If your business isn’t ready to sell — or you’re simply not ready to let go — a growth partnership turns the potential you can feel into value you can see. We bring the expertise, the network, and the skin in the game. You stay in the chair.
You built this. You know it better than anyone alive. And that’s the problem.When you’re in it every day — running it, firefighting, carrying it — you’re far too close to see it clearly. The levers that would move the needle are often invisible from the inside. Not because you’re not good enough, but because nobody can read the label from inside the jar. That outside, dispassionate view is half of what we bring. The other half is knowing exactly which levers to pull once we can see them.
Here’s the part that makes people sit up: we don’t bill day rates.
Consultants get paid whether your business grows or not. We don’t work that way. A growth partnership means heavily reduced fees and a stake in the upside — we take equity, so we only make real money when you do. Your interests and ours point in exactly the same direction from day one.
It also means we’re not handing you a slide deck and walking away. We’re in it with you, doing the work, with our own outcome riding on the result.
Every business is stuck for different reasons, so there’s no off-the-shelf fix — and we don’t pretend there is.
We start by working out what your business actually needs, then bring in exactly the right expertise to deliver it. Sometimes that’s one specialist. Often it’s more than one. The marketing and sales firepower is ours, in-house. Beyond that, we draw on a curated network of partners who’ve each already done the specific thing your business needs — and done it at scale.
That network is the part no single specialist can replicate. They have their one discipline; we’ve spent years assembling people who are the best at theirs, and we know precisely who to call. You can meet them on our team page.
Depending on what your business needs, that might mean:
The fastest route there is. Picture it simply. Two businesses, ten customers and three staff apiece.
For yours to win the other’s ten customers the hard way, you’d have to prise them off a competitor one at a time — then scramble to hire the people to serve them. Or you buy the other business and have all twenty overnight.
The catch is that doing deals is hard, it takes real experience, and it’s a full-time job someone has to own — and that someone can’t be you while you’re running the company. So we own it for you. Our partners are already running groups built exactly this way.
Our own discipline. This is what we do. A clear-eyed look at how your business wins customers, and the levers an owner is usually too close to pull: positioning, message, the way you go to market, how you follow up. It’s the most consistently underused engine in owner-run businesses.
£500k £10m
By people who’ve actually done it. If you sell products and you’re not selling them online at any real scale, you’re leaving money on the table every day. One business was taken from £500,000 turnover when acquired to over £10 million. That’s the calibre of person we put on the problem.
Winning contracts profitably. Most businesses chase public-sector work on price and win themselves into a loss. The real game is different: how you present who you are, how meticulously you handle the bid, and — just as important — having a strategy to find the right opportunities in the first place. Our procurement partner wins this work in a way that actually makes money.
We’re not advisers who’ve only ever advised. We’ve built businesses, grown them, and sold them ourselves — and so have the partners who’ll be alongside you. Between them, our partners run groups turning over more than £70m. When we tell you something will work, it’s because we’ve watched it work.
The people behind it all are on our team page.
One more thing worth knowing. Because we take equity, we’re tied to your success for the long haul — not just the length of an engagement. And if the day comes when you do want to step back, having helped build the value, we’re very often the natural buyer for what you’ve got. Which means a second bite — of something considerably bigger than you started with.
No pressure, and no obligation. But it’s worth knowing the door is open.
A growth partnership tends to suit owners who:
If that’s you, the next step is a conversation.
We’ll take an honest, outside look at where your business is, where the real opportunities are, and whether a partnership makes sense. No pitch, no obligation — and useful either way.