TalentOracle provides business growth consulting for SMEs by identifying the Sales, Marketing or Tech capability your business needs, defining the success criteria, KPIs and 90-day execution plan, then helping you deploy the right talent against that blueprint.
High-value role and execution planning for growing SMEs, without the traditional consulting price tag.
Replacing an employee can cost 50% to 200% of their annual salary. For a growing SME, getting the role wrong can mean recruitment costs, salary already spent, management time, lost execution and then having to start the entire process again.
SMEs often know they need help, but the role is usually defined around a job title instead of the business outcome it needs to own.
A poorly defined role can waste tens of thousands, whether you hire in-house, freelance or through an agency.
TalentOracle works backwards from the result you want, then defines the role, responsibilities, KPIs and 90-day execution plan before you invest in the person or provider expected to deliver it.
We’ve streamlined a traditionally time-consuming advisory process for SMEs, so you get the strategic clarity you need without the cost and complexity of a lengthy consulting engagement.
Salary is only part of the risk. Calculate the potential cost of recruitment, onboarding, management time and having to start again.
Our business growth consulting process turns business priorities into clear capabilities, ownership, success measures and an execution plan your team can actually follow. Your Execution Blueprint contains 19 structured sections, covering everything from role definition and ownership to KPIs, business readiness, candidate criteria and the first 90 days of execution.
The role and level of experience your business needs based on the outcome you want to achieve, supported by relevant current market evidence rather than simply the job title you had in mind.
What they should own, where they support the existing team and what should remain outside their responsibility.
How performance will be measured, including what the role directly controls and which wider business outcomes it influences.
A practical roadmap for what should be established, executed, tested and improved during the first three months.
The systems, information, management support and dependencies your business needs to provide for the role to perform.
The skills, experience, autonomy and evidence to look for, informed by your business requirements and relevant current market conditions, giving you clear criteria to assess candidates, freelancers or managed specialists against the same standard.
The issues most likely to prevent the role from succeeding and what management should address before or during the first 90 days.
Define the capability, ownership and execution plan before committing budget to a hire, freelancer or delivery partner.
We start with the business problem, identify the capability it actually needs, then build the evidence, execution plan and delivery model around it.
Start with a short form covering your business, growth priority and the challenge currently getting in the way.
Enough context to prepare properly, without putting you through a lengthy questionnaire upfront.
We use a focused discovery call to understand the outcome you want, what is preventing it and where consistent ownership is missing.
We identify the capability your business actually needs and explain the reasoning behind the recommendation.
You’ll answer a few role-specific questions and share relevant business data. We then review current market research for the relevant location, including salary, skills, talent availability and regulations, before finalising the recommendation.
This can include performance data, commercial figures, current processes, systems, budgets, capacity and supporting reports.
We turn everything into your bespoke Execution Blueprint, defining the role, ownership, KPIs, candidate profile, risks and 30 / 60 / 90-day execution plan.
Your Blueprint works regardless of how you choose to execute it. We recommend the delivery model that best fits the work.
When the role can be delivered effectively remotely, we can help you put the Blueprint into action.
TalentOracle works with an established delivery partner to source remote specialists across Sales, Marketing and Technology against the role, experience and outcomes already defined in your Blueprint.
Access dedicated full-time or fractional specialists based on the level of capacity your business actually requires.
Specialists are supported through structured onboarding, agreed SOPs, KPIs, reporting rhythms and ongoing delivery oversight through our delivery partner.
Once the requirement is clearly defined, suitable specialists can typically be introduced and onboarded considerably faster than a traditional permanent hiring process.
Candidates go through structured screening, interviews and relevant competency checks before TalentOracle reviews the strongest matches against your Blueprint.
If the remote talent you select does not work out for any reason, a replacement will be provided at no additional cost. The goal is to reduce the risk of the decision and ensure you are not left starting from scratch if the first candidate is not the right long-term fit.
Scale, change or replace capability as your needs evolve, without locking into a lengthy permanent employment commitment.
If the Execution Blueprint determines that the capability is better suited to a permanent in-house hire, you will already have the role purpose, ownership, seniority, candidate criteria, KPIs and 30 / 60 / 90-day execution plan needed to recruit against a much clearer brief.
If you decide to hire locally, TalentOracle can identify and introduce a suitable recruitment partner based on the role, seniority and capability defined in your Blueprint at no additional cost.
Any recruitment fees charged by the selected recruitment provider are agreed separately between you and that provider.
TalentOracle starts with the outcome your business needs to achieve, identifies the capability and ownership that are missing, then defines the role around what the business actually needs.
Build a more predictable pipeline, improve qualification and conversion, and create clearer ownership across prospecting, follow-up and revenue generation.
Turn marketing priorities into measurable execution across acquisition, demand generation, content and the channels that support sustainable growth.
Define the expertise required to build, automate, integrate or improve the technology, data and operational systems supporting the business.
We don't start by choosing a job title. The final role, seniority and delivery model are defined after the business need is diagnosed.
When growth is stuck, the instinct is often to hire quickly. But the wrong role, unclear ownership and weak success measures can turn one business problem into an expensive hiring problem. TalentOracle helps you define the right capability, ownership and measures of success before you commit budget.
Our business consulting services are particularly useful when:
You know what needs improving, but you’re unsure whether it requires a new hire, specialist, manager or a different delivery model.
Important work gets done inconsistently because ownership is spread across the founder, employees, agencies or freelancers.
You want to make sure the role, responsibilities and seniority are right before committing time and money to recruitment.
You want clearer ownership, expectations and success criteria before making the next investment.
You know you need an SDR, Performance Marketer or Software Engineer, but still need to define what success should look like in the first 90 days.
You want to understand whether the work is best delivered in-house, through a freelancer, managed remote specialist or another model.
TalentOracle brings together 30+ years of combined senior experience across commercial strategy, demand generation, market expansion, technology and leading high-performing teams focused on revenue growth.
Our fractional advisory network strengthens the breadth of experience behind the TalentOracle brand, while the Execution Blueprint itself is built through TalentOracle’s structured methodology to define the right capability, seniority, ownership, success measures and execution required for the business outcome.
Experienced in building and leading acquisition strategies across SEO, paid media and demand generation, including work that contributed to multi-million-dollar commercial outcomes for home service businesses and B2B expansion across MENA.
A senior growth marketer with 13+ years of experience, having overseen $30M+ in paid media, supported 10+ major product launches, led growth for global brands like Lenskart and worked with businesses from Seed stage through Series D.
More than 10 years of experience developing digital, content and demand strategies, including campaigns that contributed to £100K+ in ticket revenue for national healthcare organisations, alongside SEO, CRM and audience growth initiatives.
Whether you already know the outcome you want to achieve or need senior guidance on where growth should come from next, TalentOracle gives you a clear starting point.
For businesses that know what needs to improve, but need clarity on who should own it and how it should be executed.
Where remote delivery is suitable, TalentOracle can also work with its delivery partner to source and shortlist managed Sales, Marketing or Technology specialists against your Blueprint.
For businesses that need to clarify the growth opportunity before deciding which role should own it.
Work directly with experienced senior consultants to identify commercial priorities, growth opportunities and the execution focus required to move the business forward.
Everything you need to know about the Execution Blueprint, hiring options and how TalentOracle works.
Because finding someone quickly doesn’t help if the role itself hasn’t been properly defined.
A poorly defined hire or provider can cost thousands in recruitment fees, salaries, retainers and lost time before you realise the problem started with the brief.
TalentOracle defines the outcome, ownership, seniority, KPIs and first 90 days first, so whoever you hire has a much clearer job to do.
Define the role properly before you pay someone to fill it.
That’s exactly the problem TalentOracle is designed to solve.
You might know you need more qualified leads, stronger marketing performance, better sales execution or more technical capacity without knowing whether that means a junior hire, experienced specialist, manager or something else.
You bring us the business outcome. We work backwards to define who should own it and what they need to deliver.
Every Execution Blueprint contains 19 structured sections designed to define the capability your business needs, how it should operate, how success will be measured and what execution should look like during the first 90 days.
Executive Summary
Business Objective and Problem Being Solved
Role Purpose, Ownership and Scope Boundaries
Role-Specific Strategic Context
Outcome-Based Responsibilities
30 / 60 / 90-Day Execution Roadmap
KPI and Success Measurement Framework
Weekly Operating Rhythm
Reporting Structure
Tools, Systems & Recommended Enablement
Required Skills and Experience
Client Dependencies
Management Readiness Check
Client Readiness & Pre-Start Requirements
Risks and Likely Failure Points
Candidate Selection Criteria & Success Profile
Business Case / Role Economics
First-Month Priorities
Final Recommendation
Every section is tailored to your business, recommended capability and available data.
No. A job description tells someone what their responsibilities are.
Your Execution Blueprint goes much further. It defines why the role exists, what they should own, what success looks like, how it will be measured and what they should achieve during their first 90 days.
It is designed to help you make a better hiring decision and give the person a clearer starting point once they begin.
That’s fine too.
If you genuinely know the role, seniority and responsibilities required, TalentOracle can focus on validating the requirement and defining the KPIs, ownership, candidate profile and 90-day execution plan.
We’re not here to make the process more complicated than it needs to be.
No.
If managed remote talent is the right fit, we can help you source it through our delivery partner.
If a permanent local hire makes more sense, you can use the Blueprint yourself, give it to your existing recruiter, or we can help you identify a suitable recruitment partner in your area.
The recommendation comes first. The hiring model comes second.
You won’t simply be sent a pile of unfiltered CVs.
Candidates go through structured screening that can include experience review, interviews, communication assessment and role-relevant competency checks where appropriate.
TalentOracle then reviews the strongest matches against the requirements already defined in your Blueprint before you meet them.
That’s absolutely fine.
Your Execution Blueprint gives you the role definition, responsibilities, seniority, candidate profile, KPIs and success criteria needed to run your own hiring process with much more clarity.
You can use it to brief your internal team or recruiter, compare candidates against clearly defined requirements and give the successful hire a structured 90-day starting point.
Then defining another role may be premature.
If you need clarity around your commercial priorities first, TalentOracle’s senior consultants can provide business growth consulting and strategic advisory support to help identify where the opportunity lies and what should happen next.
Once the priority is clear, we can then define who needs to own it.
We’ll take that into account, but we’ll also test whether that level of experience can realistically handle what you expect from the role.
If a junior person can succeed with the right structure and supervision, we’ll define the role accordingly.
If the outcome requires more judgement, autonomy or experience, we’ll explain why rather than helping you hire someone who is likely to struggle from day one.
Your Execution Blueprint is typically delivered within 7 days once all required information has been received.
We move quickly, but the Blueprint is still built around your specific business, outcome, available data and recommended capability.
TalentOracle has streamlined the capability-planning process around a focused methodology, structured discovery and role-specific research.
Instead of running a lengthy consulting engagement, we concentrate on the decisions that matter most: the capability your business needs, what they should own, how success should be measured and what execution should look like in the first 90 days.
Our structured process and modern research and analysis tools reduce unnecessary consulting overhead while keeping every Blueprint specific to your business.
The result is practical, bespoke strategic guidance without the cost and complexity of a traditional consulting engagement.
