Retainer
Your dedicated senior strategist — always on, always embedded.
The Tactant Retainer gives you a named senior strategist working inside your business every month — attending key meetings, advising on live decisions, reviewing plans, and providing the kind of frank, high-quality thinking that drives sustained business performance. Not a hotline. Not a report. A genuine strategic partner.
Retainer
Ongoing Strategic Partnership
A Senior Strategist Who Knows Your Business
Most businesses get access to external expertise in short, expensive bursts — a project here, a consultation there. The Tactant Retainer works differently. You get a named senior strategist who works with you continuously, month after month, building deep knowledge of your business, your team, your challenges, and your goals.
Because they know you, they advise better. They challenge more effectively. They spot patterns others miss. And because they're embedded in your rhythm — in your leadership meetings, reviewing your plans, advising on live decisions — the advice isn't theoretical. It's immediate, contextual, and directly applicable.
Think of it as having a highly experienced senior partner without the overhead of a full-time hire — one who brings not just their own expertise but the full intellectual resources of the Tactant network.
Everything Inside Your Retainer
Every Retainer is tailored to your business rhythm and priorities. These are the core components included every month.
Named Senior Strategist
One dedicated senior Tactant strategist assigned to your account — building deep knowledge of your business, team, and goals over time.
Monthly Strategic Review
A structured monthly session reviewing your performance, current priorities, active decisions, and the strategic outlook for the month ahead.
Priority Access & Response
Direct access to your strategist via phone and email — with a guaranteed response within four business hours on any working day.
Document & Plan Review
Unlimited review of plans, decks, proposals, strategies, and communications — with frank, detailed feedback turned around promptly.
Leadership Meeting Attendance
Your strategist attends agreed leadership or management meetings — contributing strategic input, challenging assumptions, and providing an external perspective in the room.
Monthly Progress Summary
A concise end-of-month summary from your strategist — capturing key insights, decisions made, progress against priorities, and recommended focus for the coming month.
Full Tactant Network Access
When a challenge requires expertise beyond your strategist's domain, the full Tactant specialist network is drawn upon — at no additional cost for standard consultations.
Annual Strategic Review
A comprehensive annual review of your business performance, strategic position, and plan for the year ahead — delivered as a half-day session with your leadership team.
Choose Your Level of Engagement
Three Retainer tiers designed to match different stages of growth, business complexity, and depth of strategic support required.
Foundation
For growing businesses that need regular senior strategic input without deep embedding.
- Named senior strategist
- 1× monthly strategic review session
- Priority access (8-hour response)
- Document & plan review (up to 4/month)
- Monthly progress summary
- Annual strategic review
- Leadership meeting attendance
- Unlimited document review
Partner
For businesses that want a genuine strategic partner embedded in their monthly rhythm.
- Named senior strategist
- 2× monthly strategic review sessions
- Priority access (4-hour response)
- Unlimited document & plan review
- Monthly progress summary
- Annual strategic review
- 1× leadership meeting/month
- Full Tactant network access
Embedded
For businesses that want a senior strategist operating as a true extension of their leadership team.
- Named senior strategist
- Weekly strategic sessions
- Same-day priority access
- Unlimited document & plan review
- Monthly progress summary
- Annual strategic review
- Unlimited leadership meeting attendance
- Full Tactant network access
All Retainer engagements are bespoke and priced based on business size, complexity, and tier. Contact us for a tailored proposal.
Is the Retainer Right for You?
The Retainer is designed for leaders who understand that sustained performance requires sustained strategic input — not just occasional project work.
Retainer Is a Great Fit If…
- You want consistent senior strategic input every month
- You value an advisor who genuinely knows your business
- You face ongoing decisions that benefit from expert challenge
- You want to maintain and build on outcomes from a previous engagement
- You want strategic support without a full-time senior hire
- Your business is growing and strategy needs to evolve continuously
- You want a frank, external perspective on your leadership thinking
You May Prefer Another Option If…
- You need support for one specific urgent decision → Care: Hotline
- You need a full business transformation programme → Spectrum
- You need your existing work kept current & maintained → Care: Update
- You need protection against unexpected crises → Care: Insurance
- You need deep execution, not ongoing advisory → Sprint
How Your Retainer Begins
Onboarding is thorough but fast — designed to get your strategist fully embedded and adding value within the first two weeks.
Strategist Matching
We match you with the senior strategist whose background, expertise, and working style best fits your business, sector, and challenges. You meet them before the engagement begins.
Day 1–3Business Immersion
Your strategist conducts a structured immersion — reviewing key documents, interviewing leadership, and building a deep understanding of your business, strategy, team, and context.
Day 3–10Rhythm Setup
The monthly engagement rhythm is established — recurring sessions booked, communication channels set up, and the first month's priorities agreed. Everything is in place before day 14.
Day 7–14Live & Running
Your Retainer is active. Your strategist is engaged, accessible, and adding value. The relationship deepens every month — and the quality of strategic input improves as their knowledge of your business grows.
From Day 14"Having the same senior strategist with us every month has been transformative. She knows our business as well as we do — probably better in some areas. She challenges us in the right ways, catches blind spots before they become problems, and gives us the kind of thinking that simply wasn't available to us before. I couldn't imagine running the business without that relationship now."