Management advisory: a second mind on your biggest calls
Running the business rarely leaves time to step back from it. Contrarian Support Services works beside you on the big calls: feasibility studies and project reports, fundraising and investor advisory, due diligence, and the management systems that turn reporting into decisions.
Feasibility & DPRs · Fundraising · PE, VC & angel advisory · Due diligence · MIS design
Why businesses bring their biggest decisions to Contrarian
The name is the method. Being contrarian means testing the comfortable answer before you spend on it: the projection everyone nods at, the acquisition that looks obvious, the funding route a friend recommended. Contrarian Support Services helps businesses put numbers, evidence and a second mind behind calls like these.
And because the same firm runs books, audits and compliance for growing businesses, our advice is grounded in how companies actually operate, not in templates.
A decision brief, in short
Sample viewShould we open the second unit this year, or wait?
Demand, unit costing, funding options and a downside scenario.
A clear answer, with the conditions under which it changes.
Six ways Contrarian works on your strategy
Every engagement is scoped in writing before it begins. Pick one to see what it includes.
- ✓Market and demand assessment
- ✓Cost structures and funding plan
- ✓Projections banks recognise
- ✓Detailed project report (DPR) format
From noise to signal
Every big decision starts noisy. An advisory engagement with Contrarian ends with one clear view you can act on.
- ✓One set of numbers everyone trusts
- ✓Options priced, risks named
- ✓A recommendation you can act on
The moments businesses call Contrarian
The route up is designed, not guessed
Every step in a spiral staircase is placed before anyone climbs. Contrarian advisory works the same way: the numbers are laid down first, then the climb begins.
Speak to an AdvisorAdvisory with Contrarian, answered
Start with the questions most clients ask first. Open only what is useful.
Six kinds of engagement: feasibility studies and detailed project reports, capital and funds raising support, private equity, venture capital and angel investment advisory, business planning and modelling, commercial and legal due diligence, and the design of management systems covering accounting, costing and MIS.
At the decision, not after it. The common moments: a new project or expansion that needs a feasibility view, a fundraise that needs numbers investors will trust, an acquisition that needs diligence, or a business that has outgrown its reporting and needs proper management systems.
A DPR is the full case for a project: market, costs, funding plan, projections and risks, in a format banks and institutions expect. Lenders ask for it when you seek project finance, and promoters use it to decide whether the project deserves their capital at all.
We prepare the financial groundwork: the business plan and model, projections that survive scrutiny, and the data room. Then we support you through investor and lender conversations, whether the route is bank funding, private equity, venture capital or angel investment.
Yes. Debt and equity suit different situations, and within equity the expectations of an angel, a VC fund and a private equity firm differ widely. Contrarian helps you weigh dilution, control and timelines before you commit, not after.
Commercial and legal due diligence on the business you are buying into or partnering with: the numbers behind the story, contracts and obligations, and the risks that do not appear in a pitch deck. You receive a clear report on what checks out and what does not.
The accounting, costing and MIS structures that tell you how the business is really doing. When reports arrive late, cost data is guesswork or decisions rely on gut feel, the system needs design work. We study what exists, design what is missing and help your team run it.
Often most relevant. Strategic planning, pricing and costing clarity, and honest feasibility checks on internal projects are the quiet engagements that save businesses from expensive mistakes. Many advisory clients simply want a rigorous second mind before a big call.
A focused feasibility study or systems review usually runs a few weeks. A fundraise or due diligence engagement follows the deal's own timeline. Every engagement starts with a written scope, so you know the deliverable and the schedule before work begins.
A fixed fee scoped to the engagement, agreed in writing before we start. Longer support, like ongoing MIS reviews or fundraise assistance, is structured as a monthly retainer with a defined scope.
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