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For non-profits & social enterprises

A consulting team, at no cost, on your hardest question.

This is the shape of the proposal you'd receive from us — shown as a live deck, because the deck is the deliverable. If your organisation's primary goal is impact rather than profit, you likely qualify.

Prepared for: your organisation · Fee: €0 — pro bono, always

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Section 1

What working with us actually looks like

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The engagement

Four gates, ten to twelve weeks, and you can leave at every gate

Scoping callwk 0
Proposal, signedwk 1
The projectwks 2–11 · 4–6 consultants + lead · mid-point review
Final presentation
wk 0wk 3wk 6wk 9wk 12

Week 0 — scoping call. A structured discovery conversation: your challenge, your constraints, what success looks like. One hour, no commitment.

Week 1 — proposal. A written scope you sign off on: what we will answer, what we won't, what you'll hold at the end.

Weeks 2–11 — the project. A team of 4–6 student consultants with a dedicated lead; a mid-point review where you course-correct.

Final week. A board-ready presentation, delivered to you and yours, every underlying analysis handed over.

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Scope options

Your engagement targets exactly one of six clearly scoped areas

  1. 1Digital Transformation
  2. 2Marketing & Engagement
  3. 3Financial Sustainability
  4. 4Market Assessment
  5. 5Operational Efficiency
  6. 6Impact Measurement

the six areas as listed on our branch page — each one described in full on slide 5 of the introduction deck

What the signed proposal fixes

  • The one question we will answer, in your words
  • The evidence we will gather to answer it
  • The deliverable you hold at the end, and its format
  • The two dates you are in the room: mid-point review, final presentation
  • Your time cost: about an hour a week

What it deliberately leaves out

  • Anything outside the one scoped question — a second question is a second engagement
  • Implementation after the final week; we hand over, you run it
  • Analysis that needs paid data we cannot access, unless you hold the licence
  • Scopes we cannot do well in a semester — we say no, and say so early
One question, honestly scoped, beats five questions half-answered. The scoping call exists to find that one question.
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The obvious question

"They're students — why should my board trust this?" Fair. Here's the answer.

Every deliverable passes an AI-assisted senior review before you see it — built by our branch, published in the open, checking evidence, logic, and clarity against professional consulting standards.

Its core rule: a finding must quote the document verbatim, or stay silent. No student consultancy we know of can show you its quality system. We just did.

The rule, as the reviewer applies it

A reviewer proposes a finding on your deck

It quotes your document verbatim The finding stands. It goes to the consultant, who decides the rewrite — the reviewer never edits.
It cannot produce the quote The finding is suppressed. An unquotable observation never reaches the consultant, and never reaches you.
And the honest limits, on the record: we are students, engagements take a semester, and we say no to scopes we can't do well. That "no" is part of the quality system too.

case studies — in preparation with client consent

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The ask

One scoping call. One hour. Nothing to lose but the problem.

Four fields, and we reply within a week — one email from a person, never a sequence. The call commits you to nothing; the proposal that follows is yours to sign or decline.

An honesty note: this form is a design preview — it goes live with the site.

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