Built for the hardest version of the problem.
CIOs, Technology Directors and transformation leaders at organisations of real scale and real complexity - where entrenched ways of working and teams built for steady-state make transformation genuinely hard.
Scale enough that the problem doesn't have an obvious owner.
These are large, complex organisations - the kind where internal teams are built to run steady-state, not to reinvent it, and where the consultancies already at the door are more interested in growing a team and a pipeline than solving the specific problem in front of them. That's exactly the gap butterflai sits in.
Does any of this sound familiar?
Feeling like the loneliest person in the building?
Big, senior decisions often land on one desk, without a bench of equally experienced people to pressure-test them with. That's exactly the kind of conversation this is built for - a senior sounding board who has sat in the seat.
A team that's brilliant at steady-state, but set in its ways?
Years of doing things one way is exactly why change is hard from the inside. We bring outside pattern-recognition and best practice, applied respectfully to a team that knows the organisation better than we ever will.
Worried that outside help means a runaway consulting bill?
Big-firm thinking doesn't have to come with a big-firm invoice. No large team to fund and no pipeline to feed - just senior time, priced for what's actually needed.
No time left over to even look at the problem properly?
BAU eats the calendar first. We bring the capacity to get straight to the nub of a problem, fast, so it stops competing with the day job for attention.
Success looks like you getting the credit.
Facing into a tough problem quickly is only half of it. The rest is doing it in a way that supports your agenda - helping you navigate the boardroom, coaching you as you engage with your peers, and making sure the confidence and the credit sit with you, not with us.
Sound like your situation?
A short conversation is usually enough to tell whether this is the right fit.