Find my bottleneck

Strategy and implementation for service businesses

Move your business past
its biggest bottleneck.

We help established service businesses remove the bottlenecks holding back profitable growth.

Find my bottleneck

Start with a free Expert Assessment of one workflow.

Otavio & his team have worked with

  • Intuit
  • Cerebral Connections
  • Novo Nordisk
  • Adon.ai
  • Truist
  • Office Ally
  • Fenwick & West
  • M-Square Capital
  • OmniAb
  • University of California Merced
  • Beta Bionics
  • Foresight Sports
  • Armistice Capital
  • Think Investments
  • Edison Smart
  • Alku Recruiting
  • IKEY International
  • Atika Capital
  • SSTM2
  • Advanced Research Consulting
  • Conquest Trader

Progress starts with focus

Doing more
is easy.

Making progress
takes a choice.

Put your people, time, and money behind the changes that matter most.

Experience behind the judgment

$130M+
Measurable ROI
15+
Regulated industries

Deep partnerships
with the frontier.

We work directly with the labs building today's best models - and engineer the systems that make them work at enterprise scale.

Our Partners:

Anthropic
OpenAI

Case studies

What progress
should look like.

Architecture & Engineering

Engineering

Operating margin rose from 15.9% to 23.8%.

We brought scope requests, supporting records, and drafted notices to managers while they could still decide what to charge. Additional work reached billing, and the CFO later credited a large part of the margin improvement to our work.

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Engineering

Added $1.98M per year in retail margin and a 33% decrease in unpaid rework hours

We helped managers catch changes while they could still price the work and brought repeat drawing issues forward. The reported annual gain combines $1.2M in billed changes with $784K estimated from less rework.

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Architecture & Engineering

Earned 34% more operating profit per dollar of net revenue, confirmed twelve months after delivery.

Repeat county comments kept consuming fixed fees and senior review time. We captured the requirements and built a pre-submission check their team could maintain, freeing just over a full workday of senior review per pilot plan set.

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Insurance

Commercial Insurance

Added $1.96M in recurring profit and $2.4M in commissions in 8 weeks

We connected intake and carrier reporting through one shared record, reducing repeated entry and preparation. Each program needed 30 fewer reporting hours a month, and finance confirmed $1.96M more net recurring profit.

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Commercial Insurance

Helped an insurance program administrator add an estimated $5.1M a year in adjusted EBITDA.

We connected the records behind carrier reporting, freeing 21 staff-hours a month per reporting relationship at the median and helping later program launches reach a clean close almost eight months sooner at the median.

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Accounting & Auditing

Accounting & Advisory

An accounting firm added an estimated $3.6M in recurring annual profit while managers worked shorter peak weeks.

We turned the firm's review requirements into shared checks preparers could use before handing over a return, then taught its team to maintain and extend them. Managers saved 14 hours per peak week in the launched offices while completed returns rose by five per reviewer.

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Accounting & Auditing

Added $1.5M in recurring profits in 8 weeks

We caught missing documents and repeat errors before manager review, so fewer returns came back for another pass. Weekly completions rose 20%, and leadership confirmed $1.5M more recurring profit.

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Investment

Private Equity

Sourced over $22M in deal value with a custom AI engine built in 8 weeks

Their analysts needed better opportunities as well as faster diligence. We built both parts of the pipeline, which surfaced a business the firm went on to acquire for ~$22M.

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Financial Services

92% increase in ARR and a 318% increase in EBITDA in 3 months

We rebuilt the data and answer workflow, so their full waitlist could become clients. The company added 24 clients without new subject-matter experts, while partners reclaimed 40 to 60 hours each week.

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Investment & Wealth Management

Added $1.6 million in EBITDA in the year after delivery.

We made historical research reusable and built a drafting assistant around the authors’ methods. The same author team could deliver more custom studies and new paid briefs from research the company already owned.

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Pharma & Biotech

Biotech

Shipped in 6 weeks, unblocking a $58M first-year platform launch

Two AI attempts had learned from conflicting labels. We established a shared standard and built production AI in under six weeks, supporting a platform launch with $58M in first-year potential.

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Medical Devices

Delivered model in 5 weeks, avoiding over $14M in clinical research costs

A missing insulin model was blocking study participation. We delivered it in five weeks, and the client's team reproduced the result before the deadline, avoiding an alternative study estimated at $14M+.

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Healthcare & Medical Practices

Healthcare Technology

Added $28M in enterprise value in less than four months

We showed leadership where AI costs were eroding margin, and its own team made the changes. Costs fell before the company moved from a $32M valuation offer to a round closed at ~$60M.

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Healthcare & Medical Practices

Added $2.6 million in annual collections.

Routine device work kept returning to the physician. We captured his criteria and built routing his team could run. Patient waits and his workload fell, and the owner attributed the full collections increase to our work.

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From judgment to a working solution

The right work.
Done well.

01 Decide what matters most.

02 Implement the agreed solution.

03 Build your team’s ability to run it.

How we work ↗

Free Expert Assessment

See what’s standing between you and your goal.

Start with one workflow that’s slowing your business down. We give your team a collection kit, then use the evidence you collect to identify the likely bottleneck and what to test first.

You receive a written assessment and an estimate of what your team would need to act. Two consultations are included: one to define the scope and one to work through the findings. Your report arrives before the findings call.

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Find my bottleneck

Financial Services

What the bottleneck felt like
Hiring & training
What it actually was
A data bottleneck

New hires faced the same slow, fragmented data as the partners.

Legal

What the bottleneck felt like
Security & data control
What it actually was
AI rework & low adoption

Alongside data control, attorneys needed answers they could trust.

Private Equity

What the bottleneck felt like
Slow diligence
What it actually was
Too few deals to evaluate

Faster reviews couldn't fill a thin deal pipeline.

Insights

Better questions.
Better decisions.

Start with the right question

See what’s standing
between you and your goal.

Find my bottleneck

Start with a free Expert Assessment of one workflow.