Improvement Inside 12 Months
90 days
From First Working Session to Org Redesign
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If the strategy lives in a deck, it doesn't live.

The founders we work with don’t need another framework. They need someone who has run the company before sitting in the leadership meeting with them. Book a working session. We’ll diagnose where the real bottleneck is and tell you whether we’re the right operator to work on it.

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