Insights & Field Notes
We publish when we have something to say. No newsletter schedule, no SEO-padded listicles, no 'thought leadership.' Just notes on what we're seeing across our engagements, written by the analyst who did the work.
Most owners check their pricing once a year, when a vendor sends a letter. We've found four-figure annual leaks in retailers who hadn't touched a SKU in eighteen months. Here's the half-day exercise we run.
Request a copy →We built one for a logistics company in Newark last fall. It took two of our analysts a day. Six months later the owner credits it with saving him from a bad equipment lease. The template is simpler than you think.
Request a copy →A 14-chair dental practice felt understaffed. The schedule said the opposite. The truth was buried in a no-show pattern nobody had graphed. A short note on what we found.
Request a copy →It has nine numbers on it. Same nine, every Monday. The owner reads it over coffee. Here's why it works better than the seventeen-tab dashboard the previous consultant left behind.
Request a copy →We doubled from five to ten people between 2021 and 2024. Almost everything we read about scaling was wrong for a business our size. What actually worked, written without the LinkedIn voice.
Request a copy →Quality-of-earnings reports for sub-$5M EBITDA deals don't need to look like the McKinsey version. A practical walk-through of what we actually deliver to bankers and buyers.
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