Primary intelligence,
board-ready.
Inside the room, outside the echo.
Market entry, M&A diligence, competitive landscaping, build-vs-buy. We source the operators your own network hesitates to call.
Three positions. Tailored to your workflow.
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.
Services shaped for corporate strategy.
Our service lines map most directly to the questions you run again and again. Click through for full detail.
How a typical engagement runs.
Actual cadence varies by scope. This is the rhythm a standard engagement follows.
Mandate
C-suite or head-of-strategy briefing. Question, decision, timeline, stakeholders. We agree on what a confident "yes" or "no" looks like.
Scope & map
Research plan + landscape map. Interviews to run, documents to review, experts to engage.
Primary research
10–15 structured interviews across buyers, competitors, channel, ex-employees. Desk work in parallel.
Synthesis
Three deliverables: 2-page exec summary, 15-page strategy memo, full evidence appendix.
Board briefing
Live briefing with CEO, head of strategy, or board. We stand behind the findings in the room.
Mandate
C-suite or head-of-strategy briefing. Question, decision, timeline, stakeholders. We agree on what a confident "yes" or "no" looks like.
Scope & map
Research plan + landscape map. Interviews to run, documents to review, experts to engage.
Primary research
10–15 structured interviews across buyers, competitors, channel, ex-employees. Desk work in parallel.
Synthesis
Three deliverables: 2-page exec summary, 15-page strategy memo, full evidence appendix.
Board briefing
Live briefing with CEO, head of strategy, or board. We stand behind the findings in the room.
What corporate strategy teams stay for.
Large-network expert platforms solve a different problem. Here is what ours does that theirs cannot.
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.
Actual questions from the last quarter.
“We ran the same question with two other firms. TCE’s memo was the one the board read twice.”
Start with your question.
A named lead with corporate strategy experience replies within 24 hours. The first call scopes. The work starts the next business day.