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Motherlode Studio

Motherlode Studio is a strategy house renowned for predicting seismic shifts in business, banking and finance.

We are a strategic growth partnership run by business owners who understand that, even in the age of automation, human EQ twinned with technology is your edge.

We believe in strong company cultures, Kaizen - the Japanese philosophy of continuous improvement - and the disciplined pursuit of less.

The business of business is people—yesterday, today and forever.

Herb Kelleher

What we do…

Complex inputs // Simple outputs

Market Mapping & Mining

We use our AI technology to map your market and then mine it for growth, talent acquisition and increased market share.

Business Restructuring & Acquisition

We are business owners. If you are looking to sell or restructure a business or thinking about succession planning, we’d like to hear from you.

Strategic Growth Partnerships

We partner with you and work discreetly with your board, management and teams to grow the long-term profitability of the business. 

Three rules of work: out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstein

Kind Words…

  • "Motherlode came highly recommended, but Ross and his superb team still exceeded expectations"

    Robyn Scott - Co-founder Apolitical

  • "They know business, they understand people and they connect the high level strategic with the on the ground day to day.”

    Alan Day - State of Flux

  • "We promised to tell many others about Motherlode. We haven't had to.”

    Hamish Forthsyth - Co-founder Oneleap

  • “Very creative and very strategic also really enjoyable to work with.”

    Graham Fink - Fink Different

  • "I’m blown away - more than we ever expected - thank you.”

    Dr Guy Meadows - The Sleep School

  • "Motherlode are the modern day miners - they find the gold."

    Prof Steve Keen

Notable mining wins…

  • We work alongside your business as a strategic growth partner to achieve long term profitability.

    We map your market then mine it for increased market share.  

    We also buy stakes in businesses in which we can add significant value. 

    We prioritise long-term results over short-term gains.  

    We are selective with whom we partner. 

    Finding the right partner is one of the most critical elements of success. 

  • We work discreetly with your board, management and teams to improve or replace practices that no longer serve the long-term profitability of the business. 

    Our Kaizen philosophy of continuous improvement and our disciplined pursuit of less ensures we simplify every process by distilling our insight into practical applications. 

    You are partnering with our team and our network to bolster your team and talent to solve the issues that are hindering growth. 

    We look to strategically simplify because simplicity brings clarity to teams and profit to the bottom line.

  • We don’t have a sales approach to consultancy and advisory. 

    We are business owners who have built, grown and sold companies. 

    We make a clear differentiation between change and improvement. 

    We know that tech won’t and can’t solve everything. 

    We prefer narrow-and-deep business models over a shallow-and-wide scattergun approach.

  • Yes.

    Without clarity people use ‘AI’ as a catch all term assuming it will ‘cure’ every problem. 

    Big data also fell into this category when people thought it would solve every business problem and went about blind application of large data sets to get insight. But it is the quality of the decisions made by humans about the insights the data provides. 

    Tech manias are misunderstood in their infancy as the hype and headlong rush to the brave new world drives media coverage and the conference circuit.

    Remember Y2K? Or “Information SuperHighway”, “Web 2.0”, “FinTech”, “BlockChain”, “Distributed Ledger”? 

    Generally, these terms are media-led narratives that fill airtime. We are still very early in the AI hype cycle which means it will be many years to truly manifest commercially.

    So with AI it's not about the technology per se it's about the implications and how they translate to the bottom line or how they enhance company culture. 

    AI will help if the correct process is in place, but it will exacerbate problems if the process isn’t fit for purpose. 

    Businesses must still do the hard yards of continuous improvement - there is no magic AI pill that will alter that fact – no matter how it’s marketed. 

  • Over the last decade we have discreetly built platforms, tools, pipelines and brands for large and small companies which have helped them grow in a complex world where simplicity and clarity have been overlooked. 

    The foundation to our success over the last 18 years is adaptability as it’s a business necessity.  The one distinctive feature of all our successful partners is their speed to adapt.  It’s an immutable natural principle.  

    We run a super lean business model which allows us to move quickly and select high quality clients. 

    If you would like to begin a conversation about a potential partnership, please send us a note.

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