Grow up,
not just out.
As you grow, more and more effort goes into chasing updates, reconciling numbers and coordinating decisions. We help leadership teams take that weight off — and build the operating model your growth keeps asking for.
Your operating model hasn't kept pace with your growth.
The ways of working that carried you this far were built for a smaller business, and they begin to strain at your current scale. The team is committed and the leaders capable; effort was never the issue. This is what scaling feels like — not a sign anything has gone wrong.
- Work takes longer than it should.
- Numbers are disputed or poorly trusted.
- Decisions wait on a small number of people.
The visible strain is often a sign of a single deeper constraint — and one cause is far easier to put right than many separate symptoms.
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Relief now. The real fix underneath.
The immediate problem is real, and worth resolving. We start with the pain you can feel today.
Working on it up close also reveals evidence about the constraint underneath — how your organisation actually operates. So what relieves the pressure now contributes directly to a more durable improvement: the same work does both.
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Andrew Rennie
North Focus Founder
What truly sets him apart is his ability to take complexity and make it disappear.
Built inside operations where complexity was normal
- Thirteen years inside Amazon's complex operational environment.
- Repeated experience across operations, finance, data and the technology that supports them.
- A bridge between business understanding and practical technical implementation.
- A consistent record of making difficult ways of working simpler and more effective.
Start with the problem you can see.
Tell us where work feels hardest right now, and we’ll take the first weight off quickly. No polished brief or predetermined solution required.