Services

Fixed scope. Fixed fee. Clear answers.

Each service is defined up front: what you send, what you get, and when. Start with the one that matches your biggest question.

01 · Diagnostic

Margin & Pricing Diagnostic

Price is the steepest lever on profit, and in businesses with wide product ranges and many customers it is rarely managed systematically. We find where margin leaks and size what it is worth.

Signs you need this

  • The same product sells at very different prices to similar customers
  • Material, freight or tariff increases are not reaching price
  • Margin depends on who priced the job
  • A long tail of small or low-margin customers nobody has reviewed

What you get

  • Price dispersion and leakage, by customer, product and salesperson
  • Customer tiering and profitability, including cost to serve
  • Low-margin tail and small-order economics
  • Cost and tariff pass-through gap
  • A sized, prioritized action plan and a board-ready report
02 · Diagnostic

Inventory & Working Capital Diagnostic

Most stock is held by habit. We size it item by item on real demand and lead time, so you decide how much cash sits on the shelf, and where availability matters most.

Signs you need this

  • Inventory growing faster than sales
  • Shortages of fast movers alongside piles of slow stock
  • One blanket reorder rule applied to every item
  • Supplier lead times assumed, never measured

What you get

  • Every item classified by value and demand pattern
  • A stock policy matrix and recommended min and max for each item
  • Cash release estimate, with service levels protected
  • A plan for slow-moving and obsolete stock
  • The working model, in a format your team can run
03 · Diagnostic

Operations & Cost Diagnostic

Late delivery and low output are rarely about effort. Work waits for capacity, materials, information or approval. We make the waiting visible, separate operating cost from pricing choices, and plan the fix.

Signs you need this

  • On-time delivery below target and expediting as a way of life
  • Rework and scrap treated as normal
  • Margin below plan with no agreed explanation
  • Delivery dates promised without a view of capacity

What you get

  • On-time delivery and lead time, with the drivers behind them
  • A bottleneck and capacity view of the operation
  • A cost of poor quality measure operations can own
  • Operating cost separated from pricing and mix effects
  • A 90-day improvement plan with owners and a weekly review
04 · Deal sprint

Commercial Due Diligence Sprint

For private equity firms, independent sponsors and search funds acquiring industrial businesses. We test the commercial story in the target's own data and hand you the questions, the risks and the first hundred days.

Signs you need this

  • A confident sale document with little data behind it
  • Customer concentration and churn not yet clear
  • Synergies or pricing upside assumed rather than sized
  • No plan yet for day one

What you get

  • Revenue and margin quality, by customer, product and end market
  • Concentration, retention and end-market exposure
  • Pricing headroom and margin improvement potential
  • Customer overlap and cross-sell sizing for add-on deals
  • Key risks, diligence questions and a 100-day value creation plan
05 · Retainer

Fractional Commercial & Pricing Lead

Senior commercial discipline without a full-time hire. We run the reporting and the pricing cadence on automated pipelines, so you get the rhythm of a commercial function for a fraction of the cost.

Signs you need this

  • The board pack takes days to assemble each month
  • Nobody owns pricing between annual increases
  • Forecasts miss and nobody can say why
  • The diagnostic found value, and someone needs to keep it landing

What's included

  • A monthly scorecard: orders, margin, pricing, pipeline and working capital
  • The commercial section of the board pack
  • A pricing review cadence with approval rules
  • Budget, forecast and actual tracking with commentary
  • Pipeline and key account reviews, and senior advice on call
06 · Build

AI Quoting & Workflow Build

For make-to-order manufacturers, fabricators and distributors that quote at volume. We build AI tools that turn enquiries into costed, priced quotes and move orders through the business without re-keying. People review and approve; the tool does the typing.

Signs you need this

  • Quotes built by hand in personal spreadsheets
  • Slow turnaround is losing work
  • Estimating know-how sits with a few people close to retirement
  • Orders re-typed and re-checked by every team that touches them

What we build

  • A quoting assistant that reads the enquiry and proposes cost and price to your policy
  • Order checks against the quote, with approvals routed automatically
  • Document preparation and checking for each order
  • Reports and dashboards produced from live data
  • Training, documentation and handover so your team owns it

Not sure where to start?

Tell us the business and the question that keeps coming up. In 30 minutes we'll tell you which service fits, or whether none does.

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