Growth & strategy · UK
We've scaled businesses past the ceiling yours has hit.
The revenue plateau, the operational drag, the gap between where you are and where you should be. We've been there as principals — not advisers.
£236.40 inc. VAT · 45 minutes with a senior operator · credited in full against the Strategic Roadmap · you pick your slot the moment you've paid
£500k to £150m turnover. Board seats held, refinances secured, scaling roadmaps built and executed.
The gap nobody talks about
You don't need another consultant. You need someone who's actually run a business your size.
"We have supported the Calder Flint founding team and their Investor Group with numerous transactions and our relationship extends back several years."Praetura · UK SME Lending & Equity · c.£600m deployed
Most owners reach a point where they've outgrown their advisers, and everyone close enough to help is too close to see the problem clearly.
What you need isn't a report. It's board-level thinking — commercial, financial, operational — without the permanent hire. We've built, acquired, scaled and turned around businesses as principals, from owner-managed firms to a £150m automotive group. Growth mandates are run from our Manchester office, on site anywhere in the UK when it matters.
The offer
Every seat at the table.
You don't need six senior hires. You need the right brain at the right moment.
Head of the table
Chairman
Board leadership · Governance · Investor relations · Succession · Chairing the room
- Seat 01
Chief Strategy
Growth planning · Market positioning · M&A · Exit strategy · Partnerships
- Seat 02
Chief Financial
Cashflow · Funding · Financial models · Banking · R&D tax credits
- Seat 03
Chief Technology
Systems architecture · Data · Automation & AI · Cyber · Tech roadmap
Your board tableFractional, not headcount
- Seat 04
Chief Operating
ERP systems · Lean ops · Supply chain · Process improvement · Capacity
- Seat 05
Chief Commercial
Sales build · Pricing · Key accounts · Contracts · Market entry
- Seat 06
Chief Marketing
Brand · Positioning · Demand generation · Digital · Pipeline
Head of the table
Chief Executive
Vision · P&L ownership · Leadership · Delivery of the plan · Stepping back
Take one seat, or take the room.
We've held most of these seats — CEO, CSO, CFO — when it was difficult. For the rest we bring specialists we've worked with for years, and we stay at the table.
Work out which seat you need — £197 + VAT →Signs you're ready
The ceiling you can feel but can't see.
The six we hear most often. One is enough to make the call worth it.
- You're the bottleneck in every decision
- Revenue has plateaued and you can't work out why
- Systems and reporting have stopped keeping up
- You know you need senior hires but not who or when
- Untapped potential in your pricing, customers or operations — and you can feel it
- You've got ambition but nobody to pressure-test the plan
45 minutes, one-to-one with a senior operator — never an account manager.
Understand, plan, build
Your growth journey.
Private healthcare, applied to a business with room to run. No build without a blueprint. No blueprint without a conversation.
Stop 01
The Conversation
£197 + VAT
45 minutes. Fresh eyes on a business you're too close to. You'll leave knowing what's holding you back, where the untapped potential sits and what to do first.
Within 24 hours of booking. Credited in full against the Strategic Roadmap.
Stop 02
The Strategic Roadmap
£1,500 + VAT
The blueprint. Commercial position mapped, operational capacity assessed, growth levers identified, the moves sequenced and costed.
In writing, within 48 hours.
Stop 03
The Build
From £2,500 / month + VAT
We work on the business with you — strategy, introductions, execution and the hard conversations. Or we take the seat ourselves.
Retainers, fractional C-suite roles, fixed-fee projects.
Fast Track
£1,500 + VAT · saves £197
The Conversation and the Strategic Roadmap, bundled. Call within 24 hours, roadmap within 48.
What we do
What a growth engagement looks like.
Find the money that's already in the business. Build the capacity to handle it. Then plan the stage after this one.
Commercial strategy
- Revenue and margin analysis — where the money actually comes from, and where it should
- Pricing — most businesses we work with are undercharging
- Customer concentration — if one client leaving would break you, we fix that
- New market entry and diversification
- Introductions to lenders, equity investors and strategic partners
Operational improvement
- Organisational design — the right people in the right seats
- Process and systems audit — what's slowing you down
- Supply chain and procurement
- Working capital and cash conversion
- ERP and CRM implementation across multi-site operations
Strategic planning
- 12-month and 3-year planning with financial modelling
- Funding strategy — debt, equity, grants, asset finance
- Acquisition strategy — targets, due diligence, deal structure
- Exit planning — two years out or ten
- Shareholder agreements, partnership and equity arrangements
Stop 02 · The Strategic Roadmap
The moves that unlock the next phase — sequenced and costed.
Within 48 hours of your call: a written roadmap of your commercial position, operational capacity, competitive landscape and funding structure. Five sections, no filler, nothing you can't act on next week.
£1,500 + VAT · 48-hour delivery · the £197 Conversation fee is credited in full against it.
Strategic Roadmap
- 01Commercial position — where revenue and margin actually come from
- 02Operational capacity — what breaks first when you grow
- 03Competitive landscape — where the room to move is
- 04Funding structure — how a lender or investor will read you
- 05The moves, in order — sequenced and costed
One group, five divisions
Growth writes the plan. The rest of the group executes it.
No handovers, no new relationships to build, no one else to bring up to speed.
Builds the brand, the plan and the model
The website, pitch deck, business plan and financial model that make the strategy credible to a customer, a lender or a buyer.
See the work → Calder Flint FinanceFunds the next stage
Working capital, asset finance and growth funding from £10k to £5m via 100+ UK lenders. Free for you — we're paid by the lender.
Get a funding match → Calder Flint CapitalHandles acquisitions and exits
When growth means buying a competitor, raising equity or selling — deal structuring, due diligence and the negotiation itself.
Explore Capital →Calder Flint Finance: we act as an introducer, not a lender. We introduce businesses to FCA-authorised lenders and credit brokers. Commission may be earned on successful introductions.
Before you book
Questions, answered.
What do I get for £197?
45 minutes one-to-one with a senior operator, within 24 hours of booking, plus a written summary of your first three moves. You leave knowing what's capping the business, where the untapped potential is and what to do first. The fee is credited in full against the Strategic Roadmap.
How is this different from a management consultancy?
A consultancy sells you a framework and a team of analysts. We've run businesses the size of yours — made payroll, set prices, hired and fired, sat in front of the credit committee. You get the principal, in the room, and advice we'd be willing to be accountable for.
What does a fractional C-suite role actually look like?
Anything from a day a month to two days a week, with the scope, cadence and cost agreed up front. We take the seat and the accountability that comes with it — no PAYE, no equity, no recruitment fee, and notice measured in weeks rather than years.
We're profitable and growing. Why would we need you?
Because a plateau is far cheaper to prevent than to fix. Pricing, customer concentration and operational capacity are the three that catch growing businesses out, and all three are easiest to address while the numbers still look good.
Can you help us raise money or buy a business?
Yes. Debt funding runs through Calder Flint Finance — free to you, since we're paid by the lender, and we act as an introducer, not a lender. Equity, acquisitions and exits run through Calder Flint Capital. Both start with the same conversation.
Ready to break through the ceiling?
One call to find out where the growth is hiding.