Everything from the numbers to the front page.
Four service lines that overlap on purpose. Take one, or let us handle the whole chain from financial analysis through to the website your customers actually see.
Business Consultancy
Independent analysis of how your business runs, and a practical plan to make it run better.
Most businesses reach a point where the way they have always done things stops scaling. Jobs take longer than they should, margin disappears somewhere between quote and invoice, and nobody can say exactly where. That is the problem we are built for.
We work through your operation end to end - how work arrives, how it is priced, who touches it, what it costs and what it actually earns. Then we give you a prioritised plan: what to fix first, what it will cost, and what it should return.
What is included
- Business and process review, mapped end to end
- Profitability analysis by job, product or service line
- Pricing and quoting structure review
- Operational bottleneck and capacity analysis
- Systems and software fit assessment
- Written recommendations, prioritised and costed
- Implementation support and review checkpoints
Typical engagements
- A growing business that has outgrown its processes
- Revenue is up but profit is not, and nobody knows why
- Preparing a business for sale, succession or investment
- Deciding whether to hire, outsource or automate
Financial Accounting
Compliance handled properly, and management reporting you will actually use.
Annual accounts and tax returns are the floor, not the ceiling. We prepare them accurately and on time - but the real value is in what the numbers tell you about the year ahead.
We build reporting that a busy owner can read in ten minutes: what came in, what it cost, where the margin sits, and what cash looks like over the next quarter. Because we also do the consultancy work, the numbers connect to the operational reality behind them.
What is included
- Annual financial statements and year end accounts
- Income tax returns and provisional tax planning
- GST preparation, review and filing
- Monthly or quarterly management reporting
- Cashflow forecasting and budget preparation
- Xero and MYOB setup, migration and clean up
- Company formation and Companies Office filings
- Bookkeeping systems and payroll process design
Typical engagements
- Records are behind and need bringing back under control
- You need reporting good enough to take to a bank or investor
- Moving from a shoebox or spreadsheet to a real system
- Structuring a new company or restructuring an existing one
Website Design
Fast, accessible websites that you can edit yourself and that are built to be found.
A website should do one of two things: bring you work, or save you work. Most do neither, because they were built to look busy rather than to answer the questions a customer actually has.
We start with what your customers are trying to find out and what you want them to do about it. Then we design and build something quick to load, easy to read on a phone, properly structured for search, and simple enough that you can update it without calling us.
What is included
- Content strategy and site structure planning
- Custom design built around your brand, not a stock template
- WordPress build with a visual editor you can use
- Mobile first, fully responsive layouts
- Performance and Core Web Vitals optimisation
- On page SEO, schema markup and search setup
- Accessibility and contrast compliance
- Copywriting support, hosting setup and training
- Ongoing maintenance, backups and security
Typical engagements
- A tired site that no longer reflects the business
- A site nobody can edit because the builder disappeared
- Slow pages losing customers on mobile
- A new venture that needs a credible presence quickly
Custom Business Tasks
The work that does not fit anyone else's service list.
Every business has jobs that sit in the too hard basket. They are not big enough to hire for, too specialised to hand to a junior, and no supplier will quote them because they do not fit a package.
This is where a broad capability earns its place. If it is a defined piece of work with a defined outcome, we will scope it, price it and do it - whether that is migrating fifteen years of records, writing a tender response, or automating a report that currently takes someone a day a week.
Examples of what we take on
- Data migration, clean up and de-duplication
- Spreadsheet and reporting automation
- Software selection, trials and rollout
- Tender, grant and funding applications
- Policy, process and procedure documentation
- Staff training and system handover
- Integration between systems that will not talk
- One off analysis, modelling and research projects
How it works
- Tell us the outcome you need, not the method
- We confirm whether it is something we should take on
- You get a written scope and a fixed price
- We deliver, document it and hand it over
No surprises, at any stage.
The same four steps whether you are booking a full business review or a single afternoon of work.
Conversation
A free, no obligation discussion about what is going on. In person in Christchurch or on a call anywhere in New Zealand.
Written scope
We put the work, the deliverables, the timeframe and the fixed price in writing before anything starts.
The work
We do it, with agreed checkpoints so you always know where things are. One point of contact throughout.
Handover
Documented, explained and handed over to your team - measured against what we agreed at step two.
Not sure which service you need?
That is normal, and it is our job to work out. Describe the problem in your own words and we will tell you what it would actually take to fix.