Business operations — built and run
We stand up the operational side of a company in the UK — entity, bank account, people, office, systems — and then keep it running.
01 — Position
Most companies don't fail on strategy. They stall on the operational things nobody owns. HSBG owns them.
The usual route is a formation agent, an accountant, a recruiter, a broker, an IT reseller and a lawyer — each with their own scope and invoice. The gaps between them are where projects stall.
We work as one operating partner across all of it. Where regulated advice is needed we bring in named partner firms and manage them for you.
How we work02 — Capability
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03 — Scope it
Select what you need. The panel gives you an indicative programme length and the shape of engagement — then send it to us and we will put real numbers against it.
Workstreams overlap. Sequencing and timings are set at scoping.
04 — Method
Every engagement follows the same five stages. The scope changes; the discipline does not.
What you're doing, the deadline that matters, the constraints you're inside.
Named owner, deliverable and date per workstream. Fees agreed up front.
Long-lead items start immediately; everything else sequences behind them.
We run the work and manage the third parties. You get recommendations, not questions.
We keep running it, or hand it over documented. You own everything either way.
05 — Who we work with
A parent abroad that needs a real presence here without seconding half the head office to sort it out.
Raised, hiring quickly, and the operational side hasn't caught up with the headcount plan.
Profitable, established, running on inherited systems and spreadsheets that no longer hold.
Building something new and wanting the structure right the first time rather than fixed later.
Standardising finance, HR and IT across companies that were never built to match.
Carve-outs, relocations and restructures, where the operational side has to be rebuilt to a deadline.
06 — Questions
No. Much of our work is a single workstream — a CRM build, an office move, a payroll transfer. The full stack exists because some clients need all of it at once, not because it's a condition.
We prepare and run the application, but the decision belongs to the bank — anyone promising otherwise is misleading you. What we control is the quality of the submission and the choice of institution against your ownership structure.
Fixed fee for definable projects, retainer for ongoing operations, day rate only where scope can't yet be fixed. Search is a percentage of first-year salary, agreed up front. Any supplier introduction fee is disclosed and deducted from your invoice.
No. We're an operations firm. Regulated work — legal opinion, audit, immigration, financial advice — is delivered by named partner firms we appoint and manage. You see who they are and what they charge.
You keep everything. Tenancies, licences, domains and bank mandates are registered to your company from the start, never ours. Exit is a documented handover, written into the terms before you sign.
Yes, across the UK. Property and fit-out is where local knowledge matters most, and we hold agent and contractor relationships in the major regional markets as well as London.
Start here
A working session, not a sales call. Bring the deadline and the constraints; you'll leave with a sequence either way.