Top 30 Small Business Consulting Companies in the United Kingdom

Cactus provided business consulting services for a design agency. The agency was looking to grow their business. Cactus helped double the agency’s size since working with them.

“They’ve got great a balance of hard and soft skills as well, with their technical, financial, and legal expertise, and then their sales, marketing, and culture experience.” - Founder, Design Agency

PixelPlex worked on smart contract consultation and development for a crowdfunding startup. They built the contract system and created backend processes to enhance communication between the GUI and contracts. The client was impressed with their ability to deliver throughout the project.

“As for their effectiveness, PixelPlex delivered everything we asked of them on time with no major issues.” – CTO, Crowdfunding Startup 

Beyond Analysis provided strategic and analytical consulting services to a holiday company. The client wanted to use data to understand and draw insights about their organization's customers, so Beyond Analysis researched strategies such as target audience analysis and brand evaluation to best position the project. The firm also used strategies like data mining. Beyond Analysis successfully developed a model that met the client's needs. The client was impressed with Beyond Analysis's flexibility and organization throughout the project. 

"They were very organized. There were no surprises, and they were flexible and adaptable. We work in a very agile way in the digital product development area, with full end-to-end continuous delivery. They really adapted to working with us in that space very well as they have an agile mindset."-IT Director, Holiday Company 

A communications company hired Westcliff Strategic for digital strategy. In order to process the business transition quickly, the team helps organize, arrange, and structure the newly merged businesses.  

"The experience they have in dealing with us is fantastic."

Etch provided web training services for a nonprofit using Google Design Sprints. The training was then used by the nonprofit to support engagement with parents in nursery schools. This has allowed the nonprofit to work more efficiently than before.

"Their sprint methodology has enabled us to compress many weeks’ worth of work into a single week. Sprints allow us to receive and act on user feedback early in the development process, thereby ensuring we reach our beneficiaries with solutions that truly respond to their core needs and to do this in a cost-effective manner." - Head of Innovation, Nonprofit

A life coaching consultancy hired Sunicola Consolidated Ltd to provide marketing services. These services include streamlining their website, business consultancy, and proposing customer acquisition strategies and how to implement them. Sunicola Consolidated Ltd completed the project in a timely manner.

"They take the time to understand your business and give you actionable steps with instructions or implementation techniques to help you understand how to use them." - CEO, Life Coaching Consultancy

Careful Feet Digital Marketing Agency was responsible for digital marketing campaigns for a wellness client. The campaign grew their social media following by the thousands and positive responses from consumers.

"They’d done well in building brand awareness with our target market." –Project Manager, Wellness Company

Sowen created an organized and structured plan for a government office. They helped to engage stakeholders with the data and systems the client used. Occasionally, Sowen also held workshops.

"The blended understanding and Ori's leadership through it were the key to moving forward."

BRIDCON LTD provided digital strategy solutions for a translation and interpreting company. The company wanted to restructure their business plan with the goal of increasing sales. BRIDCON LTD helped the company improve conversions by 9% with fewer resources.

“What we found really impressive [was] their ability to find answers by looking into data and human nature.” - Managing Director, Translation and Interpreting Company

Atom CTO developed an automated platform for an invoice finance provider. The goal was to develop an automated platform to handle the provider’s growth. The provider has worked with Atom CTO since their inception and has done so for two years.

“Atom was able to quickly grasp and share our vision for the Accelerated Payments platform and translate the business needs into tangible results.” - Co-Founder & Head of Operations, Invoice Finance Provider

Precis Digital oversaw a shopping comparison site's SEM strategy. The client wanted to expand the volume and ROI of its SEM efforts. Precis Digital handled the client's Google AdWords, Google Display, and YouTube Advertising accounts and implemented custom audience segmentations. Precis Digital also helped the client adopt e-commerce conversion tracking and implemented automatic ad bidding. Precis Digital's work allowed the site to make more data-driven decisions, assigning resources to areas with the most ROI.

"In Sweden, our SEM volume has increased 15% and cost/conversion has decreased 10% for Q1 on a year over year basis." – Traffic Acquisition & Optimization Lead, Shopping Comparison Site

A printing company hired Saines Business Consulting to help implement a new CRM platform where staff members had a shared online workspace for saving and completing jobs, and the company could share and store important job information. The project was completed and Saines then trained the three departments who were going to use the system. Because of this, job production began to improve within three days.

"What I thought was going to be a minefield turned out to be seamless with David's insights." - Signs and Design Manager, Printing Company

Studio Change designed websites and marketing assets for a consulting company. The team later created illustrations to represent concepts in a book of short pieces. They designed several two-page spreads.

"Their team took my idea to a level I couldn’t have imagined."

The ASO.co helped optimize an AI-driven healthcare app for search engines and the app store. The team delivered new designs, conducted A/B testing, and identified important keywords. The ASO.co's efforts resulted in an increase in app downloads while minimizing the client's ad spend by 70%. 

 "The team has also improved our organic performance, and we’ve seen a greater, more efficient performance with our keywords." — Director of Customer Acquisition, AI-Driven Healthcare App

Takeaway Reality offers AR development services and consulting for a marketing company. They’ve worked on several projects, including a driving experience, a fireworks experience, and a hockey game.

“They always provide exceptional service and delivery, regardless of the project size.”

Uncommon Communication worked with a social impact consultancy to refine their work. The projects involved refining the company's proposals and pitch deck, refining specific proposals, and work through existing proposals. The consultancy has won 12 projects with the help of their newly refined methodology.

"Uncommon Communication produces very reliable, excellent deliverables. I would work with her again and highly recommend her. From a differentiator perspective, her critical thinking skills are fantastic. Also, her ability to create and view things from a strategic perspective was excellent." - CEO, Social Impact Consultancy

AMD provided business consulting services for a digital marketing data company. They helped establish the partner's processes as well as guided them on how to scale their business and develop a strategy.

“They were approachable and extremely proactive.”

incite handled lead generation and consulting services for a brand language agency. Their team contacted prospective clients, referencing the partner's case studies and client testimonials. Their efforts have increased the partner's client acquisition and brand awareness.

"They have a sense of professional tenacity. incite is great at wrestling down a lead and getting that prospect to talk on the phone with me." –Founder, Brand Language Agency

An online digital publisher hired WMKD tho help out to create and execute a business strategy over the long term. The strategy had to be both scalable and cost-effective. The main focus of the project was developing a strategic vision for the publisher. WMKD has been attributed to the success of the company.

"WMKD gets to the heart of the matter quicker than anyone I know and asks questions that force us to think. WMKD remains a trusted adviser and invaluable to our business." - CEO, Online Digital Publisher

Paragon Sales Solutions provided telecommunication sales services for a property inspection company. The company wanted to improve sales without having to hire more talent. The company has since been able to work with a new client each week.

“They’re really great for small businesses and their pricing is transparent.” - CEO, Property Inspection Company

The Beaverhead Ltd provided web development services for an events-based social network company. The team produced an MVP, offering expertise from design to hosting. They successfully delivered, meeting the company’s expectations. 

“The Beaverhead took care of the whole process of creating task and project management.” — Product Owner, Placepark

A technology platform took on ACUMED Consulting Ltd as a partner in bidding for a data science & AI project for a bank and to complete a bank data science challenge project. Together, they ranked 7th for the project bid but only the top 5 were accepted. On the other hand, they completed the second project successfully.

"Technical expertise with a family business vibe, just like our startup." - CTO, Technology Platform

Partnering with a software development house, CJM Associates provides ongoing tax preparation. Their assistance in tracking R&D investment for government tax breaks stands out. 

"They perform very well at their specific tasks. They do exactly what we want them to do and more." - Director, Software Development House

A cosmetic brand hired MarginBusiness to provide a number of services. They were in charge of translating more than 30 product pages, localize and optimize product listings, and develop the storefront.

"The communication was always good and fast."

A regulatory software company hired The London Software Testing Company to handle QA testing on software for European regulations that the company was developing. The scope included checking whether the specifications of individual user stories or items on the backlog were good enough for engineers to follow and pick up, designing the test cases, checking the implementation and if the right values and results were produced, and exploratory and regression testing. The London Software Testing Company accomplished these tasks and met all expectations.

"I can rely on them because they always take responsibility for the things they work on." - Interim Program Director, Regulatory Software Company

Indie Ridge provides web development services for the owner of a media consultancy firm. The team is responsible for building a website to improve the client's online presence and promote their services.

"Their speed is excellent. They're always available and easy to work with."

NBT (Next Big Thing) provides digital marketing services for a software company. They manage a monthly plan that includes updating the website, creating blogs, doing SEO work, running LinkedIn ads, and more.

"They provide everything we need to have a robust digital footprint thanks to their 360 approach."

Hyphen Business Solutions Limited provided CRM implementation solutions for an engineer access solution company. The company not only needed a working CRM solution but also needed to train all involved stakeholders. Hyphen Business Solutions Limited took over the management of the project, which lessened the company’s own workload.

“Hyphen carried out user training across our organization and answered any questions we had in the weeks after the training.” - Managing Director, Engineer Access Solution Company

Growthonics provided lead generation services for a training SaaS. The goal was to improve generation within the USA, with 10 sales demos per month. Growthonics helped land 25 high-quality leads for the platform.

“Great team. A little bit tricky with time zones, but we made it work.” - Head of Marketing, Training SaaS

A construction company hired DNA Business Engineering Ltd for website development. The team was tasked with revamping the company’s outdated page together with brand identity within the provided materials. 

"Everything was excellent."