For the company that must run without you

An operating partner, not another adviser.

Advisors give opinions and boards ask questions. Neither is in the building on the Tuesday when the thing they suggested quietly dies. I work inside your operating rhythm, monthly, with your exec team, until decisions stop routing through you.

From £3,500 monthly. Board level tier at £6,000. Quarterly commitment. Two seats currently open.
The shape of the engagement

Concentrated senior attention on a fixed monthly rhythm.

Not consultancy, and deliberately not days on site. You are buying twenty years of operating pattern recognition applied at the exact moments it changes the outcome: the right ninety minutes at the right times, your numbers read before your board reads them, and a direct line when a decision is live.

The work continues until decisions stop routing through you: decision rights held, cadence installed, a leadership team that brings decisions rather than problems. The board level tier adds board pack review before it ships and one board or exec meeting each quarter.

Capped at eight companies at any time, worked directly. No associates, no junior team, no delegation. When we speak, you get the person whose name is on this site.

How the month actually runs

  • Session one, 90 minutes: you and me. Strategy, the constraint we are working, and the decisions only you can make
  • Session two, 90 minutes: the operating session, with your exec on the line where useful. Decision rights, cadence, accountability: worked, not discussed
  • The numbers, monthly, in writing: I read your management accounts before your board does, and you get my written view of what matters and what is coming
  • Priority async: a direct line on WhatsApp for the moments between sessions when a decision is live. Response within one working day
  • Quarterly reset, 2 hours: we score the quarter against the plan, rescore the diagnostic findings, and set the next constraint
Where it starts

It starts with the Diagnostic. Always.

Two weeks inside your real numbers, £2,500 fixed, and a written view of whether retained work is even warranted. Around half the time it is not, and the report says so.

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