Single session
One call about one decision, with a consultant matched to your trade.
- Your context read before the call
- Written notes and agreed actions
- Follow-up messages after the session
Remote sessions — wherever your business runs from
Talk a real decision through with one business consultant, booked from your phone and answered in plain language.
Most small-business questions do not arrive with a month's notice. A supplier changes their terms, a good person hands in their notice, a landlord sends a new figure, a quiet quarter turns into two. By the time a traditional consulting engagement has been scoped, the decision has already been made — usually alone, usually at eleven at night.
Northbridge Consulting exists for that gap. You tell us what you are weighing up, we put you with one consultant who has worked in your kind of business, and you have the conversation this week rather than next quarter. The session happens on your phone, the notes and actions stay there afterwards, and the follow-up questions you think of two days later go to the same person who heard the original problem.
We are not a directory and not a chatbot. Every session is with a named consultant who reads what you sent before the call starts, so the first ten minutes are not spent explaining what your business does.
A scheduled call with one consultant who stays with your business — not a different adviser each time you come back with a follow-on question.
Pricing, hiring, opening hours, which line to cut, whether the second site is a good idea. Specific questions, specific answers, with the trade-offs said out loud.
The thought you have after the call still gets a reply. Send it in the thread and keep the whole conversation in one place instead of scattered across email.
Send a business plan, budget sheet, forecast or pitch document and get it back marked up with what a lender, buyer or partner will question first.
Every action agreed in a session lands on one list — what is done, what is next, and what you said you would check before the following call.
Ask for one of these by name in your enquiry, or describe the problem and we will tell you which fits.
One call about one decision, with a consultant matched to your trade.
A standing relationship with the same consultant as the business moves.
Send the document, get it back with comments and the questions it will attract.
A short run of sessions around one big call — a new site, a price rise, a restructure.
Scope, session length and fees are confirmed in writing before anything is booked.
Sessions, marked-up documents, and the dashboard mid-week.
Send the enquiry with a line or two about the business and what you are weighing up. Rough is fine — we would rather have the real problem than a tidy summary of it.
You are put with one adviser who has worked in your kind of business, and told who they are and what they have done before the session is confirmed.
Upload whatever is relevant — the plan, the figures, last month's numbers, the contract. Your consultant reads it before the call rather than during it.
You come away with notes and agreed actions on the dashboard, and the message thread stays open for the questions that only occur to you afterwards.
Consulting has a reputation for long diagnostics and a document at the end. That model works when a business has a year and a budget. Most of the owners and managers we speak to have neither, so we built Northbridge the other way round: short, frequent, and close to the decision.
What we give is general business guidance — strategy, operations, pricing, planning and how to present your figures to other people. Where a question properly belongs to a lawyer, an accountant or a tax adviser, your consultant will say so and help you frame what to ask them.
Two lines about the business and the question is enough to get started.
Someone from Northbridge Consulting will get in touch shortly to suggest a time and tell you who you would be speaking to.
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