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Services
Different problems need different engagements. Some are best answered by a structured independent review; others need something built, developed or planned. What they have in common is the purpose: helping owner-managed businesses understand where the opportunities are, improve performance, and make better commercial decisions.
Reviews and analysis
Fixed in scope and agreed before any work begins. Each produces a written report with an executive summary and a prioritised set of actions. You are welcome to approach us about whichever is most relevant; there is no required starting point and no sequence to follow.
Our flagship review
How prepared the business is for a future exit, financially, operationally and organisationally, and what to address first.
Fixed fee: £995
About the Exit Readiness ReviewWhether the business online reflects the business in reality, across the website, public profiles and overall brand consistency.
Fixed fee: £995
About the Digital Presence ReviewA granular analysis of what drives and erodes commercial performance: margins, customers, pricing and the operational drivers behind them.
Typically from £1,995, based on scope.
About the Commercial Performance ReviewBespoke advisory and development
Not everything is answered by a report. Some engagements produce a model, an identity, a strategy or a coordinated programme of work. Each is scoped individually against what the business is actually trying to achieve. There are no packages and no templates.
A forward view built around one decision: what hiring, growth, investment or a weaker year does to profit and, more importantly, to cash.
Scoped to your requirements, with a tailored quote.
About the Financial Model CreationBrand development from strategy through to visual identity, tied to what the business is actually trying to achieve commercially.
Custom pricing, based on scope.
About the Brand IdentityStrategy and coordination for launches, partnerships and anniversaries, connected to business objectives rather than treated as occasions.
Typically from £1,995.
About the Launch & Milestone AdvisoryA structured approach to building trust, visibility and relationships when entering or strengthening a position in a local market.
Scoped to your requirements.
About the Community EngagementOne methodology
These are not seven separate practices sharing a name. Every engagement starts from the same place: an independent reading of what the business is trying to achieve and what is currently in the way of it.
That is why a brand engagement here begins with positioning rather than a logo, why a financial model is built around a decision rather than a template, and why a review ends in an order of work rather than a list of observations.
A commercial problem is frequently a financial one seen from another angle, and both are often visible in how a business presents itself. Looking at them together is the point.
The four areas
The Value Framework is our methodology rather than our menu. Every engagement is informed by these four areas, and several touch more than one. Brand work is rarely only about digital presence, and an event is rarely only about commercial performance.
Four interconnected areas, working towards one outcome: long-term business value.
Who we work with
Typically businesses turning over approximately £250,000 to £2 million, where the owner is closely involved in how the business runs.
An engagement is usually worth considering when an owner:
If you are not sure which engagement applies, that is a reasonable place to start. We would rather establish it in a conversation than have you guess.
Consistency
That is a reasonable place to start. A short, confidential discussion is usually enough to establish which would be useful, or whether one would be useful at all.