Confidante Consulting

Management consulting for investors, founders and cross-border moves

Confidante Consulting is a boutique management consultancy in New York that describes its way of working as creating business with heart. It describes a personal approach, a small team of analysts and consultants drawn from industry, and a promise to report progress and likely outcomes truthfully all the way through an engagement.

For private equity and other investors

The first area is helping investors get the best deals, in the United States and internationally. The work runs from finding targets and checking them out to restructuring a business and managing a turnaround, whether operational, legal or financial. The firm says it combines a boutique practice with the weight of experienced consultants.

For founders and new ventures

The second area is working with what it calls practical dreamers and start-ups. It looks at whether an idea is viable and how to make it so, including a minimum viable product, a minimum viable team and product development, with the aim of building a sustainable long-term business. The site invites visitors to fill in a form for a free assessment of their project and to join its community, and it lets them choose how deeply they want the firm to be engaged.

Talent development

The third area is matching talented people from disadvantaged circumstances with interested companies in the United States and Eastern Europe, supported by educational programs and cultural exchange. The firm says it is always looking for co-creators who share this outlook.

Wider consulting

Beyond these three areas the firm gives general business consultations and helps with entering new markets, notably the United States and Ukraine. It also supports business development strategy, builds ad hoc teams and offers transitional management. A section of the site on doing business in particular countries points to its cross-border focus, and the firm writes about bridging the United States and high-yield markets.