Business Consulting for firms that have outgrown guesswork

You built something real. Now the decisions are harder, the margins tighter, the team bigger than one person can steer by instinct. We help you see what the numbers already know.

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£14m+

Revenue recovered for clients since 2019

68

Engagements completed across 11 industries

91%

Of clients renewed or referred within 18 months

6 wks

Average time from diagnosis to first measurable shift

How an engagement actually works

Diagnostic week

We spend five days inside your operation. Not in a meeting room: on the floor, in the CRM, reading P&L lines you haven't looked at in months. By Friday you get a written brief listing the three to five constraints that are costing you the most money right now.

Prioritised roadmap

We rank every intervention by effort-to-impact ratio and present a 90-day plan. Each action has a named owner inside your team, a target metric and a date. Nothing stays abstract.

Hands-on implementation

Our consultants work alongside your people, not above them. If the fix is a pricing restructure, we sit with your sales leads and rebuild the rate card together. If it is a reporting gap, we configure the dashboards ourselves.

Review and handover

At the 90-day mark we measure results against the original brief, document what changed, and transfer every tool and template to your team. The goal is always to leave you less dependent on consultants, not more.

What we actually do

Operational restructuring

We map your workflows end to end, identify where time and money leak, and redesign processes so that the same team produces more output with less friction. Typical savings run between 12% and 25% of operating cost within the first quarter.

Pricing and margin analysis

Most mid-sized firms underprice at least 20% of their product mix. We audit your pricing architecture against competitor benchmarks, customer willingness-to-pay data and your own cost structure, then rebuild your rate card to protect margin without losing volume.

Leadership pipeline design

Growth stalls when founders cannot delegate decisions. We assess your management bench, build role scorecards for the next two tiers of leadership, and coach your senior hires through their first 120 days.

Financial reporting overhaul

If your board pack takes a week to compile and still leaves questions unanswered, something is broken. We design reporting frameworks that surface the ten numbers your leadership team actually needs, delivered automatically by the third working day of each month.

Go-to-market acceleration

Launching into a new segment or geography? We build the commercial model: channel selection, sales cycle mapping, target account lists and compensation design. Our clients typically reach break-even on new market entries four months faster than their original plan.

Post-acquisition integration

Buying a competitor is the easy part. Merging two cultures, tech stacks and customer bases without losing key people takes discipline. We run the first 100 days of integration so your leadership team can keep running the business.

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A small firm on purpose

Consultcrafter is four senior consultants, each with at least fifteen years of operating experience before joining the practice. We have run P&L lines, hired and fired, missed payroll and recovered. That background changes the kind of advice we give.

We do not maintain a bench of junior analysts. Every person in your building holds the authority to make recommendations and the experience to stand behind them. That is why we limit ourselves to six active engagements at any time.

Our clients are typically owner-managed businesses turning over between £3m and £40m. Large enough to have real complexity, small enough that one good decision can change the trajectory of the whole company.

Questions we hear often

A diagnostic week is £4,800 plus VAT. Full 90-day engagements range from £18,000 to £45,000 depending on scope. We quote a fixed fee before work begins, so there are no surprise invoices at the end.

Most of our clients are based in England, but we have completed projects in Scotland and the Republic of Ireland. If your business operates in the UK or near time zones, geography is rarely a barrier.

That is fine. Not every engagement needs to be a full restructuring. We run focused two-week sprints for single issues: a pricing review, a compensation audit, a board-readiness assessment. The diagnostic week is still the starting point, because even a narrow problem usually has roots elsewhere.

No. We work alongside your accountants, solicitors and non-executive directors. Our role is operational and strategic, not compliance. In most cases we strengthen the relationship between a client and their existing advisers by giving both sides clearer data to work with.

Every engagement starts with a written set of target metrics agreed by both sides. These are specific numbers: gross margin percentage, employee retention rate, days-sales-outstanding, revenue per head. At the 90-day review we compare actuals to targets and publish the results transparently.

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53 Graham Hill, Old Denesik, England, SL35 6KC, United Kingdom