Practice note

Business consulting for innovation strategy

We treat strategy as a short document that can be inspected, not a deck that can be applauded.

See the studios

City towers at dusk seen from below

Capital is elsewhere. Judgement can live in Tickera.

Define the bet

Every live initiative is rewritten as a hypothesis with an owner and a cash envelope. If it cannot be rewritten, it is a slogan and we stop spending language on it.

Name the stop

Kill criteria are dated and numeric where possible. ‘See how it goes’ is not a criterion. It is how November reclaims July.

Inspect without us

Consulting that requires the consultant forever is a subscription to anxiety. We design a cadence a board secretary can run.

Night office with people still working

Who this is for

Operators in Australia who already have more ideas than cash, and directors who are tired of packs that cannot survive a shed-floor paraphrase. It is not for teams seeking a keynote, a hackathon brand, or a lab opening with a ribbon.

If you recognised yourself, the next step is usually a Signal Audit or a seat in the Mandate Studio — not a retainer.

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