Senior advisors who build alongside you — on your commercial terms. This guide sets out the three ways we engage, the commercial terms behind each, and the four practices we work across. Bring us a real problem — we’ll bring a working answer within the first two weeks.
Three engagement models, built on one commercial principle: an advisory firm should share, not transfer, the risk of the work it does.
Velocity bills by day or hour at expert-tier European market rates. Engagement terms live in a short letter agreement: scope, named team, deliverable, term, and rate. Right model for clients with budget, a defined scope, and a clear commercial relationship from the start.
| Role | Day rate |
|---|---|
| Strategic Consultant | €3,000 |
| AI Consultant | €3,500 |
| Public Company Advisor | €3,000 |
| Operations Consultant | €2,000 |
| Accounting Consultant | €1,400 |
| Technology Architect | €1,200 |
| Software Engineer | €900 |
| Legal Counsel (outsourced, pass-through) | €450/hr |
Rates effective April 2026. Benchmarked to Western European expert-tier market rates; Velocity is positioned in the boutique/specialist tier.
For clients where cash is the scarcest resource. Velocity’s team invests its time, judgment, network and resources against an agreed equity position. The client funds direct build costs only — licences, tools, outsourced specialists. Velocity does not bill its own people’s time and does not pay third parties on the client’s behalf.
"Velocity’s time is recorded at rate-card value and settled in equity. That equity is redeemable only when the company reaches profitability sufficient to pay what is owed. Until then the client carries no cash obligation for Velocity’s time; if that threshold is never reached, it is not due in cash."
An early-stage client can engage a senior advisory firm without taking on cash risk for the advisory work itself. Advisory for Equity is often the entry model for clients who later graduate to Consulting or Invest-and-Build as the company matures.
Where the engagement requires building something — a product, a platform, an AI integration. What Velocity invests is its people’s time, knowledge, connections and resources, plus build leadership. The client supplies underlying capital costs. Commercial return (cash, equity, performance fee, or a blend) is set at signature.
| Velocity supplied | An AI Consultant, a Technology Architect, and a Software Engineer for the duration of a 6-month AI integration build. |
| Client funded | Software licences and one outsourced data-engineering specialist. |
| Structure | Fixed fee at delivery plus a performance fee tied to 12 months of operating cost reduction. |
| Outcome, month 18 | €4.1M annualized cost reduction; performance fee paid in full. |
The three models are a continuum. Clients often move — Advisory for Equity to Consulting when a Series B closes; Consulting to Invest-and-Build when the engagement scopes a real product. Each transition locks state in the letter agreement: work delivered is tallied, invoiced, carried forward, or converted to equity at agreed terms.
Example: €10,000 of consulting work delivered, and the client brings in a different firm before the next phase. That €10,000 becomes a payable settleable over a reasonable period under a final exit clause. The work product transfers. No client is trapped by past work.
Four practice clusters. Most engagements draw on two or three, delivered by an integrated team under one letter agreement.
Positioning, growth-path development, capital allocation, M&A readiness, board-level direction. We engage when the question is "what should we do next, and why" — at the level a board cares about.
Deliverable: strategic option-development memo, growth-path model, one-page board brief per major decision, 90-day check-in memo.
Recent: Financial Services Series-B strategic option development, +1.8× valuation step-up at Series-C close. Industrial M&A readiness, sold to strategic acquirer at 3.1× revenue.
Organizational design, performance management systems, margin reconstruction, supply chain modernization. We engage on how a company does the things it has decided to do.
Deliverable: margin reconstruction model, organizational design memo, performance management system and operating cadence, quarterly business review template.
Recent: Fintech Series-B operations reset, +22 pts gross margin. Industrial organizational redesign post-acquisition, 30% productivity uplift.
Governance, disclosure, capital-markets readiness, investor communications for companies preparing for, or operating under, public-company documentation standards.
Deliverable: governance charter, controls memos and risk register, disclosure framework, IR strategy, first-quarter earnings cycle support.
Recent: Healthtech pre-IPO readiness, 142 days from board approval to S-1 filing. Industrial listed-company activist response, agreement reached on favorable terms.
Software architecture, AI integration, build leadership, platform selection. We engage when the company needs a working capability built and operated, not a recommendation about what to build.
Deliverable: architecture memo, vendor selection model, integration design and working implementation, operating documentation, 90-day production check-in.
Recent: Industrial AI integration across operations and finance, €4.1M annualized cost reduction. SaaS platform consolidation across three acquired companies.
30–60 minutes, no cost. info@velocitypartners.info · +1 888 278 8488 — Aventura, FL (HQ) · London · France · Toronto
Initial conversations are 30 to 60 minutes and at no cost. A discussion of the problem, not a pitch deck.