Consulting & private holdings
Red Drake Group advises enterprise clients on strategy, growth and operational efficiency — and owns the companies that put those methods to work every day.
Strategy · Capital · Partnership · Legacy
What we are
Most strategy advice is written by people who have never had to live with it. We work on both sides of that line — advising enterprise clients, and running companies where the same methods are tested against real customers, real margins and real payroll.
Advisory
Strategy development, growth architecture and operational efficiency for established organisations. We start by assessing the strategy you are already running, diagnose the real constraint, and leave you with decisions, an implementation plan and the measures to hold it together.
What we do for clients →Holdings
We own operating businesses for the long term. No fund, no exit clock, no pressure to flip. Capital is our own, which means we can build patiently and put our own methods to work rather than selling them and walking away.
See our companies →The method
Our own six-move system for setting and running strategy — developed inside the group, used with every client, and applied to every company we own.
Each move has to clear a gate before the next begins. The discipline of the sequence is what stops a strategy becoming a document nobody acts on.
Our companies
Two businesses, each serving a different end of the market, both running on the same method.
Wholly owned
The strategy system itself — a six-move framework for setting direction and keeping it alive, published for leaders and practitioners who want to run it themselves.
Wholly owned
Business plans, idea validation, business reviews and strategy for founders and small and medium businesses — the practical end of the group, working with owner-operators every day.
Who you work with
Atul Oka has directed delivery on a national infrastructure programme, rebuilt banking operations at Barclays, and grown a consulting brand into the fourth largest firm in its market — advising more than 1,000 businesses along the way.
He is also the person who will be in your meetings. Red Drake is deliberately small, and engagements are capped so that stays true.
Atul Oka · Founder & Principal
How we operate
The most common way strategy work fails is jumping to the answer before doing the honest diagnostic. We will not recommend a direction until there is evidence behind it, however impatient the room.
Every method we sell is one we run in our own businesses. If it does not survive contact with our own payroll, it does not go to a client.
We hold what we buy. No fund life, no exit clock, no pressure to manufacture a sale in year five. That changes which decisions are worth making.
Every initiative leaves with an owner, a date and a number. Anything that cannot be measured does not make it onto the roadmap.
If the work will not help, or the timing is wrong, we say so in week two rather than delivering something billable and quiet.
Whether that is a strategy that has stopped working, a growth question the board cannot agree on, or a business you are thinking of selling — start with a conversation.
