The Growth Scan

Most boutique consultancies don’t stall because their founders get lazy. They stall because the work gets blurry.

One month you’re chasing leads. The next you’re reworking offers. Then you’re buried in delivery again. Everything feels urgent, but progress feels slow. It’s not a lack of effort - it’s a lack of clarity.

Every consulting firm has a hidden constraint - one weak link that quietly limits profitable growth. Until you find it, every extra hour of work just multiplies the noise.

The Growth Scan helps you find it - fast, clearly, and without guesswork.

A research-sponsored, 60-minute working session for founder-led consultancies under $1M in annual revenue.

Together, we’ll trace how your firm actually grows - from relationships to revenue, capacity to conversion - and pinpoint the exact place where momentum gets lost. By the end, you’ll know what’s really holding you back, what to stop doing, and where to focus next.

It’s a short, focused diagnostic - built from what I’ve learned helping 50+ early-stage boutiques find their footing, and part of Boutique Consulting Club’s ongoing study on how early-stage firms design and scale their growth engines.

What You’ll Leave With

The Growth Scan is not for everyone.
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Each quarter, we offer a handful of research-sponsored sessions for founders who fit a specific profile:

• You lead a boutique consultancy serving mid-size or enterprise clients.
  
• Your firm generates under $1M in annual revenue.
• You see yourself as a tech-enabled change consultancy (bonus points if you're focus on digital transformation, AI adoption, data & analytics, cloud & infrastructure consulting, cybersecurity & risk management, or sustainability tech).

If that sounds like you, this hour will change how you see your business.

1. Apply (5 minutes): Share a few quick details about your firm and current challenge.

2. Review: I personally review every application and invite a small number of founders each month.

3. Share: Before we meet, you’ll receive a basic questionnaire to complete so we can perform benchmarking, a pre-analysis of your unique context, and make the best of our time.

4. Session: We meet for a focused, 60-minute working session to locate and discuss your consultancy's growth bottleneck.

5. Clarity Brief: Within 24 hours, you’ll receive your summary and next steps.

6. Follow-Up Review (optional): About two weeks later, we reconnect for a short progress review. We look at what’s moved, what hasn’t, and whether it’s time to take the next step - usually a 2-Week Pilot Sprint to remove the constraint entirely. This call closes the loop between insight and implementation, ensuring clarity turns into traction.

These sessions are part of Boutique Consulting Club's ongoing research into how founder-led consultancies grow. By sharing your data and context, you gain clarity in return - and we refine my understanding of what drives real, sustainable growth.

Because each scan is delivered personally, we only accept five founders per quarter.

You can’t read the label from inside the bottle.

Step outside your firm for one focused hour - and see what’s been hiding in plain sight.

“It took 90 minutes to see what six months of guessing couldn’t - our margins were the real constraint. We raised prices, simplified delivery, and finally started earning like a consultancy, not an agency.”— Co-Founder, digital transformation firm

“We thought the issue was lead flow. It was pricing discipline. Fixing that made our next proposal our biggest ever.”— Partner, marketing advisory

“For the first time, I saw how my calendar and our revenue were connected. It was uncomfortable but freeing.”— Founder, cybersecurity boutique