Business Consulting for London Firms, by Phone and Video

• The City and its supporting firms

  The City of London Corporation describes the Square Mile as an international financial and business centre where finance firms rely on law firms, consultants, accountants and technology providers close by. That supplier layer is where many owner-run practices sit, selling time to a handful of large clients.

• Shoreditch and the East London tech cluster

  Government launched a plan in 2010 to grow a technology cluster running from Shoreditch and Old Street towards the Olympic Park. Hackney Council describes the Silicon Roundabout area as a maturing start-up base and says rising commercial rents make affordable workspace hard to keep. Small software and design studios feel that cost pressure directly, as do the property managers who run workspace for them.

• Soho screen and post-production

  Soho has long been associated with film and television post-production. One account describes it as a village-like community in which firms hire from each other and rely on repeat relationships. Small studios in such a setting often live job to job.

• 01Practices that serve a few large corporate clients often see one client moving its work leave a visible gap in the year, because staff and rent were sized to that work.
• 02Studios and agencies commonly quote a fixed price for creative work and then absorb the extra rounds of changes, so busy months do not always produce profit.
• 03Start-up and software owners in pricey districts commonly watch rent and salaries rise together while customers renew slowly, which shortens the time to fix a pricing mistake.
• 04Founders in advisory firms often hold the client relationships personally, so growth slows when they are in meetings and cannot hand work on.

UTC+0 (winter), UTC+1 (summer). In winter, Indian time runs 5 hours 30 minutes in front of London. In summer, it runs 4 hours 30 minutes in front.

We book the first call once the scope of the problem is clear, so the conversation starts from your business and not from a calendar.

• Professional services
• Financial services
• Technology
• Real estate and construction

Trades to start from

• Law firms
• Business consultants
• Wealth management firms
• Website design and development companies
• Branding and graphic design studios
• Advertising agencies
• Property management companies

• Business Audit

  A look at margin by client or by job shows a studio or practice which accounts pay for the space and the people.

• Business Process

  Writing down how a brief, a change request or a client onboarding is handled reduces rework in agencies and software teams.

• Business Growth

  Planning growth beyond one or two big accounts helps supplier firms in the City reduce their dependence on a single client.

• Business Coaching

  Regular calls give founders a place to rehearse pricing, hiring and partner conversations without leaving the desk.

1. First call by phone or video, to hear how your business runs and what is stuck.
2. A written scope that says what we will look at, what you will receive and what we need from you, with the fee written in your own currency.
3. Your first sheet: the one page of numbers or decisions that the work starts from.
4. A review rhythm agreed with you, so the work is checked against what actually happened.