Who we are
We left the Big 4 behind on purpose.
You get the calibre of thinking the big firms offer, at the speed your business moves. Consultants tired of bureaucracy, burnout culture, and cookie-cutter advice founded OPS in 2007 to do exactly that.
Founded — reinvented in 2026
Hubs across four continents
Our origin
Built from frustration. Driven by results.
In 2007, a group of consultants walked out of the Big 4 world and started something different. Not because they doubted the quality of the work — but because the model was broken. Six-month sales cycles. Junior staff carousels. Recommendations that sat in binders. Clients who paid premium fees and got process, not progress.
The mission from day one was simple: build a firm that actually moves at the speed of business. No red tape. No boilerplate frameworks retrofitted to every engagement. No leaving the room when implementation started — Sequoia-calibre strategic support, delivered to every business owner and operator.
OPS operates through a distributed network of hubs in Dubai, Geneva, Johannesburg, London, Montreal, Portsmouth, and Singapore. Dubai is the group headquarters, and the other six are operations hubs serving their regions. Our remote-first, deliberately lean team works where you need us most.
“Think Deloitte-quality strategy, implementation, and support — without the red tape, the six-month sales cycles, or the junior-staff carousel.”
The difference
OPS vs the traditional model
| What matters to you | Big 4 / Traditional firms | Outpace Professional Services |
|---|---|---|
| Time to value | Months of discovery, scoping, and proposal cycles before work begins. | Your engagement is structured to deliver measurable outcomes in 60–90 days. |
| Who does the work | Senior partners sell, junior staff deliver. The person who understood your business leaves after the pitch. | The senior advisor who scopes your engagement is the one who executes it. |
| Deliverable | Strategy decks and recommendations. Implementation is a separate engagement. | We stay through implementation. The work is done when the results are real. |
| Cost structure | Premium fees underwriting large offices, partner distributions, and brand overhead. | A lean operating model passes the efficiency directly to you. |
| Who we serve | Primarily Fortune 500 and public sector — smaller organisations get the C-team. | You get the same calibre of thinking, whatever your size. |
| Pace | Governed by internal process, approval chains, and risk-management culture. | Governed by the speed your business actually operates at. |
How we work
Six operating principles
Results over process
Your engagement is measured against outcomes, not deliverables. A 200-slide deck that does not change anything is a failure. A two-page action plan that moves your business forward is a success.
Speed is a feature
The most valuable insight is the one that arrives in time for you to act on it. We work at business speed, not consulting-firm speed. Fast decisions, fast delivery, fast feedback loops.
Senior advice, always
The people who understand your business are the people who do the work. Your engagement is never a training ground for junior consultants. You get our best thinking, directly.
Built for the real world
You get frameworks built for implementation, not presentation, and recommendations your real teams can execute with real budgets, in real organisations, not ideal ones.
Continuous learning
The business world moves faster than any methodology. We invest in staying current in technology, regulation, market dynamics, and operational practice, because outdated advice is worse than no advice.
Honest, always
You'll hear what you need to hear, not what you want to hear. If a strategy will not work, we say so. If a system is the wrong choice, we say so. Trust is built on honesty, not comfort.
Our story
Nineteen years of building something different
- 2007
- 2010
- 2015
- 2019
- 2023
- 2026
Founded — United States
A team of experienced consultants leaves the Big 4 to build a firm that operates at the speed of business. The founding thesis: Sequoia-calibre strategic support should not be reserved for the Fortune 500.
First manufacturing and energy clients
OPS builds its first deep sector practices in manufacturing and energy — industries where the gap between strategy and operational reality is most expensive and most fixable.
Digital transformation practice launched
OPS becomes an official Odoo partner and launches its ERP implementation practice. Today, as an Odoo and NetSuite partner, the team assesses the operating problem before recommending a platform.
Fully remote operating model adopted
OPS transitions to a permanently distributed, remote-first model — reducing overhead, expanding the talent pool, and proving that senior-quality consulting does not require a corner office.
Sovereign Data and Cybersecurity practices launched
As data sovereignty and cybersecurity become boardroom issues rather than IT concerns, OPS expands its practice areas to meet clients where the risk is real and the expertise gap is widest.
A global hub model for the next chapter
OPS reinforces its distributed model through seven hubs in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Where we work
Seven hubs. Four continents.
Dubai
United Arab Emirates
Group headquarters. Serving clients across the GCC.
Geneva
Switzerland
Operations hub. Serving clients across the European Union.
Johannesburg
South Africa
Operations hub. Serving clients across Africa.
London
United Kingdom
Operations hub. Serving clients across the United Kingdom.
Montreal
Quebec, Canada
Operations hub. Serving clients across Canada.
Portsmouth
New Hampshire, USA
Operations hub. Serving clients across the United States.
Singapore
Singapore
Operations hub. Serving clients across Asia-Pacific.