Partner with Us · A new class of advisors
We power the retrofit with solid software and a decade of experience.
Plus you.
What we built
What we built, and why it needs you.
Semco³ has forged human insight and tech speed into a transformational alloy. On one side, AI instruments do what no advisor could: an x-ray that reveals hidden weaknesses, TruthScan listening to every stakeholder, PerryScope sweeping the market continuously, GEORGE catching the drift between what was agreed on and what’s happening, RoleUp matching people and agents to their best way of working. On the other side, there’s the thing silicon can’t do: wisdom and experience guiding a company through the Round Pyramid, the fluid org chart that blends strategy, direction and a motivated workforce into one aligned system. Machines handle the evidence. Humans handle the meaning. Strategy and people, priced on results.
That combination needs a new class of advisor. We’re looking for partners on four paths:
DOOR 01
Independent Consultants
Keep your independence, leverage the machine.
→DOOR 02
Consultancy Firms
Build offers where your judgment still commands a premium.
→DOOR 03
Operators & Former Executives
You ran companies. That’s the part nobody can automate.
→DOOR 04
The Brain Board
The board seat you didn’t know you were missing.
→Path one · Independent Consultants
Keep your independence, leverage the machine.
You built a practice on the strength of your judgment. But your judgment doesn’t scale beyond your calendar. Meanwhile, every engagement starts from zero: new client, no data, bespoke tools, no way to scale up the engagement.
As a certified Semco³ advisor you keep your independence and gain access to world-class AI tools. You arrive at the first client sit-down with the MRI already run and TruthScan already listening: week-one insights that used to take a team a quarter. You guide cohorts through a method that two hundred companies have already been through. You bill for your experience and judgment AND take a share of the gains on the retrofits you guide, which means your best work keeps paying you after it’s done. The instrument does the analysis. You do the advising. That’s the correct division of labor, and it’s finally on your side.
WHAT YOU BRING
a decade or more of real advisory war stories, clients who trust you, and the sense to let AI do what it does best.
WHAT YOU GET
a unique methodology, certification on the five instruments, a seat in guiding crews, and the unequaled Semco³ brand.
The consultant’s five years, two ways.
What an experienced independent earns going solo, set against the same person working across the Semco³ roles. Same seniority. Fewer hours. More of it the senior part.
THE SOLO YEAR, HONESTLY
One large client’s budget freezes. A CHRO leaves. A transformation is postponed. Then three old clients call simultaneously. The HighPoint data bears this instability out: only about 60% of independents were at or above their target billable days; 44% were below target.
Going solo (income resets each year) Across the Semco³ roles (tails compound)
Solo income has no memory: every January you start again. A portfolio does. The Carry and the self-service tail keep paying for work already delivered, so each year stands on the ones before it.
*Year five rises on one extra engagement a year signed from year four. The Growth line in the ledger has the assumption.
Year one is roughly level while the tails build. From year two you’re ahead, and by year five you’re earning about 2.9× the solo average, for a more senior, more varied, and frankly more part-time year.
$0.90m → $1.87m
Total across five years: solo, then across the roles. Very nearly double.
$373k / $180k
Average year, portfolio vs solo. The gap is almost entirely the two tails.
The same year, unpacked.
Not one client at a time, taken end to end. A handful of senior roles held at once: the instruments do the analysis, so the week is judgement, not production.
Steward fees Carry tail Conductor unConsultant Brain Board Self-service
The base, Steward fees and the Carry tail, is the spine. The green tail grows on its own as past engagements keep paying. Everything above is a different kind of senior hour: running an MRI, an unConsultant panel, a board seat, a self-service sale.
Every assumption, in the open.
So this survives a hard read. Flagged lines are the ones with no settled price anywhere yet: first calls to argue over, not facts.
| Solo baseline | $180k a year, flat: an experienced independent across good and bad years. Outside estimates put the blended five-year average nearer $164k. Adjustable. |
| Steward | $25k on signing + $105k Carry paid over the next three years, per engagement. Roughly four held at once, modelled as two new signings a year with the rest in light-touch Carry tail. |
| Conductor | $10k per MRI run, three a year.no rate set yet · first call |
| unConsultant | $1,000/hr, ten hours a year.advisory-board rate is $2k/hr · could sit higher |
| Brain Board | $20k a year for one seat: four sessions plus prep.least anchored figure on the page |
| Self-service | Five sales a year at 20% of a $50k average = $10k each, each paying for three years. |
| The Carry gate | Carry pays only in years the client’s profit beats its own history. A flat year pays nothing, so the green line is the good-years shape, not a floor. |
| Growth* | From year four the scenario signs one more engagement a year as the track record compounds. Held at two a year, year five would hold flat. |
Working scenario, under calibration: a shape to argue with, not an offer. Euro and dollar treated at par.
Path two · Consultancy Firms
Build offers where your judgment still commands a premium.
A big consulting firm is a pyramid: partners sell, juniors produce, and the margin lives in between. But AI just moved onto the production floor, and the big firms answered by building their own software and shedding bodies. Meanwhile, a boutique or regional firm can’t outspend them, and reselling the labs’ tools makes you a middleman in a market that hates middlemen.
Partner with Semco³ and your firm will run retrofits in your market using our instruments and our method. You’ll use your relationships and industry depth with our tools (MRI, TruthScan, PerryScope, GEORGE, RoleUp) together with our certification and playbooks. You move from selling hours at AI-deflated prices to selling outcomes on a gainshare. That’s the direction the industry’s pricing is drifting anyway; we just got there first, and with the tools to do the job. We ran this model for a decade across eleven countries on four continents at the Semco Style Institute, so it’s not a theory. It’s a business.
WHAT YOU BRING
clients in your market or sector, senior people worth certifying, and a willingness to retire the hourly deck business before it retires you.
WHAT YOU GET
a new methodology, a market licence, best-in-class instruments, certification, co-branded delivery, and the revenue share of every retrofit your firm conducts.
The boutique firm, same logic.
One firm fielding its own certified people: more Stewards, more MRI runs, board seats across the partners, and a self-service line in its market. The tails stack the same way, just wider.
Steward fees Delivery budget Carry tail Conductor unConsultant Brain Board Self-service
Flowing through the firm: about $6.5m over five years, rising to $1.64m a year. The grey band is the delivery budget. It pays the firm’s own delivery team, so read it as cost recovered, not margin.
*Year five rises on one extra engagement a year signed from year four. The Growth line in the ledger has the assumption.
Every assumption, in the open.
So this survives a hard read. Flagged lines are the ones with no settled price anywhere yet: first calls to argue over, not facts.
| Steward | $25k on signing + $105k Carry paid over the next three years, per engagement. Roughly four held at once, modelled as two new signings a year with the rest in light-touch Carry tail. |
| The Carry gate | Carry pays only in years the client’s profit beats its own history. A flat year pays nothing, so the green line is the good-years shape, not a floor. |
| Growth* | From year four the scenario signs one more engagement a year as the track record compounds. Held at two a year, year five would hold flat. |
| Firm scale | Five Stewards, eight MRI runs, forty unConsultant hours, three board seats, fifteen self-service sales a year. Delivery budget $60k per engagement. |
Working scenario, under calibration: a shape to argue with, not an offer. Euro and dollar treated at par.
Path three · Operators & Former Executives
You ran companies. That’s the part nobody can automate.
You built, ran, bought or sold companies. You’ve met payroll, killed bad ideas, fired friends, and were maybe even fired by a board. You come with the scarcest asset in the advisory market right now: hard-won, hands-on knowhow. That’s why three quarters of every Semco³ guiding crew are operators, not consultants.
We’re inviting a limited number of current and former CEOs, COOs and owners to join guiding crews and Steward roles. The commitment? An hour a week with a chief executive walking the road you’ve already walked; cohort guidance during retrofits; and unConsultant sessions, where we assemble three of you (one who knows the company, one the industry, and one the challenges) to be brilliant for exactly one hour. It’s all remote and fits around a board seat or a business you still run. No decks to produce; the instruments produce those. You’re there for your judgment and wisdom.
WHAT YOU BRING
ten to forty years of operating intelligence and the candor that comes with not needing the work.
WHAT YOU GET
certification, crew and Steward assignments matched to your industry, unConsultant hours, and gainshare participation.
The fourth seat · The Brain Board
The board seat you didn’t know you were missing.
A Brain Board member is a non-executive director position built for how companies move today. There’s no quarterly board pack, no six-week run-up to get five minutes of attention, no governance theatre. Just direct, standing access to someone who has genuinely run something at scale on a calendar the company sets.
Brain Board members don’t run the instruments and don’t sit in cohorts; that’s not the job. The job is challenge: to be an outside, senior, independently-minded voice pressure-testing leadership’s biggest calls before they’re made, the way a good chair does for a CEO.
Shared fine print
The fine print in plain print.
All paths run through the same gate: an application, a conversation, and certification on the instruments and the Round Pyramid, delivered remotely. We’re deliberately picky, for the same reason as restaurants with short menus. There is no bench, no utilization target and no retainer culture: you work when there’s a retrofit that fits you. The gainshare model means everyone at the table gets paid for what works. If that sounds unlike the profession you’re leaving, that’s the idea.
The consulting era was built on information scarcity. It’s ending. The one starting is built on judgment scarcity. Bring yours.