Engaging the firm
When should we bring you the question?
Before the project becomes public and before you contact any state, community, seller or counterparty. Leverage comes from credible alternatives; once your preference is known, it is gone. The right moment is when the plan exists on paper and nobody outside the company has tested it.
How do we start?
Request a confidential consultation. The first conversation defines the question, often more narrowly than it arrived. The second sets the study: scope, method, the date the written finding is due, and the fee. If the question does not warrant our involvement, we say so in the first conversation, at no cost.
Who does the work?
Principals on every engagement. No hand-offs. The person who scopes the question writes the finding and, if the answer is feasible, leads the execution. Specialist support is brought in under that principal, never in place of them.
How is confidentiality maintained?
Projects run under code names. Inquiries to states, utilities, owners and counterparties are made in our name, not yours, until you choose to be disclosed. Active projects are insulated from outside pressure; if you need discretion, that is a feature of this firm, not an accident.
What is a code-named intake?
If you would rather not put project details in writing at all, tick the code-named intake box on the inquiry form and a principal will call you to take the details by phone. A non-disclosure agreement is available on request before any detail is shared.
Fees and independence
Who pays you, and does that shape the answer?
Our clients pay us. No commissions, referral fees or success fees from communities, utilities, brokers, developers or counterparties; the analysis has exactly one master: your outcome. We do not provide capital, arrange financing or underwrite transactions, and we do not list or broker property. A finding that stops a project is a complete deliverable, not a failed one.
How is this different from a site-selection consultant or a broker?
A site-selection consultant is paid to find you a location. A broker is paid when the deal closes. We are paid to tell you whether the location, the plan or the deal will work once your operation is inside it. Where a site decision is part of the question, we run the screening and negotiate the incentives as part of the operating case, not as the reason to pick a site.
The finding
What does a feasibility study deliver?
A written finding, feasible, feasible with conditions, or not feasible, on a date fixed at the outset, with the cost, schedule, regulatory path and operating assumptions behind it, and the conditions that would change the answer. Board-ready: written to be acted on, not filed.
What happens when the answer is no?
The finding says so, in writing, with the conditions that would change it. Most relationships begin with a bounded study, and some correctly end there. Our fee does not depend on the project going ahead.
What happens after the finding?
When the answer is feasible, the same principal leads the execution: with a defined scope and an end date, or embedded as an operating partner with compensation tied to the milestones we were brought in to hit. Scope, economics and the engagement model are set against the finding, not against the original hope. At the end, capability is handed to your team.
Scope
Which sectors do you work in?
Aviation, healthcare, life sciences, logistics, and defense and government: the sectors where the principals have operated. Across them, the work is the same test, whether a site, a plant, a transaction or a mission holds once your operation is inside it.
Who can engage Mission Services?
Authorized government customers and their prime contractors. Defense and security work is performed only under the registration, licensing and approval requirements that govern it, including ITAR registration and case-by-case authorization where applicable. We assess mission feasibility before any commitment and decline work we cannot support lawfully.
Still have a question? Ask a principal.
First consultations are free, confidential and candid, including “you don’t need us for this.” A principal replies within two business days.