FOR PROFESSIONAL FIRMS
Your firm sells judgement, and it has written every instance of it down
Memoranda, engagement notes, redlines, internal debate about how to advise. Professional services produce reasoning as the actual product, documented at a density almost no other industry reaches.
WHY FIRMS RATE HIGHLY
Nobody documents their thinking as thoroughly as a firm does
- Written judgement is the deliverable. A memo exists precisely to make reasoning explicit, which is exactly what is scarce.
- Revisions survive. Drafts and redlines show how a position was arrived at, not merely what it became.
- Internal debate is captured. Firms argue on the record before they advise, and that argument is unusually rich material.
- Continuity across matters. Decades of engagements show the same reasoning applied to different facts.
THE TRACK RECORD
What the partners have built
“Eight acquisitions closed across the group, $100M+ in revenue across businesses built with partners, and $21M raised.”
“Nearly three years at McKinsey, then bought a company outright and scaled it to $50M rather than advising someone else to.”
THE OBLIGATIONS QUESTION
What firms raise before anything else
What about client confidentiality and privilege?
Scope is yours to set, and it is set before anything moves. Material you are not free to license does not enter the licence. Anonymization then happens in preparation, ahead of any onward sharing.
Do we need client consent?
That depends on your engagement terms and your jurisdiction, and it is a judgement your firm has to make. We define scope around what you can license, not the reverse.
Who reviews the material?
We do, and only to the extent needed to price it. After that it is anonymized and built into data sets. We do not disclose which labs take which data.
What is a realistic number for a firm our size?
Deals typically land between $100K and $2M. Depth of history and how much visible reasoning the record contains matter far more than headcount.
SPEAK WITH A MANAGING PARTNER
Price the thinking your firm has already committed to paper
Six questions and a short conversation will tell you whether there is a deal here. Nothing you tell us leaves Polyshares.
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