Twenty years on the buyer side taught me what was broken.
I built the firm I wished had existed.

Twenty years on the buyer side taught me what was broken. I built the firm I wished had existed.

A personal letter from the founder about the work that shaped Domino, the three things most consulting gets wrong, and the kind of partnership this firm was designed to be.

A personal letter from the founder about the work that shaped Domino, the three things most consulting gets wrong, and the kind of partnership this firm was designed to be.

WHY DOMINO EXISTS

WHY DOMINO EXISTS

For two decades, I sat in the client chair. I watched consultants roll off engagements before the systems they’d built were stable. I inherited platforms whose architecture only made sense to people no longer on payroll. I signed contracts where the senior name on the sales deck disappeared after the engagement started. I approved budgets that ballooned because nobody on my team could extend the work without calling the firm back.

I didn’t leave to build another consulting firm. I left to build the one I needed when I was buying.

For two decades, I sat in the client chair. I watched consultants roll off engagements before the systems they’d built were stable. I inherited platforms whose architecture only made sense to people no longer on payroll. I signed contracts where the senior name on the sales deck disappeared after the engagement started. I approved budgets that ballooned because nobody on my team could extend the work without calling the firm back.

I didn’t leave to build another consulting firm. I left to build the one I needed when I was buying.

The buyer-side years

FOUR beliefs that shape everything

FOUR beliefs that shape everything

What Domino is built on.

What Domino is built on.

02 - Capability is the deliverable.

02.
Capability is the deliverable.

Platforms are temporary. People are durable. Every engagement is designed so your team can extend what we built without calling us back.

Platforms are temporary. People are durable. Every engagement is designed so your team can extend what we built without calling us back.

03 - Measured by what you keep.

03.
Measured by what you keep.

Not by hours billed, slides produced, or reports delivered. By what your business can still do on day one without us.

Not by hours billed, slides produced, or reports delivered. By what your business can still do on day one without us.

01 - Led by seniors who’ve done the work.

01.
Led by seniors who’ve done the work.

The senior people who win the work stay to deliver it. We staff mixed teams by design, senior through junior, but the seniors are hands-on the whole way, not names on a pitch deck who vanish after kickoff. No rotation. No bait-and-switch.

The senior people who win the work stay to deliver it. We staff mixed teams by design, senior through junior, but the seniors are hands-on the whole way, not names on a pitch deck who vanish after kickoff. No rotation. No bait-and-switch.

04 - Honest before polished.

We tell you what we actually think, including when the answer is that you don't need us. A straight read beats a polished pitch.

04.
Honest before polished.

Not by hours billed, slides produced, or reports delivered. By what your business can still do on day one without us.

We tell you what we actually think, including when the answer is that you don't need us. A straight read beats a polished pitch.

Who we’re for, who we’re not.

Who we’re for, who we’re not.

Teams ready to build capability.

Teams ready to build capability.

Your engineers and analysts want to grow. You want to invest in that growth. We can build alongside them.

Your engineers and analysts want to grow. You want to invest in that growth. We can build alongside them.

Organizations hiring for throughput.

Organizations hiring for throughput.

If you want bodies on seats, staff aug firms do that better and cheaper. We’re not the right fit.

If you want bodies on seats, staff aug firms do that better and cheaper. We’re not the right fit.

Leaders who want a partner, not a proposal machine.

Leaders who want a partner, not a proposal machine.

If “thirty minutes, no proposal” sounds refreshing rather than insufficient, we’re probably a fit.

If “thirty minutes, no proposal” sounds refreshing rather than insufficient, we’re probably a fit.

fit

fit

the collective

the collective

Meet the people who’ll actually do the work.

Meet the people who’ll actually do the work.

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A small, senior team grounded in Calgary, with experience across energy, sports, technology, and public sector.


A small, senior team grounded in Calgary, with experience across energy, sports, technology, and public sector.


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