Pricing
Most consultancies make you sit through three calls to hear a number. Here is how Brightmere charges, in full: three named services, each with a fixed fee agreed before work starts, and every finding sized in pounds so you can weigh the fee against it. No day rates. No open-ended retainers.
The structure
You buy one at a time, and each ends with something worth having on its own. The first two are fixed-fee projects on a deal clock; the third is what they earn into.
Before someone with money looks at your numbers
For owners of £5-50m businesses about to raise, sell, refinance or take on a new facility. We rebuild the picture from your own transactions: cash proof, real margin by customer and product, working capital stripped of the flattering month, revenue concentration, and every heroic assumption named. You get a findings pack a lender's or buyer's team can test, and time to fix what they would have found. The first few days map what your data can actually support; if the honest answer is that it needs nothing, we say so and stop, and you pay for those days only.
Before you rely on someone else's numbers
For acquirers, searchers and holding companies buying a £3-20m business, and the advisers and lenders backing them. The same transaction-level read pointed at the target: is the revenue what the data room says, which customers and jobs make money, how much cash the business really needs, and whether the operation can deliver the plan you are paying for. It runs alongside the chartered firm's financial due diligence and answers the questions that report leaves open. Scoped to a deal timetable; priced for one target.
After the event, month after month
The rebuilt view stays live. Reconciled every month with anything that does not tie flagged, real margin and cash watched at line level, a rolling 13-week cash view, and one session a month on the numbers and the decisions in front of you. The fee is pegged to the size of the business, not to hours, and steps up only when the business does: a new entity, a new division, a second site.
The principles
You're not buying our time; you're buying named, sized pockets of your own cash. The fee is fixed before we start, and every finding carries a pound figure you can weigh it against.
A diagnostic that finds £200K of recoverable cash is cheap at several times its fee; one that finds nothing is expensive at any price. That's why Discovery comes first - and why we'll tell you to stop if the prize looks small.
Every engagement sets a measured baseline - DSO, stock days, working capital as a share of sales - so recovery is provable, not claimed. It's also what makes recovery-linked fees possible: you can only share what you can measure.
No day rates. No time-and-materials. No open-ended retainers that outlive their usefulness. If what you need is ongoing senior finance leadership rather than cash found and freed, a fractional CFO is the better buy - and we'll say so.
A 30-minute call is enough to tell you whether there's cash worth going after and exactly what Discovery would cost. No pitch deck, no follow-up sequence.