NAVIGATOR WORKSHOP

For founder-led companies at the edge of their next phase

We help ambitious companies redesign how they operate when growth starts breaking the system.

What got you here won’t get you there

Companies rarely fail because of product. They fail because their operating model silently stops scaling.

Founder Bottleneck

Too many decisions still go through one person, slowing down growth.

Moving Priorities

The direction changes too often, causing teams to lose focus.

Execution Drift

Quality varies across teams due to a lack of clear standards.

Strategic Noise

There is more and more activity, but less overall clarity.

self-diagnostic

Do these signals feel familiar?

You are still involved in too many decisions
Revenue grows faster than operational discipline
Scaling feels harder than it should
Leadership alignment is inconsistent
Priorities shift too often
You sense something is breaking but cannot fully name it
Proprietary Framework

The Storm Transition Model

Five movements. One direction. The proprietary sequence we use to take a company from observed reality to a single defendable strategic move.

01

Map the real terrain

Strip out narrative. Document what is actually happening — in the market, the category, and the company. Most engagements begin here, not where the brief said.

02

Find the Blue Ocean

Locate the uncontested space that the current map doesn't show. Where competition is irrelevant because the question itself has changed.

03

Build the strategic canvas

Plot the chosen position against the field — what we lift, what we drop, what we create. The canvas becomes the single image leadership aligns around.

04

Define the move

One decision. One direction. One quarter. Strategy that cannot be acted on this quarter is not yet strategy.

05

Anchor in identity

Tie the move to who the company is — and who it refuses to be. Without this anchor, the first storm reverses the decision.

Engagement

Navigator Workshop

A focused 2-day on site strategic and operational redesign sprint in Warsaw.

By application. Limited engagements per quarter.

profile

Best for

Phase diagnosis

Structural bottlenecks

Operating model redesign

Strategic priorities

90-day roadmap

outcome

You leave with

Founder-led B2B companies

€3M – €20M revenue

Tech, fintech, industrial tech

Scaling or strategic transition

By application. Limited engagements per quarter.

What got you here won’t get you there

Companies rarely fail because of product. They fail because their operating model silently stops scaling.

Tier-2

Polish Fintech

Defined a regulated entry path into crypto custody and on-ramp. Mapped the regulatory terrain, sized the addressable margin, and built the case for a two-stage rollout that survived board challenge.

60p

Marketing Agency M&A Positioning

Repositioned a 60-person performance agency for acquisition. Reframed the offering from media-buyer to category strategist, lifted the EBITDA narrative, and supported diligence through to letter of intent.

3 ICPs

US Healthcare Expansion in RPA

Built the US go-to-market for a European RPA firm targeting mid-market hospital systems. ICP, pricing architecture, sales motion, and the first three named accounts.

Margin ↑

E-commerce Affiliate Reinvention

Rebuilt the affiliate engine for a multi-brand commerce group — payout structure, partner tiering, content economics — recovering channel margin without losing volume.

14 years

Global Marketing Strategy in Mitsubishi

Fourteen years inside a global manufacturer — leading strategic marketing across product launches, category repositioning, and channel transformation. The foundation behind everything Storm's Edge does today.

Engagement Models

Three ways to bring us aboard.

Five movements. One direction. The proprietary sequence we use to take a company from observed reality to a single defendable strategic move.

fractional advisory
$4000
/month
An ongoing strategic counterpart to the founder or CEO. Quiet, direct, monthly.
  • Two working sessions per month
  • Async decision support
  • Quarterly strategic review
  • 3-month minimum, no lock-in beyond
Begin Strategic Sprint
Begin Strategic Sprint
Strategic sprint
$8000
/2 weeks
A focused diagnostic on a single decision. Map, options, recommendation.
  • Stakeholder interviews
  • Market & competitive read
  • Decision memo & executive readout
  • One follow-up working session
Begin Fractional Advisory
Begin Fractional Advisory
Strategic Positioning
$25 000
/2 weeks
The full six-move expedition. End-to-end repositioning, market entry, or category move.
  • Terrain map & Blue Ocean read
  • Strategic canvas & defined move
  • Identity anchor & narrative
  • Cycle design + 90-day activation plan
Begin Strategic Positioning
Begin Strategic Positioning
Field of View

Patterns visible only from a distance.

Specialisation by depth, not by category. The same strategic instruments calibrated across very different waters.

Industries

Where we work

Financial Services

Crypto & Digital Assets

Healthcare RPA

Performance Marketing

E-commerce & DTC

Industrial Manufacturing

Cross-border Tech

Professional Services

Strategic Domains

What we work on

Strategic Positioning

Market Entry

M&A Narrative

Category Design

Pricing Architecture

Go-to-Market

Brand Strategy

Channel Economics

Geographic Scope

Where we sail

Poland · Home Port

DACH Region

Nordics

United Kingdom

United States · Mid-Market

Japan · Selective

EU Cross-Border

EMEA Expansion

Filter

Not for everyone

A small practice can only do honest work by being explicit about who it's for.

Is for you

You're facing a decision the org keeps deferring.

You're entering a market you don't yet have language for.

You want a counterpart, not a vendor.

You'd rather hear "no" than waste a quarter.

You're between €5M–€500M revenue, with real skin in the game.

Not for you

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You need a 60-slide deck to validate a decision already made.

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You want a large team in matching badges.

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You're optimising — not deciding.

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You're allergic to direct disagreement.

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You're shopping for the lowest hourly rate.

founder

Built at the intersection of strategy and reality.

12+ years leading industrial operations, strategy, marketing and transformation across EMEA and global structures. From factory floors in Nagoya to boardrooms in Europe.

12 years of global leadership in Mitsubishi Electric
MBA – Strategic and analytical rigor
Hands-on systems experience
Piotr siwek
STORM'S EDGE FOUNDER
Client Voice

The proof isn't in the pitch.

Piotr arrived without a deck and left us with the clearest read of our market we'd ever had. The decision practically made itself.
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CEO at Polish Fintech, Series B
Across fourteen years he was the strategic counterweight in the room — the one asking the question everyone else was avoiding.
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Senior Marketing Director at Mitsubishi Corporation
He repositioned us in six weeks in a way our internal team hadn't managed in two years. The acquisition closed at a multiple we wouldn't have asked for ourselves.
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Founder at Performance Marketing Agency
Quiet, direct, structurally honest. Storm's Edge is what consulting is supposed to be — and almost never is.
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Co-Founder at Healthcare Tech, RPA
set the bearing

The right time to redesign is before friction becomes failure

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