For Programme Sponsors

You carry the accountability.
We keep you fully sighted.

Independent advice, assurance, and delivery leadership for the executives accountable for major programmes. Confidential, senior, and reporting to you alone.

0Programme value governed
0Delivered on budget
0Years in the sponsor's corner

The seat you are in

Sponsorship is a named, personal accountability

You own the outcome of a programme you do not run day to day. The benefits case carries your name, the board or the Minister holds you to it, and every reforecast is a conversation you must lead with the people who approved the original number.

And you exercise that accountability through information produced by the very machine you are meant to oversee. Reporting drifts optimistic long before the numbers do. Experienced sponsors know the feeling of being over-assured and under-informed: plenty of reports, few decision-ready answers. We exist to close that gap for you, privately and early.

The top driver of success
PMI's Pulse of the Profession research identifies actively engaged executive sponsorship as the single biggest driver of programme success, yet finds only about three in five programmes have it.Source: PMI, Pulse of the Profession
45% over budget
McKinsey and the University of Oxford, studying more than 5,400 large IT projects, found they run 45 per cent over budget on average while delivering 56 per cent less value than predicted.Source: McKinsey and University of Oxford

When sponsors call us

The moments that matter

Sponsors rarely call when everything is calm. Whatever the moment, our first job is the same: an honest picture, and a set of decisions you can actually take.

Before you sign

The business case is persuasive, and you want it pressure-tested by people who have delivered at this scale before you put your name to it.

The reporting does not smell right

Everything is green, yet milestones keep moving and contingency keeps draining. You want an independent read before the board asks.

Before a gate or a board paper

A gateway review, investment committee, or board deep-dive is approaching, and you need to know what it will find before it finds it.

The programme has drifted

Cost, schedule, or scope has moved materially, and you need decision-ready recovery options within weeks.

A leadership gap has opened

Your programme director has departed, or the role has outgrown the incumbent, and the programme cannot wait for a six-month search.

The machine needs reinforcement

Delivery is fundamentally sound but critical capability is thin, and you need senior practitioners inside the team without resetting it.

One partner, the whole way

From independent eyes to strength in depth

Every engagement starts from the same place: an independent, experienced set of eyes that reports to you alone. From there we go exactly as far as you need us to, under one relationship that flexes as the programme changes.

Stage 1

Advise and assure

Independent programme reviews, delivery confidence assessments, gate readiness, and sponsor-side advisory. The independent, experienced set of eyes that reports to you alone.

Stage 2

Lead delivery

Interim programme directors, recovery leadership, and transformation office leadership. Practitioners who take the seat and carry accountability for the outcome.

Stage 3

Strengthen and augment

Strategy support, planning, commercial and risk capability, and surge capacity embedded within your team, building your people as they deliver.

Engagement models

Shaped around how sponsors actually buy

We shape commercial terms around the decision you are facing. Every model comes with a defined exit, because our job is to leave your programme stronger than we found it.

Sponsor advisory retainer

A standing monthly cadence with a senior practitioner. Independent counsel before every board paper and steering committee.

Gated reviews

Fixed-price, fixed-duration health checks and gate readiness reviews, with findings in weeks.

Embedded leadership

Interim programme directors and recovery leads inside your structure, with clear accountability and a defined exit.

Surge augmentation

Senior capability into your existing team fast, scaled up and down as phases demand.

Outcome-linked

For recovery and benefits realisation work, fees partly contingent on agreed delivery outcomes.

Why Precision

Advice with only one customer: you

Everyone who will work on your programme has run programmes of their own, with their own name on the outcome. We have no software to sell and no implementation arm to feed, so our findings reach you without softening. That independence is why sponsors across government, the ASX 200, and private equity keep us close.

Confidential Briefing

Thirty minutes with someone
who has sat where you sit

The first conversation is confidential, senior, and free of slideware. You will leave with at least one thing worth acting on.

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