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Professional and business services, knowledge products, and B2B companies where strategy and operating discipline are the constraint rather than capital.
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We own what we build
Red Drake Group holds its companies for the long term. There is no fund behind us and no exit clock — which means each business is built to compound rather than to be sold.
Wholly owned · Founded 2019
The Strategos Loop
The strategy system that underpins everything the group does — published openly for leaders and practitioners who want to run it themselves.
Six moves in sequence, each with a gate, wrapped in a continuous RENEW ring: AIM, OBSERVE, ORIENT, CHOOSE, DESIGN, ACT. It exists because most strategy work fails the same way — leaping to answers before the diagnostic work is done, then filing the result.
The Loop is used in every Red Drake consulting engagement, and is the backbone of the strategy work delivered through Expert Business Plans.
Wholly owned · Founded 2015
Expert Business Plans
The practical end of the group. Business plans, idea validation, business reviews and strategy for founders and small and medium businesses.
Where Red Drake consulting works with established organisations, Expert Business Plans serves owner-operators — the contractor financing equipment, the founder testing whether an idea is worth two years, the family business preparing for its next chapter.
Prices are published openly and work is flat-priced. Seven services span the three points where businesses get stuck: deciding whether to start, getting funded, and knowing where to grow.
- Lender and investor business plans
- Idea validation sprints and business reviews
- Growth strategy and complete strategy development
- Financial forecasting and modelling
How the two connect
The Loop is the method. Expert Business Plans is where it meets the ground — hundreds of small businesses a year, each one a test of whether the thinking holds when the stakes are somebody's mortgage.
What we learn there feeds back into the method, and into the enterprise work. That feedback loop is the reason the group is structured this way rather than as a consultancy alone.
Acquisitions
What we look for
We consider a small number of acquisitions where we can add more than capital. If that sounds like your business, we would rather hear from you early than at the point of sale.
Owner-operators looking ahead
Founders planning succession who want the business to continue rather than be absorbed, stripped or flipped inside five years.
A long horizon
We hold what we buy. If a three-year exit is the point of the conversation, we are not the right buyer and will say so quickly.
Interested in working with the group?
Whether as a client, a partner or a business owner thinking about what comes next.