Founding Professionals
We’re creating a new category of work. You could help define it.
Micro-consulting: small, well-scoped pieces of senior expertise. We’re forming the founding group in Finance & Accounting, Strategy, and Marketing ahead of launch.
Corporate-grade work, scoped to 10 hours or less
Fixed fee and deliverables agreed before you say yes
You choose what you take — no open-ended commitments
Built for selectivity — not another freelance gig
Why Consulten exists
Too small to outsource. Too important to ignore.
Every company has critical work that falls through the cracks — a covenant calculation that has to be right, a model driving a real decision, a market they’re about to enter. Too small to justify a consulting firm. Too consequential to guess at.
That work has had nowhere to go. Consulten is building the category that serves it: engagements sized in hours rather than months, scoped and priced before anyone commits.
For you, that means real problems with real stakes — sized to fit the time and commitment you actually have to give.
What makes it different
Human-led, platform-enabled.
What clients are buying is your expertise. The platform exists to clear the way for it — doing the administrative work that makes small engagements viable: scoping, matching, closeout checks.
You own the thinking
The analysis, the expertise, and the final call are yours. AI can assist with research and drafting, under your direction.
The platform handles the overhead
Scoping, matching, funding, and closeout are structured before you’re involved. No pitching, no invoicing, no chasing.
Why that matters to you
It’s what makes a 10-hour engagement worth taking: almost all of the time you spend goes into the work itself.
The Founding Professional Program
Founding Professionals get more than early access.
Joining the founding group carries real, lasting advantages — on every engagement you take, on your profile, and in what the platform becomes.
Space is limited to our first 75 founding professionals
Founding Professional
A designation that travels with you
The Founding Professional mark appears on your profile and on your engagement cards — signalling to clients that you helped establish the standard.
10%
20%
Platform fee, not our standard rate
A reduced 10% platform fee applies across your first 20 engagements — you keep more of every fixed fee you earn.
$2,500¹
Milestone payment eligibility
You may be eligible for a one-time $2,500 payment tied to a liquidity event.
¹ A liquidity event includes a material capital raise or sale of the company. The $2,500 milestone payment is contingent on the occurrence of a qualifying liquidity event and on maintaining an active Founding Professional designation at that time. Full details of the Founding Professional Program — including eligibility, selection criteria, maintenance requirements, and the specific definitions and conditions governing the milestone payment — will be furnished upon a valid request by a vetted potential participating professional.
What happens next
Read by a person — not filed in a queue.
Every submission is read by our founding leadership, and we follow up personally.
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We review personally
No algorithm screens you out. We read for the substance of your experience, not keyword matches.
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We follow up directly
If it looks like a fit, we’ll be in touch about the work and your availability — including a call where that’s useful.
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Then the full application
Only after that do we send the complete application to formalize your profile.
Who this is for
Whether you’re working full-time or setting your own pace.
Some of the professionals joining are senior operators interested in fitting select projects around a full-time role — work that’s structured and bounded enough to stay clear of any employer conflict. Others have stepped back from full-time work and want meaningful, focused projects on their own schedule, without going back to open-ended commitments.
Consulten is built for both.
The work
The kind of engagements you’d take.
Bounded pieces of expert work — the sort a company can’t justify hiring a firm for, but can’t afford to get wrong.
Finance & Accounting
Covenant review
Forecast model sanity check
Accounting treatment research brief
Board reporting summary
Strategy
Market-entry research brief
Competitive scan
Options memo
Pricing review
Marketing
Funnel reporting review
Campaign post-mortem
Messaging audit
Channel trend brief
Help set the standard from the start.
The founding group is shaping how engagements will be scoped, delivered, and judged — and will take the first work that comes through the door.