Ten engagements across six chapters of a business's life, from the very first structure through to a clean exit, with specialist support for the moments in between.
Set the business up properly from day one. Structure, planning, brand, digital identity, and a clear first roadmap, in one fixed-fee engagement.
For $6,999 + GST
Everything your business needs to exist, operate, and grow.
Incorporation, business plan, branding, digital identity, and a 90-day roadmap — one fixed fee to get the business off the ground. For founders backing themselves on a real idea, starting from scratch.
Regular advisory support and structure around the decisions a business has to keep making. Two engagements: Pulse for lighter on-call access, Engine for a deeper full-year engagement.
From $499/mo + GST
On-call advisory support for regular business decisions.
Light-touch advisory access when decisions come up. Entry pricing starts at $499/month for an email-led sounding board with calls as needed; it scales up if more frequent phone calls and active on-call advisory are required.
From $9,999/yr + GST
A full-year advisory engagement for businesses ready to move properly.
A full-year advisory engagement with agreed deliverables, structured check-ins, and an adviser closer to the work. For businesses ready to move with more structure across the year.
Senior support beside the people carrying important decisions, embedded in the seat or alongside it. For owners and leadership teams that need experienced commercial judgement close to the work.
Senior leadership and executive advisory: in your seat, or alongside it.
Senior executive leadership embedded in the seat or alongside it — strategic decisions, board reporting, team leadership, stakeholder management, and a clean hand-over plan. For boards bridging a transition or executives needing a confidential senior thinking partner.
Board-level governance and chair-level stewardship in a single engagement. For established commercial businesses that need structure and challenge without a permanent board.
Board-level governance and chair-level stewardship, on a monthly rhythm.
Board-level governance and chair stewardship on a monthly rhythm — agenda-setting, governance frameworks, strategic challenge, and long-term oversight. For established commercial businesses that need structure without a permanent board.
Prepare the business before the big conversation. Valuation readiness, structural cleanup, and a staged plan toward sale, succession, or stepping back.
Prepare the business, and yourself, for a clean exit.
Valuation readiness, structural cleanup, and a staged plan toward the exit — guided by operators who have sold real businesses themselves. For owners weighing a sale, a succession, or stepping away.
Focused engagements for property, people, strategy, or digital. Distinct work outside the ongoing advisory engagements, scoped around a specific opportunity, decision, or experience.
Grounded in real experience.
Real commercial property experience across investment, development, leasing, operations, and Airbnb portfolios — honest, side-of-the-table advice from operators who have held the assets themselves. For owners, investors, and operators making property decisions.
Your commercial property, managed like we own it.
End-to-end commercial property management: lease administration, rent and outgoings, maintenance and facilities, compliance, and clear owner reporting, run by operators who hold commercial property themselves. For owners who want the asset managed properly without carrying the day-to-day.
The people systems and operational machinery that make a business run.
HR frameworks, team culture, management systems, and operational structure — the internal machinery that turns strategy into something a business can execute. For growing businesses whose people systems have not kept pace.
From $4,999 + GST
A day that changes how you see your business.
A full day with our advisory team in Marlborough — pre-day brief, focused strategic work, and a documented plan with 90-day actions. For owners and leadership teams that need to step out and think about what is next.
$999 for July + GST
A professional website, built and handed fully over to you.
A credible online presence, new build or overhaul, built around the business and handed fully over: you own everything, with no subscription or hosting fees. $1,999 + GST, or $999 + GST for July. Later changes at $99/hour.
The Advisry is a family-owned New Zealand strategic advisory firm for business owners. The people behind it have owned, operated, scaled, and exited real businesses — across big-box retail, commercial property, development, and operations — so the advice comes from experience, not theory.
Business owners, founders, operators, and boards — from people setting up their first company to established owners weighing a sale, a restructure, or their next move. If you want a real conversation with people who have actually run businesses, you are who we work with.
We are based in Aotearoa New Zealand with a strong presence in Canterbury and Marlborough, and we work with clients right across New Zealand and Australia. Most advisory work is done remotely by call and email, with in-person sessions where it adds value.
Both. Day-to-day advisory happens over calls and email so distance is never a barrier, and we meet in person when a decision or a session calls for it — including our Strategy Day in Marlborough.
It depends on the engagement. Some are fixed-fee and published — the Website Package at $1,999 + GST ($999 + GST for July), Momentum Pulse from $499/month, the Strategy Day from $4,999 + GST, and the Startup Package for $6,999 + GST. Deeper or bespoke engagements are priced on enquiry. All pricing is plus GST.
We are operators, not career consultants. Everything we advise on — retail, property, development, people, capital, exits — we have done ourselves with our own money and businesses on the line. You get direct, honest advice from people who have sat in the seat.
Big-box and independent retail, commercial property and development, and the operations, people, and capital decisions that sit underneath any business. We advise on strategy, structure, governance, property, HR and systems, exits, and digital.
Start a conversation through the contact page and tell us where the business is and what you are weighing up. We respond to every enquiry within one business day, and the first conversation is about whether we are the right fit — no obligation.
Yes. The initial conversation is a no-obligation chat to understand your situation and tell you honestly whether we can help. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so.
No. We deliberately work with a small number of clients at any one time so the attention and advice stay genuine. It is worth getting in touch early if you have something specific in mind.