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Four Kinds of Engagement

Fees are for the whole engagement, agreed before it starts. We do not bill by the day and we do not have a rate card.

Growth strategy

Where the next AED 50m of revenue comes from, and what has to be true for it. Usually ends with two or three options and a recommendation, not a menu of twelve.

7 – 10 weeks
AED 180k – 320k

Operating model

Who decides what, how work flows, and where it gets stuck. The engagement most likely to produce an uncomfortable conversation about a specific person.

10 – 14 weeks
AED 240k – 420k

Commercial due diligence

Is the target's market real, is its position defensible, and does the growth in the model exist outside it. Buy-side, and occasionally sell-side preparation.

5 – 7 weeks
AED 150k – 280k

Turnaround

When cash is the constraint and the timeline is set by the bank. Faster, more intrusive and more likely to end in redundancies. We take two of these a year.

12 – 14 weeks
Quoted

Board advisory

A partner at four board meetings a year with the reading actually done beforehand. Only for firms we have completed an engagement with.

Annual
AED 120k / year

Second opinion

A two-week review of a strategy or a deal someone else has recommended. Fixed fee, deliberately small scope.

2 weeks
AED 55,000
Before you enquire

Things worth knowing

Because a partner-only model does not work below about AED 90,000 — the setup cost of understanding a business properly does not scale down. Under that figure you are better off with an experienced hire or an interim, and we will say so.

We stay through the first phase of implementation on operating model and turnaround work, because those recommendations die without it. On strategy and diligence we hand over and leave.

You still pay for it. We are not going to write a different conclusion because the first one was unwelcome, and if that is likely to be a problem it is better established now.

Usually not. Four engagements at a time means there is a queue, typically four to eight weeks. Turnaround work jumps it because it has to.