Business consulting for Canadian owners who want the whole picture, then a plan that gets done

What a full-service consulting firm does for an SMB

A full-service firm looks at the business as one system rather than solving one symptom in isolation. Late invoices, an overloaded owner and thin margins are often the same problem seen from three angles, and fixing one without the others rarely holds.

Our work covers six connected areas:

• Business diagnostic: a fixed-scope review of finances, operations, people and market that ends in a ranked list of priorities.
• Operations and process improvement: mapping how work actually flows, measuring rework and writing procedures people follow.
• Financial clarity: a rolling 13-week cash forecast, true margins by service line and a short KPI scorecard.
• Organisation and roles: structure, written accountabilities and decision rights.
• Growth strategy: pricing, segment and channel choices backed by your own numbers.
• Implementation support: a monthly steering cadence that turns recommendations into finished work.

You can engage us for one area or several. The services overview explains how to choose.

How an engagement runs, from diagnostic to implementation

Every engagement follows the same four phases, so you are never unsure where you stand.

1. Discover. We read your financial statements, sales data and job or order records, and interview the owner and key staff. Nothing is concluded yet.
2. Diagnose. We quantify what we found: where cash is tied up, which services lose money after direct costs, where hours are lost to rework, and which decisions are stuck with one person.
3. Design. We agree with you on the few changes worth making first, each with an owner, a measure and a date.
4. Deliver. Either your team carries the plan with periodic check-ins, or we stay on a retainer to steer it month by month.

The diagnostic itself usually produces three deliverables: a findings report, a priority matrix ranking each issue by financial impact and effort, and a 90-day action plan. Those documents belong to you, whether or not you continue with us.

A worked example of what "financial clarity" means

Clarity usually starts with one uncomfortable number. Picture a hypothetical 25-person company billing $3.2 million a year that believes its gross margin is 34%.

When direct labour is loaded properly (wages plus the employer-side costs your bookkeeper confirms) and assigned to each service line, the picture changes. One line, carrying $900,000 of revenue, turns out to earn 9% after direct costs, while the other two earn 41% and 38%. Overhead of $780,000 is being carried almost entirely by the two healthy lines.

Repricing the weak line by 8%, or redesigning how it is delivered, is worth roughly $72,000 a year before any growth effort. That is why we look at margins before we talk about marketing or hiring. The method is laid out step by step in our guide to margin by service line.

Clear engagement models, written down before any work

Each engagement uses one of four models from the Sedighi.ca consulting price list, and you see which one applies before anything starts.

Each figure is before sales tax, which is added as GST/HST based on your province (GST and QST in Quebec). The pricing page explains what moves a project up or down that range.

Who leads the work

Every engagement is led by Ali Sedighi, MBA in Technology Management, who has built and run businesses since he founded the digital agency ONE.ir in 2007. He is the founder of Conv.ca and MyAutomation.ca, and Founder and Managing Partner of SAZ.ca, with clients in Canada, the USA and Dubai.

BusinessConsultingService.ca belongs to the Sedighi.ca and SAZ.ca group of companies, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, and works with owners in every province and territory. Our parent consulting brands are Sedighi.ca and BusinessConsulting.ca. More on our approach is on the about page.

What we will not claim

We will not promise a revenue figure, and we do not publish client quotes or ratings. What we can show is documented work: results from our HVAC work, such as HVACDeal.ca generating 500+ leads at a 12:1 ROI, and the gas-boiler division built for CANRO Heat as GasBoilers.ca. The results page explains what those projects demonstrate about method, and what they do not prove about your sector.

Start with a short message

The quickest start is a text or a call to (604) 632-4959, or an email to Ali@Sedighi.ca, with your sector, your city and the one issue you most want solved. We reply, usually within one business day, to arrange the free initial consultation by phone, video call or in person. See contact for what to include, or browse the areas we serve.