The business partner you don't give up equity for.

Quarterly is the stepping stone: one standing session a quarter and an email line between them, for owners who want the outside voice without a monthly commitment. Monthly is the full engagement: a session every month and the open line, calls not metered, for owners whose decisions come faster than the quarters do. Start quarterly and move up whenever the pace changes; there is no lock-in on either.

The Owner's Desk works on the business's numbers and hands you a workbook and a written read, on a set cadence, usually because a capital decision is coming up. The Sounding Board works on the person running the business. It is a standing conversation about whatever is actually in front of you this month, and it exists whether or not anything is happening. Plenty of owners only ever need the first one. If your problem is that you have nobody to think out loud with, that is this.

No, and it never touches your personal money. We do not advise on superannuation, investments, insurance or personal wealth, and we are not licensed to. What we talk about is your business: its margin, its pricing, its cash cycle, its debt and the decisions in front of it. Anything to do with your own finances goes to a licensed adviser, and we will say so.

No. We do not prepare management reports, accounts or financial statements, we do not do tax, BAS or bookkeeping, and we never will. A business coach and an accountant are not the same job and never have been. In practice these conversations generate work for your accountant rather than taking it, because an owner who is actually thinking about their numbers asks their accountant better questions.

You bring what is on your mind and we look at the numbers behind it together. Some months that is a decision, a hire, a price rise, a supplier, a site. Some months it is that something feels off and you cannot say what. The work is finding the answer in your own figures, which is usually where it is. There is no framework and no workbook to fill in.

The line is open, and the calls are not metered. Most of the value is not in the standing session, it is in the twenty-minute call before you commit to something. If you are calling constantly we will tell you honestly that something else fits better.

Two reasons, and the combination is the point. Nicholas runs three businesses of his own, so he has made payroll in a bad month and carried decisions nobody else could make. And arranging finance means reading a business's actual profit and loss, bank statements and lodgements, then watching what happened next. Do that for eight years across hundreds of businesses and you learn which decisions tend to work out, which is not something a framework can teach you. Advice is worth more from someone who has paid for the lesson.

Businesses in real distress, which need an insolvency practitioner rather than a coach. Anyone wanting help with their personal finances. And anyone looking for someone to agree with them, because that is not what this is. If you are in one of those situations we will tell you on the first call rather than take the engagement.

No. Thirty days' notice, no minimum term. Places are capped because this is one person's time, so if it is not useful we would rather you stopped and the place went to someone it helps.