With you step by step.
Strategic development services for New York organizations, from a single deliverable to an ongoing partnership.
The best way to work with us is an ongoing monthly relationship: a retained partner who keeps serving you as you develop and grow, with fees you can cancel at any time. If you'd rather start smaller, the defined deliverables below are a low-commitment way to begin. You don't need a long engagement to get value. Each is a defined deliverable with a clear scope, a fixed fee quoted to your situation, and a finished plan or document you can act on. Pick the one that matches where you are, and start there.
One honest note up front: we don't promise awards. Public funders make that decision, and winning their money is relational as much as technical. These fixed-fee deliverables do the analysis and the writing: they tell you the truth about where you stand, who's worth talking to, and what to pursue, and they make your case as strong as it can be. Building the relationships and standing that get you considered is ongoing work, and it lives in the retainer, not a one-time deliverable.
How we can help
Four areas, one coordinated practice.
Most engagements draw on more than one. We bring the pieces your work needs, coordinated by the same people, instead of stalling between separate advisors.
Strategy & planning
The plan, and the case for it.
- Feasibility & readiness audits
- Business & growth diagnostics
- Financial modeling & analysis
- Market & competitive positioning
- Board development & governance
Public funding & government affairs
Winning and navigating the public sector, through the Urban Strategies alliance.
- Public funding strategy, roadmaps & grant writing
- Government & agency representation
- Regulatory, permitting & approvals strategy
- Public financing & debt restructuring
- Policy & governance-strategy briefings
- Coalition & stakeholder strategy
Development & delivery
Turning the plan into something real.
- Team assembly & coordination
- Project & program management
- Operations, systems & capacity building
- Program & workforce design
- Risk, compliance & asset protection
Growth & market
Building the right relationships and the brand.
- Business development & partnerships
- Public-sector sales & market expansion
- Non-dilutive funding & go-to-market
- Political & business-development intelligence
- Technology transfer & commercialization
- Brand, retail & channel growth
Ongoing
Strategic Development Retainer
For organizations that want a partner in the room every week. Ongoing strategy, development, and growth support on the weekly rhythm, with proactive support building relationships your work depends on.
Fixed-fee plans, assessments, and proposals
Market Network Strategic Plan
For: developers, nonprofit leaders, and founders who want a clear read on where they stand in New York's public and civic markets, and what to do next, before committing to anything bigger.
Get growth-ready with a roadmap for New York. A Market Network Strategic Plan maps your organization against the state's funding, contracts, and decision-makers: where you stand, who to engage, and the sequenced steps to take.
- The funders, programs, and contracts you're positioned for, with the money and the rules behind them.
- The offices and officials who decide, fund, and buy, and the order to approach them.
- Where you stand today, and the readiness gaps to close.
- A sequenced action plan: your highest-return next moves, and why each comes first.
- A listing in the Exchange, where funders, buyers, and partners can find you and ask for more.
Growth Discovery Assessment
For: companies, founders, and leaders focused on private-market growth who want a clear, structured read on where the value is and what to do next.
- A full assessment of your business across the seven spokes of the Full Value Potential Discovery wheel: marketing, sales, service and product delivery, customer service, innovation, back end, and vision and strategy.
- A score on each spoke and a clear picture of where your wheel is strong and where it's flat.
- A prioritized growth plan: the few moves that raise the value most, and the order to make them.
- A 45-minute call to walk through it.
Grant or Proposal Sprint
For: teams with a deadline and a program already chosen, who need the application written well and built to the program's criteria.
- One funding application or proposal, written end to end.
- Built directly to the program's scoring criteria, not a generic narrative.
- Budget narrative and supporting documents organized for submission.
- One revision round after your review.
Each deliverable is complete in itself. Many clients start with one, then move into the weekly rhythm once they see where it leads.
Take stock of where you stand
Tell us where you are and what you're working toward, and we'll point you to a quick way to take stock of where you stand and start mapping your next move.