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Sustainable growth requires clarity & alignment  

Bring us your biggest business challenge

A different kind of business experience for ambitious founders, CEOs and business leaders.

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GROWTH CONSULTANCY

Every scaling business hits the point where what got you here, won't get you there.

We work with founders, CEOs & investor portfolios at inflection points: growth slows down, the team isn't aligned, and the next stage demands a different quality of thinking.

GROWTH CLARITY

What use is an A-grade strategy if you can't execute it?

Why increase budget on performance if no one remembers you?

Who wants a brand onion when you're raising capital?

OUR PHILOSOPHY

A growth strategy rarely delivers what you want if you're unclear on what's holding you back - or you're not looking at the whole picture.

IMPACTS ON GROWTH

Vision, positioning, commercial model, strategic focus, consumer demand, brand, customer strategy, data + insight, leadership alignment, execution alignment, culture, capability, decision velocity, access to capital, talent, technology + AI, market forces, competitors.

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Map & Build

Define long-term growth architecture. New audiences, markets, categories,  built on big-brand effectiveness principles.

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Frame & Unlock Capital

Build the narrative that makes investors back you. A coherent strategic vision that survives scrutiny.

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Fix & Align

Diagnose what's holding growth back. Align the team. Find quick wins while the longer-term work is built.

Growth Diagnostic

Diagnose what's holding growth back. Align the leadership team.

Map & Build

Define the long-term growth architecture. New audiences, new markets, new categories. Built on evidence and effectiveness principles from the world's biggest brands.

Unlock Capital

Build the narrative that makes investors back you. A coherent strategic vision that survives scrutiny in the room.

FINTECH    REPOSITIONING    NEW AUDIENCE

Suits Me

Suits Me had maxed out their existing audience. We repositioned the brand from a functional fintech product to a meaningful lifestyle financial brand, and found them a new one

35%

CAGR sustained to 2025

"From day one they proved to be highly insightful & produced results beyond expectations - we sould certainly recommend OSER"

MATTHEW SAUNDERS, CEO

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HARDWARE GLOBAL LAUNCH    PE FUNDING

Iris Audio

From engineered innovation to strategic market presence, and a PE funding round.

£5.6m

Puma PE funding round secured

"The OSER team is one of the best in crafting a clear positioning & go-to-market strategy"

TOM DARNELL, COO

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MEDIA  INVESTOR NARRATIVE

Zenger News

From a next-gen AI newswire to a fundable strategic vision that investors backed.

$10m

US funding secured post-positioning 

"Laura is a star, a brilliant synthesizer of complex data into clarity & ideas. Many people promise to do this, she actually does."

RICHARD MINITER, FOUNDER

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FINANCIAL MEDIA   GLOBAL STRATEGY

Citywire

Global brand and marketing strategy, unlocking paid subscription growth.

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Board-level oversight & value creation

"OSER's impact is extraordinary. Quick to implement ideas - a real force for good."

DAVID TURNER, PARTNER

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Sustainable growth requires clarity & alignment  

WHO WE WORK WITH

Founder-led businesses between £5m and £100m that have stopped growing as fast as they should.

We work with founders, CEOs, and PE-backed businesses, where brand and commercial strategy are the levers. If you're wondering why growth has slowed, we've probably seen your problem before.

> Growth has stalled and no one agrees why

> Rising CAC and declining marketing efficiency

> Strong brand, weak conversion or new customer acquisition

> SLT not aligned on where growth comes from next

> Agencies executing - but no one leading the strategy

> Approaching a funding round and need a forecast narrative

> PE or VC portfolio needing strategic clarity at speed

Sustainable growth requires clarity & alignment  

Every business has problems. Not every business knows what the real problem is.

Growth has stalled.

The strategy isn't working.

The leadership team can't agree.

Something needs to change. But what?

 

Sometimes the hardest part isn't finding the solution. It's asking the right questions.

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DIFFERENT THINKING

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Sustainable growth requires clarity & alignment  

The Problem Solvers brings founders, CEOs and business leaders together with experienced strategic thinkers for focused, practical conversations.

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Participants bring a real challenge facing their business. We help them explore what's really going on, challenge assumptions and identify a clearer way forward.

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Bring a challenge

Business leaders share a specific challenge ahead of the session.

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Think differently

A confidential conversation with OSER's senior strategic advisers.

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Find a way forward

Leave with fresh perspectives, greater clarity and practical next steps.

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Sustainable growth requires clarity & alignment  

Why partner with us?

The Problem Solvers gives organisations a different way to engage the business leaders who matter to them.

Give something valuable.

Offer clients, members or portfolio businesses access to experienced strategic expertise.

Build stronger relationships.

Create meaningful conversations around the challenges business leaders actually face.

Be part of the solution.

Show your commitment to helping businesses move forward, beyond your core products and services.

Make it your own.

A co-branded experience, hosted at your offices and tailored to your audience.

Two different brains. 
One smarter answer.

LAURA X DIEGO

We're the team behind OSER, a strategic consultancy that thinks creatively.

 

We bring complementary perspectives across business strategy, brand, creativity, growth and commercial decision-making.

 

Together, we challenge assumptions, connect what others might miss and help ambitious businesses find a clearer way forward.

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Have an audience of ambitious business leaders?

We're inviting a small number of organisations to partner with OSER to bring The Problem Solvers to life.

Whether you're supporting entrepreneurs, working with business owners or helping portfolio companies grow, we'd love to explore what we could create together.

Sustainable growth requires clarity & alignment  

OSER.AI + HUMAN-LED

It starts with knowing which wall you're hitting.

The OSER Growth Diagnostic combines OSER.AI our proprietary intelligence layer with 40 years of combined senior strategy experience. The output is a clear picture of exactly where growth is breaking and what needs to change. Most engagements start here.

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30 MINS

Growth Snapshot Call

We identify which wall you're hitting and whether the diagnostic will help. No prep. No pitch. Senior OSER strategist only.

FREE

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OSER.AI + Human strategy

Growth Health Profile

Full diagnostic across Growth Velocity, Unit Economics, Retention Health, Category Ceiling, and Mental Availability. Includes Plateau Proximity Score.

PAID PRODUCT

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STRATEGY ENGAGEMENT

Growth Strategy & Activation

Where the diagnostic confirms a strategic intervention is needed, we build and support delivery of the plan across whichever phase applies.

RETAINED OR 

RETAIL   GROWTH MAPPING    BRAND

Bayley & Sage

From much-loved local deli to a strategically aligned growth platform.

19%

CAGR driven by integrated strategy

"OSER are fantastic, curating & running a strategic session, helping us figure out our goals, an actionable plan & ongoing advisory."

JENNIE ALLEN, FOUNDER

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CLIENT WORK

Where strategy & creative thinking drive growth.

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SUITS ME

Suits Me had maxed out their existing audience. We repositioned the brand from a functional fintech product to a meaningful lifestyle financial brand and found them a new one

35%

CAGR sustained through to 2025

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IRIS AUDIO

From engineered innovation to strategic market presence and a PE funding round

£5.6m

Puma PE funding round secured.

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Zenger News

From a next-gen AI newswire to a fundable strategic vision that investors backed

$10m

Funding secured post-positioning

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Bayley & Sage

From much-loved local deli to a strategically aligned growth platform.

19%

CAGR driven by integrated strategy

IMPACTS ON GROWTH

Vision, positioning, commercial model, strategic focus, demand, brand, customer strategy, data + insight, leadership, culture, capability, decision velocity, capital, talent, technology + AI, competitors.

WE DO STUFF THAT WORKS

Because we talk directly to the people who make it happen - founders, CEOs, boards and investors - and we understand what it takes to deliver it effectively in a scale-up business.

SERVICES

Raising capital >

What use is an A-grade strategy if you can't execute it?

Why hunt for insight if you can't generate an idea?

Who wants a brand onion when you're raising capital?

Why us?

Most advisors come from one world: agencies, consultancies or investment. We sit at the intersection of all three. Global agency strategy, creative effectiveness, and six years advising investors. That combination doesn't exist anywhere else at the scale-up level.

INSIGHTS

For leaders building what’s next

Join founders, CEOs and investors who read OSER to challenge their thinking and sharpen their strategy.

INSIGHTS

INSIGHTS

CLARITY & IDEAS

for Growth

CLARITY & IDEAS

for Growth

Clarity & Ideas

FOR GROWTH

HELPING SCALE-UPS OUTPERFORM

CLARITY & IDEAS FOR GROWTH
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