Insight
Engagement models
Project, retained or rhythm: choosing the shape of advice before its content.
12 min read · Practice patterns
Insights
Field notes from the boardroom, written by the people who were in it
No thought leadership theatre. These are the arguments we make in boardrooms, written down so you can disagree with them in advance.
Insight
Sector expertise
Why generalist advice is expensive: the case for operators who have shipped, sold and scaled in your sector. Our sector lines are refreshed by live mandates and sitting boards — lapsed lines are marked as lapsed, not dressed up.
11 min read · Point of view
Insight
Advisory vs consulting
Two professions, two incentives. Boards should know which one they are buying.
10 min read · Point of view
Why we publish at all
Because the fastest way to test an idea is to write it where a board chair can argue with it. Every piece below states a position we hold in engagements — not a survey of everyone's views, and not content marketing written to a keyword calendar. If a piece changes your mind, or confirms a suspicion you could not yet justify, it has done its work.
We publish a handful of pieces a year. Each is written by the partner whose practice it describes, and each is dated — positions change with evidence, and we would rather show our working than launder old arguments through a refresh.
For earlier thinking, ask us directly: much of our best material is client-confidential and only ever discussed in the room.
Next step
Disagree with something here? Good.
The best conversations start with a board that has read a contrary view. Bring yours — the first forty minutes are free and candid.
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