Owner-led SMEs and growth-stage B2B
Specialised firms — often family or founder-led — that need to accelerate: one production AI use-case, or a sharper operating model. Decision-makers who can say yes without a procurement theatre.
A strategic practice
Implementation,
not theatre.
Operator-led value creation for owner-led SMEs and Nordic companies entering Portugal and the Lusophone world.
We take a mandate from decision to a running result. Selective co-investment exists only with a trusted circle, and only when the work is already clean.
Who we help
Three kinds of principal.
The work is the same standard in each case: a defined mandate, a production outcome, no theatre.
Nordic companies entering Portugal
And the wider Lusophone world. Market reading, partners, diligence, and the first year of presence. Lisbon as a working base; the corridor is the point.
Selective inbound capital
Principals who want a buy-side mind that has run companies, not only modelled them. Inbound, considered, and few.
What we do
Three offers. One lead.
The lead engagement is a production sprint. The other two are expand or parallel — never a menu of workshops.
AI Implementation Sprints
A fixed-fee engagement, typically eight to twelve weeks: the operating-model change plus one production use-case, owned by the client team when we leave. A short diagnostic first, if the problem is still foggy.
Market entry & buy-side diligence
Especially along the Nordic ↔ Portugal ↔ Brazil corridor. A reading, the right introductions, diligence a principal can act on, and a costed path — not a deck that nobody uses.
Board & advisory
Selective seats. A few days a month. The same client set, the same fence, the same allergy to theatre.
How we work
Lean on purpose.
The practice is the founder plus an AI delivery partner — no bench to bill, and no reason to prolong the work.
Fixed-fee as the default
Scope is a product. Open-ended hourly is the exception, not the offer.
Production outcomes
Something running, measured, and handed over. Hours and euros saved — not workshops completed.
Lean delivery
Founder-led. An AI partner for build. Enough people to ship; never enough to staff a theatre.
Mandates are conflict-checked. We do not take competing work against the founder’s primary industrial board role. That fence is a condition of the practice, not a slogan.
Contact
A conversation is the right first step.
Write to us, or leave a short note. If the mandate is not a fit — including on conflict — we will say so quickly.
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