The Competitive Landscape

Where BaxterLabs sits
on the map.

Four options exist for a professional service firm that suspects its margin is leaking. Only one of them delivers enterprise-grade diagnostic rigor at a price a managing partner can approve without a board vote.

Firms evaluating financial advisory typically weigh four options: a Big 4 engagement, a Fractional CFO, the status quo, or a forensic diagnostic firm. Each occupies a different position on the two dimensions that matter most — methodological rigor and accessibility of price and timeline. The map below plots where each option sits, and why the upper-right quadrant has been structurally empty until now.

Segment$5M–$50M Professional Services
Fixed Scope14 Days · $12,500
Typical Recovery$200K–$1M / year
DeliveryTwo Partners, Personally
Methodology8-Phase Forensic Protocol
Matrix A

Depth of Analysis × Speed of Delivery

4 Players
1 Quadrant Wins
HighDepth of AnalysisLow
Upper-Left
Upper-Right  —  The Answer
Origin
Lower-Right
BaxterLabs AdvisoryUpper-Right
Big 4 ConsultingUpper-Left
Fractional CFOLower-Right
Status QuoLower-Left
SlowSpeed of DeliveryFast
The Upper-Right
BaxterLabs Advisory

High depth, fast delivery. The 8-phase pipeline produces what traditional firms take 90 days to build — delivered in 14.

Players
BaxterLabs Advisory
14 days · $12,500 · Two partners
Upper-Right
Big 4 Consulting
Deloitte, PwC, EY, KPMG
Upper-Left
Fractional CFO
$3K–$8K / month, embedded
Lower-Right
Status Quo
Instinct · monthly P&L only
Lower-Left
The Spread
BaxterLabs
14 days
Fixed window
Big 4
3–6 mo
Committee-driven
BaxterLabs
$12,500
Fixed fee
Big 4
$150K–$500K
Enterprise pricing
Ready to Map Your Leakage

See where your firm stands.

The 14-day diagnostic delivers what no other quadrant can: audit-grade forensic analysis, quantified leak-by-leak, at a price a managing partner can approve without a board vote. Two partners. Fourteen days. Every finding traceable.

A mutual confidentiality agreement (NDA) is executed prior to any data intake.