We take four clients at a time and finish before we start the fifth.
Zervuqo is a small business consulting studio in Austin, Texas, working fixed-scope engagements with founders and teams of one to twelve people: strategy sessions, operations audits, pricing reviews and a capped monthly retainer. No decks. Every engagement ends in a numbered fix list or a photographed whiteboard.
93 River Road, Unit B, Austin, Texas — the one address this independent business consultant in Austin, Texas works from.
Fixed scope. Stated end date. No retail or restaurant clients — different margins, different cash-flow problems, outside what this studio understands.
We turn down more work than we take.
A strategy session runs three hours. Not four, not two. If your team is past twelve people, we are not the right studio, and we will say so on the first call rather than bill you to find out. We work with founders and teams of one to twelve — software, services, small local operators — on strategy, operations, pricing and packaging, and a capped growth retainer.
Retainer clients get eight hours a month, tracked to the half hour, month-to-month with no long-term contract. Audits and reviews are flat fees per engagement, confirmed before anything starts.
We turn down retail and restaurant work outright. Different margins, different cash-flow problems — not the trade this studio was built to understand.
Pick the problem, not a package.
Each direction is its own fixed-scope engagement with its own end date. Scope, typical length and price basis for every one of them sit in full on the consulting directions page.
Strategy & Positioning Session
A single three-hour session that ends with a photographed whiteboard as the deliverable, not a deck.
See scope and price basis 02Operations Audit
One week reviewing tools, handoffs and where work actually stalls, ending in a numbered fix list.
See scope and price basis 03Pricing & Packaging Review
A line-by-line margin check against your last twelve invoices, run by a pricing strategy consultant who reads margin, not vibes.
See scope and price basis 04Growth Advisory Retainer
Eight hours a month, billed to the half hour, month-to-month with no long-term contract.
See scope and price basisThree steps, one sitting.
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You bring the actual problem
Not a brief. Invoices, a calendar, a hiring plan, whatever the decision touches. We start from what is really happening in the business, not a pitch deck.
First 30–45 minutes -
We work it on the whiteboard
Every option gets written down, argued through, and crossed out or kept, in the room, with you. Nothing gets decided off to the side.
Bulk of the session -
You leave with the photo
We photograph the whiteboard and hand you a numbered list of what to do and in what order. That photo is the deliverable — a new hire could read it on their first morning.
Final 15 minutes
Session lengths and retainer hours are fixed numbers, not estimates that move per client. See the full breakdown on consulting directions.
Fewer clients, more hours each, no bench staff billing hours nobody asked for.
The whole business model, in one line
See the hours before you call.
Tell us what you are deciding.
A short version of the inquiry form below is enough to start. For the full form, studio hours and the map details, use the contact page.
Austin, Texas 06493
United States +1 (365) 555-8425 [email protected] Full inquiry form and studio hours