Consultant
£600-950
per day, excl. VAT
Engage
Choose the shape of support that fits your needs, with indicative day rates, example SOW shapes and retainers. We agree scope, capacity, responsibilities and commercial terms around the work you need.
Mid-market and growing SMEs. Practitioner help for teams who feel locked out of McKinsey theatre, starting with a clear first deliverable.
We deploy practitioners around your needs, including technical leadership, AI and cyber security expertise. We agree the team, accountability and commercial model before committing to the work.
Public day-rate guidance
For new clients. GBP, excl. VAT.
Most new clients start with discovery, then a defined workstream or retainer.
Senior Consultant
£850-1,350
per day, excl. VAT
Principal Consultant
£1,200-1,800
per day, excl. VAT
- Rates are indicative, exclude VAT, and are scoped after discovery.
- The actual quote depends on profile, complexity and location.
- Special legacy commercial arrangements are not the public rate card.
The first Monday of discovery
Week 1 of a discovery, so you can picture the working rhythm before any commitment.
- Mon
- Kick-off with sponsor and delivery leads; agree the slice of work and access to Jira, Confluence and Teams.
- Tue-Wed
- Listen to people doing the work; pull evidence (throughput, aging WIP, decision backlog); attend one real forum. We do not invent a workshop for optics.
- Thu
- Draft the constraint map and decision shortlist; pressure-test it in a working session.
- Fri
- Share the findings outline; agree whether the next step is a fixed SOW, a retainer, or stop.
Example engagement shapes
Illustrative scope and fee guidance, not case claims or legal documents. We agree deliverables, acceptance criteria and commercial terms before work starts. All fees below exclude VAT.
Discovery / diagnostic
2-4 weeks
About 10-20 consulting days, usually a Consultant and Senior mix.
Roughly £6,000-£27,000 excl. VAT
Consultant floor × 10 days to Senior ceiling × 20 days.
- Findings summary
- Constraint map
- Prioritised recommendations
- Proposed next engagement
Fixed SOW for a defined workstream
8-12 weeks
For example, an operating model or delivery reset. About 16-36 consulting days depending on intensity, with an illustrative Senior-led mix.
Roughly £13,600-£48,600 excl. VAT
Senior floor × 16 days to Senior ceiling × 36 days. Principal-led variants are quoted after discovery.
- Current-state diagnostic
- Target operating or delivery model
- Decision log
- Initial implementation plan
- Working practices handback
Scope changes go through a written change process.
Sample SOW shape (illustrative, non-legal)
Delivery reset for one programme slice
8-12 weeks · Senior-led mix
In scope
- Current-state diagnostic: boards, forums, decision latency.
- Target delivery rhythm and board design in your Atlassian site.
- Decision log and weekly review format leaders will actually use.
- Initial implementation plan with named internal owners.
- Working practices handback: playbook plus short training.
Out of scope
Organisation-wide rebrand of methodology; unrelated portfolio cuts; software product build beyond agreed internal tools.
Acceptance
Leaders can run the weekly review from live data without a slide pack; owners named for each practice area handed back.
Commercial
Fixed SOW fee band after discovery; change control in writing.
Retainer tiers
Regular capacity in days or days-equivalent per month, with priorities reviewed monthly.
Light
2-4 days/month
£1,200-£5,400/month
excl. VAT
Consultant and Senior mix, depending on the support needed.
Standard
4-8 days/month
£3,400-£10,800/month
excl. VAT
Illustrative Senior-led support.
Embedded
8-12 days/month
£6,800-£21,600/month
excl. VAT
Senior and Principal mix at the upper end.
Unused days may roll forward by one calendar month if agreed in writing in advance; otherwise they expire at month end. Retainer priorities are reviewed monthly.
Other ways to engage
Squad/pod
A small group shaped around a specific outcome, with clear leadership and shared delivery accountability.
- Specialist capacity available on request, subject to scope and availability.
Training & enablement
Practical workshops and guided application using your own work, not just classroom examples.
- Playbooks and working practices your people can keep using.
Experience behind the work
Examples delivered by our consultants. Every client is treated as confidential: never publicly named or quoted unless they ask us to.
Sourcing work that lives in the system
Specialist sourcing moves from slide packs into end-to-end workflows: nomination and approval in one place, lighter data capture, reviews that focus on exceptions.
Portfolios that answer who delivers what by when
Commercial and digital portfolios gain clear ownership, estimates and a milestone-led rhythm from live boards, so leaders can see who is delivering what by when.
Service management that scales with ticket load
When customer service outgrows spreadsheet queues, Jira Service Management becomes the system of record: clear intake, ownership and reporting as volume climbs.
Network change at national retail scale
Large retail-network change asks a lot of operating models. Public programmes show the scale of branches, hours and seven-day cover that operating rhythm must support.
Continuous improvement frontline teams can run
Named practices, visible losses and owners: the pattern we bring into knowledge work, not a slide-only transformation.
Digitising high-volume reusable assets
Circular logistics leaders invest in tracking and simpler service models so customers spend less time on declarations and audits. Context for service design and Atlassian-backed operations.
Work with our team
Independent practitioners can share their expertise and availability for future consulting engagements.
Get in touchStart with your context
Talk with our team to clarify the need, the right practitioners and the next step.