We provide consulting and advisory for educational institutions, education companies and technology startups, on topics relating to strategy, AI and technology.
Educational institutions and companies
- Strategy reviews and diagnostics
- AI readiness assessment and diagnostic
- AI policy development
- AI risk management and responsible AI
- AI tutor implementation
- Cross-disciplinary curriculum assessment and integration
- Enrolment and retention strategy
- Student support policy
- Major grant applications
Startups and scaleups
- Business and investment cases
- Investor pitch decks
- Stakeholder and board engagement
- Growth strategy
- Market entry and go-to-market strategy
- B2B sales strategy
- Government relations
- AI strategy
Our experience in consulting and advisory
Our team has a wide variety of experiencing in strategy and technology advisory, including:
- Carbon fibre commercialisation plan for a university consortium. A university formed a consortium to commercialise carbon fibre for use in the construction industry. We conducted analysis on unit economics, mapped out stakeholders, and developed the business case for potential customers.
- Government relations and funding for a giga-scale renewables venture. We helped coordinate their overall government relations strategy with multiple jurisdictions, and put together a submission to the Australian Government to pitch for over $1bn of funding.
- Go-to-market for a cultivated meat startup. A Series-A cultivated meat startup based in San Francisco engaged us on their go-to-market strategy, venture capital funding pitch and 5-year cost outlook.
- Board engagement for Australian fintech startup and bank. We supported an Australian fintech startup with a critical presentation to the board of a client bank in order to unlock the first payment of revenue.
- Digitisation and government relations for an Australian telco. We supported a large Australian telecommunications company with a proposal to the Federal Government to promote digitisation.
- Global market entry for a Japanese technology conglomerate. A Japanese technology conglomerate wanted to sell their 5G technology to global markets. We helped them with market sizing and prioritisation, value chain positioning, stakeholder analysis, and acquisition target identification.
- Cost saving identification for an Australian beverage manufacturer. We ran workshops with C-suite executives to identify A$100mn in potential cost savings across manufacturing, supply chain, procurement and corporate overhead.
- Post-COVID workforce planning for an Australian Government department. We helped execute a high-stakes confidential post-COVID project, including the allocation of thousands of workers.
- Beyond-the-core growth for an Australian telco. We helped identify acquisition opportunities outside of telco and quantify synergies. Industries we looked at included education, media, sports, healthcare, and data.
- Agile transformation for a big 4 Australian bank. We re-configured the operating model of the retail and technology arms to work with agile principles, and implemented the restructure of 400 technical FTE.
- Mobile towers strategy for an Australian telco. We helped with understanding the market landscape, unit economics, and optimal geographical placement of placement of mobile towers.
- Commercial due diligences for private equity firms. We worked with top global private equity firms to provide commercial due diligence on a ~A$1bn asset finance business, ~A$1.5bn healthcare business and ~A$2bn tech business.