// business consulting, Northern Ireland
Most companies don't need more ideas. They need someone to sit with the spreadsheet, trace the bottleneck, and tell them the truth. That's what we do at Profound Biz Insights: forensic, honest business consulting for owner-managed firms across Northern Ireland and beyond.
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// what we fix
We don't offer a vague menu of "solutions." Each engagement starts with a specific problem, and we stay until the numbers confirm it's resolved. Here are the issues clients bring to us most often.
Pricing inconsistencies, unbilled work, discounting habits that creep in over years. We audit your revenue chain line by line and typically find 6–14% in recoverable income within the first four weeks.
When a 10-person team produces what a 7-person team should, the issue is rarely laziness. It's process debt. We map your workflows, remove redundant steps, and set measurable cycle-time targets.
Profitable on paper, broke on Tuesday. We rebuild your cash-flow forecasting model, renegotiate payment terms with key suppliers, and install a 13-week rolling forecast you can actually maintain yourself.
If the business can't run for two weeks without you, it's not a business yet. We design delegation frameworks, hire the right second-in-command profile, and build decision-making protocols that stick.
You've hit £1m–£5m in turnover and the playbook that got you here won't get you further. We build a 24-month strategic roadmap: market positioning, pricing tiers, channel mix, and the hire sequence that supports each phase.
Thinking about an exit in the next two to five years? We clean up the financials, document the IP, reduce owner-dependency, and position the business to attract serious buyers rather than tyre-kickers.
// how it works
We keep the process tight. Most diagnostic engagements wrap in eight weeks. Longer strategic builds run 12–16 weeks with monthly check-ins after that.
You describe the problem. We ask pointed questions about revenue, margins, team structure, and recent decisions. By the end, we'll tell you whether we can help and roughly what it will cost. No pitch deck, no pressure.
We request your P&L, balance sheet, CRM export, and org chart. We interview two or three key staff members. Everything stays under NDA. The goal is to see the business the way the numbers see it, not the way the founder describes it.
A written document, usually 12–18 pages, covering the root causes we identified, the estimated financial impact of each, and the recommended fixes ranked by effort and return. We present it in person or over video and take questions until you're satisfied.
If you want us to stay and help execute, we work alongside your team. We attend weekly stand-ups, own specific deliverables, and track KPIs in a shared dashboard. Our fee is fixed for this phase; no hourly surprises.
We hand over all templates, SOPs, and dashboards. Sixty days later we do a free check-in call to see what held and what drifted. If something needs adjusting, we'll tell you directly.
// proof
Client names are anonymised per our NDA terms. The figures were verified against management accounts at the close of each engagement.
Identified £310k in annual ingredient waste caused by a single supplier's inconsistent pack sizes. Renegotiated the contract and introduced weigh-in checks at goods-in. Margin improvement appeared within 11 weeks.
The firm was writing off an average of 14 hours per consultant per month as "non-billable admin." We restructured their time-tracking system and reassigned three admin tasks to a single coordinator role. Billable utilisation rose from 61% to 78%.
Over 14 months we reduced owner involvement from 55 hours/week to under 10, documented all supplier relationships, and cleaned three years of management accounts. The business sold to a UK trade buyer at a multiple the owner initially thought unrealistic.
Chronic late payment from two anchor clients was draining working capital. We restructured invoice terms, introduced milestone billing, and set up a credit-control process. Within six months the company held three times its previous cash reserve.
// questions
Owner-managed businesses turning over between £500k and £10m. Below that threshold the consulting fee rarely pays for itself quickly enough; above it, you likely need a larger firm with sector-specific bench strength. Our sweet spot is the 10–80 employee range where founder decisions still drive most outcomes.
A diagnostic-only engagement (the findings report) runs between £3,500 and £6,000 depending on complexity. If we stay for implementation support, the total usually lands between £12,000 and £25,000 for an eight-week programme. We quote a fixed fee before any work starts. No day-rate ambiguity.
Yes. About a third of our clients are in England or Scotland. We do the data-immersion phase remotely and travel for the findings presentation and key implementation workshops. The diagnostic call is always remote regardless of location.
It hasn't happened yet in 137 engagements, but if it did, we'd say so. The report would confirm that your operations are sound and suggest minor optimisations rather than a full implementation phase. You'd still pay the diagnostic fee because the work was done, but we'd never invent problems to justify a larger project.
Our principal consultant leads every engagement. On larger builds we bring in one associate with relevant sector experience. You'll never be handed off to a junior analyst you haven't met. The person on the diagnostic call is the person reading your P&L.
Every engagement starts with a target metric: gross margin percentage, billable utilisation, cash conversion cycle, or whatever fits the problem. We track that number weekly during implementation and report the before/after delta at handover. If the number didn't move, we failed. Simple as that.
// talk to us
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Address
80 Ira Gate, Great Wisoky End, Northern Ireland, JN1 5IT, United Kingdom
Phone
+44 1548 854326
Email
[email protected]
Office hours: Monday to Friday, 09:00–17:30 GMT. We aim to respond to all enquiries by the next business morning.