Strategic advisory is fractional senior leadership for the decisions that shape the next phase of your business: scale strategy, operational redesign, technical due diligence, acquisition readiness, and growth roadmaps. We work as embedded advisors — in your weekly leadership meetings, in your strategic planning, in the room when the hard calls happen.
Strategic Advisory
Strategic Advisory.
When the next decision will compound for the next five years, you do not want a freelancer or a senior associate at a Big Four firm. You want someone who has done it, can prove it, and will be in the room every week.
Expected outcomes
- 90-day
- Strategic roadmap, owned and measurable
- Weekly
- Embedded advisor cadence, not monthly calls
- Decisions
- Made faster, with sharper trade-off framing
- Outcomes
- Tied to revenue, not opinion
What it is
The work itself.
Who it is for
The shape of fit.
- Founders preparing for Series A or strategic acquisition
- Operators inheriting a business and needing a 90-day operational map
- Boards needing a technical second opinion before approving a build or buy decision
- Leadership teams stuck in a quarter where the growth playbook stopped working
How we ship it
Four phases, no surprises.
Diagnostic
Two weeks. We interview the leadership team, audit the data, read every prior strategy document, and surface what is actually constraining growth.
Roadmap
A 90-day strategic roadmap with three to five priorities, each with an owner, a metric, and a definition of done. Boring on purpose.
Embedded execution
We join your weekly leadership rhythm for the next quarter. Real meetings, real decisions, real consequences.
Handoff or extend
At quarter-end we either hand off cleanly with a documented playbook, or extend for another quarter on a revised brief. Your call, no contract pressure.
What it costs
Pricing shape.
Strategic engagements run as 90-day blocks (£18k-£42k depending on cadence and seniority required). No retainers. No autopay. See /pricing.
See full pricingQuestions we get asked
Strategic Advisory FAQ.
Is this the same as a fractional CTO or CMO?
Overlaps with fractional CTO / CMO / COO depending on the engagement. The difference is we bring an implementation team with us when execution is needed, instead of just advice.
How is this different from hiring an MBA consultancy?
MBA consultancies sell slides. We sell decisions and the architecture that supports them. We are in your weekly leadership meeting, not presenting findings every six weeks.
How do you measure success?
We agree on three metrics with you in the first two weeks. Every weekly meeting tracks against them. If we are not moving them, that is the conversation.
Can we engage you for just one decision?
Yes. We run targeted 'Decision Sprints' (£6k-£12k, 2-3 weeks) for specific calls — build vs buy, vendor selection, technical due diligence, acquisition readiness.
Will you do board-level reporting?
Yes, when needed. Board memos, investor updates, due diligence preparation. Comes with the engagement, not extra.
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Start with a 20-minute call.
We will map your current state, identify whether strategic advisory is the right next move, and tell you what a sensible engagement would look like.