Quiteria Belgrane
Quiteria Belgrane
Consultations available nationwide across Ireland
Business model development

Not a template.
Your actual situation.

Most business advice assumes a clean starting point. This work starts from where you actually are - with your constraints, your market, and the decisions already on the table.

since 2022 Business model development consultation in progress

Consultant reviewing a business model with a client
6 wks

Adjusts as conditions shift

Business conditions in Ireland change - regulation, market access, supplier pricing - and a model built six months ago may already be partially obsolete. The work here tracks those shifts rather than assuming stability.

Each engagement starts with a structured diagnostic: what assumptions the current model rests on, which of those are still valid, and where the gaps are creating friction. That takes roughly two sessions before any recommendations appear.

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Diagnostic session - mapping current assumptions against actual market data, not aspirational projections.
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Gap identification - finding where the model leaks value or relies on conditions that no longer hold.
3
Rebuild or refine - depending on the severity, either reworking the core structure or adjusting specific components.

What signals professional standing here

Not credentials for their own sake - but indicators of how this work is positioned and what it draws on.

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Cross-sector pattern recognition

The work spans sectors - retail, professional services, manufacturing, SaaS - which means patterns visible in one context often apply usefully to another. That cross-pollination is part of what makes the analysis sharper.

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Documented frameworks, not improvisation

Sessions follow structured frameworks that have been tested and refined over multiple engagements. You get a consistent analytical process, not a different approach each time depending on what seems relevant that day.

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Remote-first, nationwide reach

All consultations run remotely, which means location is not a filter. Whether you're based in Dublin, Donegal, or anywhere between, the quality of the engagement stays the same - no travel costs, no scheduling friction.


Not a workshop, not a course

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The obvious alternative to working with a consultant is a business model course - structured, self-paced, affordable. That works well for learning the vocabulary and the frameworks. It works less well when the actual problem is specific to your situation and needs someone to push back on your assumptions in real time.

The interaction is two-way. You're not consuming content - you're working through a problem with someone who asks inconvenient questions and doesn't accept vague answers.
The output is specific. At the end of an engagement, you have something concrete - a revised model, a prioritised list of changes, a set of decisions made - not a certificate or a set of notes to act on later.
Strategic consultation session with focused discussion
Business model mapping and planning process

One engagement, described plainly

Orla Fennelly, founder of a professional services firm

Orla Fennelly

Founder, professional services firm, Co. Clare

Three years in, solid client base, but the pricing structure had been set early and never revisited. Revenue was growing but margin wasn't.

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I kept thinking the problem was sales volume. It took an outside perspective to show me that the model itself was creating a ceiling - not the pipeline. Once I saw that, the changes were actually straightforward.

Detailed business model review session
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Session 1 - diagnostic: Mapped the full revenue model, identified that three service tiers were priced identically despite having different delivery costs.
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Session 2 - analysis: Ran a contribution margin review across each tier. Two were profitable; one was absorbing the margin from the other two.
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Session 3 - restructure: Rebuilt the pricing logic for each tier separately. Also identified one client segment that was underpriced relative to the complexity they brought.
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Follow-up check-in (4 weeks later): Reviewed implementation. Two of three changes had been applied; the third required a client conversation that was still in progress.