We pilot.
We don't advise.

A consultant analyses and delivers a report: the responsibility for executing it stays entirely with the company. Piloting skips that step. APEX joins the SME's decision cadence — two reviews a month on data from the Index dashboard — and stays until decisions are made and assigned. The output is not a document, but a series of decisions recorded month by month.

A structured in-house PMO costs an SME tens of thousands of euros a year in salary, tools and training. An outsourced PMO is paid as a monthly fee and stops when it is no longer needed. APEX works remotely, so there are no travel days to invoice: the monthly fee stays below the day rate of a consultant on site. The three levels — Dashboard, Piloting and Piloting+ — have fees shared at the diagnostic stage, with no minimum term.

Yes, if the cadence and the data are structured. Physical presence matters when information is scattered and has to be gathered in person; when health, operations, people and cash sit on a shared, current dashboard, the review works just as well remotely. APEX directed a site in the hook-up phase from 2,000 km away, recovering 30 days of delay and closing at 43% operating margin.

You need a single place where projects can be compared with each other. In the Index dashboard every project carries the same set of indicators — progress, bottleneck, open decision, cash impact — so leadership can rank them by urgency instead of reacting to whichever makes the most noise. The practical rule: one cadence for all projects, and every review decides where the resources move.

Because the mechanism that turns it into recurring decisions is missing. Roughly 70% of strategies fail in execution rather than design: the plan is sound, but no standing meeting picks it up again with current data in front of it. After three months the document is no longer opened and priorities go back to being set by the urgency of the day. The fix is not a better plan: it is a cadence that forces a decision.

Piloting does not add meetings: it replaces them. Two reviews a month instead of the alignment calls you already hold today, without data.

The ERP records the past, the consultant delivers a report. We stay inside the decision, every month, and leave it on record in Index.

It starts with the diagnostic: two weeks, no commitment beyond that. Piloting is monthly with no minimum term — you leave whenever you want, and in any case when the numbers say you are autonomous. No lock-in: just the cadence, for as long as it is useful.