Advisory · understand
Executive Business Review
Find what is holding the business back. Put a number on it. Build the 90-day plan to fix it.
A paid discovery engagement that turns the diagnostic into evidence. We interview your leadership team, examine the numbers and return a decision-ready view of the business.
£3,950·15 working days·2 executive days
What you get
Clarity on the constraint. Evidence behind it. A plan to act.
Not a template with your name on it. This is the fixed section plan for this service — the same one your executive and the delivery engine work to.
01 — Where the business is now
Summarise the commercial position from the numbers supplied. State the trend, not just the level.
02 — The constraint
Name the single primary constraint and prove it with evidence from the brief. Explicitly dismiss the two most plausible alternative explanations.
03 — What it is costing
Size the constraint in pounds per month, showing the calculation.
04 — Findings
Between five and eight findings, each with evidence, impact and confidence.
05 — 90-day roadmap
Sequenced actions across three thirty-day blocks with owner, cost, effort and expected return.
06 — Board summary
One page a chair could read aloud.
Who leads it
Someone who has sat in the seat.
A sector-matched senior operator from the Nuub network leads the work — an operator who has run a business of your size, not a junior consultant or a generalist analyst.
Chair · NED · MD · COO · CFO · CTO level
Matched for relevant operating experience, sector context and business scale.
Named before kick-off, verified by Nuub, and signed up to the Nuub Network Agreement — confidentiality, conflicts and insurance — before they are assigned. One rematch at no cost if the fit is wrong.
The discipline applied
A partner-level management consultant writing for the board of an owner-managed business.
How it works
From evidence to action in 15 working days.
01 — Brief complete
The client completes the Nuub Method brief in their workspace and supplies the required evidence, by upload or by a link to where it already lives.
By day 2 · You
02 — Kick-off and scope confirmation
The matched executive confirms scope, interview list and the definition of success.
By day 3 · Your executive
03 — Fieldwork and analysis
Interviews, data analysis and validation of the presenting constraint.
By day 9 · Your executive
04 — Nuub OS draft and executive review
Nuub OS drafts the deliverable from the brief and the fieldwork, under the discipline brief written for this service. The executive edits, corrects and approves it.
By day 11 · Nuub platform
05 — Release and debrief
Deliverable released to the client portal and walked through live.
By day 15 · Nuub
06 — Client review and acceptance
The client reviews the released deliverable and either accepts it or asks for changes.
By day 20 · You
Delivery: 15 working days from a complete brief and the required evidence. You then have 5 working days to review, with 2 revision rounds included in the fee.
What we need from you
- Required
- Last twelve months of management accounts · Organisation chart
- Helpful
- Current plan, strategy or board pack · List of core systems in use
Your time commitment
Approximately 9 hours
Brief, evidence, interviews and review across about 3 weeks. Nuub OS carries the analysis and the drafting; this is the part only you can do.
See the dated stage plan, the gates and where your hours goOpen
- Stage 1
Brief complete
By day 2 · YouComplete when: Every required field answered and every required evidence item supplied.
- Stage 2
Kick-off and scope confirmation
By day 3 · Your executiveComplete when: Scope confirmation signed off by the client sponsor.
- Stage 3
Fieldwork and analysis
By day 9 · Your executiveComplete when: All planned interviews completed and findings logged against evidence.
- Stage 4
Nuub OS draft and executive review
By day 11 · Nuub platformComplete when: Draft approved by the executive and quality-checked by Nuub.
- Stage 5
Release and debrief
By day 15 · NuubComplete when: Client has received the deliverable and attended the debrief.
- Stage 6
Client review and acceptance
By day 20 · YouComplete when: Client accepts the deliverable, or the review window of 5 working days closes.
Completing the brief
The intake wizard, saved as you go and finishable in more than one sitting.
25 min
Assembling the evidence
2 required items — accounts, management information and operating data. Most of it already exists.
2 h
Leadership interviews
4 conversations of 45 minutes, one per person — your time only for the ones you sit in.
3 h
Scope confirmation call
Live time with your executive.
30 min
Findings debrief
Live time with your executive.
1.5 h
Reading and responding
Inside the 5-working-day review window, with 2 revision rounds included.
1.5 h
The brief
Delivery starts on a complete brief, not on payment. Your workspace opens the moment you buy, with 4 short sections, 14 required questions and progress saved as you go.
- Business context
- The constraint
- People and decision rights
- What good looks like
Nuub OS
Human judgement. AI-assisted analysis.
Nuub OS structures the evidence, the analysis and the working draft so your executive spends their time where it matters — interrogating the problem, testing the conclusions and applying judgement.
Nothing reaches you until your executive has reviewed, challenged and approved it.
What “done” means
- Deliverable released in the client portal and acknowledged
- Debrief session held and recorded
- Client feedback captured
- Next-stage recommendation logged against the account
Quality promise
- Every figure in your deliverable is traceable to evidence you supplied, or clearly labelled as an estimate.
- If we recommend something you have already tried, we explain what would be different this time.
- Every recommendation states the owner, the cost, the effort and the expected commercial effect.
- Plain board-level language. No padding, no jargon, no reheated slides.
- When the evidence is not enough to support a conclusion, we say so — and we name exactly what is needed.
Proof
See what the process looks like in practice
Cutting nine days out of quote-to-placement
An illustrative scenario based on patterns we see repeatedly in recruitment businesses between £4m and £12m turnover.
9 days to 2 days Time to price a role
Manufacturing and engineering · IllustrativeAn operating rhythm that removed the founder from daily firefighting
An illustrative scenario drawn from common patterns in owner-managed manufacturing businesses.
-66% in 90 days Founder escalations
Illustrative examples are labelled as such. Published client outcomes are reported against a stated baseline, measure and timeframe.
Price
£3,950
One engagement. Defined scope. Fixed fee.
Your workspace opens the moment you buy. The delivery clock starts when your brief and evidence are complete, not when you pay — and the full terms are shown for acceptance before payment.
Price basis
£3,950 buys 2 executive days and every artefact listed above, delivered in 15 working days from a complete brief.
Not included: implementation of the recommendations, travel outside standard UK visits, and any additional workstream you ask for later. Each is quoted in writing before it starts.
What is included
- 2 executive days
- Executive Business Review — findings report
- Costed 90-day roadmap
- Board summary
- 5 working day review window
- 2 revision rounds
£3,950 payable today · 15 working days
Fixed fee of £3,950 for two executive days, payable online. Nuub OS carries the analysis and drafting; nothing is added after we start.
Full terms — scope, review window, revisions, cancellation and ownership — are shown in full at checkout and must be accepted before payment.
How the work runs
- 01
Scope agreed in writing
Outcome, measure, timeline and price, before the work starts.
- 02
Evidence gathered
Interviews, data and documents — structured, not a questionnaire.
- 03
Findings and recommendation
What is true, what it costs, and what to do about it.
- 04
Handover and next step
A deliverable you own, and a clear decision about what follows.
Not ready for the full engagement?
Take the free 12-minute Nuub Constraint Assessment to see where the greatest constraint is likely to sit across your business.
Find your constraint — freeExecutive Business Review
£3,950 · 15 working days