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Engage
Write it up first.
Give me enough context to understand what is happening. Conversations are confidential.
Engagements are structured for founder-led, investor-backed, closely held, and sponsor-backed companies between $10M and $100M in revenue. Select mandates outside this range are considered when the capitalization, transaction value, or operating consequence warrants principal-level involvement.
01Discuss the Decision
Book a 20-minute call
If a conversation is simpler, take twenty minutes directly. Otherwise, write the situation below.
Not every conversation becomes a relationship. Every serious inquiry is reviewed personally.
Initial conversations are confidential and without obligation.
02When Gunn International is useful
- The answer is not obvious.
- Several reasonable paths exist.
- The downside of being wrong or late is material.
- Strategy and execution cannot be separated.
- The outcome will materially affect the company.
03Engagement options
A fixed-fee Four-Lens Decision Read™, then a standing counsel or operating-partner relationship if it is warranted. The full commercial comparison sits on Mandates. Start with the situation. You do not need to select an engagement first.
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Strategic Counsel
A standing operator's read on the decisions as they come, without embedding.
From $10,000 per month — four to six working sessions a month, initial 90-day mandate.
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Principal Counsel
Ongoing strategic counsel to a CEO, founder or board facing a series of material decisions.
From $15,000 per month — initial 90-day mandate. Limited in number so each receives direct principal attention.
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Operating Partner
Hands-on principal-level involvement in value creation, transaction execution or portfolio-company intervention.
From $25,000 per month — initial 90-day mandate.
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