Use Cases
Your expertise. Applied where it matters.
See the kinds of engagements consultants take on through Consulten — focused, fixed-fee projects across Finance & Accounting, Strategy, and Marketing. Clear scope. Defined deliverables. Ten hours or less.
Good-fit criteria
Every engagement you see will meet these tests.
Requests that don’t are narrowed, split, or turned away before they reach you.
Clear objective
A specific question, issue, review, or deliverable.
Available inputs
Files, context, data, or background can be provided.
Defined output
A brief, review, memo, analysis, or summary.
Limited dependency
No extensive stakeholder coordination required.
Decision-support value
The output helps a team move forward with confidence.
Finance & Accounting
Covenant or lender-reporting review
An experienced review before the client submits calculations or reporting to a lender.
They provide
Calculation file, agreement excerpt, financials
You deliver
Issue notes, corrections, clean review summary
Forecast or model sanity check
A second look at assumptions, formulas, and presentation before a model drives a decision.
They provide
Model, assumptions, use context
You deliver
Findings, risks, and recommended fixes
Accounting policy research brief
A practical summary of accounting treatment options for a specific issue.
They provide
Facts, transaction summary, relevant documents
You deliver
Concise research brief and practical considerations
Variance analysis review
An experienced review of variance explanations before leadership reporting.
They provide
Reports, variance explanations, prior-period context
You deliver
Improved explanations, issue flags, suggested framing
Strategy
Market-entry research brief
Understand a new geography, segment, or channel before committing to a larger project.
They provide
Target market, business context, key questions
You deliver
Opportunity framing, key factors, visible risks
Competitive positioning scan
A quick view of how competitors position, price, package, or message their offerings.
They provide
Competitor list, target audience, business context
You deliver
Scan summary and implications
Strategic options memo
Help framing a small set of options around a specific business decision.
They provide
Decision context, constraints, available data
You deliver
Options memo with pros, cons, considerations
Pricing or packaging review
A focused review of pricing structure, packaging logic, or market-facing clarity.
They provide
Current pricing, customer segments, context
You deliver
Observations, risks, and suggested changes
Marketing
Funnel reporting review
A clearer view of funnel performance without launching a full analytics rebuild.
They provide
Current reports, funnel definitions, metric logic
You deliver
Reporting gaps, recommended structure, leadership-view outline
Campaign post-mortem
An outside review of campaign performance and lessons learned.
They provide
Campaign goals, results, assets, audience
You deliver
Findings, likely drivers, recommended next steps
Messaging audit
A focused review of messaging for one audience, product, or page.
They provide
Current copy, audience, positioning context
You deliver
Messaging issues, recommendations, revised direction
Content performance analysis
Help interpreting what content is working and what should change.
They provide
Content list, performance data, goals
You deliver
Analysis summary and recommendations
Bigger needs
Bigger asks get narrowed before they reach you.
A lot of what companies ask for is too big to finish in 10 hours. Rather than hand you the whole thing and hope, we carve off the one piece that can stand on its own and be judged done — and that piece is what you’re offered. If the client wants the rest, it comes back later as its own engagement, scoped and priced separately. You’re never signing up for the big version.
They ask for
Full market strategy
Becomes
Market-entry research brief
They ask for
Complete reporting rebuild
Becomes
Reporting review & leadership-view outline
They ask for
Full model build
Becomes
Model sanity check
They ask for
Large messaging overhaul
Becomes
Messaging audit for one audience
They ask for
Open-ended operational issue
Becomes
Focused issue review or options memo
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.