Adige Consulting | Business consultancy

Technology adoption consulting

Select and implement AI tools and integrate them into business processes.

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Go-to-market strategies

Clarify who you serve, how you win, and how you bring offerings to market.

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Structure and leadership

Who leads and how business decisions are made.

Business structures

A structure for your company as it is now and where you see it next. Clear responsibilities, follow-through, and support for the owner.

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Executive leadership development

Iterate on the leadership skills your team needs to set direction and make decisions.

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Ownership transitions

Prepare the business and its people for succession, sale, or a significant leadership change.

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Operations and change

Analyzing and advancing business processes.

Strategic projects

Creation of a practical plan so the team can execute from clear priorities to a desired end state, with defined follow-through mechanisms.

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Operational performance improvements

Refine how work is done (processes, priorities, feedback loops). The ground truth on task execution.

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Why Adige Consulting?

You work directly with Grant

The person who scopes the work is the person who does it, using leading edge AI models and business-oriented tool sets.

Finance and operations experience

Background in investment banking, sell-side representation, performance improvement consulting, and startup operations, so advice fits how businesses actually run.

Military leadership discipline

Clear priorities, accountability, and a maniacal focus on every engagement. The right-hand guy you have always wanted on your team.

Mission accomplishment

The 90-day follow-up confirms the steps were completed and produced the results we wanted. If the environment has changed, we reformulate and start executing the new plan.

How engagements work

Work is scoped from where you are to where you want to go. Engagements are designed around outcomes, not rigid timelines.

Listen & align

Understand your goals, constraints, and what success looks like for your business.

Diagnose & design

Identify gaps in leadership, structure, market approach, or operations, and propose what to change.

Build & embed

Work alongside your team to put the changes in place, so the team can run them without us.

90-day follow-up

Check that the plan was carried out as agreed and that it brought about the effect the business wanted. What we learn starts the next cycle.

Grant Smith, Managing Partner

Grant formalized Adige Consulting in 2023 after years of informal business consulting.

Grant began his career at financial institutions like UBS and Merrill Lynch. After graduate business school, he worked for Banca Profilo / Spinnaker Investment Fund and later a boutique mergers and acquisitions firm, then at multiple startup companies in operations-based roles. To take a break from being a mercenary capitalist, he pursued his lifelong dream of joining the U.S. military.

His military career includes U.S. Army Cyber Command in support of the NSA, and he has almost two decades of intelligence work behind him. Military leadership shapes how Adige works: clear priorities, accountability, and follow-through. Grant is fluent in English, Italian, French, and Spanish, and is learning German. Now he brings the lessons from these varied experiences together to help business owners.

He holds undergraduate business degrees from the University of Utah, a graduate degree in corporate finance from SDA Bocconi, and a graduate degree in international relations from American University.

About Adige and Grant