Protect your future earnings.
Grow your business’s value.
You care deeply about what makes your business good: why customers choose you, the standards you uphold and the value you create.
Adaptiv helps you understand how those strengths carry through into everyday decisions, customer experience and earnings. We partner with you to strengthen what will help your business prosper into the future.
Introductory offer · £900 + VAT
Available for analyses commissioned by 31 December 2026.
For established owner-led SMEs and larger businesses.
Start with the decision you need to make.
01 / OWNERS & FOUNDERS
Business performance & growth
“We’re growing. Why isn’t that turning into better earnings?”
Understand what is holding results back, where costs could be reduced, and what needs strengthening as you grow or prepare to hand over.
Improve your own business, assess an investment or understand a competitor. Each analysis starts with a specific commercial question.
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A diagnosis connecting organisational conditions to work and financial performance, with prioritised improvements and economic scenarios where the evidence supports them.
02 / BUYERS, INVESTORS & ADVISERS
Investment & sale readiness
“What has to hold true for this business to keep earning?”
Test the assumptions behind future earnings, uncover dependencies, and identify what needs strengthening before or after a transaction.
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An analysis of how the business creates value, the conditions its earnings depend on, and questions to investigate alongside financial and commercial due diligence.
03 / OWNERS & COMMERCIAL LEADERS
Competitor
analysis
“Why are they winning, and where can we compete more effectively?”
Examine a competitor’s strengths, potential vulnerabilities and direction, then identify opportunities worth testing in your own business.
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An analysis of a named competitor using public evidence, interpreted against your commercial question, with clear distinctions between findings and hypotheses.
What matters to you.
What happens in practice.
An owner’s judgement, ambition and standards help shape a business. Over time, they become part of how people make decisions, treat customers and understand and execute good work.
As the organisation develops, new people bring ideas and capabilities. Habits form, responsibilities change and some assumptions go unquestioned. We help you examine which of these developments strengthen the business and which make it harder to achieve what you intend.
Our Meridian framework brings four questions together:
What are you trying to create for customers, and why do they choose you?
What do everyday decisions and working practices encourage people to do?
Where do people have the knowledge, trust and authority to do good work, and where does their effort get lost?
What does this mean for earnings today and the business’s ability to keep earning well?
We bring research, financial evidence and conversations together to explore those connections. Where the evidence supports it, we model what different choices could mean economically.
See the organisation behind the results
Imagine a business winning more work while profit stays flat. Key decisions still wait for the founder.
THE QUESTION
Is demand outpacing the organisation’s ability to deliver profitably?
THE INVESTIGATION
Examine decision delays, team capability, rework and delivery costs alongside the financial records.
THE DECISION IT SUPPORTS
Which responsibilities and capabilities need to change, and could the earnings benefit justify the investment?
Illustrative scenario, not a client result.
A clear scope.
A useful analysis.
Your next steps.
01 | Agree the scope · 30 minutes
Discuss your commercial question, the available evidence and your timing. We confirm the scope and fee before you commit.
02 | Gather the detail · 90 minutes
A fact-finding conversation with you, supported by the agreed evidence set, gives us the context for your analysis.
03 | Research & written analysis
We connect the evidence, examine the implications and develop economic scenarios where the evidence supports them.
04 | Decide next steps · 90 minutes
Explore the findings together, test the interpretation and decide what to do next. Any wider research or support is agreed separately.
Build today’s earnings.
Protect what makes
tomorrow’s possible.
Your business’s lasting value depends on the people, relationships and capabilities that keep it productive. Short-term pressures can wear those foundations down, even while results look healthy.
When businesses sacrifice their future for short-term results, the costs reach beyond the balance sheet: exhausted people, insecure livelihoods, weakened communities and pressure on the natural world. Helping companies endure matters to shared prosperity, locally and globally.
We help you strengthen those foundations, so your people can flourish, your business can prosper and your legacy can endure.
Our coaching practice draws on indigenous wisdom and systemic consulting to help leaders address the patterns beneath everyday problems.
What type of analysis
will help you right now?
Tell us which business you are looking at, the decision you face and when you need to make it. We’ll arrange a 30-minute call to discuss your question and agree the scope. Your introductory analysis is £900 + VAT, including a 90-minute fact-find, research and written analysis, and a 90-minute working session.
