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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 guesswork.

01: CEO Strategic Briefing

CEO Strategic Briefing

"The decisions you're most confident about are the ones made on incomplete intelligence."

Market position, regulatory pipeline, M&A signals, scenario planning, competitive intelligence, synthesised into a board-ready strategic console. Built from public data. Delivered in 48 hours.

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."

Every significant meeting deserves better preparation than 45 minutes of Google. Company financials, technology posture, competitive position, people in the room, built before you ask.

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 rarely surface. We look at what doesn't appear in the data room.

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

"What does the intelligence actually look like?"

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

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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

48 hours. Public filings, leadership moves, technology signals, regulatory pipeline, press, comparable transactions. Structured into five dimensions.

03 · Dashboard

Interactive HTML console hosted at a private URL. One signature finding, conditions ranked by severity and resolvability, recommended first move.

04 · Conversation

Sit with the dashboard. Ask anything. F&T isn’t embedded after delivery; the relationship is bounded by the deliverable.

07: What you receive

Not a PDF. Not a slide deck.

An interactive dashboard a board can navigate in a meeting. Five dimensions, each scored. A single signature finding at the top. Conditions ranked by severity and resolvability. Strategic infographic for the room. Hosted privately, link-shareable, archived for the record.

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08: Pricing & timeline

Bounded by the question, not by hours.

Standard turnaround

48 hours

Brief to dashboard. Faster is possible; longer for parent-group or multi-entity work.

Engagement range

£3k – £15k

Most briefs land in this band. Complexity, geography, and number of entities in scope move the figure.

Scope every engagement

No template

Every brief is bounded by the question, not by hours. Pricing is on request after the 30-minute scoping call.

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 48 hours from brief to dashboard. Faster is possible for a premium. Multi-entity or parent-group briefs need 5 to 10 working days.

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, 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. Pricing is on request after the scoping call. 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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