Design and manufacturing
ERP selection and AI-assisted workflow
Replaced manual quoting and project tracking with an integrated system, automating the handoffs between design, production and finance and cutting administrative time across the studio.
Bring in the people who have done it before.
Argyle Stark is a consultancy for growing businesses that need senior delivery and operational expertise now, rather than waiting to recruit for it. We work with clients across the UK, Europe and the USA.
What we do
Six capabilities, delivered by people who have carried the accountability themselves. Most clients start with one and keep us for the others.
Programme & project management
Change stalls for the same reasons every time: no single owner, a plan nobody believes, and nobody holding the detail. We take the programme end to end, or step in when one is already in trouble and needs recovering.
- Programme setup and governance
- Recovery of stalled projects
- Systems implementation
- PMO on demand
AI adoption
Most AI spend goes on tools nobody ends up using. We start with the work your people actually do, automate the parts that should not need a person, and make sure the change holds once we have gone.
- Opportunity and process review
- Workflow automation
- Tooling selection
- Training and adoption
Fractional operational management
A COO's judgement without a COO's salary. We take ownership of operations for a day or two a week, which gives founders their time back and gives the business a spine it can grow on.
- Operating rhythm and reporting
- Process design
- Supplier and contract management
- Team structure and accountability
Exit preparation
Buyers discount what they cannot easily understand. We get operations, documentation and governance into the shape a buyer expects, well before the data room opens. Our team has experience taking businesses through acquisition and working both sides of due diligence.
- Readiness assessment
- Process and contract documentation
- Data room preparation
- Due diligence support
ISO accreditation & governance
Accreditation is often the only thing standing between a smaller business and a larger customer. We build management systems that pass audit and still work on a Tuesday morning, with a track record across multiple successful accreditations.
- ISO 9001
- ISO 27001
- ISO 22301
- Gap analysis and audit preparation
System integration
Most businesses do not need another system. They need the ones they already run to talk to each other. We connect platforms, finance systems and line of business tools so information moves once, cleanly, and nobody spends their week rekeying it from one screen into another.
That covers the finance systems the business runs on, such as Xero and Sage, the CRM platforms sales teams work in, such as HubSpot and Salesforce, and the project and work management tools that sit between them, such as Jira, Asana and Monday.com. It also covers the data migration that usually gets underestimated, and the platform to platform work software vendors need when they want their own customers up and running quickly.
We have delivered integrations in healthcare, central and local government, financial services, legal and utilities.
- Finance systems
- CRM platforms
- Project and work management
- API and platform integration
- Data migration
- Ongoing integration support
How we work
We staff engagements from a network of senior practitioners rather than a fixed pyramid, so you get the person the work needs, for as long as the work needs them.
You will not be sold a partner and delivered a graduate.
1
Diagnose
A short piece of work to establish what is actually going on, and what fixing it will take. No forty-page proposal off the back of one call.
2
Plan
Named owners, real dates and a cost you can hold us to. If the plan does not survive contact with your business, it was the wrong plan.
3
Deliver
We do the work alongside your team, in the open, not in a separate workstream you only see at a monthly steering group.
4
Hand over
We build the capability to run it without us, and then we leave. A consultancy you cannot get rid of is not a good consultancy.
Our work
A sample of recent engagements. Client names withheld on request.
Enterprise software
Sales enablement at scale
Delivered a new sales methodology across a global sales organisation of more than 2,000 people at a SaaS business turning over in excess of $3 billion, covering training design, rollout and embedding the approach into day to day selling.
Utilities
Delivery leadership on a multi-year modernisation programme
Provided programme and delivery management across a portfolio of technology change, bringing governance, reporting and supplier management into a single operating rhythm.
About Argyle Stark
Argyle Stark is an independent consultancy based in Glasgow, working with clients across the UK, Europe and the USA. We were built on a straightforward idea: smaller businesses need the same calibre of delivery and operational expertise as large ones, without the cost structure that usually comes attached to it.
We stay deliberately small at the centre and draw on a network of senior associates. That keeps our overhead off your invoice, and it means every engagement is staffed by someone who has done that specific job before rather than someone learning it on your time.
We are direct about what we find, we put it in writing, and we would rather tell you something is not worth doing than bill you for doing it.
Get in touch
Tell us what is not working. We will tell you honestly whether we can help.
- info@argylestark.com
- Telephone
- +44 141 474 1747
- Office
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Savoy Tower
77 Renfrew Street
Glasgow G2 3BZ
United Kingdom