Funding is not your business model.

Government funding looks like revenue. It isn't. It's a constraint you build around. The groups that grow margin understand the difference.

Track record
  • £3.7m

    EBITDA growth delivered in 12 months across a 100+ setting nursery group.

  • £1.2m

    In annual cost savings through technology and AI.

  • 20+ yrs

    Co-owning an Ofsted Outstanding nursery.

Organisations we have worked with
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Featured in
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Five perspectives

We bring five to every engagement: operator, investor, management team, regulator, technology provider. Not because it looks good on a slide. Because we've learned that the problems worth fixing sit between disciplines, and the best solutions need more than one line of sight.

Management team

Regulator

Investor

Operator

Technology provider

One perspective short isn't enough.

What we do
  • Margin Diagnostic

    Fixed-price. Two to four weeks. A forensic walk through your P&L that shows where margin is leaking and what to do about it. Board-ready output with a sequenced plan.

  • Value Creation

    We stay for six to twelve months and work alongside the management team to implement the plan. The margin gains stick because the team owns the process.

  • Commercial Due Diligence

    Operator-led CDD for investors. We bring the perspective of someone who has run a nursery group at scale, alongside the commercial and technology lens the deal requires.

Find the margin

Funding is the constraint. Margin is the work.