Primary intelligence,
board-ready.
Market entry, M&A diligence, competitive landscaping, build-vs-buy. We source the operators your own network hesitates to call.
What TCE delivers for corporate strategy.
Built for the board deck.
Deliverables formatted for CEO and board consumption - thesis, evidence, risk, recommendation. Not a 90-slide deck.
Discretion that travels.
When the question is "should we buy them" or "are we falling behind," discretion is the work. Search, screening, and memo all handled under NDA.
The calls you can't make yourself.
Your own network has a signal problem: people tell you what they think you want to hear. Ours doesn't.
How a search runs, start to finish.
One team from intake to delivery. No staffing pyramid, no handoffs between the person who scoped it and the person who writes it.
- Week 0
Mandate
C-suite or head-of-strategy briefing. Question, decision, timeline, stakeholders. We agree on what a confident "yes" or "no" looks like.
- Week 1
Scope & map
Research plan + landscape map. Interviews to run, documents to review, experts to engage.
- Week 2-4
Primary research
10-15 structured interviews across buyers, competitors, channel, ex-employees. Desk work in parallel.
- Week 4-5
Synthesis
Three deliverables: 2-page exec summary, 15-page strategy memo, full evidence appendix.
- Week 5
Board briefing
Live briefing with CEO, head of strategy, or board. We stand behind the findings in the room.
Questions we were actually asked.
Why the read holds up.
Your competitors stay unaware.
Our outreach is in our name, not yours. The target customer list doesn't learn you're evaluating the category.
We brief both sides.
Product, strategy, and corp dev all need different information from the same research. We deliver each surface separately.
Long horizon.
Where most expert networks sell point-in-time, we build multi-year research relationships. The picture compounds.
Work we have run for corporate strategy.
Turning Expert Calls into Competitive Intelligence, Market Penetration, and Recurring Revenue
$190K–$250K ARR · 4+ enterprise customers closedOpen dossier →Sales Compensation Revamp to Reverse Revenue Stagnation
Hybrid commission model adopted across North AmericaOpen dossier →Competitive intelligence for a board strategy session
<5% of a consulting engagementOpen dossier →
“We ran the same question with two other firms. TCE's memo was the one the board read twice.”
Service lines for corporate strategy.
The engagements map most directly to the questions you run again and again. Click through for full detail.