Most consulting is built for companies with a finance department. This is built for the owner who does the books on Sunday evening.
Small businesses get the worst of both worlds in professional services. The advice aimed at them is usually generic, and the advice that is actually specific is usually priced for companies ten times their size.
We are a small firm in Hamilton, Ontario working with small businesses across Canada. The engagements are short, the scope is clear, and the price is agreed before anything starts. No retainer you cannot get out of, no hours billed against a problem you did not ask about.
Small business engagements are deliberately narrow. One question, properly answered, is worth more than a broad review nobody has time to read.
Across small business engagements, the same handful of problems account for most of the work: pricing that has not moved in years while costs have, cash that disappears despite a profitable year, a first hire that the owner cannot confidently commit to, and a suspicion that one part of the business is quietly subsidising another.
None of these need a large engagement. They need someone to look at the actual numbers and give a straight answer.
We are based in Hamilton and work regularly with businesses in Stoney Creek, Ancaster, Dundas, Waterdown and Burlington, where meeting in person is easy.
Beyond the region we work remotely with small businesses across Canada. For most small business consulting the work is document and data based, so distance rarely matters.
If your records need attention first, our bookkeeping and clean-up services cover that.
Tell us what you need to work out. We will tell you what it costs to find out — before you commit to anything.
Book a Free Consultation →For a broad open-ended review, often not. For one specific question — is this profitable, can I afford this hire, why is cash tight — it usually pays for itself quickly, because the decision it informs is worth more than the fee.
Engagements are fixed-scope and fixed-price, agreed after a free initial conversation. We size the work to the question and to a small business budget rather than billing open-ended hours.
Yes. We meet in person around Hamilton, Stoney Creek, Ancaster, Dundas, Waterdown and Burlington, and work remotely with small businesses across Canada.
Then that is what we will tell you. Consulting on unreliable records is wasted money. We provide bookkeeping and clean-up as separate services and will point you there if that is the real need.
Not sure which fits? Compare all consulting and advisory services or just tell us the problem.
No standard package. You bring the thing that is worrying you, and we work out together whether it is what it appears to be.
Explore →Cash flow analysis and forecasting, profitability, management reporting, budgeting and finance-process improvement.
Explore →Consulting solves a problem and ends. Advisory is the relationship that stops problems getting that far.
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