Independent Due Diligence and Business Strategy

Your suppliers, your builder and your broker are all paid out of what you spend. We are not.

Independent due diligence on what a business buys: capital expenditure and operating cost, reviewed for the shareholders, boards and leaders who carry the risk rather than for the people who make the sale.

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The first analysis and the proposal are free
Send a quote, a tender, a contract or an invoice. We come back within two working days with a first analysis and a proposal, at no cost. You decide what happens next.

Start with the trigger

Costs drifting, contracts renewing: Package 1, Cost and Supplier Due Diligence
Adding rooms, hectares, a line or a retrofit: Package 2, Expansion and Investment Due Diligence
A greenfield build, from thesis to production: Package 3, Investor-Grade Project Due Diligence
A board, investor or lender facing a decision: Package 4, The Independent Review
Continuous visibility for the board: The Value Office

The gap

Capital is decided without an independent expert view.

Boards approve multi-year commitments on information prepared by the functions whose decisions need oversight. Everyone can act in good faith and the gap is still there: nobody outside the room has tested the numbers.

01

Untraceable assumptions

Yield, price, energy and utilisation rest on assumptions nobody wrote down. Payback slips, covenants tighten, funding rounds arrive by surprise.

02

No real competitive test

Suppliers and technologies are never tested against each other on one scope. The result is overpayment, a weak negotiating position and lock-in.

03

Terms never benchmarked

Prices, warranties, service levels and liabilities go unchallenged, and risk is quietly transferred back to the buyer.

04

Fit assumed, not validated

Lighting, climate, dehumidification and controls are bought separately and never tested as one system. Integration fails, output is lost.

05

A budget missing its tail

Installation, commissioning, spares, energy and contingency are left out of the approved number and arrive later as overruns.

06

Self-reported progress

Savings and progress are reported by the people who own the targets. The board decides on numbers nobody outside the room has tested.

The question we answer is never simply "is this the lowest price". It is: will this decision produce the lowest credible lifecycle cost, and the highest probability of the promised operational outcome?

Independence

The claim, and the mechanism that makes it true.

No supplier pays us to win your business

We take no commission, referral fee, success fee, rebate, reseller or agency income from any supplier, contractor, vendor, energy provider or platform. Ever.

No savings from downgrades

Specification, quality, compliance and safety are protected by rule. A saving that breaks any of them is excluded, and so is any fee on it.

Disclosure before signature

Every prior relationship is disclosed in writing before an engagement letter is signed. Where a conflict cannot be managed by disclosure, we decline the work.

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What you get

See the deliverable before you commit to anything.

Four worked examples, open on the page, no form in the way. Every figure in them is modelled and labelled modelled.

Artefact 01

Board recommendation

One verdict, numbered conditions a board can vote on, the exposure if they are skipped, and the evidence index behind it.

Artefact 02

Opportunity register

Each initiative with its action, net benefit, one-time cost, owner and confidence.

Artefact 03

Lifecycle cost and risk map

Competing offers rebuilt on one scope over the life of the asset, with the risks the price does not show.

Artefact 04

KPI and value dashboard

Business, OpEx and CapEx indicators on one screen, and the value funnel from identified to finance-verified.

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Your sector

Medical cannabis, floriculture, horticulture.

One method, different pressure points. Select your sector and the brief changes. We never act for both sides of the same transaction or tender.

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How it starts

Three steps, and the first two cost nothing.

01. You send one document

A quote, a tender, a specification, a contract or last year's energy invoice. Redacted is fine, and a confidentiality agreement can come first.

02. We come back in two working days

A first analysis of what that document shows, what we would examine next, and a proposal. Free, and sometimes the answer is that there is nothing worth reviewing.

03. You decide

Fees are agreed in writing before any chargeable work begins. Nothing starts on a handshake and nothing is billed that was not agreed.

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What stands in for a client list

We are new, and we do not decorate that.

The published method

The sequence, the data request, the review areas and the grading scale are all on this site. Read them before you engage anyone, including us.

How we work

Benchmark notes

Short notes on cost lines that move, every figure carrying a public, dated source, with vendor and consultant origin marked.

Insights

The independence policy

Published, dated and versioned, including the part most firms would leave out.

Independence

No client names, no case studies, no testimonials and no logos appear on this site. There are none yet, and inventing them is out of the question.

What we do

Three audiences buy this work, for three different reasons.

The packages below are one engine. What changes is the question answered, the deliverable and the reporting line.

Audience 01

Board of directors and shareholders

Why. You cannot verify whether capital and operating spend are well managed, because the people who would tell you are the people being overseen.

What we do. An independent examination of the purchasing decisions and operating costs behind the numbers you are asked to approve, reported to you rather than through the function under review.

What you receive. A decision-grade report with one clear recommendation, conditions precedent, a quantified risk register and a savings ledger your own finance function verifies.

Audience 02

Investors and lenders

Why. The model in front of you may understate sustaining capital, ramp-up time or operating risk, and everyone who prepared it has an interest in the deal closing.

What we do. Operational due diligence before capital is committed or drawn: the business case rebuilt from evidence, technology and supplier choices verified, contract protections tested.

What you receive. An independent review on a fixed fee, never contingent on the finding, with gate-by-gate oversight available through construction and ramp-up.

Audience 03

Executive teams

Why. Between board meetings the picture fragments: spend in one system, projects in another, savings claims in a spreadsheet nobody fully trusts.

What we do. Turn operating detail into a board-ready capital and margin plan: baseline, opportunity register, owners, dates and verified results.

What you receive. The full plan on one screen: business, OpEx and CapEx indicators, and against each cost category the reduction plan, its owner and its date.

We do not replace management or procurement, and we do not grade them. We give the people who carry the risk an independent expert view of their own.

Packages

Four packages, and continuous oversight after them.

Package 1 · Operating businesses

Cost and Supplier Due Diligence

For a facility already producing: recurring costs, supplier contracts, equipment and working practices, reviewed on documents you already have and without disturbing production. The fastest route from first contact to verified money.

Scan 1 week, detailed review 3 to 6 weeks, execution 1 to 6 months, verification up to 12 months.

Package 2 · Expansions and retrofits

Expansion and Investment Due Diligence

Package 1 continues on the operating side while the expansion clears an independent gate at concept, design freeze, tender, award, build and handover. Weaknesses are fixed while they are still cheap to fix.

Expansion track 6 to 15 months; each gate review 4 to 8 weeks.

Package 3 · New builds

Investor-Grade Project Due Diligence

For a greenfield investment from thesis to licensed, productive operation. Nine gates, G0 to G8, in three phases: decide, procure and contract, prove. Capital steps up only when the fixed minimum evidence for the gate is in.

Passing a gate is an evidence event, not a calendar event.

Package 4 · Boards, investors, lenders

The Independent Review

A fixed-scope, fixed-fee examination for the moment independence itself is the product: before a commitment or a drawdown, at refinancing, in a turnaround, or after a project missed its promises. One clear verdict, each with its trigger.

Scoped to the decision and its deadline, typically 2 to 6 weeks. Never contingent on the finding.

Continuous oversight

The Value Office

After any package, the board keeps one tested picture: business, OpEx and CapEx indicators, the verified savings ledger, and the risks ranked by exposure, with the one decision the board is being asked to take. Maintained continuously, never rebuilt for a meeting.

Monthly in delivery phases, quarterly in steady state.

When to call

The trigger picks the package, not a menu.

What is happening	Start with	Why this one
Margin squeeze, energy shock, input costs drifting	Package 1	Fastest verified money, no disruption to production
Supplier contracts renewing, or one supplier feels irreplaceable	Package 1	Benchmark, re-tender or renegotiate with evidence
Adding rooms, hectares, a line or a retrofit	Package 2	Influence is greatest before the tender closes
A major tender on the table now	Package 2, tender review scope	Bids normalised and should-cost built before award
A greenfield build, from thesis to first production	Package 3	Capital steps up only on evidence
Board asked to approve a major commitment	Package 4	A decision-grade verdict before the vote
Investment or drawdown decision, refinancing, turnaround	Package 4	Fixed fee, independent by construction
A finished project missed budget, schedule or performance	Package 4, post-investment scope	Root cause, recovery options, claims with evidence
The board wants continuous visibility without an in-house team	The Value Office	One tested picture, every cycle

Durations are the standard service design, not commitments. Each engagement is scoped and fixed in writing before it begins.

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How we work

One closed loop. Five steps produce the decision, three produce the value.

Before step 1: conflict check

Every party in scope is screened against every relationship we hold. If we advise a party in scope, you are told in writing before anything is signed; where the conflict cannot be managed by disclosure, we decline.

Phase A · The decision

FrameThe decision, its owner and its deadline, with scope, questions, exclusions and limitations agreed in writing before any chargeable work begins.
BaselineWhat happens without us, with the counting method attached and approved in writing by your CFO. Every saving is measured against it.
DiagnoseSpend, contracts, assets, energy and specifications analysed line by line, prices tested against the market, counterparties checked in registries and public records.
QuantifyNet benefit after implementation cost and risk, as a low and a high case.
PrioritiseWaves ranked by impact, time to cash and your capacity to act. A second reviewer tests every finding against the evidence file before anything is issued.

Phase B · The value

ExecuteTenders, negotiations and operational changes, each with an owner and a gate.
VerifyYour finance function signs every saving. A saving that fails verification goes back to diagnosis before anything enters the ledger.
SustainControls and a dashboard so costs do not creep back. Verified results reprioritise the next wave.

Evidence discipline

Every conclusion traces to a document, a market test, a counterparty check or a stated assumption. Every assumption is logged with its source and its date. Findings are commercial risk findings, to be confirmed by your counsel where they touch legal questions.

Where we say no

Where a conflict cannot be cured by disclosure
Where the evidence does not support the conclusion the client wants
Where the review has been commissioned to confirm a decision already taken

How a saving becomes a verified saving

Nothing reaches the ledger by assertion.

1Baseline signedCFO approves the starting point

2Initiative landsaction taken by the named owner

3Normalisevolume, mix, weather and index movements out

4Evidence fileinvoices, meters, contracts, guardrails

5Finance signsthe euro enters the ledger

A saving that fails any step is out of the ledger, and out of the fee. The path is agreed before work starts.

Verified saving = normalised baseline cost − actual cost − implementation cost − adverse operational impact

The guardrails, in plain words

Finance approves the baseline and every verified benefit
Production, quality, safety and compliance stay within agreed limits
Savings already committed before we start are excluded
Volume, crop mix, energy price and output changes are normalised out
No saving counted twice, and none from a specification downgrade you have not approved in writing
A dispute path and an independent expert named in the letter

Benefit types, treated differently on purpose

Benefit	Treatment
Realised operating saving	Enters the ledger after finance validation
CapEx avoidance	Counted only against a comparable approved baseline
Time value	Weeks gained, at the agreed weekly figure, counted at the agreed milestone only
Cost avoidance	Recorded, treated more conservatively than realised savings
Risk reduction	Reported, never charged as a share of savings

Evidence grading

Every finding carries its grade.

Grade	Basis
A. Documented	Primary document, official registry record or signed contract held on file
B. Corroborated	Two or more independent sources, at least one outside the counterparty
C. Single source	One credible source, origin named, vendor or consultant status marked
D. Modelled	Our calculation on stated assumptions. Labelled modelled wherever it appears
E. Unverified	Reported to us and not confirmed. Carried only where the question requires it, and marked

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What you get

The deliverable, open on the page.

Deliverables are standardised, so the second report reads like the first, and everything is built to be acted on: a decision, its conditions, owners and dates. Four worked artefacts follow. Every figure in them is modelled and labelled modelled; none comes from a client engagement.

The first analysis and the proposal are free

Artefact 01 · A board recommendation, as delivered

Independent review, pre-investment · Addressee: the Board of Directors

Modelled example

Recommendation

Approve with conditions

The proposed 3 200 000 EUR lighting and climate-control project is strategically justified. It should not proceed to contract award until management:

Completes a competitive comparison against at least two technically credible alternatives, on normalised terms.
Obtains an independently verified energy and crop-output model for the proposed configuration.
Negotiates performance guarantees, commissioning acceptance tests, spare-parts availability, response-time commitments and delay remedies.
Reduces the upfront deposit and links payment milestones to delivery, installation, site acceptance and demonstrated performance.
Confirms grid capacity, climate and dehumidification implications, integration requirements and contingency allowance.
Establishes benefits tracking that reports energy cost, uptime, crop performance and cost per saleable unit to the board.

Exposure if unconditioned

410 000 to 640 000 EUR

modelled

Conditions closable within

6 to 8 weeks

from the board decision

Evidence index

64 documents

11 assumptions logged

Illustrative example built from modelled figures. Not a client engagement, not a real project, and not a recommendation to any reader. Contract findings are commercial risk findings, for confirmation by the client's counsel.

Artefact 02 · Opportunity register

Extract, 6 of 14 initiatives from an operating review

Modelled example

ID	Initiative	Action	Net benefit, year 1	One-time cost	Class	Owner	Confidence
OP-01	Energy contract restructure: tariff, contracted capacity, peak windows	Re-tender supply on a load profile measured, not assumed	38 500 EUR	6 000 EUR	P&L	CFO	High
OP-02	Load shifting into off-peak windows	Reschedule high-draw operations; automate setpoint windows	14 200 EUR	3 500 EUR	P&L	Head of operations	Medium
OP-07	Lighting schedule and intensity zoning	Zone by crop stage; trim hours where output evidence allows	21 300 EUR	2 500 EUR	P&L	Head grower	Medium
OP-04	Substrate and input consolidation	Consolidate 3 overlapping suppliers; volume terms; like-for-like spec held	16 800 EUR	2 000 EUR	P&L	Procurement lead	High
OP-12	Maintenance contracts re-tendered	Scope rebuilt from asset criticality; response times contracted	19 000 EUR	4 800 EUR	P&L	Technical manager	High
CX-02	Dehumidification right-sizing on the expansion	Remove over-specification the load calculations do not support	52 000 EUR	0 EUR	CapEx avoidance	Project owner	High

What makes a line credible

The baseline cites its source: ledger lines, invoices, meter data
The benefit is net: implementation cost and any adverse impact deducted
Guardrails named per line: yield, quality, compliance, uptime

What the full register adds

Low, base and high cases per initiative
Dependencies and sequencing into waves
Benefit start date, persistence and finance validation state

Illustrative example built from modelled figures. In a live engagement each number is rebuilt bottom-up from your documents; no benchmark is transferred into your case without that calculation.

Artefact 03 · Lifecycle cost comparison and risk map

Three offers rebuilt on one scope, six-year view

Modelled example

Cost line, six years	Offer A (lowest price)	Offer B	Offer C
Equipment and installation	820 000 EUR	905 000 EUR	880 000 EUR
Scope added back to match (commissioning, spares, training)	96 000 EUR	12 000 EUR	28 000 EUR
Energy over six years	612 000 EUR	498 000 EUR	527 000 EUR
Maintenance and consumables	144 000 EUR	126 000 EUR	132 000 EUR
Replacement or degradation allowance	110 000 EUR	40 000 EUR	65 000 EUR
Total, six years, modelled	1 782 000 EUR	1 581 000 EUR	1 632 000 EUR

The offer that arrives cheapest at the top of the page is the most expensive to own. That is the ordinary case, not the exception.

Risk area

Offer A

Offer B

Offer C

If nothing changes

Performance shortfall

High

Low

Medium

High

Contract remedy

High

Medium

High

Energy exposure

High

Low

Medium

High

Schedule

Medium

Low

Medium

Counterparty record

Medium

Low

High

Medium

Illustrative example built from modelled figures. Not a client engagement, and not a comparison of any real product or supplier.

Artefact 04 · The KPI and value dashboard

One screen for the executive team and the board · all figures modelled

Modelled example

Cost per saleable unit

1.84 EUR

target 1.62 EUR by Q4 · improving

Energy per unit

0.48 kWh

target 0.41 kWh · retrofit wave 2 pending

On-time supply

96.2%

floor 95% · guardrail holding

CapEx forecast at completion

2 310 000 EUR

approved 2 400 000 EUR · gate G4 passed

Behind one category: the energy reduction plan

Initiative	Owner	By when	Saving per year	Status
OP-01 energy contract restructure	CFO	2027-01-31	38 500 EUR	In tender
OP-02 load shifting	Head of operations	2027-02-28	14 200 EUR	Pilot running
OP-07 lighting schedule and zoning	Head grower	2027-03-31	21 300 EUR	Approved

Where the plan shortens a schedule, the weeks gained are valued explicitly and counted only at the agreed milestone. In this example, integration run as one system and a weekly decision cadence cut 6 weeks from the route to full production.

The value funnel

Identified163 500 EUR

Committed110 300 EUR

Implemented74 000 EUR

Finance-verified41 700 EUR

The funnel narrows as claims become money. Only the dark level is cash, and only your finance function can move a euro into it. Amounts modelled.

Illustrative example built from modelled figures. Delivered as a living dashboard under The Value Office, or as a static board pack per cycle; every tile traces to a source.

Every report, every time

What the decision-grade report contains.

Executive conclusion: one clear verdict
Spend or investment overview and rationale
Independent view of the business case and assumptions
Market comparison and price competitiveness
Supplier risk rating and third-party findings
Technical and operational fit, as one system
Contract risk assessment and recommended protections

Budget, schedule and contingency assessment
Savings and value-creation opportunities, quantified
Risk register ranked by exposure in EUR, with owners
Conditions precedent to approval
30, 60 and 90 day action plan
Board dashboard: status and decision gates
Evidence index, assumption log, independence declaration

The working assets that stay with you

Asset	What it is for
Baseline, approved by your CFO	The agreed starting point every saving is measured against, approved in writing before work begins
Opportunity register	Every initiative with baseline, action, net benefit, cost, owner, date and confidence
Should-cost and TCO models	What the purchase should cost over its life, to negotiate against
Bid normalisation tables	Offers restated like for like: exclusions, escalation, currency, provisional sums
Contract risk heat map	Where the contract fails to bite, with recommended protections for your counsel
Verified savings ledger	The running record of value, signed by your finance function
Value dashboard	The single tested picture, maintained under The Value Office

Fixed scales. Status is green, amber or red, each with a fixed definition tied to evidence and conditions. Supplier risk has five levels, from low to critical, each with its standard action. Fixed scales let a board compare this quarter to the last, and this project to the next.

The outcome, not only the output

One verdict, never hidden in prose.

Approve · approve with conditions · renegotiate · re-tender · defer pending evidence · decline. Each verdict carries its trigger, so a board can vote on it.

A decision with conditions

Each condition numbered, owned and dated, with the exposure if it is skipped written down.

A quantified list of what to renegotiate

Line by line, with the evidence behind each point, in the order that matters to the counterparty rather than to us.

A plan with owners and dates

What happens next, who does it, by when, and how the result is verified against the baseline you signed.

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Independence policy

Commitments you can hold us to.

Version 0.2. Dated 2026-09-16. Superseded versions remain available on request.

Independence is the product. It is worth nothing as a sentiment, so it is written here as rules, and the same rules are in the engagement letter.

Rule	What it means in practice
No supplier money, ever	No commission, referral fee, success fee, rebate, reseller or agency income from any supplier, contractor, vendor, energy provider or platform. We do not sell, resell or hold a distribution interest in equipment.
Conflict check before every proposal	Every prior relationship with the client, the target or any supplier in scope is checked against our register and disclosed in writing before a letter is signed.
The wall	Where a conflict exists, that scope is excluded or independently reviewed. Where it cannot be managed by disclosure, we decline the engagement.
No savings from downgrades	Specification, quality, compliance and safety are protected by rule. A saving that breaks them is excluded.
No fee on market movements	Baselines are normalised to a named index, so neither side gains from price weather.
Named addressee	Reports are written to the person who carries the risk. Reliance by others is granted only in writing, through a signed letter agreed with counsel.

Disclosure. Separately from any buyer review, we may advise a supplier on its own strategy, for a fixed fee never linked to its sales. If such a supplier is in the scope of your review, you are told in writing before anything is signed, and we do not rate or negotiate against it on your behalf. If it is the leading bidder, we decline the engagement.

How we are paid

The first analysis and the proposal are free. You send one document; we return a first analysis and a proposal at no cost, and you decide with both in hand.
Operating savings work is performance-linked. On cost and supplier work, the fee is a share of savings your own finance function has verified against the signed baseline. No verified saving, no fee. The terms belong in your proposal, not on this site.
Independent reviews are fixed-fee. Work for boards, investors and lenders is never contingent on the finding, because the finding is the product.
Project work is milestone-based. Expansions and new builds combine agreed fees at defined gates with performance elements where verification is possible.
No open meter. Every fee is agreed in writing before chargeable work begins.

What we will not claim

Our work is independent commercial review. It is not a statutory or regulated examination of accounts, and it is not tax or investment advice.
We do not give legal advice. Contract findings are commercial risk findings, for confirmation by your counsel.
We do not publish client names, case studies or testimonials. Names appear only with written approval.
We do not present a modelled number as a delivered result. Modelled figures are labelled modelled on the same page as the number.

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Insights

Benchmark notes.

Short notes on the cost lines that actually move. Every figure carries a public, dated source, and vendor or consultant origin is marked as such. Notes are published as they are completed rather than on a schedule.

Note 01 · 2026-09-13

The lighting retrofit business case is roughly a third of what is presented

Retrofits are sold on lighting electricity, which falls by about 40 percent. Heating then rises by about 25 percent, because the old fixtures were also heating the crop. Net total energy falls by about 15 percent (WUR via HortiDaily 2020).

A tender scored on lighting kWh therefore ranks the bids in the wrong order, and the payback in the proposal is built on the first number rather than the third. Ask for total energy at the boundary of the site, not lighting energy at the fixture.

Sources: WUR via HortiDaily, 2020. Figures are as published by the source and are not our own measurements.

Note 02 · 2026-09-13

Energy is a contract question before it is an engineering one

Energy exceeded 25 percent of greenhouse growers' total cost in a major production market on 2021 data (HortiDaily), and wholesale gas moved from about 0.80 to 2.50 EUR per cubic metre during 2022 (MFAT). Load shifting alone can cut 5 to 30 percent of electricity cost (Applied Energy 2023).

Most of that range is captured in the tariff structure, the contract term and the profile the supplier prices against, not in new equipment. The engineering study is usually commissioned first because somebody sells equipment and nobody sells a contract review.

Sources: HortiDaily 2021 data; MFAT 2022; Applied Energy 2023.

In preparation

What controlled environment operating cost is actually made of

Energy and labour together account for 50 to 65 percent of vertical-farm operating cost, and only 30 to 50 percent of vertical farms are profitable (Agritecture 2026, consultant source). The note will set out which lines are addressable by procurement and which are not.

In preparation

Why capital projects miss, and which misses are foreseeable

Nine in ten large projects run over budget (Flyvbjerg 2014). The note will separate the overruns that were visible in the tender documents from the ones that were not.

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About

Who is behind this.

APTA Advisory is an independent due diligence and business strategy practice working on what businesses buy. It is led by its founder and draws on named associates and specialist sub-contractors engaged assignment by assignment, each under the same conflict screen and confidentiality terms as the firm.

Founder

Seventeen years in horticultural lighting and controlled environment growing, on all three sides of the table. The career runs from engineering and product, through commercial leadership at a lighting manufacturer including a period as co-chief executive, to specifying and buying the same class of equipment as a customer.

The work has covered technology selection, tender preparation and evaluation, supplier negotiation, factory and contract manufacturing arrangements, distribution structures, and the cost lines that decide whether a growing operation makes money: energy, labour, capital equipment and the contracts that govern all three.

That background is why a proposal reads differently here. Knowing how a supplier prices, what a quotation leaves out and where a specification has been written to suit one bidder is a practitioner's knowledge, not a researcher's.

Knowing the supply base is not a conflict. Being paid by it is, and we are not.

Gonçalo Neves, founder.

Stated plainly

Established in 2026. Pre-revenue at the date of this page.
No client names, case studies, testimonials or logos appear anywhere on this site.
No figure from any previous employer or prior engagement is published here.
We do not claim offices, headcount or a team we do not have.
APTA Advisory is the final name; trademark and domain clearance is pending.

How to check us

Read the method, the grading scale and the independence policy before you engage anyone, including us. They are published for that purpose.

Contact

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A quote, a tender, a specification, a contract or last year's energy invoice. We read it, run the conflict check, and come back within two working days with a first analysis and a proposal, at no cost. If there is nothing worth reviewing, we write that down too.

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A screening call is 30 minutes: what you are deciding, whether we are the right people, and whether there is a conflict. It opens straight in your own calendar.

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Two working days, on every enquiry, including the ones we decline.

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Terms, privacy and limitations.

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Limitations of our work

Our reviews are independent commercial reviews. They are not statutory or regulated examinations of accounts, they are not carried out under formal professional review standards of that kind, and they are not legal advice. Findings are commercial risk findings and should be confirmed by your own counsel where they touch legal questions.

Reports are prepared for, and addressed to, the party named in the engagement letter, for the purpose stated in it. No other party may rely on them. Conclusions are based on the documents and information made available to us and on the assumptions recorded in the report.

Figures on this site

Figures presented as examples are modelled and labelled modelled. Benchmark figures are attributed to their public source with the date of that source, and vendor or consultant origin is marked. Nothing on this site is a delivered result of this firm, an offer, or a recommendation to transact.

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