Services
Advisory
You need someone outside the company to tell you what your own people cannot.
Owner-led companies rarely lack information. They lack a person with no stake in the internal politics who has seen the same situation elsewhere. We take a small number of standing advisory relationships - a scheduled conversation, a specific question, an honest answer.
What the work consists of
- A recurring conversation with the partner, monthly or quarterly.
- Access to the network when a question needs someone who has done it before.
- Written positions when a decision needs to be defensible to a board.
- Introductions when the answer is a person rather than an analysis.
The other three
- Strategic partnershipsYou need a partner in a market where you have no way to tell a serious company from a plausible one.
- Acquisitions and ownership transitionYou want to buy, sell or hand over a company, and the conversation has to stay private until it doesn't.
- Market entryYou are entering a market where the wrong first partner costs you two years.