We are a boutique consulting firm
solving product and operations challenges
for companies that make real things for the real world

About Us

We implement strategic projects for companies that design and make physical products

Genus: Castor
(Beaver)

Nature’s original maker, the beaver embodies ingenuity, industriousness, and craftsmanship.

Solutions for strategic projects

We partner with clients to implement their biggest projects, identifying the right path forward and rolling up our sleeves to work alongside them to get there. Our integrated approach combines project management, strategy consulting, interim staffing, digital tools, and executive support into a comprehensive solution.

Real impact for real product makers

We know our clients face real-world constraints to ship products and so we make sure our support is equally real. We have a track record of bringing transformative real-world impact to our clients who design, manufacture, and market physical goods. Our experience ranges across Industrials, Electronics, Materials, Consumer Goods, Apparel & Accessories, and Food & Beverage.

Expertise from product sketch to production scale

We bring industry-leading best practices and hands-on experience across the product lifecycle, focused in the fields of Product and Operations.

Product: Innovation, Customer Experience, Product Mgmt, R&D, and Go-to-market
Operations: Supply chain, S&OP, Procurement, Manufacturing, Logistics, and Sustainability

Shiny brains with dirty hands

We bring a unique blend of theory and practice by bringing ‘expert doers’. Our team boasts gold-plated pedigrees from globally leading institutions and has earned credibility through real-world operating experience. This ensures we bring clients the latest thought leadership along with the practicality to get things done.

What we do

The core of our client work is implementing strategic projects related to Product and Operations for physical products.

We focus on solving the problem all the way through, staying with projects until products start shipping. Our approach is to integrate strategy, execution, and enablement together into a holistic solution that creates the right plan, supports the heavy lifting, and sets up sustaining success. Our partnership model ties our success to project success, creating accountability and aligned incentives.

We partner with clients under two common working models:

Industry Solutions: Proven recipes to address common industry issues
Custom Services: A built-to-purpose service bundle for specific challenges

Industry Solutions

These proven recipes drive reliable results to address common industry challenges

Product
Transformation

A self-funding approach to migratrate product portfolios towards market growth

Agile for
Hardware

Drive a step change in R&D impact by adapting Agile to work for physical goods

Lifecycle optimization

Improve product launches, ongoing S&OP and end-of-life through an integrated approach

COGS
Transformation

Dramatically reduce product costs accross procurement, assembly and shipping

Supply Chain
Re-Location

Shift suppliers and manufacturing sites into a regionalized structure to improve resiliency

Org
Effectiveness

Build the flywheel of continual org improvement through structures, processes and skills

Custom Services

For unique client challenges, we create custom solutions through a combination of 5 core services

Project Management

End-end coordination of complex cross-functional projects

Strategy
Consulting

Expert analysis to bring clarity to complex problems

Interim
Staffing

Initial execution heavy lifting and role modeling change

Digital
Tools

Software solutions
to accelerate business outcomes

Executive
Support

Chief of staff services with leadership development coaching

Who we work with

We work with clients who design, make, and market physical products.

Our experience includes B2B and B2C industries, covering anything made with metal, plastics, circuits, wood, chemicals, fabric or even grown on a farm.

Our clients range from well known consumer brands, established Industrial OEMs, disruptive eCommerce start-ups, global contract manufacturers, and specialized investors. We aim to be the special projects solution for those in the business of physical products.