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Strategic Intelligence

What the data room
doesn't show you.

Board-level intelligence on the decisions, people, and positions that determine whether a move succeeds or fails. Commissioned engagements. No templates. No retainers.

01: CEO Strategic Briefing

CEO Strategic Briefing

"Intelligence that changes what you do next."

Named findings, strategic paths, and immediate actions: conviction-scored, not summarised. Written for the decision in front of the board, not the briefing file. Built outside-in from public filings, leadership signals, and comparable transactions.

CEO Briefing

🏛️ The Situation
🔴 Operations Crisis
💰 Financial Deep-Dive
📈 Growth Blueprint
⚠️ Disruption Matrix
🤝 M&A Verdict
📋 Executive Memos
Schedule 30 mins

02: The Briefing

The Briefing

"This report was written about you, not for you."

The external view. Strategic advisor clarity, no obligation to be kind. Acquisition target, client context, competitor landscape, seen through the eyes of someone with no stake in your story.

Strategic Advisor

L2A · Acquisition Target
🎯 Opening Move
💪 Leverage Points
❓ 15 Smart Questions
L2B · Client Context
📋 Track Record
⚖️ Award Recommendation
L2C · Competitor
💪 Strengths & Exposures
🎯 Market Gaps
Schedule 30 mins

03: Meeting Prep Intelligence

Meeting Prep Intelligence

"45 minutes of Google isn't preparation. It's optimism."

Company financials, technology posture, competitive position, the people in the room. Structured preparation for the meeting that matters, not a summary of what's already on their website.

Meeting Prep

🎯 Situational Brief
🔴 Live Alerts
🔴 Council Flags
👥 People in the Room
💪 Your Leverage
🎤 Opening Move
❓ Smart Questions
🧠 What They Won't Say
Schedule 30 mins

04: Technology & Operational Intelligence

Technology & Operational Intelligence

"The strategy looks right. The infrastructure it depends on doesn't."

Technology estate, AI readiness, cyber posture, regulatory deadlines, talent capability gaps. The operational layer that due diligence firms pass over. The thing that determines whether the strategy can actually run.

Tech & Ops Intelligence

🖥️ Technology Estate
🤖 AI Readiness
🛡️ Cyber Posture
📅 Regulatory Deadlines
⚙️ Operational Efficiency
🧑‍💼 Talent & Capability
⚡ Forcing Function Summary
Schedule 30 mins

05: Intelligence Infographics

Intelligence Infographics

"The room doesn't have time for sixty pages."

Every brief produces a visual intelligence summary, synthesised from the full analysis into a single-page strategic infographic. What a board needs to see.

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PréZero Intelligence Infographic — Strategic Moat vs Operational Reality

06: How it runs

A bounded engagement, not a retainer.

01 · Brief

30-minute call. The decision in front of you, the audience for the answer, the timeline. No spec creep, no scope drift.

02 · Build

5 to 10 working days. Public filings, leadership moves, technology signals, regulatory pipeline, press, comparable transactions. Structured across six intelligence lenses.

03 · Dashboard

Interactive HTML console hosted at a unique private URL, password-gated. One signature finding, conditions ranked by severity and probability band, recommended first move.

04 · Conversation

Sit with the dashboard. Ask anything. F&T doesn’t embed after delivery. The engagement ends with the answer.

07: What you receive

Not a PDF. Not a slide deck.

An interactive dashboard a board can navigate in a meeting. A single signature finding at the top. Conditions ranked by severity and probability band. Strategic infographic for the room. Every brief ships with a private AI brain pre-loaded with the full engagement. Ask anything about the findings, any time. Hosted at a unique private URL, password-gated, archived for the record.

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08: Pricing & timeline

Bounded by the question, not by hours.

Single brief

£3k – £15k

A specific target, a specific decision, a specific moment. Built outside-in, delivered in 5–10 working days from scope agreement. Every engagement is bespoke: priced per brief, not per rate card.

Rescan

Return brief

Return engagement on the same subject as circumstances shift. Leadership moves, a deal approaches, a regulatory window opens. Shows the delta from the prior run: what changed, what hardened, what emerged.

Annual partnership

Year-round

Multiple briefs and rescans across the year under a single standing arrangement. Priority turnaround. For organisations that run on intelligence, not just when a crisis lands.

Guarantee

Not useful? We refund in full.

Applies to every engagement. No exceptions.

09: Frequently asked

What people ask before commissioning.

Is this management consulting?

No. Consultants embed and bill hourly. F&T builds a single-pass intelligence dossier from outside-in signals and walks away. The relationship is bounded by the deliverable, not by retained hours.

How is this different from a Big Four due-diligence report?

Big Four DD verifies what’s in the data room. F&T builds from what isn’t there: public filings, leadership moves, technology stack, regulatory pipeline, press, comparable transactions. Two different jobs. Often complementary, never substitutes.

Can you brief me before a board meeting next week?

Standard turnaround is 5 to 10 working days from agreement on scope to dashboard. Complexity, entity count, and geographic reach move the figure within that range.

Do you need access to our team or our data?

No. Every brief is built outside-in. Filings, public statements, press, infrastructure signals, market data. If a brief calls for inside access, that’s a different scope and worth saying upfront in the call.

Who reads the report?

Whoever commissioned it, plus anyone they share it with. F&T has no opinion on circulation. The dashboard is hosted at a unique private URL, password-gated, archived for the record, never indexed.

What does it cost?

Most briefs land between £3,000 and £15,000. Complexity, geographic reach, and number of entities in scope move the figure. Every engagement is bespoke: priced per brief, not per rate card. Email hello@frictionandtoil.com to start.

These are commissioned engagements.

No self-serve. No templates. Built for a specific target, a specific decision, a specific moment.

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