We work with owner-managed UK companies doing between £1M and £30M in revenue. If your margins are thinning, your team keeps turning over, or you want to sell in the next three years, we can probably help. If not, we will tell you in the first call.
Book a 30-minute diagnostic call
Thirty minutes on the phone. You describe what is going wrong, what you have already tried, and where you want the business to be in 18 months. We ask uncomfortable questions. By the end, both sides know whether a full engagement makes sense.
We spend five working days inside your accounts, CRM, and org chart. We interview your three most senior people and your two newest hires. The gap between those conversations usually reveals more than any spreadsheet.
A 12-to-15-page document, not a 90-slide PowerPoint. It names the three biggest profit leaks, ranks them by recoverable value, and proposes a fix for each one with timelines and cost estimates.
We stay involved for 90 days after the findings deck. Weekly check-in calls, monthly on-site visits, direct access to the lead consultant via email and phone. If the agreed targets are not tracking after 60 days, we revisit the plan at no extra charge.
Most businesses we meet are losing between 4% and 9% of gross margin to pricing drift, supplier creep, or unbilled scope changes. We audit your last 12 months of invoices against purchase orders, map every line item, and build a corrected pricing model. One manufacturing client in the West Midlands recovered £380,000 in annual margin within five months of implementing our recommendations.
Replacing a mid-level employee costs roughly 6 to 9 months of their salary when you factor in recruitment fees, onboarding time, and lost productivity. We redesign your interview process, compensation benchmarking, and 90-day onboarding structure. The goal is concrete: reduce voluntary turnover by at least 20% within one year.
If you plan to sell or step back within the next one to five years, the time to prepare is now. We run a mock due diligence process, identify the red flags a buyer would find, and help you fix them before they cost you a multiple point on valuation. We have guided 14 owner-managed businesses through trade sales since 2018, with an average uplift of 1.8x on the owner's initial valuation expectation.
Growth stalls when one part of the business cannot keep up with the rest. Often it is fulfilment, sometimes it is finance closing the books too slowly to give the MD useful data. We map your end-to-end process, time each stage, and propose specific changes: software, staffing, or sequence. A logistics client in East Anglia cut order-to-dispatch time from 4.2 days to 1.8 days after our intervention.
Your accountant gives you a backward-looking P&L. We build a forward-looking 13-week rolling cash forecast tied to your actual sales pipeline and payment terms. Updated weekly, reviewed monthly, it gives you enough warning to avoid surprises and enough confidence to invest when the moment is right.
A diagnostic-only engagement starts at £3,500 plus VAT. Full implementation support for 90 days ranges from £12,000 to £25,000, depending on the size of the business and the number of sites involved. We quote a fixed fee before any work begins.
Not usually. Our methods are designed for businesses with at least two years of trading history and enough financial data to analyse. Pre-revenue companies need a different kind of help.
The diagnostic call and data week can be done remotely. For the findings presentation and implementation support, we prefer at least two on-site visits per month. Travel within England is included in our fee; Scotland and Wales incur a small travel supplement.
We have the deepest experience in light manufacturing, professional services, and distribution. That said, most of the problems we solve (margin erosion, staff turnover, weak forecasting) are not industry-specific. If your revenue is between £1M and £30M, the diagnostic call will quickly show whether we are a good fit.
A named lead consultant is assigned to every engagement. That person conducts the interviews, writes the findings deck, and attends every check-in call. We do not hand you off to a junior analyst after the sale.
We track agreed KPIs from day one. If the numbers are not moving in the right direction after 60 days, we revisit the plan and adjust it at no additional cost. We have never had a client request a full refund, but our contract includes a clear exit clause at the 90-day mark.
Address5 Stark Road, Hilpertingham, England, BQ3 8HW, United Kingdom
Phone+44 7220 559691
Email[email protected]
We respond to enquiries within one working day. If you prefer a scheduled call, mention your availability in the message and we will send a calendar invite.
