Keep the margin you win.
Winning work is only half the problem. This stage covers what happens after the contract is signed: margin, utilisation, the founder ceiling, and building the kind of operation a buyer will pay a real multiple for.
Operate
Margin & Operating Model
Set up how the firm runs its time and money so margin does not slip as it grows: the time portfolio across billable work and the non-billable work that builds the future, a target for each bucket, the management cadence that keeps it honest, and a sequence for getting the founder off the tools without losing quality. Then keep that model live — project margin, realisation and utilisation visible while there is still time to act, rather than reconstructed from the accounts each quarter. Delivered on Thyme, our operating platform for project-based consulting firms.
- Operating Model Design
- Operating Model Implementation
Systemise
AI-Augmented Delivery
No two environmental reports are the same, but the structure of your common report types is. Build templates that fix that architecture for the reports worth productising, and govern them the way software teams govern code: a controlled process that holds each template true while still letting staff push improvements into it. With the structure set, stop copying and pasting out of old reports and reuse the assets you have already written, then let an AI agent draft the first cut from a defined set of inputs you give it. The expert refines a real draft instead of rebuilding the report from scratch.
- AI-Augmented Reports
Quality & Safety
Every panel refresh and prequalification round asks for it. Firms without a certificate write cover letters around the gap, and the in-house build costs a director months of evenings writing procedures instead of billing.
Greenhat builds one system covering ISO 9001 for quality and ISO 45001 for safety, shaped around how a consultancy delivers work: report QA, project reviews, records and subconsultant control. We have built and run these systems as the operator who had to live with them, so what you get is a system your team will use.
Fixed-fee, staged build, audit-ready in about ten weeks, with nonconformities at the certification audit closed out at our cost. A Greenhat quality manager holds the baseline, and the same system becomes how your team learns what each client requires and wins the work.
- ISO 9001 Quality
- ISO 45001 Safety
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