Business advisory
We work with founders and SME owners on the decisions that set the direction for the next few years: strategy, growth, raising money and securing grants. Our advisors run companies inside our group, so the advice comes with the scars.
What we help with
A growth plan depends on the strategy. A funding round depends on the growth plan. We can pick up any one of these, but they tend to work best as a sequence.
For companies that have outgrown the plan they started with. We look at where the money actually comes from, which customers are worth keeping, and what to stop doing.
Turning a growth target into a plan people can run: which channels, which hires, what it costs and what has to be true for it to work.
Getting ready before you speak to investors, so the first meeting isn't spent explaining gaps. We also tell you plainly if raising now is the wrong move.
Malaysia has many grants and funding schemes, each with its own rules and timing. We help you find the ones you actually qualify for and put together applications that hold up to review.
How an engagement runs
One to two weeks. We review your numbers, talk to your team and a few customers, and write down what we think is going on.
A working session with the founders to agree priorities, owners and targets. You leave with a plan on a few pages.
We work alongside your team on the pieces that need hands: the model, the deck, the grant application, the sales process.
Monthly or quarterly check-ins against the targets. We adjust the plan when the facts change.
Ways to work with us
Four to six weeks, fixed scope and fee. Ends with an agreed plan and the first pieces built. Suits a specific decision or a funding round.
A monthly retainer for founders who want a senior sounding board, with regular sessions and on-call support between them.
A quarterly session where we review performance with you the way a good non-executive director would.
Advisory + training
Most strategies depend on people doing something they haven't done before. Because we're also an HRD Corp registered training provider, we can deliver that part as claimable training for your managers and staff.
And if the plan needs a campaign, a system, a new brand or a new office, the companies in our group can build it. You don't have to brief a new supplier from scratch.
Who we usually work with
FAQ
Founders and owner-managers of SMEs, usually with between five and two hundred staff, who are at a turning point: scaling, raising money, entering a new market or fixing a business that has stalled.
Most engagements are a fixed fee for a defined piece of work, such as a four-week strategy sprint. Ongoing advisory is a monthly retainer. We agree scope and fee in writing before starting.
Advisory work itself is not training, so it is generally not claimable. Where the work reveals a skills gap, such as managers who need to read financials or a sales team that needs a new process, we can deliver that part as a claimable training programme.
Our standard engagements are fee-based. We don't act as a broker or licensed corporate finance adviser, and we'll refer you to one where a transaction needs it.
Tell us where the business is and what decision is on the table. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so and point you to someone who is.
