We take on the problem you have already tried to solve twice.
Meridian works with mid-market operators on the messy, structural problems — margin, throughput, and the org design underneath both. Small teams, senior people, fixed scope.
- Senior-only teams
- Fixed scope, fixed fee
- 8–14 week engagements
Where we're useful
Four practices. We turn down work that doesn't sit inside them.
Margin & Pricing
01Unit economics, cost-to-serve and pricing architecture. Usually the fastest place to find money that already exists.
Operations & Throughput
02Capacity, flow and the constraints actually holding output down — as opposed to the ones everybody talks about.
Organisation Design
03Spans, layers, decision rights and incentives. The structural reasons good people produce slow outcomes.
Growth Diligence
04Commercial diligence for investors and boards. What the plan assumes, and whether those assumptions survive contact.
Four things we hold to
These are the terms of every engagement, written into the agreement.
- 01
Senior people only
The team that sells the work does the work. No leverage pyramid, no analyst learning your business at your expense.
- 02
Fixed scope, fixed fee
Priced before we start, against a written scope. If it runs long, that's ours to absorb — not a change order.
- 03
Eight to fourteen weeks
Long enough to be right, short enough to matter. We don't take engagements that need a permanent desk.
- 04
Implementation, not a deck
Every engagement ends with the change made or in motion, and your team able to run it without us.
What the work looks like
Client names withheld under engagement terms. Figures are audited.
Margin & Pricing · 11 weeks
Specialty chemicals manufacturer
Six plants, flat volumes, falling margin. We rebuilt cost-to-serve by SKU and retired 30% of the catalogue.
Gross marginSKU rationalisation+4.2pts
Outcome
Operations · 9 weeks
Regional hospital group
Theatre utilisation stuck at 58%. Rescheduled the list, changed turnover protocol, added no capacity.
ThroughputNo capex58% → 81%
Outcome
Org Design · 14 weeks
B2B logistics platform
Post-Series B, hiring fast, shipping slowly. Redesigned spans and decision rights across 240 people.
Cycle timeOrg design−41%
Outcome
Growth Diligence · 8 weeks
PE-backed retail chain
Commercial diligence on a 140-store roll-up. We advised against two of the four target clusters.
DiligenceDeal advisory₹310cr
Outcome
Start a conversation
A partner replies personally, usually within two working days.
- Name
- Company
- What you're working on
We'll tell you early if it isn't a fit. That happens roughly a third of the time.
What clients say afterwards
Quoted with permission; organisations anonymised.
“They found four margin points in a business we'd already had two firms look at. The difference was that they went to the plants instead of the data room.”
“The scope didn't move once, and neither did the fee. After twenty years of buying consulting, that was the novelty.”
“They told us two of the clusters we wanted were not worth buying. It cost them the follow-on work and saved us a great deal more.”
Start a conversation
Tell us what you're working on. A partner will read it and reply personally.
Address
Level 9, Prestige Trade Tower
Palace Road
Bengaluru 560001
Phone
+91 80 6714 2200
partners@meridian.example
Hours
- Mon – Fri
- 09:00 – 18:30 IST
- Response time
- Within 2 working days
- Offices
- Bengaluru · Mumbai · Singapore