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It involves researching your current operations, strategy, finances, team organization, or market position, and then providing clear recommendations and sometimes a step-by-step action plan to enhance your performance, lower costs, boost sales or make preparations for growth / exit.

To obtain an external, objective view, to access specialist knowledge they do not have on staff, to speed up decision making, to compare with best practice in the industry or to assist them during significant change mergers, digital transformation, turnaround situations, etc.

Typical short diagnostic / strategy projects are 6-12 weeks long. Full implementation support/transformation programs are typically 4-12 months (and more for enterprise scale change).

Typically small to mid-size diagnostic / strategy projects are in the $15,000 to $60,000 range. On-going advisory or comprehensive transformation programs are typically $80,000 – $300,000+ depending upon scope and duration.

This depends on the engagement. Some are advisory (strategy + roadmap) and others involve supporting you in the implementation process, interim leadership, project management, or coaching your internal team to execute.

Yes, good projects have clear outcomes cost reductions (10-40%) or revenue growth (15-100% in some cases), time-to-market, employee retention, successful funding / exit preparations etc.). There are a number of companies that charge fees based on results or milestones.

Consultants are rarely used effectively by no-mid-market and even developing startups for go-to-market strategy, fundraising readiness, scaling operations, pricing models or new markets.

You should find someone with relevant industry experience, with good case studies with similar-sized companies, clear methodology, references from past clients, is culturally fit and asks sharp questions of your true pain points rather than just sells services.