Professional services
Agencies, consultancies, advisory firms — billable hours that need leverage.
Build · Scale · Exit
Your business is worth more than your P&L shows. We'll prove it.
01Build
02Scale
03Exit
EBITDA margin11%22%
Customer acquisition$420$170
Revenue / FTE$210k$340k
Time to forecast close14d2d
Indicative · 12-month engagement
/ 01 · The problem
You didn't start a company to live in spreadsheets.
You're great at what you do. But somewhere between hiring, churn analysis, and figuring out why last month's margin slipped, you stopped building and started just maintaining.
Meanwhile:
- Overhead climbs faster than revenue
- Demand is there but ops can't absorb it
- Acquisition feelers come in and you don't know if the offer is fair
- You know it could run better — you just don't have time to fix it
You don't need another consultant telling you what's broken. You need a team that fixes it — and builds something worth selling at the right number.
monthly close · march
Revenue
$1.84M
↑ 6.2% MoM
22%
EBITDA
$170
CAC
2d
To close
12-month revenue · accent = post-engagement
/ 02 · Who we work with
We work across the SME spectrum.
From founder-led teams of ten through PE-backed operators doing $50M, the work changes shape but the framework doesn't. If you're between $1M and $50M and growth is the question, we've worked with someone like you.
B2B SaaS
Bootstrapped through Series B. Margin expansion, churn, expansion-revenue.
E-commerce & DTC
Brands $1M–$50M revenue. CAC, contribution, retention, ops automation.
Manufacturing & ops
Light industrial, supply chain, ops-heavy operators. Margin and forecast discipline.
Healthcare & clinics
Group practices, multi-location. Patient flow, scheduling, billing automation.
Operator platforms
Marketplaces, vertical SaaS, member businesses with operator complexity.
/ 03 · The framework
Three phases. One outcome — a more valuable business.
Phase 01
BUILD
Fix the engine before you step on the gas.
We embed with your team and deploy AI systems that strip out overhead, automate the work draining your operators, and surface the numbers actually driving margin.
What this looks like
- AI-led automation across operations, support, and finance
- Fractional senior leadership (CFO / CTO / COO) where you need it
- Live KPI dashboards — what drives margin, what kills it
- Operational playbooks that survive turnover
Your business runs tighter, throws off more cash, and doesn't fall apart when you take a week off.
Phase 02
SCALE
Profitable growth. Not just more volume.
Once margins are locked in, we turn on the growth engine. Better acquisition, better unit economics, better leverage — built on the foundation Build laid.
What this looks like
- AI-powered demand generation across paid, organic, and outbound
- Retention and expansion programmes for the existing base
- Pricing and packaging tuned to actual willingness to pay
- Multi-region or multi-location expansion, with the ops model behind it
Want to acquire instead of being acquired? We source targets, run diligence, model the combined entity, and structure the deal.
Phase 03
EXIT
Leave on your terms. Whenever that is.
Whether you want to sell in six months or six years, the prep starts now. We make sure the business tells a story buyers pay a premium for.
What this looks like
- Exit readiness audit — what a buyer sees vs. what they should see
- EBITDA optimisation to lift your multiple before going to market
- CIM and data room preparation
- PE and strategic buyer introductions through our network
- Deal structuring and negotiation support
Not ready to sell? The same work that preps an exit makes the business worth more to keep. Every phase compounds.
/ 04 · Why us
Most firms run one lane. We sit across the whole P&L.
01
One team. Whole P&L.
Your accountant does the books. Your agency runs ads. Your broker tries to sell when you're ready. None of them talk to each other. We sit across finance, ops, AI, marketing, and deal execution in a single engagement — so the strategy actually adds up.
02
Operators, not coaches.
We're not a course. We're not a deck. We're senior operators who have built, scaled, and exited businesses ourselves — and we embed with your team to do the work.
03
Compounding, not one-shot.
Build makes Scale work. Scale makes Exit credible. Exit prep makes the business worth more even if you never sell. Every phase compounds the value of the previous one.
/ 05 · Who this is for
Built for founders serious about what comes next.
- Founders doing $1M–$30M who want to professionalise ops and grow
- Multi-location or multi-product operators preparing for an exit
- Founders ready to step back from the day-to-day and want to maximise value first
- Owners getting acquisition feelers — and unsure if the number is right
- Operators considering a roll-up of competitors and need diligence support
- PE-backed CEOs charged with hitting a value-creation plan
/ 06 · Track record
We've done this before.
30d
To first measurable result — or refund
12wk
Typical Build phase
0
Lock-in — you keep the code
100%
Senior-only · every engagement
/ 07 · How it works
Start with a 30-minute call.
- 1
Discovery call
Thirty minutes. We run through your numbers, ops, and ambition. You walk away with an honest read of where the business stands today and what it could realistically be worth.
- 2
Custom roadmap
We design a phased plan across Build, Scale, and Exit tailored to your stage, timeline, and what would actually move the multiple.
- 3
We execute
Senior operators embed with your team. Monthly P&L reviews, AI deployments, growth campaigns, and exit prep — running in parallel, on a fixed-price scope.
/ 08 · FAQ
Common questions.
Yes. Build and Scale stand alone — and the same work that preps you for an exit makes the business worth more to keep. You don't have to commit to an outcome on day one. Most clients start in Build and decide what comes next once the numbers improve.
Whatever moves the number. Sales and support automation, customer-facing agents, internal tooling, retrieval over your knowledge base, finance and operations automation. We pick from the entire stack — no vendor preference, no single-tool theology — and we hand over the source.
Coordination. Your CFO knows the books but not your demand engine. Your agency runs ads but doesn't see your unit economics. Axiom sits across the whole P&L so growth, finance, ops, and exit prep stop pulling against each other — and you get one accountable team instead of four vendors.
Engagements are fixed-scope, fixed-price. Build phases typically run from $40k for tightly-scoped sprints up into six figures for full operating-system rebuilds. Scale and Exit are quoted at scope. We do not bill hourly. If month-one results don't show up, we refund.
Axiom is remote-first, with operators spread across multiple timezones. We've shipped engagements across APAC, EMEA, and North America. The work runs remotely by default, with on-site sprints when the engagement calls for it.
Yes. Roll-ups are part of the Scale phase. We source targets, run financial diligence, model the combined entity, structure the deal, and help integrate the operations afterwards. A buy-side mandate can be a complete engagement on its own.
/ 09 · Get started
Your business is already generating value. Capture it.
Send a few sentences about where you are and what you're trying to grow. If we're a fit we'll book a 30-minute discovery call. If not, we'll point you to someone who is.
hello@axiomhk.co