Build the consultancy
you imagined when you left corporate
We help founders of people-first consultancies, in HR, talent, coaching, leadership development, and beyond, put the pipeline, pricing, and AI infrastructure in place so referrals stop being the only thing keeping the lights on, and the business starts giving you your time back.
consultancies served
we help break past
to a working blueprint
You built the practice. Now it runs you.
You left corporate to own your time, your clients, and your work. Two years in, the business is real, but it lives entirely on you.
Referrals come in waves. Some months you deliver past midnight. Other months the pipeline goes quiet and the worry creeps back. You charge by the hour, so growing means working more hours. That is the opposite of why you left.
You sense AI could change this. You have tried ChatGPT and a few tools. Nothing has shifted, because you have no system to build the business around.
- Clients come from referrals you cannot predict
- Pricing is capped by the hours you work
- Manual delivery eats your evenings
- Proposals go out cold and get ghosted
- AI could free your business or end it
Built for founders of people-first consultancies
You founded a service consultancy built on people. HR, talent, coaching, leadership development, L&D, org design, wellbeing, or somewhere in between. You have 15 to 30 years in senior corporate roles, left because the politics burned you out, and launched on your reputation.
The work is good. Your network respects you. What is missing is the infrastructure: a pipeline that runs without you, pricing that matches your value, delivery that frees your evenings, and a clear read on where AI fits.
In-house HR, People, or Operations teams preparing for AI adoption get a separate track. The focus is diagnostics, governance, and team enablement, run by a partner who has done the work alongside founder-led consultants.
Our four-step methodology
Four steps, whether you are a solo HR consultant in London or a talent adviser in New York. What changes is what we find inside your business, and what we build next.
Strategy & Discovery
We get inside the business: how clients come in, how you price, how you deliver, and where you want to be in twelve months.
- Interviews to surface the real bottlenecks
- A map of how you win, price, and deliver
- A pain-point inventory across time and money
- A baseline of where the business is today
- An honest read on what “AI-ready” means
Opportunity Evaluation
We turn what we heard into a ranked view of where the leverage is, sized against the resources you have right now.
- Opportunities across pipeline, pricing, and delivery
- Effort vs. impact ranking for your size
- ROI in time saved and revenue unlocked
- Feasibility check on budget and bandwidth
Roadmap & Implementation Plan
The blueprint. A 90-day plan with longer-term phases, mapped week by week, so you know what happens, who does it, and when.
- A 3, 6, and 12-month roadmap
- Quick wins for the first 30 days
- Clear timelines across every workstream
- Defined ownership: yours, ours, shared
- A change framework for adopting AI calmly
Solution Design & Ongoing Support
The build phase. The demand system goes live, pricing rolls out, the AI pipeline gets wired in, and we stay through the first 90 days.
- AI systems built for the bottlenecks we found
- Demand systems: pipeline, follow-up, reporting
- Validation with you, your team, your clients
- Risk assessment for the business model
- Data protection and governance, GDPR included
Take the
5-minute AI readiness assessment
If a conversation feels like a big first step, take the readiness check first. Five minutes, no email required to see the result, and a clearer picture of where the gaps are in your pipeline, pricing, delivery, and AI setup. You get a personalised next-best-move at the end.
Takes less than 5 minutes. No credit card required.