Most strategies fall apart by week six. We build operating plans for Scottish firms that account for the messy bits: staffing gaps, seasonal cash flow, suppliers who ghost you. Practical fixes first, vision second.
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Our diagnostic method
We do not start with a slide deck. We start by sitting in your business for a few days, watching how work actually flows, where decisions stall, and what costs you money without anyone noticing.
We spend two to three days on-site. We interview your team individually, review your last twelve months of management accounts, and map your actual decision-making chain. This is not a questionnaire exercise. We watch how orders move, how pricing gets set, and where handoffs break down.
You receive a written diagnosis. Typically eight to twelve pages, no filler. It names the three to five specific problems costing you the most, with numbers attached. We rank them by effort-to-impact ratio so you can see what to tackle first even if you never hire us again.
Two half-day sessions with your leadership. We draft the operating changes together, assign owners, and set measurable checkpoints. If a recommendation needs a capability your team does not have, we say so plainly and help you scope the hire or the outsource.
You get a final plan document, a 90-day calendar with milestones, and a one-hour follow-up call scheduled for day 30. We stay available by email for quick questions during that first month at no extra charge.
What we fix
Many firms we meet have not reviewed their pricing structure in two or more years. We model your actual cost base, benchmark against comparable Scottish businesses, and rebuild your price list so that every line item earns its keep.
If your forecast is a spreadsheet someone updates when they remember, we replace it with a rolling 13-week model tied to your actual invoicing cycle. You will know your runway at a glance, every Monday morning.
We trace the path of a typical job or order from intake to delivery. Usually one or two handoff points cause most of the delay. We redesign those steps, sometimes with software, sometimes just by changing who approves what.
Before you hire five people or sign a new lease, let us stress-test the numbers. We check whether your systems, team capacity, and supply chain can handle a 30 to 50 percent volume increase without cracking.
We review your top ten supplier contracts, identify where terms are loose or costs have crept, and either renegotiate on your behalf or coach your team through the conversation. Average saving across our last eight engagements was 14 percent on the renegotiated lines.
Founders who still approve every purchase order at £200 are a common pattern. We help you define decision rights, create a simple reporting cadence, and build the management layer that lets you step back from daily firefighting.
Who we are
Secure Path Consulting is a three-person advisory practice based in Upper Corkerying, Scotland. We work with owner-managed businesses turning over between £500k and £10m. That is our lane, and we stay in it.
Our backgrounds are in operations management, financial planning, and commercial negotiation. None of us came from a big-four firm. We built careers inside mid-sized companies before moving to advisory work, which means we have sat in the chair you are sitting in now.
We take on four to six clients at a time. If we are full, we will tell you and give you an honest referral rather than stretch ourselves thin.
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Send us a message describing your situation in a few sentences. We will reply within one working day, usually sooner. If you prefer to talk first, call or email directly.
3 Bechtelar Way, Upper Corkerying, Scotland, CJ5 8ID, United Kingdom