If you are an independent practitioner operating as a limited company, you already know what you are missing: the brand, the methodology, the library, the commercial infrastructure and the engagements you cannot win alone. CN provides all of it. You bring the expertise.
Most independent practitioners are excellent at the work. Where they struggle is everything around it: building proposals from scratch, creating tools and templates for every engagement, explaining to a client why they should choose one person over a named firm, pricing work they do not have comparables for, and carrying the commercial risk alone.
None of this is a reflection of the practitioner's quality. It is a structural problem. The solution is not to join a body shop — a staffing agency with a consulting brand — which solves the pipeline problem but creates a rate floor, a quality ceiling and zero IP. The solution is a firm that is built properly.
Boutiques built on this model — senior delivery, specific methodology, defined sector focus, documented IP — have sold. Moorhouse Consulting, founded on the same principles as CN, sold to Deloitte. Gate One sold to KPMG. Elixirr listed on AIM. The exits are real and they reward the IP, the brand and the quality standard — not just the revenue.
CN practitioners are not employees. But they are part of building something that has this trajectory. The practitioners who join early, who help build the methodology and who carry the standard are the ones who are part of that story.
Thank you for joining the Cairn Novaris network. We will review your profile and be in touch within five working days — sooner if we have a live engagement that matches your expertise.
Basic contact information and the nature of your engagement with us. All fields marked * are required.
Select all that apply.
Select the sectors where you have direct, substantive experience. We use this to match you to relevant engagements — be accurate rather than aspirational.
A significant proportion of our government and defence engagements require security clearance. Please indicate your current status accurately.
Tick the skills you can confidently deliver at a senior, client-facing level. Do not tick areas where you have only limited or theoretical exposure — accuracy here is what gets you matched to the right engagements.
Help us understand your background in more depth. This is what our team reads when assessing your fit for specific engagements.
Rate your confidence across these dimensions. 1 = Foundational awareness · 3 = Can lead independently · 5 = Recognised expert
Upload your CV and confirm a few final details. We use your CV to verify the profile information you have provided — it is held securely and not shared without your explicit consent.
Your profile information and CV will be held securely by Cairn Novaris Ltd and used solely for the purpose of matching you to relevant engagements. We will not share your details with third parties without your explicit consent. You can request removal of your profile at any time by contacting us.
If you run a small agency or specialist practice, a lot of your energy probably goes on things that are not the actual work. Bidding. Invoicing. Finding the right resource for a specific engagement. Managing the overhead of running a small firm while trying to deliver well.
We can help with that. We are not looking to absorb good firms or tell them how to operate. We want to work alongside them — handling the practical infrastructure so they can focus on the delivery they are good at.
It is less complicated than it sounds. Get in touch and we will have a straightforward conversation about whether working together makes sense.
Bid together for contracts and frameworks that you could not go after alone
Use Cairn Novaris as the prime or lead contractor — we handle the contract, the invoicing and the client relationship overhead
Draw on our practitioner network when you need additional resource to scale up for a specific engagement
Get support on bid development, pricing, proposals and framework registration
Collaborate on engagements where our capabilities are complementary — your sector depth, our delivery infrastructure
We want to work with people who are good at what they do. If the practical side of running a small firm is getting in the way of that — we can help. No complexity. Just getting things done together.
Tell us briefly who you are and what you do. We will come back to you quickly and have a straightforward conversation about whether working together makes sense.