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For CFOs, COOs, procurement leaders and corporate strategy teams

Release trapped cash, claw back supplier markups and fund growth.

Quantify the operational and commercial levers that move EBITDA and cash conversion. Get working-capital bridges, parametric component should-cost models, channel-mix business cases and target screens built around your decision.

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The pressure on your team

Margin and cash targets arrive faster than internal data can explain them.

When margins compress or working capital balloons, leadership needs to know whether the gap sits in SKU pricing, vendor surcharges, branch inventory, post-merger SG&A layers or channel mix, benchmarked on a consistent basis against peers.

  • Supplier price increases and expired raw-material surcharges accepted without bottom-up should-cost models.
  • Cash trapped in branch inventory, unbilled work and fragmented ERP payment terms.
  • Growth, channel and M&A business cases built on inconsistent peer sets and untested margin assumptions.

What your team receives

Work you can take into the room.

Release working capital and claw back supplier markups

Footnote-reconciled DIO, DSO and DPO benchmarks across peers, paired with bottom-up parametric should-cost models that expose vendor markups and paid-off tooling amortization.

Quantify channel, aftermarket and SG&A value creation plans

An initiative-by-initiative EBITDA and cash bridge sizing wholesale-to-direct shifts, aftermarket repair capture, SaaS services offloading and post-merger org delayering.

Screen acquisition targets and funded tender pipelines

Capability-to-program matrices for defence and industrial tenders, and off-market tuck-in shortlists scored on technical fit and margin accretion.

Capabilities

Choose a place to start.

Outcome programs for strategy teams

Working Capital & Margin RecoveryShould-Cost & Supply-Chain ResilienceOpportunity Assessment & Tender CapturePre-LOI Diligence & Valuation BridgesCarve-Outs, Synergies & Org/ERP RationalizationAll six outcomes

How to start

One question, a fixed fee, a first read in days.

Your question
One live question, with the decision it serves.
What comes back
A reviewed answer with a point of view (a ranked shortlist, a diagnostic or a plan), with every source and anything unverified flagged.
The fee
The fee is fixed and agreed before work starts.
The timing
A first read in days, not weeks, then the reviewed brief on the date we agree.

We can provide regular research updates after the first project.

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Anonymized engagements

Research used in real work.

Anonymized examples of delivered work.

Site-by-site

Outside-in working-capital, component should-cost and site-by-site financial models for industrial, retail and energy assets — built without internal company data.

Should-cost stack

Bottom-up component cost models decomposing raw-material indices, machine cycle times, labour and paid-off tooling amortization — with zero specification changes.

Branch & SKU cash

Footnote-reconciled working-capital and SKU margin diagnostics isolating excess branch inventory, trading-house markups and post-merger SG&A layers against peers.

How we work together

Your method. AI research, analyst-checked.

  1. 01

    Frame the question

    Together, we agree the decision, research scope, inputs and what a useful answer looks like.

  2. 02

    Build the evidence

    AI agents gather company and industry evidence around your criteria, peer set and permitted sources, and cite every source.

  3. 03

    Explain what matters

    Our analysts check the agents’ work: they challenge the findings, check peers and calculations, and flag anything unverified before the brief reaches your review.

Start with one question

What do you need to know before choosing a direction?

Tell us what you’re investigating and when you need an answer. We’ll discuss the scope, inputs and research that would help.

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