Enquirer Consulting Group / Prepared for Helbling Business Advisors
August 2026
Enquirer for Helbling

An outbound business unit for Helbling Business Advisors.
Designed, staffed, run in market. Then yours.

Prepared for Ajsela Kaiser, Head of Business Development and Marketing, following her conversation with Jamie Waite at Business Enquirer. This page covers the approach, who we would go after, what the unit produces, how we measure it, and the proof. The scoped package and its one number are presented on the call, not on a page.
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01 / What we see
Helbling Business Advisors
What we see

A firm that wins on reputation, with no engine underneath it.

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Helbling Business Advisors is a fifty-year practice inside a partner-owned group: 586 people, twelve locations, CHF 119.7 million in 2025 sales. The group's own annual report calls 2025 a challenging year, with sales down 6.5 percent.
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New work arrives through partner relationships, the CFI network, congress sponsorships and awards. First place in WirtschaftsWoche Best of Consulting 2025 for restructuring is a serious asset. Nothing visible turns that attention into named conversations the following week.
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Twenty-five roles were open across the group on August 17, eight of them consultants for Zurich and Düsseldorf. Not one is business development, marketing or sales. Delivery capacity is being hired. The pipeline that has to feed it is not.
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Business development and marketing sit in one seat, with a newsletter, a strong website rebuilt in 2023 and no execution capacity behind them. That is a resourcing gap, not a marketing gap, and it is the most fixable thing on this page.
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Next door, Helbling Technik carries roughly 8,000 LinkedIn followers and posts several times a week. Business Advisors carries about 4,200 and posts about twice a month. Same brand, same building, a different commercial engine.
Read from public sources on August 17, 2026: helbling.ch (facts and figures, annual report, careers), the LinkedIn company pages, WirtschaftsWoche. Where a figure is rounded it is rounded on purpose.
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02 / Who buys from you
The buyer map, banded
Who buys from you

Four buying moments, three markets, one reach problem.

Transformation and turnaround

The owner under pressure

Who signs: owner, CEO, CFO, the board, and often the lender or shareholder behind them.
The trigger: a covenant under strain, a lost anchor customer, a refinancing, a succession without a plan.
Where: mid-market machinery, plant engineering, automotive suppliers and industrials in Switzerland, Germany and Austria.

Roughly 2,500 to 2,700
machinery and industrial automation manufacturers in German-speaking Europe at 50 to 2,000 people
Value chain and operations

The operator with a margin problem

Who signs: COO, head of operations, head of supply chain, plant director.
The trigger: a margin squeeze, a new site or line, a supply shock, a make-or-buy decision.
Where: the same manufacturing base, plus chemicals, consumer goods and electronics.

The same pool, a different door
the operations leader is reachable in the same accounts as the owner, and rarely hears from an advisor before the owner does
Digital process transformation

Pharma and medtech, lab to scale

Who signs: head of process development, head of manufacturing science and technology, head of quality, CIO or CDO, the site head.
The trigger: a product moving from lab to scale, a tech transfer, a new site, an audit finding, a data-integrity program.
Where: pharma, biotech, CDMO and medical device manufacturers.

Roughly 1,200 to 1,300
pharma, biotech and medical device manufacturers in German-speaking Europe at 50 to 2,000 people, and roughly 6,000 more in the United States at the same size band, the market we work in every day
M&A and corporate finance

The owner facing a decision

Who signs: the owner facing succession, a corporate carving out a division, a private equity platform.
The trigger: age, a strategic review, distress, an unsolicited approach.
Where: German-speaking Europe first, cross-border through CFI's 26 offices.

Visible from outside
succession and carve-out signals show up in registers, filings, hiring and the trade press months before a mandate is awarded
Counts banded from a live commercial data source on August 17, 2026, headquarters-tagged, industry codes self-reported. Bands indicate scale, not a list. The named-account version, per practice, is built in week one of the engagement.
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03 / The gap
Today, and four months from now
The gap

Where you are today, and where a built unit puts you.

Today

  • New business depends on who a partner already knows and which congress is next on the calendar.
  • One seat carries business development and marketing, with no team behind it.
  • Awards, features and sponsorships create attention that fades within days.
  • Consultants being hired for Düsseldorf and Zurich will need a pipeline nobody is building.
  • Nobody outside the partnership is talking to a Helbling buyer this week.
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04 / The model
Build. Run. Own.
The model

Build. Run. Own. A fixed four-month engagement.

01 / BUILD

Build

We design, staff and stand up the complete unit around the gaps we found: the buyer map and data, the messaging, the engine, the authority layer, the operator, the reporting.

02 / RUN

Run

We run it in market for a fixed four months and prove it on real conversations, not slides. First conversations land early. Your partners take the calls.

03 / OWN

Own

We hand over the playbook, the tooling, the dashboards and the trained operator. Helbling owns the unit. Optional managed service if you would rather we stay on the tools.

A freelancer sends emails. An agency rents you reps and stays forever. A consultancy hands you a slide deck. We design the engine, staff it, run it, prove it on real conversations, then hand you the keys.
One point of contact. We hold the blueprint and manage every specialist behind each discipline. You never manage a row of vendors.
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05 / What we build for Helbling
Matched to the gaps, not the menu
What we build for Helbling

Built around the gaps we found, not the full menu.

01 · Market and data system

The buyer map, named

Accounts and people per practice in Switzerland, Germany and Austria, and for the pharma and medtech digital work, the United States. Enriched, verified, suppressed against your existing clients and CFI relationships, and watched weekly for the triggers that start a mandate.

02 · Outbound engine

Email, LinkedIn and phone, run for you

Built on infrastructure we stand up and warm for Helbling. The channel mix follows the rules of each market: LinkedIn and phone lead in German-speaking Europe, where unsolicited email is tightly regulated; email leads in the United States. Every message is written for one real person and reviewed by a human. Every positive reply goes to a named partner.

03 · Messaging and campaign assets

Positioning in the buyer's words

One angle per practice, in the vocabulary of that buyer: turnaround, value chain, digital process transformation, succession. Sequences, objection handling and the follow-up scripts your partners will actually use.

04 · Authority layer

PR, editorial and partner-voice LinkedIn

Business Enquirer editorial, which you know from last year's feature and this year's AUTOMA+ participation, plus a posting rhythm in your partners' own voices, so a buyer who looks Helbling up after a message finds something current and specific.

05 · GTM operator

A person, not a login

A dedicated operator sourced, trained and embedded over the four months, working alongside Ajsela and the partners, and owning the machine when we step back.

06 · Reporting, handover and ownership

You own it at month four

Dashboards from day one, a written playbook, full documentation and a trained team. At handover Helbling owns all of it: the lists, the copy, the domains, the seats, the numbers.

What we are deliberately leaving out: your website (rebuilt in 2023, and good), SEO, video and paid media. None of them is the bottleneck. If that changes, they are in the network and one call away.
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06 / The engine in plain terms
One message, one person
The engine in plain terms

Every message written for one real person.

The research
Role
Head of Manufacturing Science and Technology
Company
Sterile-fill CDMO, two sites, southern Germany
Signal
Second fill line announced; MSAT and validation roles open at the same time
Angle
The handover between process development and operations, where most of a scale-up timeline goes
New messageReviewed by a human

Hi {first name}, saw the second line at {site} is going in and that you are hiring into MSAT and validation at the same time. The handover between process development and operations is usually where that timeline goes. Helbling built a way to pre-load what operations needs into the process design itself, so the handover almost disappears. Worth a short call?

Reply: Interesting. Call me Thursday afternoon.
TargetPersonalizeHand off warmYour partners close
Illustrative example. Real messages are written from real research, one person at a time, in German or English as the buyer prefers, and every reply is answered by a human. Consent-based and controlled: every message is reviewed and on brand.
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07 / The first four months
First conversations land early
The first four months

First conversations land early, not at the end.

MONTH 1

Design and stand up

Buyer map named per practice. Data verified and suppressed. Sending domains and LinkedIn seats live. Messaging approved by the partners. Operator staffed. LinkedIn is typically live within about 48 hours of accounts being connected.

MONTH 2

First conversations

Email, LinkedIn and phone in market in the first lanes. First qualified conversations routed to partners. Weekly numbers against the baseline. Editorial calendar set with Business Enquirer.

MONTH 3

Scale and tune

Second and third lanes live. Copy and lists tuned on what replied. The operator running the daily rhythm with our team behind them.

MONTH 4

Handover

Playbook, dashboards, documentation, trained operator. The decision on whether we stay on a managed service or step back.

AFTER

You own the unit

Lists, copy, domains, seats, numbers, people. We stay only if you want us to.

Visible progress from the first weeks: replies as they land, the dashboard from day one, a weekly number against the baseline we agree together in week one.
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08 / What it produces
Measured, not asserted
What it produces and how we measure it

Measured on real conversations, reported without spin.

STAGE 1
Reached
A named buyer received a message written for them.
STAGE 2
Replied
Any reply. A platform reply is not demand yet.
STAGE 3
Qualified conversation
A positive or interested reply, read and confirmed by a human.
STAGE 4
Meeting proposed
A time offered by the buyer or accepted by them.
STAGE 5
Meeting held
A partner sat with the buyer.
STAGE 6
Mandate
Yours to win. We track it so the unit learns.
What we commit to on the call is a scoped target for qualified conversations and held meetings per month at full ramp, per practice, sized to the buyer bands and to how many partners can take the calls. We set that with you, in your numbers. What we will not do is put a number on a page before we understand your mandate sizes and how a first meeting converts.
Every stage reported separately, weekly, against a baseline agreed in week one. You see every reply and every stage from day one. No historical result of ours is a forecast for Helbling.
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09 / Proof
Numbers from live client work
Proof

Numbers from live client work, not projections.

$10M+
New business sold for clients
3,500+
Qualified conversations generated
100,000+
Decision makers reached for clients
Fixed engagement,
then you own it
Four months, then the keys
Lifetime figures across live Enquirer AI and ECG campaigns and Business Enquirer client features. New business is client-reported. Campaign figures were pulled from the live platforms on July 10, 2026. A qualified conversation is a positive or interested reply. Results vary by market and offer, and no historical result is a forecast for Helbling.
Case study · US medical imaging

Innovative Radiology

ECG and Enquirer AI helps us identify the right people and start the conversation in a much smarter way.

Tim Rath, Chief Operating Officer. What we built: a full outbound channel, cold email and LinkedIn, across procurement, imaging and clinical engineering buyers, with a cell-capture handoff so their team pitches warm. Outcome: a record growth year, with outreach modernized from cold calling to targeted, data-led conversations.

Case study · US medical, orthopedic and DME

Innovative Medical

Enquirer Consulting Group provided the tools to allow us to personalize outreach at scale in a way that simply wasn't possible before.

What we built: prospecting and personalized outreach across cold email and LinkedIn, so the team reaches the right clinicians and spends its time on relationships. Outcome: prospecting and research automated, the team freed to focus on relationships and closing.

Both clients converted real deals within the first months of us standing up their outreach, and both will take a reference call.Work and features across the Enquirer group: Merck, Curium Pharma, GSK, PepsiCo, PharmaBlock, SAP, Plasmagen, Rheinmetall, Zeta, Helbling, RHI Magnesita, 5Flow, Innovative Radiology, Innovative Medical.
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10 / Your numbers
Illustration and arithmetic, not a forecast
Your numbers

Run it on your own numbers.

Fees for a typical mandate in the practice you would start with.
A qualified conversation is a positive or interested reply, confirmed by a human. We scope this target together on the call.
Your own conversion from a first conversation to a signed mandate. If you track a meeting stage in between, tell us and we split the chain.
Mandates per year
 
Fees per year at your mandate value
 
Each additional mandate is worth
 
Type a value in each box. Your inputs, your total. Nothing on this page is pre-filled and nothing is a promise. On the call we put the cost side next to this: one fixed number for the four-month build, and the break-even in your own margin, how many mandates cover it.
Illustration and arithmetic, not a forecast or a promise. Mandates are yours to win; the unit is measured on the month-four deliverable, not on this page.
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11 / Next step
Wednesday
Next step

Thirty minutes on Wednesday. Then one number, presented live.

What we do on the call

We walk this page, ask how work arrives at Helbling today and where it stalls, agree the practices and markets to start with, and scope the package to that. Then we present the one number for the four-month build, and the break-even in your own margin, live. Nothing priced goes on a page before you have seen what it covers.

The AUTOMA+ article and advertising package stays with Jamie at Business Enquirer and comes to you separately.

Your contact from here

Dan Reeves, Founder, Enquirer Consulting Group
dan@enquirerconsulting.com
calendly.com/enquirer/review

Jamie Waite, Group CEO, Business Enquirer
jamie.waite@busenq.com

Pick a time with Dan
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