Running a consulting firm is complex. It could be simpler.

Our team consists of former consultants, founders, and partners, and today we run an operations platform for ambitious consulting firms.

When we ran our own firms, what always struck us was how every consulting firm keeps reinventing operations from scratch. We left consulting to change that.

Since then, we’ve spoken with hundreds of firms and built Operating: the platform to run consulting operations, from resourcing to invoicing.

This questionnaire is a quick way to pause and ask: Where does complexity live in your firm? Because as a people business grows, operations turn into a complex system — one that impacts profitability, culture, and morale. But when done right, operations stay out of your team’s way and quietly keep everything running.

So let’s find out how complex your operation really is.