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Thewholefirm.Oneportal.Oncall.

An enterprise's worth of specialists, with the ability to consult each other before they answer you — and they ship the deck, the model, the memo. Not a chatbot. A firm.

  • One generalistAn entire firm
  • Shallow on everythingDeep in one division each
  • You orchestrateThey consult each other
  • You get a transcriptYou get a deliverable

No spam — one email when your cohort opens. Join the visionaries already in line.

01The Idea

You don't hire a consultant. You hire the firm.

For a century, the most valuable thing in business wasn't a person. It was a firm: a deep bench of specialists, a way of thinking, a standard of work, and the partner who knew exactly which expert to put on your problem.

McBain is that — as a workspace. The whole bench, instantly, every time. No staffing call. No statement of work. No six-figure retainer for a slide deck. Just the firm, on call, applying what it knows to what you need.

Knowledge Applied. That's the whole promise. Not knowledge stored, not knowledge searched — knowledge put to work on the problem in front of you.

02The Firm
31divisions820named specialists

Thirty-one divisions. Eight hundred and twenty specialists.

A firm is only as real as its bench. So here's the bench — not a metaphor, an org. Thirty-one divisions, the way a global firm is actually built: strategy and the deal teams, the industry verticals, the functional experts, the creative agency. Eight hundred and twenty named specialists inside them. They don't generate on the fly. They exist, they have depth, and they consult each other.

31 divisions · 820 named specialists · they consult each other

  • Lead Partner · Engagement Manager · Senior Associate · Strategy Analyst

  • Deal Partner · Diligence Lead · Valuation Associate

  • Operations Partner · Process Lead · Continuous-Improvement Associate

  • Technology Partner · Data Science Lead · Platform Architect

  • Sector Partner · Capital Markets Lead · Risk Associate

  • Healthcare Partner · Clinical Strategy Lead · Market Access Associate

  • Energy Partner · Transition Lead · Commodities Associate

  • Industrial Partner · Supply Chain Lead · Plant Operations Associate

  • Consumer Partner · Category Lead · Brand Strategy Associate

  • TMT Partner · Product Strategy Lead · Growth Associate

  • Risk Partner · Resilience Lead · Compliance Associate

  • Sustainability Partner · Decarbonization Lead · ESG Associate

  • People Partner · Org Design Lead · Change Associate

  • Legal Partner · Regulatory Lead · Contracts Associate

  • Principal Architect · Engineering Lead · Systems Associate

  • Creative Director · Art Director · Copy Lead · Design Associate

  • + Moredivisions, and counting

Sixteen of the firm's thirty-one divisions, shown here — and the bench keeps growing. How much of it you can field scales with your membership; the full roster is the firm's, not a guarantee.

03How It Works

Brief the firm. Read the work.

  1. 1

    Consult

    Pose the problem the way you'd brief a partner. Plain language, no setup required.

  2. 2

    Build

    The right specialists assemble, consult each other, and do the work — while you watch the room or walk away.

  3. 3

    Deliver

    You receive the finished thing. A board-ready deck, a working model, a real report — not a transcript.

04The Work

The firm doesn't chat. It ships.

What you walk away with is the point. Not a conversation to copy-paste and clean up — a finished deliverable, set to the firm's own standard. The same craft that goes into a partner's board presentation goes into yours, every time.

McBain & Co.

Market entry: the case for moving now

Strategy Decks

Board-ready, on-narrative, designed to be presented.

McBain & Co.

Revenue412.0468.3531.7
EBITDA88.4104.1126.9
Margin21.5%22.2%23.9%
FCF61.273.892.4

Financial Models

Working spreadsheets with live formulas, not flat tables.

McBain & Co.

Sector outlook & capital allocation

Research Reports

Investor-grade documents, cited and editorially finished.

McBain & Co.

Memo: recommendation & next steps

Documents & Memos

Briefs, one-pagers, and memos in the firm's own hand.

McBain & Co.

Charts & Diagrams

Data made legible. Process made obvious.

05The Unlock

The firm consults itself.

This is the part no tool can do. Ask one specialist a real question and watch what a firm actually does with it: Strategy pulls in M&A to pressure-test the multiple. M&A loops in Financial Services on the capital structure. Blade is already shaping how it'll be presented. They argue toward the answer the way a partner-track room does — and the deliverable forms on the table between them while they work.

You're not prompting a model. You're in the room where a firm deliberates. That's the difference between an answer and an argument that holds up — and it's the reason the work comes out the other side ready to defend.

LEAD PARTNERStrategyDEAL PARTNERM&ASECTOR PARTNERFinancial ServicesOPS PARTNEROperationsCREATIVE DIRECTORBlade
  • STRATEGY → M&A · "stress-test the multiple"
  • M&A → FINANCIAL SERVICES · "confirm the capital structure"
  • OPERATIONS → BLADE · "make the board deck land"
06Admission

The door is open. It isn't wide.

We're admitting new members in small cohorts — deliberately, in waves, so every firm that comes in gets the room running at full strength. That's not a marketing scarcity trick; it's how you keep the work at the standard the name implies. The waitlist is how you hold your place. Earlier in line is earlier through the door.

No countdown. No flash sale. A firm like this doesn't beg — it gets to you. But the line is real, and it's moving in one direction.

Join a growing list of global beta testers.

You've seen the room. Now get in it.

An entire firm. One workspace. Knowledge Applied. Request your access and we'll bring you in when your cohort opens.

No spam — one email when your cohort opens. Join the visionaries already in line.

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