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Neighborhood

Consultants, operations leaders and independent experts who would rather work in the client's shoes. We are writing the manifesto together, and your part is still missing.

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Manifesto in progress

Three open questions

We started from what we saw inside traditional consulting. These are the neighborhood's first answers; yours can change them.

What we stop doing

Putting the firm's own process ahead of what the client needs.
Billing by the hour at partner rates while juniors do the work.
Taking the problem home, running it through the machine and handing it back in firm jargon.
Feeding off the client. The job is to feed them: take risks, execute and struggle alongside them.

What we start doing

Before proposing anything, human-centered design to understand who the client is and what they face.
Joining their teams with agile methods and switching roles as each project demands.
Tying a real share of our fees to KPIs and OKRs we set together before we start.
Actually transferring know-how, as coaches and as teammates.

What we keep

The work capacity and rigor of junior and senior teams.
On one condition: all that energy points at the client's goal and at no hidden agenda.

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Why now?

The data and intelligence that used to live inside big consulting firms are now within any client's reach. What's scarce is something else: experience applied to that information, and new ways of working that build collective intelligence.

Clients want the best person for each topic, at each moment. A single firm rarely has all of them. A neighborhood can bring them together.

What's inside

How the neighborhood works

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Manifesto

Written together

Sign it in a minute and propose principles. Proposals are discussed on Discord and the best ones make the next version.

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