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

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 

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

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

Hyper Apps was tasked with creating a prototype design for an online marketplace's new application. Hyper Apps developed both a design prototype and a pitch deck while incorporating fresh color schemes, visuals, and page layouts. 

"The program managers and other entrepreneurs were very impressed with the end result. We recently pitched the prototype to another individual in San Francisco who was also very impressed." - CEO, Online Marketplace 

Green Ginger Digital provides full digital marketing support for a photography company. They helped launch a website and a service providing 360 virtual tours. The freelancer has a great workflow and is organized and methodical.

"Nick is very organised and methodical, our meetings are well structured and outcome oriented." –Director & Principal, Photography Company

Together with an international trade group, Tevolution Professional Services LLP provides customs brokerage. The client praises them for their responsiveness, communication, and professionalism. 

"We’re able to give much more professional service as a company because we can give advice that is really professional. It gives our company a good reputation." – Executive Director, International Trade Group 

Waterfall provided PR solutions for a drinks marketing agency. Waterfall was tasked to get the agency featured in the drinks trade press. The agency has since been featured in numerous key publications.

“Waterfall have worked as an extension of our team.” - Co-Founder, Drinks Marketing Agency

Huzz Digital provided social media marketing solutions for an influencer. The influencer was looking to have 3000 followers on their social media account. Huzz Digital exceeded the influencer’s expectations and they are satisfied.

“Very effective.” - Influencer

Radical Path provided design services for an international hotel chain. They helped storyboard creative assets assisting from conception to final delivery. Their deliverables boast a creative and clean look and met all expectations. 

"They’re incredibly professional and easy to work with." –Senior Performance Marketing Manager, International Hotel Chain

Rubik Communications provided PR services for a financial services company. The company not only wanted to improve their overall branding but also have experts work with their in-house team on messaging. The company has received positive feedback from investors.

“They always met deadlines and communication was smooth between both teams as their approach was very structured.” - Portfolio Manager, Financial Services Company

A telecommunications company hired IngDev to provide software development and software asset management (SAM) services. IngDev completed the project and met all expectations and the product was launched on time and under budget.

"they sent us variables we hadn’t even thought of along with a list of short questions that took us back to the meeting room" - CEO, Telecommunications Company

Cridiqa supported an Amazon product launch for an AV company. The company was having trouble getting their product noticed on Amazon. Cridiqa was able to provide product ranking solutions on schedule.

“Teamwork was outstanding and spot-on communication.” - Director, AV Company