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Services & Pricing

Practical resilience and continuity expertise — from programme design and fractional leadership to DR architecture and regulatory alignment. Transparent pricing, clear scope.

The regulatory environment has shifted

DORA is live. FCA PS21/3 and PRA SS1/21 have redefined what operational resilience requires of financial services firms. If your organisation is navigating these obligations — or has been told by an auditor that its continuity documentation needs to be substantially improved — we can help. Most engagements start with a short discovery call.

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Fractional Continuity & Resilience Leadership

Monthly retainer

Senior BC oversight without the cost of a full-time hire. Fractional continuity leadership gives your organisation a named, senior point of accountability for its resilience posture — someone who maintains the plans, runs the exercises, supports activations, and reports clearly to leadership. Available at the level you need, when you need it.

Get

No continuity function

We establish proportionate plans, clear roles, escalation pathways, and structured decision-support from the ground up.

Improve

Gaps in what exists

We strengthen existing capability, validate assumptions, and build adaptable response through scenario-based work and readiness checks.

Support

Capacity or redundancy

We provide additional capacity for plan refreshes, exercises, and incident support — including continuity leadership from outside the impact zone if your internal lead is affected.

Foundation
£650–£850
per month
  • Quarterly continuity oversight
  • Annual scenario exercise
  • Updated escalation matrix
  • Leadership summary report
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Strategic
£2,200–£3,000
per month
  • Full fractional BC leadership
  • Priority access to exercises & drills
  • Regulatory alignment (DORA/FCA/PRA)
  • Annual programme refresh
  • Supplier & cloud dependency review
  • Named point of contact for activations
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Pricing is indicative. Final pricing depends on organisational size, existing maturity, and scope. Optional add-ons: crisis simulations, supplier assessments, continuity audits.

BC Programme Design & Build

Fixed-price project

For organisations that need a continuity programme built or substantially rebuilt. We scope the engagement with a short discovery phase, deliver a clear fixed-price proposal, and work to defined milestones. The output is a programme your people can actually use — not documentation that satisfies an audit and then sits untouched.

Programme build engagements typically start with a Discovery Sprint of two to four weeks. Pricing from £10,000 for smaller single-site organisations with existing documentation to build from; scope-dependent for larger or multi-site programmes.

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Scenario Exercises & Drills

Fixed-price or day rate

Exercises that people remember are exercises that build genuine capability. We design scenarios from first principles — drawing on real threat profiles, operational specifics, and the decisions your team will actually face — rather than running off-the-shelf table-top scripts. We also draw on our creative background: exercise facilitation is a performance discipline, and a scenario that feels real is one that tests real responses.

Half-day table-top from £1,800. Full-day immersive exercise from £3,200. Multi-party or cross-site exercises priced on scope.

Technology Resilience & DR

Project or day rate

Technology resilience is not the same as disaster recovery, and disaster recovery is not the same as business continuity. We work across all three disciplines — with particular depth in the intersection between technology architecture decisions and operational continuity outcomes. The most common finding in our engagements is that the technology team has planned for technical failure, but nobody has planned for the operational consequences.

Technology resilience engagements are scoped individually. Many start with a focused review engagement of two to five days. Contact us to discuss your situation.

Discovery Sprint

2–4 weeks · £4,500–£8,000

A short, focused engagement to move from uncertainty to a scoped delivery plan. Most organisations that approach us with a resilience challenge don't yet know what kind of help they need — only that something is missing. The Discovery Sprint answers that question clearly, and delivers a prioritised plan and cost estimate so you can decide with confidence.

A Discovery Sprint can be followed by a fixed-price programme build, day-rate work, or a retainer arrangement depending on what the assessment reveals.

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Day Rates

Ad hoc and project work

For engagements where a fixed-price or retainer arrangement does not suit, we work at the following day rates. All rates are exclusive of VAT and any agreed expenses.

Service Day Rate
BC Programme design, review, or facilitation £700–£900
Scenario exercise design and facilitation £800–£1,000
Technology resilience review or DR assessment £750–£950
Regulatory alignment (DORA / FCA / PRA) £850–£1,100
Senior advisory and strategic input £950–£1,200

Rates are indicative. Multi-day and extended engagements are typically priced at the lower end of each band. Half-day rates available at 60% of the daily rate.

Start with a short conversation

We scope every engagement with a focused discovery phase. For most clients, a single call is enough to identify where the gaps are and what a proportionate response looks like.

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