Services · Management consultancy
Four engagements. Each with an end date.
A review, a rebuild, a programme for the partners, a seat afterwards. Fixed pieces of work. Not a retainer.
The ladder
Start small enough that one partner can approve it.
01
Review
For the managing partner who wants facts first
Four weeks. How work arrives, where it leaks, what the systems cost, what your people are doing with AI on client work. Written, evidenced, ends in a recommendation.
How it works
02
Rebuild
For a firm that has decided business development needs an owner
Twelve to sixteen weeks. Owners, reviews, who signs off on what AI does, the rules written down. Stood up with your people in it. You decide at week six. Handed over with a manual.
How it works
03
Rainmaking
For partners who have to sell
How partners sell, what happens to a referral, AI with clients without exposing the firm. With a Rebuild, or on its own.
How it works
04
Quarterly
For a firm that runs its own business development
After handover. Half a day each quarter before the management committee meets. A phone between. No grant needed.
How it works
How to choose
Which one depends on what the partners have already decided.
Not on budget. Fees on proposal.
- Nobody can say who brings the work in, or what your people are doing with AI on client work. The Review. Four weeks. One partner can approve it. It may say you need nothing else.
- The partners agree business development needs an owner, and nobody knows what that looks like. The Rebuild. It designs the function, stands it up, hands it over. You decide at week six.
- The partners have to sell, and do not. Rainmaking. Paid from the training budget, which exists when the marketing budget does not.
- You run business development already and want it tested by someone who has sat inside a partnership. The Quarterly. Half a day before the management committee meets.
Funding
The Review and the Rebuild are management consultancy.
Diagnosis, gap analysis, the design of the function, the rules the firm then runs on. Not execution.
EDG closed to new applications on 29 September 2026. Its replacement, the EDGE Grant, funds business strategy work through its Business Strategic Planning activity, and support levels differ by activity. Enterprise Singapore decides what qualifies, not me. Rainmaking and the Quarterly are not grant-scoped.
Not sure which?
Tell me how work arrives at your firm. I will tell you which fits, or that none does, and who to call instead.