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Blueprint · Consulting

A fractional CEO, without the salary.

For founders who want a genuine strategic partner embedded in the business, week to week. Four calls a month, the operating system of the business and the life built with you, a proper review every quarter, and time in the room.

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An initial three-month term, then month to month. Foundations carry over if you are stepping up.

The real problem

When you want a partner, not a consultant

Past a certain point, a second opinion, even a good one, is not enough.

You want someone genuinely inside the business: thinking with you every week, building the systems, and holding the long horizon. Not a salaried executive, a strategic partner embedded in how the business runs.

Honest fit

Is it right for you?

It is for you if

  • You want a strategic partner embedded in the business, week to week.
  • You want the systems built, not just advised, so it all runs in the background.
  • You are ready to work at the level of a genuine board relationship.
  • You want the whole picture, business and life, held together.

It is not for you if

  • You want occasional input rather than a weekly partner.
  • You are not ready to build and embed real systems.
  • You want advice without doing the work alongside it.

Every month

What you get

Four weekly callsStrategic, working, build, and review, each with a job.
Same-day repliesPriority access, genuine executive cover.
The operating system, builtWith you, across the business and the life.
Quarterly business reviewThe last 90 days against the numbers, and the next.
In personStrategic days in the room near Knutsford.

The marquee

The operating system, built with you

Not advised. Built, a stage at a time, so by the end it runs quietly and you have your attention back.

One home, one job per toolEverything in one place, the silt cleared, each tool with a single clear job.
The second brain & AIA trusted system for thinking, with AI handling the measurable and the repeatable.
The life layerThe same systems run the life around the business, quietly in the background.

How it works

A guided year, not open-ended chats

Twelve months, twelve frameworks, so the work compounds instead of starting over. We start with you, then work through the business.

FoundationsLife First, values, culture, the whole picture. Months 1 to 4.
The businessDirection, attention, position, readiness, structure. Months 5 to 9.
SystemsCalm systems that run in the background. Month 10.
Sustain & reviewCapacity, then review the year and set the next. Months 11 to 12.

Your month

Your weekly rhythm

  • Week one, strategic. Board-level on the month's theme and the big calls.
  • Week two, working. The live decisions in front of you now.
  • Week three, build. We set up a piece of the operating system together.
  • Week four, review. Pulse the whole business, review actions, set the next month.
  • Every quarter. A full business review, and a strategic day in the room where it helps.

The cost

A fraction of an executive at this level

A full-time executive at this calibre is sixty thousand a year and up. Blueprint gives you that level of partner, embedded weekly, with the systems built, for a fraction of it.

Straight answers

Questions founders ask

How is Blueprint different from Momentum?

Momentum works the business with you twice a month. Blueprint is in the business every week, on a four-call rhythm, builds the operating system with you rather than advising it, answers the same day, and adds a quarterly business review and in-person days. It is a genuine strategic partnership.

What does 'the operating system, built' mean?

Across the year we set up one calm system for the business and the life around it: one home for everything, one job per tool, a second brain, and AI handling the measurable. By the end it runs quietly, and you could be off for two weeks without the business noticing.

Can I start small and move up later?

Yes, and most people do. Start where you are, and step up when the moment is right. Your foundations carry over, so you never start again.

What is the commitment?

An initial three-month term, because the first quarter is the foundations and one month is not a fair test of the work. After that it is month to month, cancel any time before your next billing date, with no notice and no penalties.

Blueprint · £1,500 a month

A weekly strategic partner, the operating system built with you, and a board cadence every quarter. Start now, or take the free audit first.

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