Our services
Three ways we make a business worth more.
Take cost out. Rebuild how the work gets done. Move what should not be done in-house. Most engagements start in one of these and grow into another.
Service 01
Cost Reduction
Most mid-sized businesses carry between 8% and 15% unnecessary cost in their indirect spend. Not waste in any dramatic sense, just contracts nobody renegotiated, suppliers nobody re-tendered, services that scaled with headcount and never scaled back.
What we look at
How we do it
What you get
Engagement note. Cost reduction is the service most often structured on a gain-share basis. If you prefer, we take a percentage of verified savings over an agreed period instead of a fee, which means the work costs you nothing unless it works.
Service 02
Business Transformation
A business that has doubled in size is rarely running on a model designed for its current shape. Transformation is the unglamorous work of redesigning how the business actually operates so it can carry what is coming.
What we look at
How we do it
What you get
Engagement note. Transformation engagements are typically three to nine months and priced as a fixed fee per phase, so you can stop, pause or re-scope at each gate rather than committing to the whole programme up front.
Service 03
Outsourcing & Managed Services
Some functions are essential but should not be consuming UK salaries and UK management attention. Moving them properly can take 40 to 60% out of the cost to serve. Moving them badly costs you customers. The difference is entirely in how the transition is run.
Functions we commonly move
How we do it
What you get
Engagement note. We take no commission, rebate or referral fee from any outsourcing provider. We are paid by you, which is the only way our recommendation on which provider to use is worth anything.
How we charge
Four ways to work with us.
Diagnostic Sprint
Fixed-Fee Project
Retained Advisory
Gain-Share
Common questions
What clients usually ask first.
It depends on the size and complexity of the business and the scope of the review, but it is always a fixed fee agreed in writing before we start, and it is always a fraction of what we would expect to identify. We will give you a number in the first conversation.
Renegotiated contracts and removed subscriptions can land inside the first quarter. Operating model change is slower, expect six to nine months for the full effect. We will tell you which of your opportunities are which before you commit.
Not as a default. Most of the cost we find is in what a business buys, not who it employs. Where structure genuinely is the issue we will say so plainly, but headcount is the last lever we reach for, not the first.
We work in UK hours, we are on-site when the work requires it, and Dubai is a four-hour flight from London. In practice most clients find they see more of us than they did of their last UK-based advisor.
Sometimes, if the specific issue is well-defined and the value is there. Below roughly £1m turnover it is usually hard to justify our fees honestly, and we would rather say so.
On gain-share engagements you pay nothing if nothing is verified. On fixed-fee work, every projected saving is documented with its assumptions at the point we recommend it, and we track delivery against it openly. We would rather have an awkward conversation at month four than a surprise at month twelve.
Start with the diagnostic.
Four weeks, a fixed fee, and a written view of what is actually available in your business. Everything else follows from that, or it does not.