Ovate

Ovate is a UK operations and performance consultancy run by a husband-and-wife founding team, Catherine and Daryl Searle. It works with small businesses, start-ups and national corporations, offering practical, hands-on help alongside strategic advice.

What Ovate offers

• Strategy workshops — sessions that align founders on objectives and how to diversify.
• C-level advisory assessments — outside review of how a business is run.
• Testing services — quality checks on systems and delivery.
• Agile adoption and project management — support for moving to agile ways of working and running projects.
• Cloud strategy — guidance on planning cloud use.
• Coaching — an open, advisory style of working with leaders.

Who it works with

Small businesses, start-ups and large national companies. Ovate says it adapts its services to what each client needs rather than following rigid corporate processes.

Key facts

• Founders: Catherine Searle and Daryl Searle
• Approach: Focus on delivery results rather than reports, with honesty and integrity named as values