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Market Research
Hello. I’m re-visiting my catapult market research exercises, and would love to have a quick chat with any fellow TPCers about their experience, and pricing, for the following services:
1) AI Strategy and Implementation support – for small / mid size teams
2) Facilitation – for example workshops, or company offsites.
Send me a message through TPC, or directly by email to [email protected] . Thank you!
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Hi Helen. (And thanks Sammy for the tag.) I’m an AI consultant covering strategy, governance, and implementation, with a focus on the human side of things (incl. training).
For my pricing, I started with a target day rate and the levels of discounting I can tolerate. Then I packaged my offerings into a menu of products. Behind the scenes I have a table that helps me scale the costs based on the size of the org/team – small teams are cheaper to deliver, so I charge less. In reality…
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Thanks Tom – would be great to have a chat, as I’d love to hear more about all of this. I’ll send you a private note re scheduling.
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Helen Stewart – great to connect again and happy to have a chat so will drop you an email. I cover Ai strategy, Adoption through execution and scaling. Also have some training, speaking engagements and workshop rates that you can glean from and tailor to your needs. Speak soon.
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Seeking anti-portfolio career advice 🙃
After 6 years working independently (fractional roles, consulting projects, side-hustles), I’m looking to go back to full-time employment. Hoping the community can keep me in mind if anything below sounds like a match, but also thought it would be interesting to hear people’s thoughts in general on their portfolio vs FTE journey.
My Background: 9+ years across venture capital funds, accelerators, and professional services – building founder and executive programmes, membership communities, and post-investment support.
Why full-time: I’ve been fortunate to work across multiple organisations and build a strong network, but I’m ready for a team environment, more structure, professional development opportunities, and going deeper on one mission rather than across multiple clients/projects.
What I’m looking for:
– Ecosystem/Startup Partnerships roles (scaleups & big tech)
– P…
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Happy to chat and give advice (free) where I can around: FS, Banking, Data & AI
Hi community!
I’m Adrian, an FS Regulatory change agent, who specialises in Data and AI.
I’m not available for work, but I’d love to keep building my network, so if anyone has questions about my core subjects, I’d love to talk.
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Adrian Ward! Lets connect…Would love to take up on your offer! I am supporting a Compiance Fintech and would like to pick your brain!
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Absolutely Zia Rezvi would be more than happy to!
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Hi Adrian – welcome to the community! Thank you for introducing yourself and you offfer of support around FS, Banking, Data & AI.
So that we can connect you with other members that could benefit from your support, can you give me any more detail about the kinds of companies or members that would most benefit from your support? Then I can tag members here who it would be good for you to connect with. Have a great Monday!-
Hey team, thanks!
Any members operating with FS related businesses or products may benefit from connecting with me, especially if they are considering or actively working on automation, digital transformation, or responding to any regulatory changes that impact systems and operations.
I can also provide some broad advice on the utilisation of AI for other industries/products, however, it’s most likely to be useful in industries where accuracy is paramount.
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Hi Adrian – I’m tagging some of our financial services focussed members who’ll benefit from connecting with you to help you build your TPC network and beyond Erik Porter Olessia Willybiro Vic Mistry Maneesh Jain Lisa Karran Brett Smithard Steven Kearney Sandy Feriz Deepa Verma John Heaver 🚀
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You’re very welcome! I’m the TPC Community Manager so do give me a shout if you need any assistance with anything else
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Ian Randall posted in the group Multi-Hyphenates
Morning everyone – can’t believe this is the first post in this group but here goes…
Looking for advice from those follow multi-hyphenates who are further along in their portfolio career (I’m just starting out after trying and failing to land a permanent role over the past 10 months).
My intention is to try and build a Portfolio Career around the following pillars:
– Supply Chain (S&OP Demand Planning / Power BI Data Analytics): helping medium sized (500+ people) business improve their supply chain planning function to unlock commercial growth, think rapidly scaling businesses where supply chain is holding them back. Ideally focussed in the Renewables/Pharmaceutical/Heathcare industries (new area of interest, no direct experience but supply chain management principals are easily transferable).
– Music: Mixing & Mastering for electronic music producers (spent the past 5 years building up this skillset and have just billed my first …
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Matthew Jones
posted in the group The CommunityTPC f2f get-together in Central London at end of January / early February – vote below!
https://calendly.com/d/ctrh-syd-xfz/tpc-f2f-get-together-end-of-january-early-february
Hope everybody had a nice break over the Christmas and New Year holidays and are winding up to do great things in 2026!
Danny, Maleka and myself have been thinking about another TPC f2f community meetup in Central London.
Probably a pub (or other suitable venue) in the Soho or Covent Garden area from 7.00 to 9.00pm on a Tuesday or Wednesday evening.
The invite is open to anybody that’s new to TPC or new to Fractional working as well all existing TPC members in the London area.
As before, we’re not planning any specific agenda – just a friendly get-together for like-minded / diverse-minded folks who are keen to widen their network for some good chat, a glass of something and a nibble or two. And the innovation and collaboration magic happens as we get to know each other a bit better!
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Hello All. I’ve voted. Also adding Mike Anderson Fiona Chorlton-Voong Is it possible to add a whole group? Like Catapult Cohort 6 ?
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Hey Maleka
You’re very welcome to set up a group for this event (hit Explore in the top nav, locate ’Groups’ and click on ’Create a Group’). From there you’re able to set privacy settings so that members only can see the content, but as this is an open event I’d suggest leaving it open. Shout if you need any help with this 
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Wednesday’s 28th January and 11th February are looking most popular til now. I’ll leave the poll open until the end of the week and then book a venue early next. Please get voting if you want to come along just so we’ve got a better idea for numbers. Venue is going to be Soho or Covent Garden area. Thanks all!
https://calendly.com/d/ctrh-syd-xfz/tpc-f2f-get-together-end-of-january-early-february
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Wednesday 11th February was the winning date. All those that voted have been invited. I will post again next week after I’ve booked a venue – probably in the Covent Garden or Soho area. Message me here if you didn’t manage vote but still want to come – then I’ll add you to the calendar invite. Thx all! Matt.
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Hi Everyone,
I have been floating around here for a while but thought it was a good time to introduce myself for 2026!
I’m Joe, founder of Q-Wave Media, a creative agency specialising in videography and video editing. A samble of our work can be found here; https://qwavemedia.com/work
I’m also a bit of an operations geek and in a previous life I was quite senior in operations at companies like Adobe and Ferrero, and have been considering adding another string to my bow and taking on some fractional operations clients in 2026.
If either of these offering sound like they would be something you’d like to know more about, please feel free to get in touch, it would be great to meet more of you!
Thanks
Joe
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Looking for volunteer mentors – Global Business Championship 2026 (April)
I’m Alan Forgie, Client Services Manager for Oxford International Education Group, leading delivery of the Global Business Championship 2026 — an international entrepreneurship programme for high-potential students aged 15–18.
The Championship brings together exceptional students from across Europe, the Middle East, East Asia and Latin America. They work in diverse teams to develop and pitch early-stage business ideas rooted in real-world commercial and social challenges.
The problem we’re solving
We want students to move beyond “school business plans” and start thinking like real founders: clarity of proposition, audience, execution, and trade-offs. For that, they need short, sharp input from people who’ve actually built, scaled, or advised businesses.
Who I’m looking to speak with:
I’m looking for founders, operators, investors, or accredited mentors who:
– Have r…
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This sounds like a fantastic oppurtunity to support budding young entrepreneurs at the Global Business Championship 2026. I’m tagging some of our accredited mentors and community members who are founders, operators or investors who may be able to support the project with mentoring Patricia Bacon Ilaria Vilkelis Danny Wood Yi-Hsian Godfrey Charlie Rogers Sarah Speake Benedict Johnson Alex Hayes-Griffin Bulent Osman Samie Dorgham Mike Anderson Best of luck in your mentoring search Alan Forgie
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Thanks for sharing! It’s a great opportunity to help shape the careers of some highly accomplished young talent!
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Hi Alan Forgie – Happy to support this great project. I mentored two start-ups (traditional and social ventures) to win their respective business plan competitions at NYU Stern Business School and served as a NED at one of them until its exit to Amazon 9 years later.
DM me on next steps.
Thanks TPC Team for flagging me!
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Hi and thanks for responding! Thats exactly the kind of experience and story we want to inspire the students on our programme
I will send you a dm shortly.
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Hey all! I’ve been on my portfolio career journey for a while now and have spent a lot of time reflecting on it. I think that we often focus on the visible parts like clients, deals, income streams, while overlooking the psychological and identity work that comes with the transition.
I wrote a piece about the things that tend to break when you leave a full-time job (vision, money, identity, structure, and community) and the struggles I’ve seen in my own journey and in conversations with others. I thought it might resonate, so I wanted to share it.
https://iwanajohannsen.substack.com/p/the-five-pillars-of-work-how-to-transition
Wishing you all a great week 🙂
Iwana
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Hi Helen – really great to see you getting stuck into the catapult market research material 🚀
I’m tagging some of our AI strategy TPCers – Jaroslav Dokoupil Samie Dorgham Tom Wright Kevin Gohil Adrian Wong Michael Moulsdale – and some of our facilitation experts – Maggie Sarfo Murray Cowan Lexi Radcliffe-Hart Maria Evans PhD Kathryn Heppinstall John Miles Lara Hayward who’ll be able to share their experiences with you and advise on how they price themselves. 🙂