When a senior interim lands in a business, the work begins immediately and the support around them does not. We provide the operational infrastructure that interim professionals need on assignment, in the three places it is most often required.
The thinking behind the service is straightforward. On every interim assignment, the same problems arise: people need to be recruited, structures need to be reshaped, costs need to be brought back into proportion. The interim has the experience to handle all three but rarely the time, and the host business often does not have the right resource sitting alongside them. We provide that resource, configured to assignment pace, and step out cleanly when the engagement ends.
The service was built by an operator who kept having the same problem.
Recruitment support
Every interim assignment involves recruitment, and every hire an interim makes is a direct reflection on their own judgement. A bad shortlist is not just a delay; it is a credibility problem.
We are researchers, not recruiters. We define the search properly, build a credible long list from real research and direct outreach, screen it down to people who genuinely fit, and hand over a shortlist that can go straight into interview. No volume, no keyword matching, no CVs that have clearly missed the brief.
The service is fast to deploy. We are operational within days of a conversation, and the work is fixed-fee wherever it can be, so the cost is known before it begins.
Restructuring support
When a business needs to be restructured, the operational evidence behind the plan matters as much as the financial case. The decisions that hold up under board scrutiny are the ones supported by independent operational analysis: what is genuinely surplus, what is load-bearing, and what looks like cost but is actually the connective tissue holding delivery together.
We work alongside the interim to provide that analysis. The output is a restructuring plan with operational evidence behind every decision, written in a register that stands up to the board, the finance function, and the wider team without becoming an internal political document.
Operational right-sizing
Right-sizing is what restructuring becomes when it is done with operational judgement rather than financial spreadsheet logic. The aim is not the cheapest possible operation but the right operation for what the business is actually trying to do.
We work with the interim to assess the operational shape of the business against the plan it is meant to deliver, identify where capacity is genuinely over-built and where it is load-bearing, and design a restructured operation that can carry the work without breaking. The output is honest about what is removable and what is not, and the process protects the business from cuts that look defensible on paper but cause problems in delivery.
How an engagement works
The first conversation, as you would expect, is a briefing. We want to understand the assignment, the situation in the business, and which of the three services the interim needs first. Engagements often start with one and expand into another as the assignment progresses.
The work runs at assignment pace. Interims rarely have the luxury of long lead times, and we are accustomed to being operational within days. Reporting lines, decision rights, and the relationship with the existing executive team are agreed upfront so that the work carries proper authority from day one.
The engagement ends when the assignment ends, or when the specific piece of work is complete. There is no nudge to extend. We would rather a clean handover than a relationship that drifts.
Fees
Recruitment support is charged on a fixed-fee basis wherever possible, agreed at the briefing stage and tied to the seniority and complexity of the role.
Restructuring and right-sizing engagements are charged on a day-rate basis, scoped at the briefing stage, with a clear estimate of the total work before it begins.
We do not work on success fees, contingency, or upside-linked structures. The commercial relationship is straightforward and stated upfront.
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