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For solo consultants

Your client bought your judgement, not your sleep.

For independent strategists and fractional leaders who need production depth without pretending to be a twenty-person agency.

You keep the client and the strategy. We do the work under your name.

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Run on the AI we built for ourselves.

The short answer

Can a solo consultant use a production team?

A solo consultant can use a production team for defined work while keeping strategy, pricing and the client relationship.

The arrangement works when the consultant remains the decision maker, the work boundary is explicit and any client you register with us is protected from solicitation.

The consultant is often the seller, strategist, reviewer and escalation path. Adding specialist support helps only if it reduces load without weakening the trust that won the account.

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Selected work

The record behind the work.

SEO · 64 months

Confidential

A US direct‑to‑consumer business, through an agency.

Organic work under the agency’s name. The client has never heard ours.

ROI on organic spend
1,751%
More organic conversions
98%

One engagement’s reported results, not a forecast.

Read the agency case
  • 250+Organisations worked with since 2017
  • 100%Philippine client retention since 2024
  • ~80%Of our own work runs on LOKI, our AI system

Sell the shape you can actually govern.

A consultant does not need to mimic a large agency.

Clients usually value the direct judgement. Keep that advantage, then add a production lane with clear artefacts and review points.

Begin with work that can be briefed and inspected: a technical backlog, campaign build, set of content briefs, reporting cycle or web-production milestone.

Make the margin pay for your real role.

The difference between the client fee and team fee still has jobs to do.

It must cover sales, strategy, meetings, review, risk, tax and the consultant’s accountability.

If the retained amount does not pay for those responsibilities, handing off work has not fixed the commercial model. It has only hidden it behind a supplier invoice.

Before you choose

Criteria that survive the sales call.

Use these tests on the work in front of you, not on a generic list of services.

  1. One accountable brief

    You can turn your judgement into a written priority, definition of done and approval rule.

  2. Enough retained margin

    The commercial spread pays for your strategy, client care, review and risk after specialist cost.

  3. A communication rule

    The client knows who leads, and the specialist team knows when it may speak or attend.

  4. A clean exit

    Files, access, decisions and unfinished work can return to you without hostage dynamics.

Read the edges

Limitations.

  • We won't do your strategy for you while you keep the title. Your role and fee should match what you promise the client.
  • A solo consultant remains responsible for reviewing client-facing work and managing the commercial relationship.

Our terms

The terms this page relies on.

Common questions

Questions worth settling first.

Pressure-test the decision on one real account.

Can I start with one client?

Yes. One account exposes the real brief, review and communication load before either side commits to a larger model.

Will my client know LOKAL is involved?

That depends on the agreed mode. Unbranded work, disclosed specialist support and advisory-only support are all possible.

How should I price the work?

We quote our fee and set out what we are responsible for. You set the client price after accounting for your strategy, sales, account work, overhead, tax and risk.

Do we have to work exclusively with LOKAL?

No. There is no exclusivity requirement. You choose the people and partners your practice needs, and the written arrangement defines the work and the account-protection rules.

Who owns the plan?

You set the strategy for each client. Our senior strategist owns the plan for the work we run inside it, using the commercial context you supply, and you approve that plan before specialists start.

Pressure-test it on real work

What would you hand over first?

Tell us what is already promised, who owns the client and where the work needs help. Thirty minutes with someone responsible for the work.

The brief

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