Ongoing executive counsel across brand, growth and legal defense. We sit alongside leadership each month to ensure decisions translate to market share. A monthly retainer with the Intelligent Council. The same team every month, close enough to the business to answer properly instead of reading a brief.
- The engagement
- 5 stages
- What you receive
- Onboarding audit
- Built for
- Big decisions come up every month
Each ends in something written. Scope, fee and dates fixed before work starts.
Monthly council session, with written notes · A named lead advisor you can reach directly · Specialists brought in as the agenda needs
A founder with nobody to argue with · Past clients who want to keep the door open
What this is for
The situations founders arrive with
01
The hard calls get made alone
Pricing, partnerships, a difficult hire, an aggressive competitor. The founder decides at eleven at night with nobody qualified to push back.
02
Consultants arrive cold
Every new brief starts with four weeks of them learning your business, which you pay for and gain nothing from.
03
Specialists are fragmented
A lawyer here, an accountant there, an agency somewhere else, and none of them know what the others told you.
Advice bought after the decision is not advice. It is a second opinion on money already spent.
The engagement
5 steps, each with something written at the end.
Scope, fee and dates are fixed in the agreement before work starts. Nothing here runs open-ended.
01
Onboarding month
A quick review of the brand, the structure and the risks, so the advice that follows is based on the real business, not the founder's summary of it.
02
Monthly council session
A working session with your lead advisor and whichever specialists the month needs. Agenda a week ahead, notes and decisions sent out after.
03
Between-session access
A direct line to your lead advisor for decisions that cannot wait for the next session. Answered within one working day.
04
Quarterly review
What we advised, what you did, and what it changed. In writing, including where the advice did not work.
05
Annual reset
We look at the position, the structure and the protection again against where the business has actually got to, then rescope the retainer or end it.
What you receive
- Onboarding audit
- Monthly council session, with written notes
- A named lead advisor you can reach directly
- Specialists brought in as the agenda needs
- A written review every quarter
- Annual strategy reset
Is this the right engagement for you
Built for
- Big decisions come up every month
- A founder with nobody to argue with
- Past clients who want to keep the door open
Not for
- You need people to do the work, not advice
- Only one question to settle? One-Time Consulting fits better
Questions
Asked before every engagement.
What is the minimum term?+
Six months. Any less and the first month of setup skews it, and neither side gets a fair read on whether it works.
Who actually shows up?+
A named lead advisor at every session, plus whichever specialists the agenda needs. The lead advisor does not change without your agreement.
Can it convert into a project?+
Often. When a session turns up work that needs building, we scope and price it separately, and you are not charged twice.
We don't add busywork; we eliminate friction. We partner directly with founders to replace boardroom guesswork with executable, profitable direction.