Strategy, systems, and operations for fashion and retail brands, built alongside your team, until it operates without us. This is the practice behind the 0600 Decision Support Platform.
Most consulting ends in a deliverable: a deck, a slide, a memo. Ours ends in an operation. A running team. Decision support tools that operate. A system that decides without us in the room.
We stay three to twelve months because that's how long it takes to define a strategy, build the systems behind it, and operate them with the team. We use software, not slides, because spreadsheets and decks can't run a business. We become part of the management team. We hand off when the work runs without us, not before.
What distinguishes the work is speed. We've run the businesses we now advise. We diagnose problems with the speed of people who have solved them, and define the requirements for the systems that solve them because, having operated them, we know how the work actually gets done. Operator-built, by operators.
Engagements are rarely confined to one. Most cross two or three: strategy bleeds into systems, systems into operations, operations into the next decision.
Channel architecture, pricing, retailer relationships, key-account planning, and the operations behind them. For international brands, the full US market entry playbook: wholesale, retail, e-commerce, and the connective tissue between them. Brands placed at Bloomingdale's, La Rinascente Milan, Le Bon Marché Paris, Nordstrom, and the boutique landscape.
Operating efficiencies through people, processes, and platforms, in that order. Understand the work, refine the process, then ask whether a platform helps make it better. The output is decision support tooling and AI enablement, built so the people doing the work make better decisions, faster. The premise: improve how work gets done. Not replace the people doing it.
M&A advisory, restructuring, diligence, capital readiness, and interim operating leadership. Drawn from a restructuring background that includes Lehman Brothers, Delphi Automotive, and Intrawest, and operating seats that carried the P&L.
Deep engagements, not drive-by advisory. Most relationships continue well past the first brief.
Decision support, built into the management team's workflow on the 0600 platform. Started with inventory; now spans sales, e-commerce, and the executive view.
Two engagements. Built out the sales and business development function: partner network, visual language, CRM, process. And, in parallel, custom software for their workflow operations.
Global wholesale strategy. Built the network and readiness that placed the brand in Bloomingdale's, La Rinascente Milan, and Le Bon Marché Paris.
Senior advisor since their first round. Product shape, sales strategy, fundraising support, and business development.
A short, focused scoping engagement. We map the operating reality, identify the leverage points, and define the work together. The output is a specific brief, not an open-ended contract.
Strategy, system design, and build. Alongside the team, not above it. Decisions are made together; work ships continuously; software, when relevant, is operating, not in a wireframe.
Documentation, training, a defined handoff. From there the relationship usually continues as standing advisory: lighter, available, on call when the work needs us. The operation runs on its own.
Engagements often land through the 0600 Decision Support Platform: your data, normalized and computed, with the dashboards and AI analyst the strategy needs to actually operate.
An engagement starts with a fit conversation. We respond personally, usually within a day.