For everyone
Free
- 30 minutes, no commitment
- Honest assessment of fit
- Biggest-opportunity readout
No pitch. No exceptions.
How we can help
Four pillars.
Four pillars.
One operator.
Management. Advisory. Growth. Execution. Whatever the problem is, it lives inside one of these four. The work is founder-led throughout — no associates, no handovers, no junior delivery.
Pillar 01
Management
Most owner-managed businesses don't fail at the work — they fail at the management of the work. Who decides what, how the team is structured, what good looks like, and how the founder gets their time back.
Leadership effectiveness
Clear read on who owns what, where decisions are stalling, and where the founder is the bottleneck — followed by a 90-day plan for the changes with the biggest effect.
Culture and behaviour
Culture diagnosed through observable evidence — meetings, hiring decisions, feedback patterns — then made explicit through leadership-team norms and the rituals that hold it.
Organisation design
Structure for the next stage, not the last one. Span of control, hand-offs, and where ownership lives — reviewed against the 18-month plan with a sequenced hire and promote map.
Onboarding design
Structured 30/60/90 plans by role, manager scripts, weekly checkpoints, and a route from green to fee-earning that doesn't depend on the founder being in every room.
Incentive structure review
Commission, bonus and recognition frameworks rebuilt against margin, retention and behaviour — with clear comms to land the change with the team.
Team structure design
Who should be doing what, where the gaps are, and a 12-month people plan with cost, sequence and success measures — designed against a realistic plan, not how things ended up.
Pillar 02
Advisory
The work that needs to happen in front of a whiteboard before anything else changes. Plain-language strategy — what the business actually is, who it serves, what it's worth, and where the next stage lives.
Strategy
A working strategy, not a deck. Built around realistic numbers, the team you have, and the market you actually compete in — with a quarterly cadence to course-correct without rewriting it.
Market positioning
Sharpened positioning that reflects who the business is at its best — with messaging that survives translation to LinkedIn, sales calls and proposals.
Commercial diligence
Commercial and operational diligence on a target — or on yourself, before a buyer does it for you. Data room review, customer analysis, operating risk, plain-English verdict.
Restructuring
Fast diagnosis, a defensible plan, and supported execution through the difficult parts — for businesses that need to change direction, reduce cost base, or reposition.
P&L review
Line-by-line read on cost — not to cut for the sake of cutting, but to find the overhead that isn't justifying its place and protect the things that are.
Margin analysis
Where the margin actually lives by client, role, service or product line — and where it is quietly being given away. Often the fastest source of profit improvement available.
Pillar 03
Growth
Growth that compounds — better pricing, repeatable BD, the right channels activated properly. A plan that doesn't collapse the moment one person takes a quiet quarter.
Pricing restructure
A redesigned fee model that better reflects the value delivered — with the scripts and client communications to land it without losing the relationships that matter.
Channel strategy
Which channels deserve real investment — online, local, referral, LinkedIn, partnership — and which are quietly costing more than they earn. Ranked, with a practical activation plan.
Marketing audit
Honest read on the website, social presence, search visibility and content — what a potential client actually sees, and what needs to change for it to do its job.
BD process design
Structured, repeatable business development that doesn't depend on one charismatic person — ICP definition, cadence design, message frameworks, CRM hygiene, weekly pipeline review.
Landlord acquisition
A specific plan to grow a managed portfolio: target market, messaging, outreach, referral incentives, and the agent behaviours that turn conversations into instructions.
Revenue-mix analysis
Identifying which clients, roles or services drive actual profit — and which are quietly subsidised by the rest of the book. Often reshapes the next year's priorities entirely.
Pillar 04
Execution
What separates a good plan from a finished one. We build the systems that hold the work together when the founder is no longer in every meeting — and stay through the messy middle until the new way is the normal way.
Operations audit
End-to-end review of how the business runs day to day — what is manual, duplicated, or missing. The inventory that quietly unlocks the rest, ranked by effect on owner time and margin.
Systems implementation
CRM, scheduling, invoicing, reporting — the right tools configured properly, documented, and actually adopted. Requirements to vendor to migration to 30/60/90 day review.
AI optimisation
The quiet, useful applications of AI inside an owner-managed business — drafting, structuring, triaging — without theatre, and without replacing the people who run the work.
Compliance frameworks
Process documentation for regulatory requirements — GDPR, tenancy legislation, client money handling — built so compliance is an output of how the work is done, not a separate exercise.
Hiring strategy
Role design, scorecard, sourcing plan, interview kit, offer process — and the manager support to land the hire successfully in the first 90 days.
Project execution support
Embedded delivery support for owner-led teams running an important change alongside the day job — keeping momentum, pace and quality through the messy middle.
Engagement formats
Four ways to work together.
Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute discovery call. From there, scope is matched to the problem — not the other way round.
One contained problem
£350 – £900
- Single, focused engagement
- Outcome within days
- Best for an immediate blocker
Fixed scope, fixed price.
Diagnose & implement
£1,500 – £3,000
- 4–8 weeks
- Full diagnosis + delivery
- Hands-on through implementation
For a defined problem that needs proper work.
Ongoing partner
£1,000 – £2,500 / month
- 2–4 sessions / month
- On-call between sessions
- Rolling, cancel any month
For owners who want a strategic partner in the chair.
Work with MAGE
Tell us where the business is, and where it's getting in its own way.
Book a discovery call
Free, 30 minutes, no pitch. All enquiries treated as confidential.