Transform your business. Create value. Fund the AI moves that matter.
Corporate, growth, and portfolio strategies developed alongside the executives responsible for delivering them
AI is reshaping industries faster than most transformation programs can adapt. Cost structures, operating models, decision processes and customer expectations are shifting. Investing in AI has become a strategic imperative but the challenge is now to understand which parts of the business should be reinvented, which should be scaled and which no longer create strategic value.
We help leadership teams focus on the few moves that can materially change the trajectory of the business and the equity story. Using operational data, market evidence and AI expertise, we quantify value from operational data, redesign the underlying business model and turn ambition into accountable execution.
Where we work
Corporate & Portfolio Strategy
We test each business against its market, its cash profile and its exposure to an AI-reset cost curve
Growth & Market Entry
New geographies, segments and channels identified through bottom-up demand modelling using transaction, geospatial and external data, then assessed against the true cost to serve
Value Creation Plans
ull-potential plans for management teams and investors, with a value bridge that quantifies AI and automation opportunities using your own data. Every initiative has a named owner, clear accountability and a review cadence that ensures sustained delivery
M&A, Diligence & Integration
Screening, diligence and integration built for an AI era: we evaluate how the target creates value today and how AI could reshape its cost base, operating model and competitive position tomorrow
Business Building & New Models
New businesses, products and revenue streams designed around changing customer behaviours and AI-enabled economics, from proposition and unit economics through to launch, scale and adoption
Capital Allocation & Planning
Investment committees, hurdle rates and scenario models that connect capital allocation to strategic priorities, while explicating the cost of each choice across different assumptions
A value map built for an investor and its portfolio companies, separating the few use cases that move EBIT from the many that consume management attention.
Integration management office, Day-1 readiness toolbox and synergy tracking for the acquisition of a supply chain business by a global logistics group.
Network redesign, customer portfolio pruning and a costed exit scenario put to the group executive committee of a global forwarder.
Why Talan?
Pricing strategy in delivery days
Every option that reaches the board carries a build estimate from the engineers who would deliver it, not a placeholder figure in a business case
Selecting dedicated partners from kick-off to completion
Partners who are framing the project are responsible for its implementation and are held accountable for results
One team supporting from thesis to release
Strategy consultants, sector specialists, data scientists and engineers sit under one roof, guaranteeing a realistic strategy and a smooth execution
Tracking value into the P&L
Benefits are booked into the budget lines and validated with the finance team
Designing projects to hand back
The handover is planned from week one, with client teams co-owning the model, the roadmap and the tooling, until autonomous use