Let’s start at the end
Most companies get built forwards and sold backwards. We do it the other way round. Tell us where you want to land, and we will help you work back to the business that gets you there.
We are five founders who have built, scaled and sold our own companies. Now we work with other founders at the three stages that shape where they end up.
You are already on this line.
Explore, Evolve and Exit are not three services on a list. They are three points on one line, and the end you are aiming for is what decides the next move at every point on it.
This is End Game Engage: workshops and programmes run in the room with you, by people who have already done the thing they are advising on. Come in wherever you actually are. The direction does not change.
Explore
A discovery session that takes a proper look at your business. You come out with the growth and innovation opportunities genuinely open to you, rather than a long list of everything that is theoretically possible.
- 1.1
- The openingThe one move actually worth making.
- 1.2
- The restOptions that look fine until you price them.
Evolve
Programmes that help your business grow and scale through innovation. We extend what you have built rather than tearing it down, adding capability where the load actually falls, so growing stops costing you the thing that was already working.
- 2.1
- The load pathWhat everything you have built currently rests on.
- 2.2
- The extensionNew capability, drawn before you commit to it.
Exit
The ultimate end game. We get the company ready, and you ready, for a clean separation. The business keeps running and you leave the way you decided to. The gap between those two things is where most exits come unstuck.
- 3.1
- The businessStill running, still standing, after you go.
- 3.2
- YouOut cleanly, and still on good terms.
Not a consultancy. Five operators.
Everyone here has run their own company. The advice comes from having done it, not from having read about it. You work with the ones whose experience fits what you are actually facing. The right people on your problem, in the room with you rather than a team somewhere behind them.
Nick Richardson
Growth Hacker & Scale-Up Strategist
Breaks growth plateaus. Works on the systems that let a company scale without the wheels coming off.
Naomi Timperley
Super Connector & Growth Mentor
Opens doors. Builds the partnerships and introductions that move a business further than another quarter of effort would.
Giles Harridge
Exit Specialist & Serial Entrepreneur
Prepares companies to be sold and boards to behave. Has sat on both sides of the table.
Vikas Shah MBE
Serial Entrepreneur. Growth, M&A, Transactions
Governance and transactions. Knows what an acquirer will look at, before they look at it.
James Akrigg
Technology Transformation
Technology strategy and transformation. Turns innovation talk into things that actually ship.
What is your end game?
Most founders can tell you all about the next quarter. Far fewer can tell you how it ends. That is the conversation worth having first, and it costs you nothing to have it.