“They spent the first workshop mapping our cost centres before touching a single chart. The quarter-end variance brief finally named which overruns were hiring timing and which were permanent rate gaps.”

“The planning panels they specified for our annual budget cycle cut the leadership meeting from ninety minutes of scrolling to a focused discussion on three assumptions. We still build the views in-house; their handoff notes made that possible.”

“Month-end used to be a scramble of footnotes. The retainer gives us a draft narrative before the pack leaves finance. One mild caveat: their cut-off is firm, so late journals from operations still need our own discipline.”