Answers to the most common questions.

We are a Strategic Intelligence House. We bring strategy, people and technology together in one team to help SMEs, industry and the public sector grow with structure, from diagnosis to implementation.

Mainly with growing SMEs, industrial and service companies, as well as with public bodies.

We are based in Porto and Lisbon and work with organisations across Portugal, on site and remotely.

We don’t stop at the report. We bring strategy, people and technology together in one team and stay through execution until there are results.

Yes. We support public procurement, processes, institutional communication and administrative modernisation.

It is a proprietary diagnostic, lasting 1 to 8 weeks, that assesses a set of indicators and organises them into key categories. At the end you receive indices, priorities, quick wins and a concrete, wave-based action plan.

Between 1 and 8 weeks, depending on the version chosen (Express, Core or Executive).

It isn’t mandatory, but it is the fastest way to make sure investment goes to the right place. For well-defined projects, we can start straight away.

At the outset we define a set of value and adoption indicators, with business, operational and solution usage metrics.

We measure where margin is lost (pricing, discounts, inventory and costs) and design policies and routines to recover it before accelerating.

Financial and operational diagnosis, a treasury plan, margin recovery and cost structure redesign, with support throughout execution.

Yes. We define indicators, sources and closing routines and build the dashboard with STUDIO, so management can decide with up-to-date information.

A senior executive able to lead a team (finance, marketing, sales, operations, technology and more) to accelerate critical projects without a permanent, in-house hire.

Yes. We handle market selection, the entry model and the sales plan and, together with MIND, each country’s regulatory obligations.

We map critical knowledge, clarify roles and decisions, document procedures and create succession and cross-training plans.

Yes. We define the profiles and skills for each role, the recruitment and selection process (job ad, screening, interviews and decision), the assessment criteria and who owns each stage. We also support the recruitment of critical profiles directly.

Yes. We design the onboarding plan for the first weeks, with a welcome, initial training, goals for the first 90 days and check-ins. New starters become productive sooner and the company retains the talent it hires.

Yes, as part of organisational design: roles, levels, responsibilities and market salary references.

We define business and people objectives, skills per role, the appraisal cycle and training for managers, in a system simple enough to be used day to day.

We involve the people who do the work from the design stage, test with pilots and internal champions and measure adoption before scaling.

Yes. We map obligations, evidence and owners by product and market. Legal validation and certification are carried out with specialist partners.

Yes. We design with the people who will use it, prototype quickly and build in phases, with testing and training included.

Yes. We integrate directly with PHC, Primavera, SAP and other systems, to avoid isolated solutions.

It brings together warehouse, sales and purchasing data, identifies slow-moving items and stock-outs and suggests replenishments using rules the team validates.

The most common are collections and reconciliations, order tracking, goods receipt, invoice reading and triage of emails and complaints.

We work with hosting in the European Union, access control and activity logs, in compliance with the GDPR. Ownership of and access to the code are set out in the contract.

Since February 2025, the EU AI Act has required organisations that use AI systems to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy among their staff.

It depends on how AI is used. There are literacy and transparency obligations for virtual assistants and, for high-risk uses, additional requirements. We always start with an inventory and a risk classification.

With a short assessment that identifies two or three use cases with available data, measurable return and controlled risk.

With suitable enterprise tools, clear rules on what can be shared, and training. In bespoke agents, we add access control and activity logs.

It depends on the calls open at any given time. The most common lines are those of Portugal 2030 (COMPETE 2030 and regional programmes) and, in some cases, the PRR.

Yes, from the eligibility assessment and project design through to the application and execution management.

Often, yes. Digitalisation, automation, training and internationalisation are frequently supported areas, and we assess this possibility at the start of every project.

It is a Portuguese tax incentive for companies’ research and development expenditure. Eligibility of expenses is assessed case by case.