You know something's broken.
You’ve built something real. Clients tell you the work is excellent. But when people visit your website, they leave confused. When you explain what you do, eyes glaze over. Your marketing feels like shouting into fog.
This isn’t a you problem. This is a clarity problem.
You can’t read the label from inside the bottle. You need someone outside to see what’s genuinely there.
That’s what we do.
Start Here: Strategic Clarity Session
The problem: You’re too close to see your business clearly. You know your work matters. You just can’t explain why in a way that makes people care.
What happens: We become your external observer. One session. We see the pattern running through your work that you’ve missed. We build you a Message Framework so clean that talking about your business finally feels natural.
You get:
- Message Framework (the clarity you’ve been missing)
- Top-level website content (written in your voice, for your customers)
- Information architecture (menu structure that makes sense)
- Prompting documents (so you can keep generating clear content)
Investment:
- Solo and small businesses: $880-1,250 + GST
- Growing businesses: $3,750-6,000 + GST
Process: For solo and small businesses, This includes 1-2 hours of diagnostic work, and a phone/Zoom interview, typically with one business owner or small team. Perfect for consultants, trades, creative services, small retail. Get the message right first. Everything else flows from there.
For established/growing businesses, this includes 4-5 hours across multiple stakeholder interviews via phone/Zoom to capture a range of perspectives. Perfect for schools, councils, and organisations with teams. Think of it as strategic triage before any major investment. No glossy reports that gather dust. Just clear external perspective and action steps to get you moving forward.
What Happens Next
Once you have clarity, you need to do something with it. Here are three possible pathways (and they might not be needed immediately, or at all, depending on your situation.
Websites That Don't Keep You Waiting
The gap: Your message is clear. Your website isn’t. Visitors still leave confused because the site doesn’t match the clarity you now have.
What we do: Turn your Message Framework into a website that works. Clean design. Clear language. Built on WordPress so you control it.
Most web developers drag their feet. We don’t. Speed matters when you’re ready to move forward.
Three approaches:
Website in a Week: Structured sprint, proven process, fast turnaround. Fixed price at $2,450 + GST. Only 3 spots available per month.
Bespoke websites: Fully custom, built for complex needs. Prices starting from $4,000 + GST.
Right-sized solutions: We match the approach to your actual needs.
Content Drumbeat
The reality: You know you should post regularly. You hate doing it. Every social media tool promises to solve this. None of them do.
What we do: Handle the drumbeat so you don’t have to. One short monthly conversation. We extract the gold. We craft the content. We schedule two posts per week across your top three social media channels. The lights stay on. You stay focused on actual work.
Who handles it: Our Social Media Coordinators, AJ and Caitlin Davis, working under Steve’s direct supervision following your Message Framework.
Investment: $300 + GST per month
Prerequisites:
- Strategic Clarity Session completed
- Active social accounts (FB, Insta, LinkedIn, Threads)
- Website with blog section set up
- (If you don’t have these yet, we offer onboarding services)
The catch: We cap this at 6 clients. It’s systematic, but it’s not robotic. We use AI to help, humans to think, and your voice to guide everything.
Leadership & Strategy
For leaders and teams who need external calibration.
David Olney brings 15 years teaching Complex Problem Solving at the University of Adelaide. Robust frameworks that turn creative overflow into clear direction. Academic rigour without jargon.
Leadership Mentoring: One-hour sessions focused on you. Your internal capability. Your leadership blocks. The skills and confidence you need to build. For leaders who’ve plateaued or sales-capable people who hate the sales process. $175 + GST per hour.
Strategic Planning Sessions: Full-day or half-day facilitation for teams facing complex organisational challenges. David and Steve combine structured activities with planning frameworks to transform collective expertise into actionable strategies..
Both services apply the same principle: external perspective reveals what you’re too close to see.
Who We Work With
Schools & Community Organisations
You serve people, not markets. Your messaging should reflect our human desire for clarity.
School newsletters written for staff, not parents. Council websites organised by department structure, not resident needs. Community programs described in funding language, not human language.
We’ve worked with two schools and one local government organisation this year. Investment typically $4,000-6,000. The pattern is always the same: you know your value, you just can’t articulate it in a way that makes people outside your world care enough to take action.
Small Business Owners
You’ve built something real. You just can’t explain why it matters.
8,000 conversations have taught us: capable business operators with genuine value struggle to see themselves clearly from inside the bottle. You’re working 60+ hour weeks. Stretching across operations and administration. Building something valuable but operating without external calibration.
External perspective combined with strategic framework transforms instinctive knowledge into clear, confident language.
That’s what we do.
Trades & Technical Services
You do excellent work. Your communication doesn’t match.
Clients choose you because someone recommended you, not because your website convinced them. When jobs go wrong, it’s usually because expectations weren’t clear upfront. Your competitors sound exactly like you: “Quality workmanship. Reliable service. 20 years experience.”
We help you communicate as well as you work.
After 8,000 conversations across every sector since 2005, we’ve seen this pattern before. The gap between your capability and your communication is costing you the clients who’d value you most.
Additional Ways to Engage With Us
Government-Subsidised Mentoring
We deliver Strategic Clarity Sessions and business mentoring through government-supported programmes for eligible South Australian businesses.
Women In Business Foundation Program: 5 hours for $220 (for women business owners with fewer than 20 employees)
ASBAS Digital Solutions: 3 hours for $99 (SA businesses with active ABN, under 20 employees, digital marketing focus)
TiCSA Business Coaching: 2 hours for $70 (SA tourism operators, TiCSA members $35)
Steve has been mentoring business people for 20+ years. After 8,000 conversations, seeing the forest for the trees has become second nature.
Speaking & Workshops
Steve delivers keynote presentations and workshops for conferences, industry groups, and organisations seeking fresh perspective on marketing and communication challenges.
Recent topics include:
- Taming the Robot: How to Make AI Write So It Actually Works for Your Business
- Strategic Clarity For Trades And Technical Services
- Communication Frameworks For Schools And Community Organisations
- What’s In It For Them: Tourism Copywriting For More Engaging And High Convertion Websites, Brochures, and Emails
MC and facilitation work: Steve brings theatre training and 20+ years of live presentation experience to conference hosting and panel facilitation.
Ready to Start?
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