Strategy Sprint
Market position, growth priorities and a 90-day action roadmap - with two review calls to keep it moving.
Fixed-price consulting
Big-firm clarity.
Without the big-firm invoice.
Strategy sprints, business plans and legal services for owner-led businesses. Fixed scope, fixed price, delivered in days.
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01 - What we solve
Outcomes with a price tag.
Not hours with a meter.
Every engagement starts with a specific decision and ends with a usable answer. You know the scope, cost and delivery date before you say yes.
Business Plan Build
A bank- and investor-ready plan with a working financial model, pitch summary and a full revision round.
Legal Services & Readiness
Contracts, registrations and compliance gaps made clear in a practical fix-list prioritised by risk and next action.
02 - How it works
Four steps.
No retainer.
The work is deliberately short, clear and complete. No dangling scope, no stacked meetings, no surprise line items.
A better deal
Momentum, made measurable.
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days from kickoff to a practical 90-day strategy roadmap.
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maximum proposal turnaround after a Fit Call.
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fixed pricing. The price is known before the work begins.
03 - The Contessa standard
Less theatre.
More useful work.
Plain language
Clear decisions beat clever decks. If a recommendation cannot be acted on, it is not finished.
Senior attention
The person on the call is the person doing the thinking. No relay race through a junior team.
Useful independence
We will tell you when a project is not the answer. Sometimes the clearest advice is to spend nothing.
04 - Questions
Asked often.
Answered straight.
Hourly billing rewards slow work. Fixed pricing rewards finishing. You know the cost before we start, and unnecessary effort is our problem, not yours.
Owner-led businesses, usually between one and fifty people: large enough for consequential decisions, small enough that a traditional consulting invoice would be absurd.
Yes. Twenty minutes, one problem, a straight diagnostic. If a package fits, we tell you why. If not, you leave with a more useful problem statement.
Write in. If the question is inside our expertise, we will shape a fixed scope around it. If it is not, we will point you to someone better suited.
Make a start
Bring us one problem.
Twenty minutes. No deck, no pitch. Leave with a diagnosis either way.
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