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Business consulting

Business consulting: management, organisation, international sourcing and digitalisation.

We support the owners and managers of small and mid-sized companies in Spain, France and the French overseas territories. Every engagement starts with a precise diagnosis and ends with concrete change in the business, not a report left in a drawer.

01

Importing and international sourcing

Buying abroad only lowers costs if the supplier is reliable, the product compliant and the landed cost under control. We structure your international purchasing, from finding suppliers to tracking delivery.

Typical situations

  • A single supplier your whole business depends on
  • Quotes you cannot compare: different currencies, Incoterms and lead times
  • Delays or quality issues discovered on arrival

How we help

  • Purchasing specification and selection criteria
  • Supplier search, vetting and competitive tendering
  • Negotiating prices, lead times and payment terms
  • Tracking orders, production and shipping

What you gain

  • A landed cost known before you order
  • Several vetted suppliers instead of one
  • Supplier relationships in writing, with follow-up
  • Sourcing
  • Negotiation
  • Suppliers

Structure your requests for quotation: see COTVYA

02

Business management and organisation

Many companies that work well still lack visibility: cash flow surprises, real margins are unclear, admin overflows. We bring order to how the business runs so that decisions rest on reliable figures.

Typical situations

  • Margins per activity or project that nobody can calculate
  • Cash managed day to day, with no forecast
  • Admin workflows that depend on one person

How we help

  • Diagnosis of the organisation and information flows
  • Unit cost and margin calculation
  • Dashboards limited to the indicators that matter
  • Written procedures for recurring tasks

What you gain

  • Decisions based on up-to-date figures
  • Less dependence on a single person
  • An organisation you can hand over
  • Control
  • Margins
  • Dashboards
03

People management and team organisation

When roles are unclear, the owner does everything and teams wait for decisions. We clarify who does what, how people are hired and how they are onboarded, so the organisation holds up without you in every meeting.

Typical situations

  • Responsibilities that overlap or that nobody owns
  • Hiring decided in a rush
  • Schedules rebuilt every week

How we help

  • Map of roles and responsibilities
  • Job descriptions and hiring process
  • Onboarding path for new staff
  • Organising schedules and meetings

What you gain

  • An owner who genuinely delegates
  • Teams who know what is expected of them
  • Better-prepared hiring
  • Roles
  • Hiring
  • Onboarding
04

Leadership support and skills development

A new role, rapid growth or a reorganisation changes the job of owners and managers. We support them one to one, working from real situations in the business rather than theory.

Typical situations

  • An owner absorbed by operations, with no time to steer
  • A new manager taking over a team
  • Important decisions postponed for lack of method

How we help

  • Regular one-to-one sessions on real cases
  • Organising time and priorities
  • Preparing decisions and difficult conversations
  • A skills development plan for the team

What you gain

  • More time spent steering the business
  • More autonomous managers
  • Decisions made, then followed through
  • Leaders
  • Decisions
  • Skills
05

Business development and strategic support

A poorly framed offer or a mispositioned price holds back growth more surely than competitors do. We work on your offer, your markets and your sales organisation, then follow the action plan with you.

Typical situations

  • An offer that is hard to explain in one sentence
  • Prices set by habit rather than calculation
  • Plans to expand into Spain or France without a clear roadmap

How we help

  • Clarifying the offer and positioning
  • Building the price list
  • Prospecting plan and opportunity tracking
  • Preparing a market entry between Spain and France

What you gain

  • An offer your team can present
  • Prices justified by your costs
  • Growth managed step by step
  • Offer
  • Pricing
  • Markets
06

Process digitalisation and automation

Stacked tools, re-keyed data, duplicate spreadsheets: poorly prepared digitalisation adds work instead of removing it. We start from your processes, choose the right tools and, when none fits, design the business software that is missing.

Typical situations

  • The same data entered into several tools
  • Repetitive tasks taking hours every week
  • Software that was bought but is hardly used

How we help

  • Mapping processes and double entry
  • Choosing and configuring existing tools
  • Automating repetitive tasks
  • Designing custom software when nothing suitable exists

What you gain

  • Fewer re-keying errors
  • Tools people actually use
  • A coherent information system
  • Processes
  • Automation
  • Custom software

See apps and platforms we have built

Our approach

Analyse, structure, support, optimise.

Four steps, always in this order. No recommendation without a diagnosis, no diagnosis without follow-through.

01

Analyse

Interviews, figures, documents and time on the ground. We establish a factual picture and identify causes, not just symptoms.

02

Structure

Priorities, action plan, responsibilities and timeline. Every measure is costed, dated and assigned to a named person.

03

Support

We stay alongside your teams during implementation: follow-up meetings, adjustments, tools and training.

04

Optimise

Measuring results, correcting gaps, consolidating. What works becomes a habit; what does not is revisited.

Who we work with

The companies we support.

  • Owners and managers of small businesses and SMEs who want an outside view of their organisation and figures.
  • Spanish companies working with France, and French companies working with Spain.
  • Companies in the French overseas territories, with their own supply and regulatory constraints.
  • Companies that import, or want to stop depending on a single supplier.

Commitments

What you can expect from us.

Frequently asked questions

Before you get in touch.

What happens after a first contact?

You describe your situation in writing or in a first conversation. We tell you plainly whether we can help. If we can, we propose a written scope: objectives, deliverables, duration and price.

Which languages do you work in?

English, Spanish and French. Conversations and engagement documents can be in any of the three.

Do you replace an accountant or a lawyer?

No. We work on organisation, management and decisions. For statutory accounts, tax or legal matters, we point you to the right professionals and can work alongside them.

Can you build software tailored to our business?

Yes, when off-the-shelf tools do not fit. Analysing your processes first tells us whether to configure an existing tool or design a new one.

Let's talk about your company.

A first conversation lets us check whether we can be useful to you. It commits you to nothing.

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