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Read before pitch
No proposal until I've studied the business through its web presence and found what it's leaking.
About
One practitioner. The read is the product.
DL Consultants is a single-practitioner practice built on one discipline — diagnose before prescribe. I study a business the way its best prospect never will, quantify what it's leaking, and build the systems that close the gap.
The Practice
Bespoke, not templated. Deliberately narrow at the top of the market.
Most consultancies scale by doing the same thing for everyone. I don't. Every engagement begins with a real diagnosis of the client's own operation — their products, their enquiry flow, the specific way revenue leaks out of their front office before a salesperson ever touches it.
The prescription follows the diagnosis. Never the other way round. That means fewer clients, larger engagements, and work that's built for the business in front of me rather than assembled from a playbook. The calibre is set by the client, not by a package.
I work across sectors — industrial, enterprise, and technical B2B — wherever the pattern holds: a credible operation with a front office that undersells it. The niche varies. The method doesn't.
The Method
Three rules I don't break.
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Quantify the leak
Exposure stated in the client's numbers — lost enquiries, lost orders, annual revenue at risk.
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Build to the diagnosis
The system is prescribed from what the read surfaced — bespoke to the operation, not a reused template.
Benchmark
Soliflo set the floor.
A 40-year South African industrial bulk-liquid loading supplier. I diagnosed the front office, quantified the leak, and built the full system to close it — enquiry capture mapped to their real product taxonomy, an AI front office handling first contact, CRM and routing behind it.
Built to the calibre of the systems behind suppliers like SafeRack. One benchmark, told properly, is the proof that the read holds at enterprise-industrial scale.
PracticeDL Consultants
BaseJohannesburg, ZA — working internationally
FocusFront-office diagnostics & builds
TierEnterprise / industrial
MethodDiagnose-first
Next Step
If your front office undersells your operation, I'll find where.
It starts with the Diagnostic — a paid, credited read of where you're leaking and the build that closes it. Selective intake. One reply.
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