STREAMLINE. SCALE. SUCCEED.
Based in Durham, operating UK-wide
MDBCBusiness Consultancy
WHAT I DO

I work with the whole business, so it stops depending on you for every answer.

Systems, processes, the numbers, and the way information actually flows through your team — built around how your business really runs, so the business supports the people in it, not the other way round.

People often ask if I'm a coach. I'm not — a coach works with you, on the things holding you back personally.

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WHO I WORK BEST WITH

Businesses that have outgrown the way they were set up

You're a few years in and well past the scrappy early days. There's a team now. But the way the business runs was built back when it was you and one or two others, and it hasn't caught up — so everything still routes through you, and your team spend half their time waiting on answers only you have.

Three years or more in

Established, trading steadily, with a track record rather than a plan.

You have a team

People who need clear processes to work from, not constant direction from you.

Growth is straining the setup

What worked at your old size is starting to cost you time, money or both.

It's usually not the problem you think it is

Most people come to me thinking they need to hire, or find better software, or just put in more hours to keep up.

Usually, that's not it.

“WE NEED TO HIRE”

Hiring into chaos doesn't fix the chaos. It just gives it somewhere new to live. The right person at the right time genuinely helps, but only once there's something clear for them to step into. Bring someone in too early and you haven't gained capacity, you've gained someone else to manage, on top of a business that's now harder to see clearly.

“WE NEED BETTER SOFTWARE”

Software has the same problem. New tools don't fix a process that was never clear to begin with. They just move the confusion somewhere shinier, with a monthly subscription attached.

So before anything else, I look at what's actually happening underneath. Most of the time it's one of two things:

Too many tools that don't talk to each other.

Nothing systemised at all — everything running on memory and good intentions.

WHAT I ACTUALLY HELP WITH

Three areas, worked on together

Systems

The tools your business runs on, set up properly and connected so information only has to go in once.

Setting up a CRM
Setting up a finance system
Payment processing
A shared team inbox
Ongoing system and CRM housekeeping
Processes

How work actually moves through your team, written down so it doesn’t live in one person’s head.

Systems and process review
Process mapping
Documenting how things are done (SOPs)
Numbers

Your figures turned into something you can make decisions from, not just file.

Management accounts review
Budgeting and cashflow forecasting
Bookkeeping health checks
Pricing and margin review
KPI dashboards and check-ins

One thing I'll always mention: paper-based admin. If I spot it in your business, I'll say so, gently, because it's slow, it's easy to get wrong, and it's usually carrying more risk than anyone realises. Not a big deal to fix. Just worth knowing it's there.

What working together looks like

I don't believe in one-size-fits-all frameworks, because I haven't met a business yet where one actually fit. My job is to understand how your business actually runs, then build something around that, not around a hypothetical average business that doesn't exist.

01
Outcome-led

You're paying for a result, not a timesheet.

02
Tool-agnostic

I recommend what's right for you, not what I'm used to.

03
Implementation, not just advice

I stay until it works, not until the document's been handed over.

04
Phased where it needs to be

No trying to fix everything on day one.

Structure first. Then scale.

Growing businesses make decisions under deadline pressure more often than they'd like to admit. That's not about being wrong. It's about making a call without the information to know if it's the right one.

Get the structure in first, and growth turns into something you can actually manage, rather than something you're just about keeping up with.

Numbers you can actually use

Most business owners don't avoid their numbers because they don't understand them. They avoid them because nobody's ever sat down and translated them into something useful.

Your accountant will file your accounts and keep you compliant. That matters, and it's their job to do it. But compliant and decision-ready aren't the same thing. Knowing your numbers well enough to act on them is a different skill to reporting them, and it's usually the piece that's missing.

That's where I work.

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COMPLIANT

Your accounts are filed, on time and correctly.

DECISION-READY

You know what the numbers mean, and what to do next.

WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE

“She doesn't just tell you what to do — she sits beside you, works through it with you and gives you the confidence to do it yourself. Every step has been broken down into manageable pieces, which has made what felt impossible suddenly feel achievable.”

Stephanie CarmichaelFounder, The Enchanted Realm

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