SME business consultancy
SME business consultancy at €900 a day
ML10 provides practical strategy, finance and operations consultancy to small and medium businesses at a day rate of €900. Engagements are sized by the number of consultative days you need rather than by a fixed retainer, so a two-day review costs €1,800 and nothing more. It is delivered by the people who built ML10 — a founder with 37 years running national cleaning and hard FM contracts, and an MBA-qualified director who has founded startups and led bid, grant and investor processes.
Available now — this is not one of the beta modules.
Per consultative day, priced by days needed
Leading national cleaning and hard FM contracts
Not a beta service
Who this is for
Founders and owner-managers of small and medium businesses who have got past the start and are now making the decisions that are expensive to get wrong — what to charge, when to hire, which market to enter next, and whether to raise money or grow into it.
The deepest experience here is in cleaning, facilities management and service businesses generally, but the problems are not sector-specific and neither is the advice.
What we help with
- Pricing — working out what the work actually costs you and what it should be sold for.
- Scaling safely — growing without the overhead arriving before the revenue does.
- The next hire — what the role is really for, and whether it is the one to make now.
- The next market — whether to enter it, and what it costs to find out.
- Funding — preparing for a raise, and grant, bid and procurement processes.
How it is priced
€900 per consultative day. The size of an engagement is the number of days it needs, agreed up front — there is no retainer and no minimum term. If a problem takes two days, it costs two days.
Why this rather than a generalist consultancy
The advice comes from people who have run the businesses rather than advised on them from the outside. Keith Ryan spent 37 years in the cleaning and FM sector, owning businesses and holding senior leadership roles delivering national cleaning and hard FM contracts. Stuart Pyle holds an MBA and has founded startups, built teams and led complex multi-stakeholder projects, including grant funding, regulatory compliance and investor relationships.
That is a narrower offer than a large consultancy and deliberately so. If your problem is outside it, we will say so.
Common questions
SME business consultancy, answered
- How much does it cost?
- €900 per consultative day. Engagements are sized by the number of days required and agreed in advance, with no retainer and no minimum term.
- Do I need to be an FM or cleaning business?
- No. That is where the deepest sector experience sits, but the work — pricing, scaling, hiring, funding — applies to service businesses generally.
- Do you also offer FM services consultancy?
- Not at the moment. FM services consultancy is on hold while the software platform is completed. SME consultancy is unaffected and available now.
- How do I start?
- Email info@ml10.xyz or call +353 87 3278520 with a short description of the problem, and we will tell you how many days we think it needs before you commit to anything.
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