We work with owner-managed businesses across Scotland. Our job is short: find what's costing you money, fix it, and leave you with a plan you'll actually follow.
Book a free 30-minute diagnostic call
Most consulting firms bury you in slide decks. We keep things tight: four stages, typically eight to twelve weeks from first meeting to handover.
A 30-minute video call where we ask about your revenue, margins, team size and the one problem keeping you up at night. No charge, no obligation.
We spend three to five days inside your business: shadowing teams, reviewing P&L lines, mapping workflows. We interview your five most important people.
You get a single document, rarely longer than fifteen pages, listing every recommended change ranked by financial impact and ease of execution.
We stay available for six months of fortnightly check-ins. If a recommendation stalls, we help you unblock it or we revise the approach.
Every engagement is scoped to your situation. These are the areas where we deliver the most measurable impact.
We audit your supply chain, staffing model and overhead allocation. For a £2m-revenue manufacturer in Dundee, we identified £180,000 in annual savings within the first week of analysis. Your operations likely have similar gaps hiding in plain sight.
Pricing reviews, channel analysis, customer segmentation. We help you sell more of the right things to the right buyers at better margins. Typical engagement length: six weeks.
Cash-flow forecasts, scenario planning, investment appraisals. We build models in plain spreadsheets you can maintain yourself, not locked proprietary tools.
One-to-one sessions for founders and MDs. We focus on delegation habits, decision-making frameworks and building a senior team that can run the business without you for a fortnight.
Thinking about selling in the next two to five years? We prepare your business for due diligence: clean financials, documented processes, reduced owner-dependency. Buyers pay more for businesses that run without the founder.
We measure success in pounds, percentages and weeks. Here are two recent examples.
This family-owned business had grown to £4.5m in revenue but margins had dropped from 18% to 11% over three years. We restructured their shift patterns, renegotiated two supplier contracts and eliminated a product line that was losing money on every unit sold.
A 22-person software firm wanted to raise a Series A but couldn't articulate their unit economics clearly. We built their financial model, coached the founders through investor conversations and helped them set pricing that reflected actual customer lifetime value.
Most projects fall between £8,000 and £25,000 depending on scope and duration. The diagnostic call is free. After that, we quote a fixed fee before any work begins. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices.
Occasionally. Our deep-dive week works best when we can be on-site, so most clients are within a couple of hours' drive from Volkmanstone. We've taken on projects in Manchester and Belfast when the fit was right.
We work best with owner-managed businesses doing between £1m and £15m in annual revenue. Below that threshold, the consulting fee is hard to justify. Above it, you probably need a larger team than we can field.
We hand you the plan, then stay alongside you during implementation. We don't take over your operations. Your team does the work; we make sure it gets done and course-correct when things get stuck.
We take on two new clients per month. If there's availability, we can schedule the diagnostic call within a week and begin the deep-dive the following fortnight. Current lead time is usually three to four weeks.
Manufacturing, professional services, technology and food/drink are where we have the deepest track record. The frameworks we use translate well across sectors, but industry-specific knowledge speeds things up considerably.
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