Experienced strategic advisory for Oklahoma founders and family business owners who need more than a plan. They need someone to help build one that actually gets executed.
Most Oklahoma businesses in the $1M to $20M range do not have a shortage of ideas. They have a shortage of bandwidth, honest outside perspective, and someone to help them figure out which ideas are worth pursuing inside a real operating business with real constraints. A strategic advisor fills that role on an ongoing basis, not just during annual planning season.
Annual and multi-year strategy development grounded in your financial reality and operational capacity, not just aspiration.
Understanding where you win, where you do not, and how to build a durable advantage based on your actual strengths.
Thinking through new geographies, customer segments, or service lines before committing resources you cannot afford to waste.
Building the team structure, leadership capacity, and management systems your strategy requires to actually execute.
Connecting strategic decisions to their financial implications before you make them, not after the results disappoint you.
A trusted outside perspective for major decisions, acquisitions, pricing changes, key hires, and capital allocation questions.
Every major business decision benefits from an honest outside perspective. Most founders make them alone or with advisors who only tell them what they want to hear.
The business has hit a ceiling. Revenue is flat, energy is down, and the things that worked at $2M are not working at $5M. A strategic advisor helps diagnose the real problem.
Acquisitions, partnerships, ownership changes, or a planned exit all require strategic clarity well before the deal happens. Most businesses wait too long to start.
If the leadership team has different mental models of where the business is going, every decision becomes harder and slower. Strategic clarity fixes this upstream.
Expansion decisions are high-stakes and high-cost. Getting rigorous about the opportunity before committing capital saves both time and money.
A strategic advisor who is not accountable for execution is just an expensive opinion. Scissortail stays involved through implementation, not just planning.
A strategic advisor helps a business owner think more clearly about where the business is going and how to get there. That means honest assessment of the current situation, help prioritizing among competing opportunities, and ongoing involvement in the decisions and actions that drive progress.
Management consulting typically involves large teams, defined project scopes, and deliverable-based engagements. Strategic advisory is more like having a senior operator in your corner on an ongoing basis. The relationship is closer and the accountability is higher.
Oilfield services, construction, manufacturing, professional services, family businesses, and Oklahoma businesses in the $1M to $20M range across most industries. The strategic challenges of a $5M Oklahoma company are more similar across industries than most people expect.
Strategic advisory for acquisitions, yes. Evaluating targets, thinking through integration, assessing financial and operational fit. Scissortail does not act as a broker or provide investment banking services.
A free 30-minute call. You describe your situation and what you are trying to accomplish. I will tell you honestly whether there is a fit and what working together would look like.
No pitch. No agenda. A straight conversation about your strategy and whether Scissortail is the right partner to help you execute it.
Broader advisory for Oklahoma businesses in the $1M to $20M range navigating growth, transitions, and major decisions.
Financial leadership for businesses that need more than a bookkeeper and less than a full-time CFO.
Operational leadership for founders who are still the answer to every question and need to stop being.
Strategic advisory with a focus on family dynamics, succession, and multigenerational planning.
Strategic and operational recovery for businesses where something is clearly broken.
Growth-focused advisory for companies ready to move from survival to scale.