Diagnostic sprint
Four weeks to find where margin, throughput or cash is actually leaking, with a ranked plan.
Mid market operators since 2015
The partner you meet is the partner who shows up
No pyramid of analysts learning your business on your budget. Engagements are staffed by people who have actually run operations.
10 yrsin practice
18 yrsaverage consultant experience
Fixed feeon every engagement
6 to 14 wktypical engagement
Where we help
The problems mid market companies bring us
Every engagement produces decisions and an implementation plan, not a deck that sits on a shelf.
Margin improvement program
Pricing, procurement and cost to serve work carried through to booked results.
Post acquisition integration
First hundred days of integration planning and execution across systems, teams and vendors.
Operations and supply chain review
Capacity, inventory, scheduling and fulfillment assessed against real demand data.
Organization design
Structure, spans, roles and decision rights redesigned for the size you are becoming.
Executive advisory retainer
Ongoing counsel for a CEO or owner between formal engagements.
Our model
Built for companies between fifty and five hundred million
Kestrel exists because mid market companies get the wrong end of both options: large firms staff them with juniors, and independents lack the bench. We run small senior teams, quote a fixed fee tied to a defined scope, and write our recommendations in language your plant manager can act on. We stay through implementation when the client wants us to.
•Consultants averaging eighteen years of operating and advisory experience
•Fixed fees quoted before work begins, no open ended billing
•Findings tied to your own financial and operating data
•Implementation support available, never mandatory
Reviews
Engagement results
“The four week diagnostic found two hundred basis points in pricing leakage that our own finance team had been averaging away for years.”
Frank Delgado, CEO, industrial distributor
“They stayed for the implementation. Every previous firm we hired handed us a binder and an invoice on the same day.”
Rachel Whitcombe, COO, food manufacturer
FAQ
About engagements
How do you price work?
Fixed fee against a written scope, agreed before we start. You know the total cost and the deliverables on day one, and if scope changes we re quote in writing rather than quietly adding hours. Diagnostic sprints run thirty eight thousand and larger programs are quoted after that sprint.
Who actually does the work?
The partner in your first meeting leads the engagement and is on site or on video every week. Teams are two to four senior people. There is no leverage model here, which is why our day rate looks higher and our total fee usually does not.
Do you help implement or only recommend?
Both, and the client chooses. Roughly two thirds of our engagements continue into implementation because recommendations that nobody owns tend not to happen. When your team has the bandwidth to execute, we hand off a plan with owners and dates and step back.
How long does a typical engagement run?
Diagnostics are four weeks. Full programs generally run six to fourteen weeks, with integration work often longer because it follows a deal calendar. We would rather scope a short first phase and earn the next one than sign you to a year.
Contact
Start a conversation
Tell us the problem in a sentence or two and we will tell you whether a diagnostic is the right first step.
Phone(312) 555-0157
Address225 West Washington Street, Suite 1800, Chicago, Illinois
HoursMon to Fri 8am to 6pm Central
AreaChicago and Midwest, with engagements nationwide