Strategic Consulting and Business Transformation Services
Retained access to experienced commercial and strategic advisory expertise — giving your leadership team the direction, discipline, and challenge of a Strategy Director, without the cost, commitment, or recruitment risk of a permanent hire.
The Challenge for Ambitious SMEs
For many small and medium businesses, strategy happens once and then drifts. A plan gets written, but operational pressure soon takes over. Leadership teams often make major commercial decisions without an experienced perspective, eroding focus and widening the gap between ambition and execution. This is where our strategic planning services make a critical difference.
Founders and managing directors often carry the weight of every major decision alone, lacking an independent, emotionless challenge to their thinking before commitments are made. We provide the SME business consulting needed to bridge this gap.
Is this right for you?
- Could you write down your business's top three strategic priorities right now — and would the rest of your leadership team write the same three?
- Do you have a governance rhythm that reviews strategic progress on a set schedule, or does strategy only get discussed when something goes wrong?
- When a major commercial decision arrives, do you have experienced, senior challenge available before you commit — or are you deciding alone?
If any of these gave you pause, that's the gap this retainer is built to close.
The Solution is Experienced Strategic Support for SMEs
The Corvanta Strategic Advisor service provides you with ongoing access to senior-level strategic skills without the full-time overhead, structured around a clear monthly rhythm. We share accountability to deliver your strategy.
Your significant decisions get tested by an experienced external voice, so you have confidence that all possible outcomes have been considered with sound reasoning.
Your leadership team gains the kind of structured external challenge that larger organisations build in through boards and executive committees — at a fraction of the cost of bringing that capability in-house.
Senior expertise, every session.
Every engagement is delivered by senior practitioners with over 20 years of commercial and strategic experience across SMEs, corporates, and public-sector organisations.
Digital-first delivery.
Virtual sessions, structured written outputs, and asynchronous advisory support — keeping pace fast, costs low, and access simple.
Monthly rhythm, year-round discipline.
Structured monthly sessions, written action records, quarterly resets, and annual strategy refreshes — keeping the strategy active rather than archived.
Commercially anchored.
Every conversation is focused on commercial outcomes — direction, decisions, performance, and the real priorities that move the business forward.
Strategy Support Packages
All packages start on 3 month commitments
The equivalent annual cost of a single senior in-house strategic hire is £70,000 to £120,000 in salary alone, before recruitment fees, the employer's National Insurance, pension contributions, and management overhead.
We provide specialist strategy expertise at a fraction of that cost — with no fixed employment commitment, no notice period beyond 30 days, and no loss of momentum
on a departure.
We offer services ranging from lite touch guidance, to indepth direction. The tiers are designed for a different level of strategic support need. Our costs are benchmarked against the full cost of an equivalent in-house senior strategic hire.
All options run on a minimum 3-month commitment, with a rolling monthly arrangement thereafter.
Clients who contract for both a Strategic Advisory service and a Marketing Support service receive a discount.
Core - What this delivers for you
A business in this package moves from reactive decision-making to a structured monthly rhythm of
strategic review and priority management. You gain a senior strategic adviser without the salary, recruitment cost, or management overhead of an in-house hire — at a fraction of the equivalent
employment cost.
Your strategy remains visible and measurable rather than written and forgotten. Major commercial decisions are tested with an experienced external voice. Your leadership team retains focus on running the business with a trusted external perspective on the direction it is moving in.
Growth - What this delivers for you
This package gives growing businesses the strategic infrastructure they need but often don't have:
a clear, prioritised strategy reviewed twice a month; structured competitor intelligence; formal oversight of risks and assumptions; and a quarterly written performance review that makes progress
visible and improvable. The combination of more frequent advisory contact and broader written output means your strategy becomes a managed asset rather than a static document. You understand where you stand in your market, how your assumptions are holding up, and where the leadership team needs to focus next.
Partner - What this delivers for you
A business in this package gains the full benefit of an embedded senior strategic function without the
cost, commitment, or risk of a permanent hire. Your strategy is actively managed, reported on at board-grade standard, and reviewed annually with structured facilitation by an experienced strategic
adviser.
Your leadership team operates with the kind of governance discipline expected of a much larger
organisation. Major commercial decisions are tested with an experienced senior voice on demand.
Enterprise - What this delivers for you
An Enterprise engagement is designed for organisations at a point of significant growth, transition, or complexity — where standard packages cannot fully meet the requirements. This may include businesses scaling into new markets, organisations preparing for significant investment, sale, or acquisition. You may want fully integrated strategic and marketing support from a single trusted partner. Every Enterprise engagement is scoped individually to ensure the hours, deliverables, and commercial terms fit the specific situation.
To discuss an Enterprise engagement, contact Corvanta Solutions directly.
Contact us to discuss what is appropriate for your business and receive a no-obligation proposal.
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