The challenger consultancy
NEXT10 is reimagining the consulting playbook for ambitious business leaders and organisations. Professionally led and senior throughout, we run on AI, commit to outcomes, and stay until the results hold.
What we bring
The problem
For decades, consulting has run on the same model. Partners win the work, a pyramid of junior consultants does it, and the meter runs by the hour. The longer a project takes, the more the firm earns, so nobody is in a hurry.
Too often the result is strategy from the ivory tower: recommendations that look right on paper and fall apart on contact with the business. The engagement ends with a report, the team moves on, and someone else is left to make it real. Now the same firms are bolting AI onto that model, while the hours, the pyramid and the reports stay exactly as they were.
It is a model built to serve the partnership, not the client.
The shift
NEXT10 is the challenger model. Client needs sit at the heart of how we serve, and AI sits at the heart of how we deliver outcomes.
We work with you to clarify the business ambition, then support your teams to deliver it, whether that is building an industry-first AI platform or driving meaningful operational transformation.
We start by agreeing what success looks like: the ambition, the measures, and a commercial model that ties our reward to your results.
Senior experts work inside your organisation, not at arm's length, and build your teams' capability as the work gets done.
Discovery, analysis and delivery run on the Celeredge platform, so a small senior team moves at the pace of a large one.
How we work
We analyse your documents and data, then our AI interviewer asks your people why performance is where it is.
We build a heatmap that scores every option on value, ease, speed and risk, showing what to do now, next and later.
We align your leadership team behind the business vision, the outcomes that matter and how success will be measured.
We work alongside your teams to ship working outputs in releases, with progress visible on the platform throughout.
We stay integrated like a managed service, tracking the measures and improving what works so the results hold.
We don't leave
Most engagements end at handover, and performance starts to slide the week after. We work the other way.
Like a well-run software service, we stay connected to your organisation. We watch the measures, fix what drifts and improve what works. You get a partner accountable for performance, not a project that closes.
We commit, work hands-on with your team, and share in your success.
Our work
Enterprise transformation · Technology
Aligned the leadership team behind one business case and roadmap after years of c.5% margins and mixed results from earlier change programmes.
Read the case →Operating model · PE-backed financial services
Harmonised a UK pensions governance leader built through acquisitions, so revenue can grow faster than headcount before exit.
Read the case →Test us
Ask every adviser on your shortlist these four questions.
Will you fix the price to the outcome?
Yes.
How long until we see options?
Days.
Who exactly will do the work?
Named experts.
What happens after go-live?
We sustain results.
Book a 30-minute discovery call. You leave with a first view of your options, whether or not you hire us.
How we work
Most consultancies guard their method because it is mostly people's time. Ours is a product. Every engagement follows the same five steps, and every step runs on the Celeredge AI platform.
01 · Discover
Every project starts with a pile of documents: strategies, process maps, board packs, KPIs. They describe how the business is meant to work. They rarely explain why performance is where it is.
We load them into Celeredge first. Then its AI interviewer speaks with the people closest to the work and asks the questions the documents can't answer. It closes the gap between the written record and what practitioners know, and gets to the root cause.
What used to take six weeks of workshops takes days, and far more people get heard.
Illustrative example.
02 · Prioritise
We score each option on value, ease, speed and risk. You see the full set at once and decide with us, not after a long report lands.
The heatmap is a working tool. It updates as we learn, and it shows where to move first and what to leave alone.
| Option | Value | Ease | Speed | Risk | Call |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harmonise core service processes | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | Now |
| Reprice managed services contracts | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | Now |
| Agentic triage in client onboarding | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | Next |
| Consolidate regional delivery teams | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | Later |
| Exit low-margin resale lines | 3 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Test |
03 · Commit
Before delivery starts, we bring your leadership team together around the business vision: the outcomes that matter, the choices that follow, and how success will be measured. Alignment at the top is what makes delivery stick.
04 · Deliver
Experts from our network ship working outputs in short releases: a redesigned process live, a model in use, an agent running in a workflow. You see status, risks and evidence on the platform as we go, without status-report theatre.
05 · Run
Go-live is where most consultancies leave. We stay integrated with your team, like a managed service. We monitor the measures, tune what drifts and improve what works, so the result holds.
Services
We organise by the result you buy, not the practice that sells it. We work with growing businesses, large corporates and PE-owned companies across the US, UK and Europe.
Find the real problem
Get to the root cause in days through analysis of your documented facts and AI interviews that bridge the knowledge gaps. The output is a clear, prioritised heatmap of options to act on now and later.
Design what comes next
Design new value propositions, customer experiences, operating models and revenue models that drive growth and transformation, powered by AI.
Make it perform and scale
Redefine business performance by designing new organisation structures, processes, governance, services and commercial models, so the business grows without costs growing at the same pace.
Put agents to work
Deploy AI agents in real workflows, with the controls and governance to run them safely at scale.
Make AI pay back
Find where AI pays back in your business. Assess the maturity of your data assets, close the gaps in data, skills and governance, and deliver the roadmap.
Create value before exit
Value creation for PE-owned businesses: diagnostics, EBITDA levers, scalable operating models and exit readiness.
Our work
Clients entrust us with their most important challenges because of the practical experience we bring, from years in industry and from building real AI products and platforms. Working as an AI-native business ourselves is the first step in advising clients on their own AI transformation.
Our experts have run P&Ls, functions and transformations inside the kinds of businesses they now advise.
We build AI products and platforms, including the one we deliver on. Our advice comes from shipping, not from reading about it.
We run our own firm the way we help clients run theirs. That is the first step in any credible AI transformation.
Case studies
Enterprise transformation · Technology · New Zealand
A NZ$1.5bn technology group facing years of c.5% margins.
Read the case →Operating model · Financial services · UK
A PE-backed pensions governance leader built through acquisitions.
Read the case →Enterprise transformation · Technology · New Zealand
Fast-changing markets and margins of around 5% for more than three years had left the group exposed to disruption and held back shareholder returns. Performance varied across business lines. The managed services business needed cost efficiency, and reselling and data centres needed market-driven change.
Earlier change programmes had mixed results, so the leadership team needed this one to work.
A leadership team aligned behind one business case and one roadmap, with greater confidence in programme execution and benefit realisation.
Operating model · Financial services · UK
A UK pensions governance leader, built through mergers and bolt-ons, was running different processes, service models and commercial practices across the group.
The plan needed core revenue to grow by more than half before exit, without headcount growing at the same pace. The technology roadmap was not focused enough on the productivity and scalability that plan depended on.
An 18% targeted uplift in revenue per fee earner, worth c.£2.8m in EBITDA, and an operating model built to scale ahead of exit.
Commercials
Pricing built for the future, not the timesheet. Every engagement starts with outcomes and measures both sides sign. Then we commit, work hands-on alongside your team, and win when you win.
Start here
Root cause, options heatmap and business case.
Deliver it
A named outcome delivered against agreed measures.
Keep it performing
We stay integrated with your team and accountable for the measures.
We price the new outcome, agree it with you, and carry on. You never receive a bill for extra hours, because we don't count them.
Most clients start with a Discovery Sprint, deliver an outcome, then keep us on to make sure the results last.
NEXT10 runs on Celeredge, an AI operating system for consulting. It is how a small team of experts does work that used to need a large one.
Discovery
Reads what you have, asks what's missing, and gets to the root cause across hundreds of voices, not a handful of workshops.
Delivery
Options scored, outcomes tracked, risks surfaced. You see progress as it happens, not in a monthly pack.
Knowledge
Reusable methods and assessment models, from operating model design to control frameworks, that improve with every engagement.
Expert network
We don't keep a bench. We run an expert network of senior operators, specialists, engineers and former partners, and configure each team to the problem.
Every expert has done the job before, in the industry and function you need.
You see who will do the work at proposal stage. No bait and switch.
Our experts work inside the NEXT10 method and on Celeredge, so quality is consistent from one team to the next.
About
The name says it. NEXT10 is built for how professional services will work over the next decade.
We are operators and consultants who have sat on both sides of the table: hiring advisers and being them. We saw the same pattern again and again. Long discoveries, large teams, reports that sat on shelves, and invoices that grew with the hours.
So we built the firm we wanted to hire. AI-native, priced on outcomes, staffed from a senior expert network, and committed to staying until the results hold.
We work with growing businesses, large corporates and PE-owned companies across the US, UK and Europe.
No charge
Tell us the outcome you are chasing and we will run a single assessment against your business, and send you the deck. Your logo on it, not ours.
We look at what your business shows the market, and at anything you choose to share with us. Where we cannot evidence something, the deck says so rather than guessing.
Contact
We reply within one working day. On the call, you get a first view of your options, whether or not you hire us.