Consultancy for owner-led businesses in Swindon, Wiltshire and the thames valley
For owners who know something needs to change but not yet what, or how.
We help owners get a clear view of the numbers, decide what matters and put a practical plan in place.
The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.
Sound familiar?
Where owners usually are when they get in touch
“Something big is coming and I’m not sure what to do.”
Growing, investing, raising finance, changing direction or fixing profitability. It matters. There’s no one in the business with the experience to work it through with you.
“The business has outgrown the way it’s run.”
Sometimes over years, sometimes in one busy year. You end up holding it together by hand, with no room to think about improving it.
“I have the numbers but can’t use them.”
The information is there somewhere, spread across systems and spreadsheets. Nobody has time to turn it into something you can decide with.
It often starts with something specific:
Reaching the VAT threshold
A run of new contracts
A lender wanting forecasts
Margins that don’t add up
What the work looks like
We start with the real need. Then the work takes one of two shapes.
Working through a decision
If you’re still weighing it up, we do the analysis, set out the options and give you our view with the reasoning behind it. If you’ve decided where to go, we set out a prioritised plan and stay alongside while you carry it out.
Either way, the decision stays yours.
Building the way the business runs
For owners who need the business to stop depending on them holding it together. Usually in this order:
Operations
→
How money moves
→
A monthly rhythm
You steering the business, not carrying it.
Alongside both, we act as a sounding board and keep momentum with regular check-ins. For some owners that ongoing support is the main thing.
A page from a real monthly report. Names and figures changed.
What changes for you
You know where the business stands.
- Each month, in a form that matches how you think about it.
- Decisions get made on evidence you trust.
- Routine work sits with the right people or systems, so your time goes on what only you can do.
- What we fix stays fixed. The capability sits in your business, not with us.
300+
businesses supported across Swindon and Wiltshire since 2020
4.9 / 5
Some recent work
Not every business that gets in touch is struggling.
Hospitality
Seeing what the cash really needed to be
Once the figures were laid out clearly, a key margin assumption turned out to be wrong. The owners now hold a lower reserve they can justify and understand.
Several product lines
Seeing the business month by month
Plenty of data but no clear picture. A short monthly report, organised the way the owner thinks about the business, now shows where things stand.
Fast-growing services
Seeing what success had outgrown
More work than the structure could carry. The owner worked through who could step in, what to record rather than remember and which roles to add.
Who you’d be working with
Duncan Robinson
Duncan has run a small business himself, so he knows what it’s like to keep the books, payroll and VAT going alongside everything else. Since 2020 he has supported more than 300 start-ups and small businesses across Swindon and Wiltshire. Before that he spent 14 years with a major UK energy company, including advising its executive board.
What happens when you get in touch
Three steps. You can stop after any of them.
1
A conversation
No charge and no obligation. It’s how we understand what’s going on and whether we’re the right people to help.
2
A small first step
If there’s work we can do, we suggest a clearly defined first piece at a fixed fee.
3
You decide on more
You judge us on something real before deciding whether to go further.
A straight answer if we’re not the right fit
Where an accountant, a finance broker or a specialist is better placed, we’ll say so and point you to them.
Clear about where our work stops
We don’t become your bookkeeper or operations manager. We design the fix and help you put the right person or system in place to run it.
Start a conversation
Tell us a little about the business and what’s on your mind. We aim to reply within two working days to arrange a time to talk.
You’ll hear back from Duncan himself.
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