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Ask HN: How do you scale a consultancy?

1 pointsby croqueton7 months ago
Hi HN.<p>I work for a small business (5-10 people). We like to think of ourselves as a software company, but for all intents and purposes we operate like a consultancy. We&#x27;re mostly devs, no *real* sales, marketing or BD people on the team.<p>Each year we try to get more projects signed off with more clients, hoping one may stick and turn into a SaaS type offering. But so far that&#x27;s only worked once.<p>FWIW, we primarily deal with computer vision (object detection, segmentation, etc) in a fairly niche sector, where all our potential clients are behemoth corps that move slowly and are not used to a change of process within the corp.<p>For the time being I&#x27;ve given up on the dream of becoming a SaaS with a single core product. So, how do I focus our efforts on scaling up this consultancy?

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verdverm7 months ago
Consultancy is personal, typically scaled by adding more (capable?) people<p>(capable is the hard part)