Strategic advisory firm helping owner‑operated businesses through planning, pricing & execution.

Denver, ColoradoTen PracticesA Team Behind Every Plan

Why We Built ProxAi

Most strategy advice is a deck — recycled frameworks, surface-level diagnoses, and associates you never met. ProxAi exists to fix that. We built the plans we now write for others: pricing, proposals, hiring, books and operating cadence, in businesses that had to win contracts from giants. If you are already running something real and want to run it on a plan, with a price on it, you are in the right place.

The Team

A Bench, Not a Person.

Every engagement has a named consultant who owns the plan, and a team of practice leads behind them — each of whom has run the function they advise on.

  • Pricing & negotiation — supply chain and subcontract operators
  • Finance — controllers who have closed the books and raised the money
  • Brand, web & sales — people who have built an offer and a pipeline
  • Hiring & operations — managers who have built and run teams
  • Relationship intelligence — capture and business-development leads

Your consultant and the team behind them are named in the proposal.

Where Owner-Operators Go to Run the Business on a Plan

ProxAi is the private strategic advisory firm for owner-operators with real revenue — and a real decision in front of them.

The Diagnostic

For owners who know something has to change and want it named, sequenced and priced. Two weeks, fixed fee, a written read you keep.

Plans & Builds

For owners who need the thing built, not recommended. The brand, the site, the hiring plan, the books, the proposal — fixed price per deliverable, signed when it ships.

The Bench

For owners who want a strategy team on call without putting one on the payroll. A monthly operating review, the numbers, the next plan.

Pricing & Negotiation

For suppliers who sell to giants — aerospace, defense, engineering, specialty manufacturing. Rates, terms, milestones and cash, planned before the bid goes in.

The Numbers Do the Talking.

Supplier net profit
$7.77M
+97.9% ↗
base case $3.93M
Supplier revenue
$15.42M
+33.2% ↗
base case $11.58M
Program price
$22.84M
+23.0% ↗
base case $18.57M
Supplier bill rate
$97.40/hr
+33.2% ↗
base case $73.12/hr
Builder profit
$2.49M
-17.1% ↘
base case $3.01M
Peak cash to front
−$128K
34.5% less ↘
base case −$195K · less to front
Supplier net profit by bid rate · net 45 · $500K advance
Base case $3.93M
$0$1.94M$3.89M$5.83M$7.77M$110/hr$122/hr$135/hr$150/hr
35% share45% share55% share

From the public work sample — all four levers in the supplier's favor against the base case. Illustrative program, not a client's figures.

15+ Years of Operating Experience
Aerospace supply chain, subcontracts, pricing and proposals — on programs where the other side had a procurement department.
10 Practices, One Plan
Brand, web, hiring, research, proposals, finance, operations, sales, relationships, pricing — written so the pieces fit.
A Team Behind Every Plan
A named consultant owns it; practice leads build in their lanes. Nobody you have not met.
100% Signed by the Consultant
Nothing reaches you without a name on it. If it is wrong, you know who to call.
$0 in Contingent Fees
We are paid for the plan and the work, never a share of what you win — our advice is not for sale to either side of the table.
72 Scenarios in the Public Sample
One program, four levers, every figure from one model. Move a lever and the brief rewrites itself.

Most Strategy Advice Is a Deck. Ours Isn't.

The industry is flooded with advice that feels more like a sales deck than a plan. Slide factories. Surface-level diagnoses. Associates you never met. Fees that depend on what you win.

We built the opposite.

Every ProxAi engagement is built from the ground up around three things: a named consultant backed by a real team, a plan with a price on it, and deliverables that get built — not just recommended.

Ten Practices. One Plan.

Each practice is a consultant's domain. Take one, or take the whole business — the plan is written so the pieces fit.

What the Work Looks Like.

For an aerospace supplier, we built a program planner: one set of inputs, nine views, every figure from one model, and the briefs the client negotiates from.

One of its briefs is open to the public on an illustrative program. Move four levers and watch it rewrite itself — every figure, every table, every chart. For a sales team, we built a relationship map: every stakeholder rated on pipeline, disposition and the money they can reach, so the team targets the right people in the right order. Pricing models, cash forecasts, proposal libraries, hiring scorecards, brand systems and websites are built the same way: we build it, the consultant signs it.

From the Sample — Every Dollar of a Program, Traced
BUILDER — PROFIT16¢ BUILDER — OVERHEAD, FIXED COSTS, G&A21¢ SUPPLIER — PROFIT21¢ PROGRAM MANAGER2¢ SUPPLIER — OVERHEAD & RECRUITING4¢ PAYROLL TAXES & BENEFITS8¢ TECHNICIANS — TAKE-HOME PAY28¢ THE CUSTOMER'S DOLLAR · 100¢ · ILLUSTRATIVE PROGRAM, NOT A CLIENT'S FIGURES

Who We Work With.
Who We Don't.

We are a small firm by design. A consultant's name goes on everything, so we take the work we can stand behind.

We Work With
  • Owner-operators with real revenue and a real decision in front of them
  • Suppliers who sell to giants — aerospace, defense, engineering, specialty manufacturing
  • Owners at the step change: the first manager, the second location, the bigger contract
  • People who want a plan with a price on it, not a deck
We Don't Work With
  • Ideas without a business behind them yet
  • Anyone who wants us paid on a share of what they win — our advice is not for sale to either side of the table
  • Anyone who wants the answer without the reasons
  • Work we would have to ship without a consultant's name on it

Ready to Build Something Worth Owning?

Tell us the business and the decision in front of you. A consultant reads it within one business day. You have a plan with a price on it within a week.