You built the business.
I keep the machinery behind it running.
Part-time operations, commercial sense, and a lawyer’s eye for the small print — for founder-led companies that have outgrown running on instinct and long hours. I come in, work out what’s quietly costing you, and sort it.
Inside the business
Most founders don’t need another consultant with a deck. They need someone to run the unglamorous half of the company — the systems, the admin, the money leaving the building in ways nobody’s had time to look at.
So that’s the job. I embed as a part-time operator, learn how your business actually works rather than how the org chart says it does, and take the operational weight off you — so you get back to the part only you can do.
What it tends to look like in practice: processes that stop falling over, admin that stops leaking cash, suppliers who’ve been quietly overcharging you since 2019, and a founder who gets their week back.
When you need a sharper read
Sometimes the problem isn’t operations. It’s a decision with teeth — a contract, a deal, a governance tangle, a policy that won’t survive the first person who reads it properly.
I’ve sat on M&A deal teams, and I’m a registered Spanish lawyer, so you get a commercial head and a proper read on the detail without a firm’s clock running. Deal-readiness, commercial and governance advice, terms and policies built to hold up. In English or Spanish.
What this looks like
A four-year turnaround, ending well.
Took a struggling SME through a full turnaround and out the other side into a trade sale — with every one of the ~20 jobs kept.
A developer, dragged off paper.
Rebuilt a boutique property developer’s operations from scattered files into a system that doubled their grip on projects and controls. Sourced and negotiated the materials that kept developments under budget, and closed a mixed-use London development — two commercial units, three flats — through to completed sale.
Clients who don’t leave.
Some of mine came aboard in 2011, 2012, 2013 — and are still here. In this line of work, retention is the only review that counts.
Operations, from the inside.
As operations lead inside a heating-technology group: churn down by a fifth, the admin errors quietly draining budget closed off, and the engineer-scheduling snarl that was throttling delivery untangled.
A product taken to market — and a line drawn.
Founding-team member on a patented solar-and-battery heating venture: chose and directed the launch agency, set the strategy and the targets, made the calls day to day. When the numbers stopped justifying the spend, took the decision to halt the campaign — over the agency’s objection. Knowing when to stop is its own kind of operating.
How I work
No retainer you’ll come to resent, no scope that quietly triples. We start with what’s actually slowing you down, agree what “fixed” looks like, and I work to that.
Engagements start from £3,000 per month, while discrete advisory starts from £500 per day. Tailored and fixed-scope projects are quoted on a case-by-case basis.
About
20+ years inside founder-led businesses, on both sides of the deal table. Registered Spanish lawyer, Málaga Bar. M&A deal-team background. Bilingual — English and Spanish. Based near Windsor, working wherever the business is.
If something in your business has been “fine for now” for about a year too long, tell me about it.
I’ll be straight with you about whether I’m the right person to fix it.