Richard
&
Hamilton

Services

Five practice lines, one method, and fixed-fee engagements scoped in a one-page proposal. Most relationships begin with a diagnostic and grow from what it finds.

Who we serve

Organizations of roughly $50 million to $1 billion in revenue and 50 to 2,000 people: large enough to run real portfolios, programs and finance functions, too small to justify an enterprise platform or a quarter-million-dollar engagement. Energy and infrastructure, financial services, technology, and professional services firms most often, along with owner-led companies working through a transition.

How we staff

Principal-led. The person you meet in the first conversation scopes the work and does it, with specialists brought in by the problem rather than by the org chart. Small teams, defined deliverables, and a documented system left behind rather than a deck.

Practice lines

Assessment and diagnostics

Measurement before recommendation. A diagnostic produces an outside, credentialed view of how a function actually operates, what it costs, and what to fix first, in a form leadership can budget against.

  • PMO and portfolio diagnostic: four to six weeks, maturity assessed against a published model, current-state inventory of projects, tooling and process, gap analysis, prioritized roadmap, written report
  • Operational audit of a function, process or site
  • Investigation of a program that has gone wrong: schedule, cost, governance, decision history
  • Pre-decision evaluation: build or buy, vendor selection, structure, expansion

Strategy and management

The cross-functional problems that fall between departments: structured, sized, and brought to a decision with the options laid out and the trade-offs honest.

  • Problem structuring and options analysis for leadership decisions
  • Operating model and organization design
  • Portfolio and PMO design: intake, prioritization, governance, reporting
  • Leadership cadence: decision rights, meeting architecture, escalation paths
  • Management advisory for founders, owners and executive teams

Operations and execution

Processes redesigned with the people who run them, programs delivered with the discipline of an operations order, and an owner in the seat when an initiative needs one.

  • Process redesign under Lean Six Sigma: DMAIC for a process that is failing, DMADV for one that does not exist yet
  • The Process Simulation Model: Inventory, Model, Improve, Measure, producing an interactive process model with performance overlaid, so a steering committee can see where the time and money actually go
  • Operational program management: charter, integrated schedule, risk and stakeholder cadence, through closeout
  • Interim program leadership

Finance transformation and transactions

The numbers a sponsor can defend, and a finance function that produces them on time. Led by a CPA and a transactions specialist.

  • Finance function transformation: close, reporting, controls, planning and analysis
  • Financial modeling, scenario analysis and business cases
  • Capital and operating models for programs and portfolios
  • Transaction support: diligence, valuation, integration planning and deal structuring for mid-market owners

Data, dashboards and AI

Operations intelligence built on the Microsoft 365 footprint the client already owns, on a documented data backbone of 162 templates, so a deployment ships in weeks and every later layer builds on the last instead of replacing it.

  • Portfolio dashboard: Power BI reporting on a structured SharePoint and Excel backbone, refreshed daily, themed to the client
  • Automation and predictive analytics: intake, escalation and close workflows in Power Automate, status and risk apps, and models for schedule slip, budget variance and resource demand
  • Portfolio agent: a Copilot Studio agent that answers portfolio questions inside Microsoft Teams with cited sources and row-level security
  • Agentic PMO platform: all of the above delivered as one implementation, with an operations-intelligence layer for capacity planning, demand forecasting and scenario analysis
  • Managed-service retainers after deployment

How an engagement is scoped

A 30-minute discovery call, then a one-page proposal with scope, fee, timeline and deliverables. Fees are fixed, not hourly. Most clients start with a diagnostic, decide on the roadmap it produces, and move to deployment and a retainer from there.

What we decline

Work that needs a team of twelve. Work where the only criterion is the lowest price. Work outside our competence. Saying no to these is what keeps the rest of the practice honest.

Tell us what you are working on.

A discovery call costs nothing and usually settles whether we are the right firm within half an hour.

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