Strategic Intelligence
Brief a strategist in a sentence.
Get the study in an hour.
Describe a business problem — or the company you want to understand — and Michael returns a complete, defensible study: problem statement, prioritised hypotheses, benchmarks, financial analysis, and a validated business case.
Eight weeks→one hour
The work a specialist team would take two months to produce, done in a single sitting — and built from evidence, not guesswork.
The method
Ten steps, one continuous line of reasoning
- 01Problem StatementFrameThe right question, stated precisely.
- 02Develop SolutionStudyA full study, in about an hour.
- 03Generate ProposalDeliverA client-ready proposal, built from what you found.
- 04Probability of ImplementingPressure-testWill it actually get done?
- 05Scenario LivingModelComing soonTorch and Floodlight — the future, two ways.
- 06Risk vs ReturnOptimiseComing soonWhere the return finally beats the risk.
- 07AI/Digital UpsellGrowComing soonWhere AI grows returns above what money costs.
- 08Org Design UpsellStructureComing soonRedesign the organisation around the strategy.
- 09ImplementationExecuteComing soonFrom strategy to an execution plan.
- 10InstitutionalizationEmbedComing soonMake it stick.
What you leave with
Not a chat transcript — a defensible study
Decision tree
The question broken into the choices that actually decide it.
Prioritised hypotheses
What must be true — ranked, with the tests that confirm or kill each.
Benchmarks & comparables
The outside view, so the numbers aren't argued in a vacuum.
Financial analysis
The economics worked through, not asserted.
Validated business case
A recommendation you can defend to a board.
A client-ready proposal
The findings assembled into something you can present.
Simple plans. Add depth when you need it.
The core method, plus specialist modules you can add one at a time — AI/Digital, and more on the way.