Strategic Advisory

We see what's actually in the way.

A structured monthly engagement for established founders who know something needs to change — and want to find out what's actually in the way.

Most founders at this stage aren't held back by ambition or effort. They're held back by a model that was built for an earlier version of the business — and never updated.The constraint is rarely what it looks like from the inside. It's almost never a marketing problem or a sales problem. It's structural. And it doesn't get fixed by people who are too close to it to see it.The cost of leaving it unaddressed isn't neutral. It compounds.

Who It's For

B2B professional services firms in the North East and Scotland — founder-led or partner-led, typically between £500k and £5m turnover.Specifically, businesses that are established and capable, but whose model hasn't kept pace with the person running it. Revenue may be flat despite strong reputation. Margin is compressing even as the work grows. The referral network that built the business is aging, and the next chapter hasn't been designed yet.
Or: a growing firm where success has created its own pressure — more to manage, less time to think, and a growing awareness that the next version of the business needs to look different from the current one.These founders don't need more marketing or a new CRM. They need someone to ask the question that cuts through what they're already too close to see.If you've been solving the same problem for six months and something still isn't shifting — that's the conversation.

What's Included

Two substantive strategy
sessions per month
One written strategic
review per quarter
Async access between sessions for decisions that can't wait
Direct, senior access — no account managers, no junior consultants
Honest counsel — what you need to hear, not what you want to

How it works

01 — Conversation
A short initial call to understand where you are, what's in the way, and whether there's a fit. No obligation on either side.
02 — Engagement
Six-month minimum retainer. Two sessions per month, one quarterly written review, async access throughout. Fixed scope, fixed fee.
03 — Ongoing
Most engagements continue beyond six months. The work evolves as the business does. Renewal is a conversation, not a contract.

From £3000 / month + VATSix-month minimum commitment. Limited availability, We work with a small number of clients at any one time.Most founders are already spending money on the wrong problem. The retainer is not an additional cost. It is a reallocation.

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The first call is a direct conversation, not a sales process.

About

Three Digital Consulting is a boutique strategic advisory practice founded in Newcastle upon Tyne by Alicia Crowther.Alicia brings over twenty years of pattern recognition across global corporations, government, and complex organisations — including Anglo American, Lloyds Banking Group, NHS England, and Central Government — applied directly to the founders and leadership teams she works with.The work is about finding what is actually in the way. Not the problem you arrived with. The one underneath it.We work with a small number of clients at any one time. That is not a constraint — it is the point.

Once a month we share what we are seeing across the businesses we work with — the patterns, the problems, and the model questions most founders are not asking yet.

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