Advisory since 1998
For companies in the middle of something difficult
We work with mid-market businesses through the changes that are too big to absorb and too important to get wrong. Usually somebody has already tried once.
27
Years advising
340+
Engagements delivered
$2.1B
Client revenue under advisement
92%
Clients who return
What we do
Four practices, one team
Most engagements touch more than one of these. You get the people you need rather than the people a practice head needs to keep busy.
How we work
We are not interested in a deck you file away
Most of our engagements start because a previous piece of advice did not survive contact with the business. The analysis was fine. Nobody could act on it.
So we stay through implementation. Our consultants sit with your teams, the recommendations get tested against how the company actually operates, and we are still there when the first thing goes wrong.
Weeks 1–3
Diagnose
Interviews, data and a week on site. We come back with the problem as we found it, which is not always the problem in the brief.
Weeks 4–8
Design
Options with costs, risks and the honest case against each one. You choose; we do not pretend there is only one answer.
Weeks 9+
Deliver
We stay until it is working, then hand over to the people who will run it — with the training to do so.
Selected work
Recent engagements
The first thing they did was tell us our brief was wrong. That was uncomfortable and it saved us about four hundred thousand pounds.
Two consultancies had already looked at this. Keystone were the only ones still in the building when it went live.
They trained our own people to run it rather than making us dependent on them. It is the reason we hired them again.
A conversation costs nothing and usually clarifies something
Forty-five minutes with a partner, no pitch deck. If we are not right for the work we will say so and suggest who is.
